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How Horror Satire ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Deploys the Biggest Twist Since ‘Cabin in the Woods’ to Tell a Story About Economic Hardship
"Clown in a Cornfield" is about a lot more than a killer clown running around a cornfield — and has a big twist which underlines it.
But as fans of Adam Cesare ‘s hit 2020 YA novel know, there’s plenty of twists below the surface we won’t spoil here — and many tell deeper truths about the heartland. The initial plot concerns sullen teen Quinn (Katie Douglas) and her fraying bond with her depressed father (Aaron Abrams), who move to a sleepy Midwest town that is decaying after the local corn syrup factory shudders and is burned down. After falling in with a group of troublemaking teens, a clown that resembles Frendo, the factory’s mascot, begins terrorizing the town and targeting Quinn and her buddies.
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