Everyone thought Id directed this movie.
It was cut exactly likeHostel, with theHostelmusic, and said, From the Master of Horror Eli Roth.
The first thing he said was, Thank you for not suing me.
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I said, Did you ever think of this as a real movie?'
It would have been too easy and obvious to make a crazy, silly clown movie, Roth says.
We wanted to stay true to the mythology of fairy tales.
Its one of the things that actually held it up from release.
Thankfully, the Weinstein [Company], with Dimension behind it, released the movie.
But its creepy, its upsetting.
Watts and Ford hardly sat on their hands while awaiting the release of the movie.
The pair collaborated again on last years Kevin Bacon-starring thrillerCop Carand Watts is now at work onSpider-Man: Homecoming.
I think he made such a fantastic movie, Roth says of WattsClown.
It certainly caught the attention of Hollywood, because hes directingSpider-Man.
Roth himself had plenty of experience with creepy clowns long before seeing that fake trailer.
And the Brockton carnival was a carnival where you could literally get stabbed.
It was a dangerous carnival that my parents absolutely would not let me go to.
So, ofcourse, we went, and there was a racist clown in a dunking booth.
It was so disturbing.
If people ask me what its like growing up in Boston,thatmemory sums up my existence there.
See the trailer forClownbelow.
