Wrinkles the Clown

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Marie C @RT01793769 Apr 21 Just watched on Netflix & was somewhat entertaining but kind of all over the place. The recap of the clown phenomena of 2016 was fun to see again, but the whole thing lacked direction & became repetitive. See more B F. @RodentsOfFrent Apr 19 Truly terrible. All over the place. No clear direction. Completely confusing. Unfocused. Ruined potential. See more Melissa L @Agent99 Dec 3 Lazy parents threaten their kids with a creepy clown if they misbehave. I hope it's not real, because it definitely would be psychological child abuse. See more BadNews R @TheMovieSearch Sep 9 Wrinkles the Clown is marketed as a documentary, but in reality, it plays more like a half-baked experiment that never quite figures out what it wants to be. The premise sounds intriguing on paper: a mysterious clown in Florida who parents could pay to scare their misbehaving children. No violence, no physical contact—just pure psychological torment for hire. Creepy, right? Well… not really. The film sets up Wrinkles as this terrifying urban legend. They show eerie surveillance footage of him lurking under beds, knocking on windows, or standing ominously in the shadows. For a moment, you think the documentary might dive into the psychology of fear, urban myths, or the ethical line between harmless pranks and emotional abuse. Instead, it quickly unravels into something awkward, unfocused, and—honestly—embarrassingly unscary. The biggest issue is editing. The story feels cobbled together with no clear direction. At one point, you’re led to believe Wrinkles is a real menace walking the streets, but then the film shifts into questioning whether he’s even real at all. That “mystery” isn’t compelling—it feels like a gimmick designed to stretch out a thin concept into feature length. Rather than building fear, Wrinkles becomes laughable. The makeup looks cheap, the mask goofy, and the overall presence anything but threatening. Why would anyone pay to have this clown scare their children? Instead of a dark and disturbing exploration of modern folklore, what we get is a watered-down, awkward character study that makes Wrinkles look more like a joke than a nightmare. To make matters worse, the “viral phone number” angle—where people could call Wrinkles directly—comes off as cheesy rather than chilling. The film leans heavily on this stunt, but it never pays off in a way that feels meaningful or authentic. By the end, it’s clear this documentary wasn’t about Wrinkles at all—it was about trying to manufacture buzz during the peak of the “creepy clown” craze in the mid-2010s. The problem? Nothing here feels real, scary, or even entertaining. I don’t recommend this film. It’s poorly edited, pointlessly structured, and fails to do the one thing it sets out to do: make Wrinkles frightening. Instead, he’s just dumb-looking, awkward, and forgettable. This is not only a one-time watch—it’s something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. ⭐️ (1/5) – A fake, sloppy, unscary “documentary” that wastes its creepy premise. See more Kyle M @RT77296778 10/23/2022 Not horrific as it sounds nor as it looks as it basically explains a phenomenon amid revising imagery and folklore conceptualizing with expected viewpoints mostly checked off, but the bloated documentary values in unveiling the human spirit under the mask while deconstructing the code, as it already was, in decreasing engagement. (B-) See more B P @Bradster69 01/20/2021 Documentary ‘Wrinkles the Clown’ is a Winding Psychological Case Study See more Read all reviews

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