Really Surprised!

Absolutely Fantastic

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I am not surprised that so many horror fans are hating on this movie. They don't know what to make of it, because it doesn't do everything it expects them to. Oh, sure, it has its share of clichés, and it doesn't really add anything new in any area of its production. But I did appreciate a few small touches.The story starts out with six unlikeable teens indulging in sex and drugs making the bad decision to trespass in some abandoned property, in this case, a fun park. Movie buffs who liked The Funhouse and/or Dark Ride will probably check this out, hoping for more of what they liked about those films. (Another similar film is Neverland, which is an updated version of Peter Pan set in the underground of a dingy amusement park). They get captured and killed one at a time by a clown and his son. The sequence in which the clown tortures and kills the kids stood out because there was no dialog. It seemed to last for 30 to 40 minutes. I thought this was effective, and I think that more horror movies could do with less talking. However, the sound effects were at least as annoying as bad dialog, with the clanking of chains sounding like they had just put it on a loop on the audio track.The other thing that this movie does is play around with time a little bit, jumping back and forth between flashbacks, narration, interview accounts, and different points of view. It's not as well done as 21 Grams or anything, but it changes things up. I also like the almost sweet ending, in which the therapist who stayed with the case to its resolution took the surviving teen in to care for her as she healed.The narration that closes the movie tries to continue the "based on real events" angle. Not sure if it really was, but it ended up being slightly better than expected. Dark Ride had a more amazing set piece and The Funhouse had more memorable villains, but this movie tried to be a little bit different, so I'll give it credit. I can't give it higher than a 5, because it still wasn't that great a story, but it's nice to see the effort.

What is it about clowns, those face-pained funny looking guys with the big shoots, the balloon animals, and the annoying voices, that if you put a large group of people at a party with a clown, everybody's laughing at his antics. Have you ever been to a children's party where they hired the town clown to entertain? If you have, picture you and that clown alone in a dark room. Would he be so funny then? The horror genre is full, maybe to full, of zombie and slasher films, really unwanted sequels, and just plain jumbled messes of good films made by good directors who are forced to make changes prior to release (just ask George Romero). The one entity that is overlooked is the "horror clown" genre. There hasn't been allot of them, but enough that I want to officially add "Horror Clowns" to the list of genres, along side zombies, vampires, and all the rest. These films can go from good (Clown House), to fair (Fear Of Clowns), gruesome (Dead Clowns), and then there's "The Fun Park", the latest killer clown film, direct to video, that has taken it's rightful place in my newly create "Clown" genre, the bottom of the funny barrel.The "plot", stolen from about every other film that seems to be released lately, six high school friends decide to take a trek to an amusement park that has been empty for over ten years due to the severe beating of one it's employees, a clown, as he was locking up. It seems our laugh maker, named Bobo, is an urban legend, that annoying story all the locals heard growing up that he still lives there today.As the film opens, the carnage has ended and the lone survivor Megan (Jillian Murray) is found by the police wandering down a road in shock. She tells her story but the police check the park, and there's no sign that her friends are there, or that anybody was ever there; no footprints, tire tracks, seltzer bottles, nothing. The movie moves back and forth from the psychiatrist working with Megan, and the flashback to the prior night, and the performance "Bobo" put on. Without giving spoilers, I'll just say the biggest problem with this movie is too much talking, not enough clown. Too much time is spent on the psychiatrist who sort of believes Megan, and the flashback of the nights festivities. But that isn't even the worst thing. The worst is one the the friends, and each of these film has one; "The Stoner", is one of the most annoying people I have seen in the movie in a long time. This actor couldn't act stoned if he WAS stoned. You pray for Bobo to take him out early but no such luck. I was surprised Bobo didn't throw him back. Now that would have been a funny clown.

All I could think as I watched this is that someone watched Chainsaw Massacre and Saw too much and thought that they could do something similar. It was a horrible failure. I was yawning and rolling my eyes through the whole thing. There were no exciting creative deaths, it was the same thing over and over again, predictable how it was going to end, and the actual ending blew. What kind of movie lets the boring characters live through the whole thing? There should have been a Bobo attack!!! The fimography was annoying, especially during the main character's grieving scene, the storyline drug you slowly to the end and, just completely lacked suspense or any twists. I guess the positive part of this movie was when it ended, it was such a relief that it was finally over.

Well, let me start out by saying that I didn't really think this would be any good, but it was only $ 9 and so I bought it since it costs half that to rent it.The story is extremely, painfully, exaggeratedly slow... slow, did I mention it's slow? They tried too hard with the story telling and the angle they took going back and forth from the shrink to the actual story was horrible.Only redeeming quality this film has is the two lead women, Megan & the shrink, are really good in their roles.If you want a fun park movie, get Dark Ride or Funhouse... they are a lot more entertaining.