9 Creepiest Clown Movies Of All Time

9. To Catch A Killer

This 1992 made-for-TV movie is, to be fair, not very good. It’s rather boorish and so long it feels like a test of endurance.

But what it lacks in, well, everything, it makes up for in the one shining aspect - Brian Dennehy’s performance as John Wayne Gacy, the so-called Killer Clown.

To Catch A Killer tells the story of Michael Riley’s Lt. Joe Kozenczak tracking Dennehy’s Gacy, because he’s convinced that Gacy is a serial killer who has murdered over 30 young men and buried them under his crawlspace. Gacy, naturally, is outraged and the fact that you’re almost compelled to root for him to “stick it to the authority” speaks volumes to the quality of Dennehy’s performance.

The problem, clearly, is that Gacy actually is a serial killer that murdered over 30 young men and buried them under his crawlspace. But that's by the by.

This film is oft-forgotten in the slew in “Killer Clown Movies,” because it acts more as a crime drama than a horror film, but it’s still a fascinating story to tell and the few scenes that Dennehy is actually dressed as Pogo the Clown will still chill you to your bones.