Review: The clown in a wheat field is a surprisingly big film!

I entered Clown in a wheat field Hoping for the same naughty energy that director Eli Craig paid in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. What I got was this and more with a fast, fun and sincerely tense slasher that treats his clown expedient as a launching pad rather than a crutch.

Just from the opening shot of corn that rustle under the moon during a party for teenagers in the 90s, Craig announces that the race will be playful, but never forgets to keep the lama acute.

The story resumes while Quinn Maybrook and his father arrive in Kittle Springs, a city in a city in nostalgia after his corn factory has gone smoke. The adults Pino for “the beautiful old days”, the teenagers Livestream and count the days until they can save.

“You can hear that resentment buzzes under each friendly wave and Craig uses it to warn the tension as a carnival spitfire barker that pulls a jack -in the box.

That clash of culture is the real fuel of the film, and Craig stages him as a shot at the county rope in which both sides continue to slip into the mud. It is a streamlined narrative and no scene exaggerates on the welcome, and every grumbling between generations holds the coil before things explode.

Frendo enters, the mascot clown grown of the factory, now pursued the fields and a mission to cut the “rotten harvest” of the children before the city joins forever.

Each killing comes with a punch -line timing followed by a dark puncture, as if the film squeezes you just before pushing you out of the hay. Craig lets the killings hit hard without wallowing in them.

The film nods in the late 70s to the 90s and while he is aware of himself, he never seems karaoke. Instead, it deals with the greatest successes of the genre as a playlist for remix.

What surprised me most was the heart that beat under the sketches. Quinn (Katie Douglas) is a teenager exhausted by adults who speak without listening.

Carson Maccormac, Aaron Abrams, Will Sasso and Kevin Durand complete a cast that feels authentically small, launching barbi one minute and clinging to each other next.

The comedy lands because it is rooted in the frustration that we all recognize, adolescent culture against panic “Make America America” ​​of the parents.

The film reinvents the film by The Horror Slaher? Not really, but it is a revolt that watches a film that does an excellent job for jeopardizes, comment and soil field and authentic suspense without surviving their welcome.

Clown in a wheat field He asks to be seen with a turbulent crowd, the type that laughs at a killing and moans to others. If you were waiting for a slasher who remembers having fun without leafing through the story, take a step forward!