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Stitches

  • Film
  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
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Time Out says

3 out of 5 stars

Anyone scared of men with painted smiles should run screaming from this wickedly funny ‘killer clown’ movie. It’s like a twisted balloon animal filled with blood and guts, waiting to burst.

Jaded children’s entertainer Richard ‘Stitches’ Grindle (comedian Ross Noble) returns from the grave to take revenge on the 16-year-old party-goers who, six years earlier, mocked and disrupted his magic tricks before accidentally causing his comically gruesome death. Noble’s surreal, discursive style of humour might have over-egged this, but he reins in his exuberance, allowing the character, situations and imaginatively gory killings to do the work for him. Naturally, each of the deaths apes a trick that ‘Stitches’ was trying to perform at the fateful birthday party for ten-year-old Tommy (Tommy Knight), now a clown-phobic teenager unable to decide whether the vicious, wisecracking Stitches is real or merely a figment of his haunted imagination.

Irish director Conor McMahon has come a long way since 2004’s micro-budget zombie movie ‘Dead Meat’, and his knowing variations on ’80s slasher movie tropes are made all the more enjoyable by old-fashioned prosthetic gore.

Written by Nigel Floyd

Release Details

  • Rated:18
  • Release date:Friday 26 October 2012
  • Duration:86 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Conor McMahon
  • Screenwriter:Conor McMahon
  • Cast:
    • Tommy Knight
    • Ross Noble
    • Gemma-Leah Devereux
    • Eoghan McQuinn
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