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Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time.
- 6.1
- 2025
- Released
- 1h 36m
Katie Douglas
Quinn Maybrook
Aaron Abrams
Dr. Glenn Maybrook
Carson MacCormac
Cole Hill
Vincent Muller
Rust Vance
Kevin Durand
Mayor Arthur Hill
Will Sasso
Sheriff Dunne
Cassandra Potenza
Janet Murray
Verity Marks
Ronnie Queen
Ayo Solanke
Tucker Lee
Alexandre Martin Deakin
Matt
Catherine Wreford
Crystal Hill
Daina Leitold
Trudy
Jean-Jacques Javier
Otis
Noah Craig
DJ
Heath Vermette
Animal Control Officer
Bradley Sawatzky
Mr. Vern
Jeff Strome
Knife Frendo
Dylan McEwan
TylerKaitlyn Bacon
JessicaBlake Taylor
Daryl
Anders Strome
Pitchfork Frendo
Robert Borges
Frendo
BJ Verot
Frendo
Darren Ross
Frendo
Krystle Snow
Frendo
Alan Castanga
FrendoWard Massner
OfficerBrittney Naslund
Party-goer
William Whyte
Town Official
Released
en
$1,000,000.00
$13,260,361.00
- #small town
- #based on novel or book
- #beheading
- #dark comedy
- #rifle
- #slasher
- #weight lifting
- #severed hand
- #killer clown
- #evil clown
- #cornfield
- #independent film
- #father and daughter
- #gay kiss
- #teenager
- #baffled
- #gay character
Reviews
I haven't read the book. I'm kind of an idiot. I liked the title. I liked the movie. I think that's how it works. The phone thing was funny. There is gore. There are clowns (spoiler).
Ok, so there’s not much original about this cornfield chopper, but I think that’s the point. It sets itself up right from the start as more of a parody of so many other films of the genre, and I really quite enjoyed it. Of course we have to start with the daughter/father relationship that’s reeling from a tragedy, then they move to an old rickety house that really does need it’s chimney seeing to
Based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield follows 17-year-old Quinn Maybrook (Katie Douglas) and her father (Aaron Abrams) moving to Kettle Springs, Missouri. After the passing of Quinn’s mother the previous summer, Kettle Springs had an opening for a family doctor which caused the surviving Maybrooks to move from the big city to a small rural town. The local
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/clown-in-a-cornfield-movie-review-when-tradition-kills-literally/ "Clown in a Cornfield is a pleasant surprise in the 2025 horror landscape. It starts off rather generically - a conservative town, a group of rebellious teens, a masked killer - but quickly finds its own identity through well-crafted social commentary and a strong executi