Not so fun. Every once in a while our local movie rental place calls us up and tells us we’ve won a free rental. It happened just this week, so we made a stop there yesterday, and since we had all the kids with us, my husband just ran in and tried to be quick. He came out with a direct-to-video horror movie called The Fun Park. It actually sounded pretty intriguing since it’s about some teens who were murdered by the ghost of a clown at an abandoned amusement park. We know of an abandoned amusement park that we’ve visited, so we thought the movie would be extra scary. But we were wrong. It was awful – the 3.5 rating it got on imdb.com was no lie. Free movie = boring clown. For the first, I don’t know, about 30 minutes of the movie, they’re not even in the fun park. The movie wastes time setting up the characters’ back stories – and who cares about that? So finally they get to the fun park, and it’s not even scary. The movie has no suspense. There aren’t any chase scenes, basically the movie is the clown cutting off people’s faces. I think. The movie was so slow, I was dozing constantly. But I don’t think I missed anything… It was awful. I would put it on my movie stinker list, but maybe it’s not fair because I wasn’t fully awake… never mind, who cares, it was that bad. At least it was a free rental. And as far as my worries about being scared of clowns the next time we go to that abandoned amusement park, no problem – that movie was not scary at all. The only thing scary about it was the idea that all the people involved in making it thought it was a good idea!
So here’s my updated stinker list of the worst movies I’ve ever seen:
The Devil’s Rejects
Doomsday
The Night Listener
The Love Guru
The Fun Park
HAHAHAHA… maybe someone should check it out for inspiration on how to be a scary clown.
Check it out for hints on how NOT to be a scary clown is more like it.
How interesting…and to add about The Devil’s Rejects being the top of your movie stinkers list…I just saw that movie tonight with a friend (we had to get our horror movie fix) and I thought it was pretty terrible myself and I can’t think of that many movies that I don’t like.