A disaster

Rating: 2/10 (10 January 2018)

Some loser pre-teen kids start being chased by something that confronts them with their fears. Occasionally some downright stupid-looking clown shows up. More terrifying than visions and clowns though is pretty much everyone else--the teen bullies and the parents that give the kids a hard time. There's the backstory of the town where kids disappear every so often. The kids are given something of a personality. It takes the kids more than two hours to figure things out and to confront the fugly but not scary clown. The editor and director struggle mightily with this underwhelming material and ultimately fail miserably in making something remotely interesting or thrilling out of it. The concept from the beginning is doomed. A movie about kids, written as if it were for kids yet actually for adults as is fashionable now, yet R rated for no good reason really with no scares or nothing else R-rated and clocking in at more than to tortuous hours. Unfortunately producing junk paid off this time around for everyone involved and we can look forward to a bunch of sequels that promise to be no better than this embarrassment in any way whatsoever. There's one thing this mess has going for it and for that I give it two stars and that is the stunning Sophia Lillis.