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Clownhouse (1988)
Country of Origin:
USA
Year of Production: 1988
Running Times: 81 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Commercial Films/Vision PDG
Executive Producer: Roman Coppola
Producers: Michael Danty, Robin Mortarotti, Victor Salva
SCRIPT
Script: Victor Salva
DIRECTION
Director: Victor Salva PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robin Mortarotti
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Roy Anthony Cox, Sabrina Plisco-Morris
MUSIC
Music: Michael Becker, Thomas Richardson
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up Designer/Costume Designer: Brenda Cox Giguere
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Roy Anthony Cox CAST
Nathan Forrest Winters (Casey)
Brian McHugh (Geoffrey)
Sam Rockwell (Randy)
Tree (lunatic Cheezo)
Bryan Weible (lunatic Bippo)
David C. Reinecker (unatic Dippo)
Timothy Enos (real Cheezo)
Frank A. Damiani (real Bippo)
Karl-Heinz Teuber (real Dippo)
Viletta Skillman (mother)
Gloria Belsky (fortune teller)
Tom Moffram (ringmaster)
Erika Young (storekeeper)
Russell Jasper Watts (storekeeper's assistant)
Bobby Salem (booth barker)
David E. Gehringer (balloon twister)
Gail Rouse-Haefke (mother at balloon booth)
Kate Haefke (daughter at balloon booth)
Anne Tomin (Marci)
Sondra Utterback (Melissa)
Emily Haefke (little girl in crowd)
Karl Peters, Kurt Peters (Gapino brothers)
Andrew P. Swan (circus performer)
Brenda Cox Giguere (assistant)
Victor Salva (radio newscaster/extra at carnival - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
As Halloween approaches, three young brothers
are trapped in a large old house where they are stalked by a trio
of escaped psychiatric patients disguised as clowns.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Triumph Releasing Corporation
Video Distributor: RCA/Columbia
Laserdisc Distributor: RCA/Columbia
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
USA
Rating: R
AWARDS
1989
Sundance Film Festival, USA
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (Victor Salva) - nominated
1990
Fantasporto, Portugal
International Fantasy Film Award Best Film (Victor Salva) - nominated
TIMELINE
1990
February
Day Unknown: Portugal – shown at the Fantasporto Film Festival
POSTER TAGS
...A circus of the mind.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dom klownów – Polish title
Kauhujen yö – Finnish title
LINKS
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Dementia 13 (1963) KEYWORDS
axe murders; bed wetting; brothers; children; circuses; clowns; evil
clowns; fortune tellers; old dark house; psychiatric patients
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