Not Scary But Passes The Time

Rating: 5/10 (23 September 2017)

I went into this having never read the book so I can't judge the faithfulness of the screen adaptation.
The Clown with lots of CGI effects isn't scary at all - in fact he's a bit of a one-trick pony, if he opens his mouth and extends his teeth once he does it 20 times, there isn't much to him really. We don't get any character development or explanation as to why he is there, or for any of the things he does, killing and otherwise.
The gang of children who are being terrorised by him are OK and watchable, they mostly act logically unlike the protagonists in many of these types of movies.
I would class this film as a bit of a "ghost train" ride, it throws lots of things at the viewer and definitely passes the time, but 20 minutes before the end I was itching for it to just finish. As for the strong hint of a sequel at the closing credits.. let's just say I won't be forking out a second time around.