Film Review : Clown In A Cornfield (2025)

Having never read the book, but knowing its praise, I was excited for Clown In A Cornfield and happy to see it was getting a wide theatrical release.

We follow a father and his high school daughter who move to a small town recently dealing with a fire that burned down ones of it biggest job providers. Soon though a clown, looking just like the towns biggest companies mascot, appears out of the cornfields though targeting the teenagers who may or may not be at fault for the accident.

The story here, even with the twist, works while still being somewhat paint by numbers. It throws its own twists and turns here and there to make it unique though. The first half plays like more of a teenage coming of age comedy at times before turning right into a slasher film.

It works though here due to the films R rating. Instead of doing what most studios would and putting a PG-13 rating in here to make it for a broader audience, we get a fun R rating here. Profanity and gore galore really does help.

What works too is a band of characters who are either so easy to love or hate and a mascot that if they do a sequel per book I bet stays around for quite some time.

While it doesn’t break any molds, Clown In A Cornfield is just fun. It has good kills, fun characters who I wanted to save and wanted to die, and just keeps it as a simple R rated slasher which is a nice break from the norm.

Score :

3.5 / 5