Good quality psychotic clown themed horror flicks aren’t always the easiest to pull off. Off the top of my head some films of note that I think our greasepaint covered friends best are Clownhouse, Killer Klowns from Outer Space and the recent blood-soaked offerings, 100 Tears and Klown Kamp Massacre.
I must admit that when I saw the cover for Dark Sky’s release of Conor McMahon’s Stitches I was excited. Lately Dark Sky has had a fine track record with picking up some pretty decent independent horror films so I was cautiously optimistic that this Irish produced comedy/horror movie would be fun.
When a clown act at a kid’s party goes horribly wrong, a foul-mouthed, whore-bangin' clown by the name of "Stitches" (Ross Noble) finds himself with a butcher knife through his skull. As with so many of our favorite slashers, time elapses for several years and our bratty youngsters are now obnoxious teenagers. That is, except for Tom (Tommy Knight) the very well behaved birthday boy whose party saw Stitches' demise. Is he really dead though? Nope.