15 Weird and Evil Clowns in Movies

15. Bobo - Out of the Dark (1988)

I can't believe it took until the year 1988 before someone made a killer clown movie using phone sex operators as the victims. What screams "sex" more than a phone sex business? What screams "psycho slasher" more than a guy in a clown outfit who calls sex lines? What screams slasher movie more than a psycho slasher in a clown suit killing sex operators? Put them together and you have Out of the Dark. Our antagonist, Bobo the Clown treats us to a sometimes creepy, sometimes fun romp through exciting murders of beautiful women! It's worth a watch for those of us who love a good slasher flick. This movie is quickly becoming too dated. Does anyone call phone sex lines anymore? I see commercials for them all the time but who needs a phone when you have internet porn? Watch it before phone sex lines disappear and you have to spend half the movie explaining to your grand kids what a phone sex line is.

14. Horny the Clown - Drive Thru (2007)

I'm sure every American born before 1990 remembers being creeped out by the talking clown head at Jack in the Box drive thru hamburger joints. Seriously, what is weirder than that? How about a movie about a psycho clown mascot from a burger joint? That sounds a little bit weirder to me. Set in the quiet town of Blanca Carne (translated: white meat), Drive Thru tells the story of a fast food restaurant named HellaBurger. The mascot for HellaBurger is Horny the Clown, a freakishly creepy mascot if I've ever seen one. One day Horny decides to start killing off customers with readily-accessible tools of the fast food trade: a spatula, a meat cleaver, a deep fryer, etc. It falls to pretty high school student Mackenzie Carpenter (who's villainous role in The Roommate gives her some horror credentials) to save the town from Horny the Clown. Along the way we get to see a prescient Ouija board, a Magic 8 Ball toy that is also rather cognitive, and an Etch-a-Sketch that knows the future. Lots of fun to be had in this one.
 
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