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‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Review: A Woefully Derivative Killer-Clown Slasher Movie
Adapting a YA slasher novel, director Eli Craig tries to pass off a lack of originality as "meta." The result is neither scary nor fun.
We learn that Friendo began life as an advertising mascot for Baypen corn syrup, a local business empire founded by the great-grandfather of Cole (Carson MacCormac), the one rich kid in town. The launch of that company literally put Kettle Springs on the map, and the town is dotted with Friendo insignia and swag, notably a hand-size Jack-in-the-box version of him that tends to show up just before the person who finds it gets slaughtered. The meta element is that the teen characters have a running prank of staging two-minute YouTube videos, featuring one of them dressed as Friendo, that are like slasher movies in miniature.
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