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9. Doink The Clown: Typecast
The TV mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's IT has aged, but it's still very unsettling in parts.
As Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Tim Curry hammed it up - he's Tim Curry, and was tremendous value - but he also embodied the sinister, pure evil of the titular monster. In the opening scene, Pennywise appears behind a bedsheet drying on a windy Maine day. IT smiles at a young girl. When the sheet flies back up, an expression of pure dead-eyed malice forms across IT's face. In that one small moment, ingeniously edited, Curry captures the very essence of wrong desire.
Matt Borne, who originally played Doink the Clown in the WWF across 1992 and 1993, was so effective in the role that he was able to channel the performance of an iconic horror monster.
Borne's Doink was a miserable sack of unsettling trash with an uncanny ability to locate the camera and stare at it with a foreboding expression, an eerie absence of warmth, joy, anything remotely good. He toyed with the juxtaposition of his look to perfection.
He was incredible in the role in part because he really was bad news; when he was 25, he appeared in court in Ohio on a fourth-degree felony charge of gross sexual imposition, accused by a 16 year-old girl of molestation in a Reynoldsburg motel.