The creepy clown could be considered the mascot of the Halloween season, nearly as pervasive as the jack-o-lantern and far more unnerving. October’s favorite figure has been particularly active this ...

The scary clown has become a horror staple. It can be hard to imagine a time when clowns were regularly invited to children’s birthday parties and hospital wards – not to terrorize, but to delight and ...

American Clown includes fascinating interviews with some of the biggest names in entertainment and clowning, including John C. Reilly (Stepbrothers), David Arquette (Scream franchise, Bozo the Clown), ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vision Films announces the Transactional VOD release of American Clown across the US, Canada and UK on October 7, 2025. To be released in the rest of the ...

At the beginning of the 1988 film “Big Top Pee-wee,” the circus blows into town — literally, thanks to a wind-whipping storm — and lands on none other than Pee-wee Herman’s farm. Pee-wee (Paul Reubens ...

When circuses starting making their way to Dayton in the 1800s, they quickly became a major spectacle. We went back into the archives to see what the circuses were like throughout history and the ...

A 91-minute documentary about working clowns sounds like a tough sell, even to someone who spent their childhood glued to Bozo reruns. But Guilford Adams and Casey Pinkston’s “American Clown,” which ...

LOCKPORT — Mike Perry fell in love with clowning as a youngster in Amherst and ran off to join the circus when he was of age. On Sunday, Perry will tell his personal story of clowning and the journey ...

Introduction / Kenneth L. Ames -- The circus Americanized / Janet M. Davis -- The transnational history of the early American circus / Matthew Wittmann -- The American circus in Victorian Britain / ...