Do you ever find yourself sitting around, watching the Toxic Avenger, thinking that nobody is making good cult movies anymore? I mean, sure, Lloyd Kaufman is still around. Charles Band. John Waters. All the old guys are still doing their thing, and there are a lot of people out there making copies of the shit these guys were doing decades ago, but where are the cult movies of the 2000s? Yeah, there’s some neat stuff coming out of Japan, but what about the United States? I caught the premiere of Klownboy Circus of Gore last night at the Riverview Theater and found an answer to that question. Check this out:



 Klownboy is the epic and tragic saga of a confused clown who is just trying to get through life without the people around him sucking all of the fun out of him. Of course, his idea of fun is biting old ladies at the liquor store, fucking corpses that he finds in the woods and rocking out to Impaler, but that’s neither here nor there.

Two impressive feats that should be pointed out. First, the character of Klownboy is much stronger than you’d expect to find in this sort of movie. His shifts from pathetic sniveling to violent dementia hold every disjointed and delirous scene together.

Second, the special effects are fucking weird. There’s no other way to explain it. They may seem obviously fake at times, but they’re used in such a way that they still manage to accomplish gross-outs effectively. It’s not even that they look fake, it’s that they look bizarre and cartoonish. They are so over the top that it keeps eyes glued to the screen, wondering what the fuck is going to happen next.

I seriously hope Troma or somebody picks this up and puts it out on DVD so the world can experience this insanity.