The trailer to the horror clown film ‘It’ has attracted criticism from real life professional clowns.
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What you just saw is the first trailer of the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘It’, a horror story about a creepy clown that terrorize children. A lot of real life professional clowns found the trailer “disgusting”.
A director of a clown museum in Hackney, England reacted to the trailer, saying "I don’t know why people want to see these horrible things, what’s the point?"
The trailer was first debuted at the SXSW festival where audience member left screaming upon seeing it. The trailer also racked up a record number of views on YouTube in its first 24 hours.
Some members of the professional clowning community are less than impressed. Celine Harland from Glasgow – who has performed as Tickles the clown for 17 years – told the Press Association: “It’s a horror movie and it affects people’s thoughts and opinions on what a clown is. Unfortunately, it’s not like Jaws which is unrealistic, we do have clowns in society, and yes it will affect business, of course it will.”
Harland added: “I have parents and teachers phoning me… they’re scared to hire you for 35 kids in case they’ve got one child who will be upset. There’s just so many horrible movies out there … clowns that eat people or whatever. It takes people’s minds in the wrong direction. We don’t need it. It’s bad, it’s disgusting,”
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