First and foremost, the clown’s inhuman appearance. Clowns straddle the boundary between realism and absurdity, occupying a ...

Ask the internet why clowns are scary, and you’ll come up with a variety of answers ... his bright-red nose punctuating a bloody and partly decayed zombie face. (The paint job, it must be said, is ...

Scary clowns were under the radar for a while ... Akin to Bloody Mary, he became the stuff of legend as stickers of his face started popping up all over Florida. Wrinkles agreed to be documented ...

Painted white faces, red lips, receding hairlines with ... in an article called "The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary." Sponsor Message McRobbie tells NPR's Audie Cornish that she's ...

Do images of cheery jesters with white face paint and a red nose come to ... Who Gets Slapped is widely credited with sparking the scary-clown trope. In the psychological thriller, scientist ...

At clown school, budding bozos learn how to apply makeup without looking scary, how to paint faces, how to perform skits and how to spot and stay clear of coulrophobes — people who fear clowns ...