John Carpenter thinks Killer Clowns are idiots

John Carpenter is about as comprehensive an authority as you’ll find on horror. Essentially he thinks that if you’re dressing up as a clown to scare people, you’re an idiot

Having spent the best part of 40 years scaring the living shit out of people, masterfully building tension and suspense in writing and scoring films like Halloween (1978) and Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), John Carpenter is entitled to an opinion on these things. Things like the current wave of weird clowns appearing across Europe and the States. He is not impressed.

His objection is, quite reasonably, about safety. Speaking to the Evening Standard he said: “It’s getting ridiculous. These people are idiots. I guess I understand what they’re trying to do in trying to scare people, but it’s not right to run at people with a chainsaw. That’s not funny – it’s dangerous. I was visiting a friend in the emergency room and the curtain parted next to me, and this guy had been using a chainsaw on a tree stump and it hit something and bounced into his face. He was just about alive but man he was in pain. They were working on him trying to clean up the wound. Kids should put the chainsaws down. It’s a really scary world were living in.”

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(Via: Evening Standard)