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Gingerclown2013

Name: Gingerclown
Genre: Comedy Horror, Monster & Creature, Supernatural
Released: 2013-05-09
Rating: 4.2

“Would you like to die with a smile on your face?”

Directed by Balázs Hatvani

4.2

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 3.0TMDB 3.3

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Year

2013

Runtime

83 min

The premise

1983: A group of high school students are having a great time near Hollywood Hills at the weekend when they bump into the Loser from their school, Sam, who's just on his way home. Sam would do anything in order to get Jenny's attention, one of prettiest girls in school. Unfortunately she's also the girlfriend of the school's bully, Biff, the quarterback of the football team. Biff and his buddies are keen to take Sam to the old abandoned amusement park to make him prove his courage as part of their initiation ceremony. They involve Jenny in their cruel game as the grand prize of the competition. Sam accepts the challenge, but the girl wouldn't let him go in by himself; she follows him into the amusement park and a night they'll never forget.

Horror Vault's take

Set in 1983, Gingerclown drops a bullied high school outcast and the girl he pines for into a decrepit abandoned amusement park on a dare — and discovers it isn't quite as empty as it looks. What starts as a cruel initiation stunt quickly spirals into a nightmarish encounter with the grotesque inhabitants lurking in the darkness. The film leans hard into its campy 80s aesthetic, bolstered by an eccentric voice cast of genre legends giving life to its bizarre creature ensemble. It's a love letter to the era of practical-effects horror, wrapped in the social dynamics of an after-school special gone very, very wrong.

Content: Creature Violence, Mild Gore, Bullying And Humiliation, Peril