Clown Horror Movies

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Created - Oct 22, 2020 | Updated - Oct 7, 2026
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Clown horror movies turn entertainers associated with comedy and childhood into threatening and disturbing figures. These films feature killer clowns, evil circus performers, supernatural clowns and criminals hiding behind painted faces, often drawing on coulrophobia and the unsettling contrast between cheerful appearances and violent behavior. The category ranges from slashers and psychological horror to supernatural stories, creature features and cult exploitation films. Circuses, carnivals and amusement settings also frequently appear within the subgenre. This list collects classic, cult and modern clown horror movies in which clowns, jesters or sinister circus characters play a major role in the story or source of fear.

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8 Ball Clown 2

104 min · Horror

8 Ball and Jolly Pop team up to bring laughter and excitement, but their failures result in death and zombies. Extreme violence, disturbing images, drug use, blood, and craziness. Krokodile Zombies

31
US · 2016

31

102 min · Horror, Mystery

Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.

100 Tears
US · 2007

100 Tears

90 min · Horror

After being accused of crimes he did not commit, a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now, years later, his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend, part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut, fueled only by hate.

All Hallows' Eve
US · 2013

All Hallows' Eve

82 min · Horror
★ 6.3

While watching two children on Halloween night, a babysitter finds an old VHS tape in the kids' trick or treat bag. The tape features three tales of terror, all linked together by a murderous clown. As the night goes on strange things begin to occur in the house. It isn't long before the babysitter learns the horrifying truth... the maniacal clown is slowly working his way into her reality.

Among the Living
FR · 2014

Among the Living

88 min · Horror, Mystery

Three teenagers skip school in order to explore an abandoned film studio lot where they catch sight of a woman being dragged by a masked man.

Amusement
US · 2008

Amusement

85 min · Horror, Thriller

While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunted by a serial killer. The truth that's dying to come out weaves together three tragic secrets from their past. Two of the girls' boyfriends become unwitting targets in their deadly game.

Bad Ben 5: The Crescent Moon Clown

87 min · Horror, Comedy

Renee spends her first night alone in her parents' new house. She begins to hear noises and unexplained things start happening. At first she believes it to be her friends playing a prank, but she will soon learn it is something more sinister.

Big Top Evil

81 min · Horror

Five disparate youths, lost on a road trip to the location of the infamous 'mangrove slasher,' end up being pursued by a cadre of cannibal clowns.

Blue Murder
CA · 1985

Blue Murder

91 min · Horror, Thriller

A reporter tries to track down a psycho who is killing people involved in the porn industry.

Camp Blood 8: Revelations

82 min · Horror, Comedy

The Killing at Camp Blood stopped for a while. But the son of the original killer clown has carried on the machete and driven by his deranged mother, played by Sally Mullins (Things 4, Lights Out With David Spade), continues to kill anyone who trespasses in his woods. When a group of female volleyball players' vehicle breaks down in the woods, they are all potential victims of the killer clown. Their leader and coach Dolly, played by Phoebe Dollar (Hell's Highway, Sunset Society), devices a plan that is meant to help them escape, but could possible get them all killed. Is she in on the murder...

Cannibal Clown Killer

14 min · Horror, Comedy

Cannibal Clown Killer is an 80's style post-apocalyptic landscape where half the earth's population has been killed off by a bacteria which contaminated gluten food filler and MSG products. Of those who did not die they awoke to a new nightmare, half the survivors had been turned into man-eating mad clowns hell-bent on consuming the world. In the dawn of this new world filled with blood, horrors, and painted faces a single female warrior has emerged. With a blade at her back, this nameless hero tracks across this wilderness saving those she can while on her quest for the clown that killed her...

Cannibal Killer Clowns On Dope

90 min · Horror

Cannibal Killer Clowns On Dope: A Vile and Lurid tale of The Cannibal Killer Clowns On Dope. A Loving story of Blood, Gore, Guts, Clowns and Nekkid Girlies. See what happens when an escaped convict ( Zed the Loser ) and his gang go Clown Hunting for revenge.

Carnival of Gore

82 min · Horror

The clown crises continues. The playful yet filthy antics of two gutterclowns leads to jealousy and violence until all imaginable sense is let loose. [Extended re-edit of two short films, "Love Me Clowny" and "Gorefest 2"]

Charlie Shaw's Revenge

109 min · Horror, Thriller

A group of workers preparing for the re-opening of a remote adventure park on the brink of bankruptcy, find themselves stalked by a silent killer. Cut off from any form of rescue, the survivors must band together to fight for their lives.

Circus of the Dead

105 min · Horror, Thriller

A sadistic group of clowns kidnap an unsuspecting man and his daughters, forcing him to play a deadly game in order to save his family.

Cleaver: Rise of the Killer Clown

71 min · Horror

When Carlton Layton arrives home to find his wife in the arms of another man, he dons the outfit he wears as a children's entertainer and slaughters them both, fleeing into the night. Five years later, Carley Lewis is asked to babysit on Halloween night whilst the child's parents go out to a party. But someone wants the child. Someone we know only as "The Cleaver".

Clown
US · 2014

Clown

99 min · Horror, Thriller

A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.

Clownado
2019

Clownado

99 min · Horror, Comedy

Cursed demonic circus clowns set out on a vengeful massacre using tornadoes. A stripper, Elvis impersonator, truck driver, teen runaway, and a dude get caught in the supernatural battle between femme fatal and the boss clown from hell.

ClownDoll
GB · 2020

ClownDoll

92 min · Horror

After purchasing a doll, Lane's life takes a turn for the worse when close friends and family begin vanishing.

Clownery
IT · 2020

Clownery

Horror

After a terrible trauma on her birthday, Emma chooses not to celebrate it again. But when she turns 21, a friend of her breaks the ritual with a surprise party, unaware of awakening horrors, which for years have been waiting in the darkness.

Clownface
2020

Clownface

92 min · Horror

A deranged serial killer known as "Clownface" terrorises the residents of a small town.

Clown Fear
US · 2020

Clown Fear

109 min · Horror

A runaway bride and her bridesmaids are stranded in a city run by clowns. Everything seemed normal at first but this clown cult has their own set of rules. It's a carnival ride as our girls tries to stay alive to escape Clown City.

Clownhouse
US · 1989

Clownhouse

81 min · Horror

Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.

Clown Of The Dead
ID · 2015

Clown Of The Dead

90 min · Horror, Thriller

After three children are found tragically dead, a band of college students are forced to conduct an investigation. And that is when terror from a mysterious clown figure starts to mount. Our heroes soon realize that what they are facing is a force that disguises its darkness through laughter—a force so menacing, it will not hesitate to take lives to get what it wants: immortality.

Clowntergeist
US · 2017

Clowntergeist

80 min · Horror

Emma, a college student with a crippling fear of clowns, must come face to face with her worst fear when an evil spirit in the body of a clown is summoned terrorizing the town she calls home.

ClownTown
US · 2016

ClownTown

86 min · Horror, Thriller

Whilst on their way to a concert four friends get sidetracked and stranded in a seemingly abandoned town and whilst looking for help find themselves stalked and terrorised by a gang of violent clown dressed psychopaths who will stop at nothing ensnaring them into their sinister blood thirsty games.

Fear of Clowns
US · 2004

Fear of Clowns

106 min · Horror, Thriller

An artist with coulrophobia ("fear of clowns") is stalked by a murderous clown resembling one of the ones she paints.

Frayed
US · 2007

Frayed

111 min · Horror, Thriller

Pat Baker is a small town sheriff. His son, Kurt, is a deranged young man with a dark secret. Sheriff Baker's worst nightmare comes true when Kurt escapes from a psychiatric hospital where he was locked away for the brutal murder of his mother thirteen years earlier. Gary, a hospital security guard, sets out into the woods to stop him, but soon finds himself relentlessly hunted by the deranged psychopath intent on killing him and anyone who crosses his path. Sheriff Baker launches an intense search to find his son, only to discover that his daughter, Sara, and her friends are camping in the sa...

Ghosthouse
IT · 1988

Ghosthouse

95 min · Horror

A group of unlikely companions receive a radio call leading to a deserted house with a grisly past. After exploring the house, the group makes the foolish decision to split up, leading to a trail of death and destruction as the house unleashes its deadly past. Along the way expect severed heads, exploding light bulbs, demonic clown dolls, and creepy children.

Harlequin
2016

Harlequin

7 min · Horror

A day in the life of a pathetic clown, as his mental issues begin to consume him and cause his final performance to spiral out of control.

I.T.
2025

I.T.

11 min · Horror, Comedy

It's Halloween 2025, and Hannah is starting her first day on the job at a quirky, costume ready office. Her coworker, Jasmine, delivers a chilling welcome: the office basement is strictly off limits every Halloween, because of the ghost of an I.T. professional, Ethan Marley, haunts the dark space, eternally angry since he died in his office on Halloween 1995. Legend says anyone who steps foot in the basement on this night vanishes into thin air. This Sims 4 machinima is a blend of dark comedy, satire, and horror, exploring the absurd terror of corporate legend and the vengeful spirit of the lo...

It
US · 2017

It

135 min · Horror
★ 8.0

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

It
1990

It

90 min · Mystery, Drama
★ 8.0

In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

It Chapter Two
US · 2019

It Chapter Two

169 min · Horror, Fantasy
★ 7.0

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

Killjoy
US · 2000

Killjoy

72 min · Horror

Deep in an inner city hell, a ghastly figure is killing off the bad guys. A vigilante, or a demon? For the beautiful high school student, Jada, that's the question that will bring her face to face with the killer clown Killjoy.

Killjoy's Psycho Circus

86 min · Horror

Killjoy, the demon of vengeance, trickster god and killer clown has finally made it to Earth! Along with his gruesome crew Freakshow, Punchy and the sexy/psychotic Batty Boop, Killjoy is free to terrorize mortals in new and excruciating ways.

Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil

77 min · Horror

In this sequel, two juvenile detention officers must escort a group of criminally-inclined urban kids to the country where they are being forced to renovate a shelter for teens as punishment for their crimes. After one of them is shot by a local, the survivors seek refuge in the home of a voodoo woman, where they mistakenly summon legendary clown-faced demon Killjoy who begins hunting them down one by one.

Killjoy 3
US · 2010

Killjoy 3

76 min · Horror

The demon clown Killjoy is resurrected once again, but this time he is not given the name of his victim and is trapped in his realm. Using a magic mirror he lures four unsuspecting college students into his realm where he can have his macabre fun! A mysterious man returns and we finally discover who Killjoy's true target is!

Killjoy Goes to Hell

90 min · Horror

Killjoy is back in the fourth installment of the demonic clown series. This time Killjoy is being accused of not being evil, since he let one of his victims(Sandie) get away. Killjoy must rely on his only chance of proving how evil he really is... get Sandie into hell as his witness.

Night of the Wicked Clown

91 min · Horror

On Jonathan's seventh birthday, he witnessed a violent act toward his mother that triggered a mental collapse. After 10 years in a mental health facility, he is coming home to the only family he has left. Jonathan's aunt hopes he can live a normal life, but on the eve of his 17th birthday, things begin to get wicked as his imaginary friend decides to come out and play.

On Halloween
AU · 2020

On Halloween

92 min · Horror, Thriller

A journalist goes in search of the truth after a series of brutal deaths and disappearances lead back to an urban legend about a serial killing clown that has stalked the woods of Century Park for over a hundred years.

Slaughter High
US · 1986

Slaughter High

90 min · Horror, slasher

Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.

Terrifier
US · 2016

Terrifier

84 min · Horror, Thriller
★ 7.1

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women and everyone else who stands in his way on Halloween night.

Terrifier 2

Horror
★ 6.8

After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County where he must hunt down and destroy a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

Terrifier 3
US · 2024

Terrifier 3

Horror, Thriller
★ 7.0

In the aftermath of Terrifier 2, Art the Clown will wreak new, gorier havoc during a Miles County's Christmas celebration.

Terrifier 4
US · 2026

Terrifier 4

Horror, Thriller

The fourth and last installment in the Terrifier franchise. Plot TBA.

Terror on Tour
US · 1980

Terror on Tour

90 min · Horror, Comedy

A rock band called "The Clowns" comes under suspicion of murder when several prostitutes are killed by individuals made up like members of the band.

The Bad Man
US · 2018

The Bad Man

106 min · Horror, Drama

A young couple, Mary and PJ, are kidnapped in their own home by a sadistic clown who wants to break their spirits and sell them into servitude to a cult of wealthy deviants. Mary holds onto her humanity through trial after trial, desperately looking for a way to escape her torment and rescue PJ from his own madness. But time is running out -- and auction day is coming...

The Clown Murders
CA · 1976

The Clown Murders

96 min · Horror, Mystery

A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly serious.

The Jack in the Box

87 min · Horror

When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is un-earthed and opened, it's new owners soon have reason to believe the creepy clown doll within has a life of it's own.

The Last Circus
FR · 2010

The Last Circus

101 min · Horror, Thriller

The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.

The Legend Of Wasco

81 min · Horror

Future brothers-in-law Tyler and Byron bond by dressing as the Wasco Clown and taking pictures that spread across the internet, a viral hit overnight. What starts as great fun turns deadly as the very real Wasco Clown returns to terrorize the town. A Tale of Legend come to Life, a test of the friends' courage to overcome their fear of a circus nightmare, resurrected.

Torment
IT · 2017

Torment

75 min · Horror, Drama
★ 3.5

Freely inspired to the GACY's torture insane world, this film promises to tell what in other movies no one had the courage to push the limits! A young man wakes up and finds himself in the clutches of one of the most notorious serial killers in history.