The Scary Clown Faces from History – Anecdotes for Halloween

Whatever the real motives behind a joker face are, for most of the people, clowns make a scary picture and a sorry figure. With their faces painted in white, wide daunting smiles, they look quite threatening. It isn’t really surprising that they appear appropriate for the horror movies. Their characters can spin such suspense that themes around them thrive on the climax they weave around the story telling. They make great villains in spite of the fact that they are actually meant to be harmless, innocent jokers throwing jokes around.

For some reason these appalling characters are capable of committing horrendous crimes hiding behind a humour-filled face faking innocence. They are the famous antagonists who are capable of creating a fan base who share their space. If you search for scary clowns on Google, thousands of pages show up. You aren’t alone if you find yourself in shoes of genre that are afraid of the clowns, for generations they were feared by kids and adults alike.

John Gacy was not a comic villain but a real scary clown who was one among America’s most scary serial killer. He was found guilty for murdering 33 teenagers who were boys and young men, most of the murders being committed in his own house and other properties owned by him. He would lure his victims with fake promises and eventually kill them in utmost brutality.

Gacy became known as the “Killer Crown” due to his mixed actions of a killer and that of a clown. He was a member of a local Moose clown club and used to perform regularly as a clown ”Jolly Joker” at fundraising events and parades. He was often seen in charitable functions dressed in clown attire calling himself "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself. Behind this face was a convict, a disguised sociopath in plain clothes who would be just waiting for another opportunity to seize his next victim. A gory story of crime, his life was a story of brutal murders and violence.

If you get to watch the YouTube clip on Pennywise, it might convey the morbid and fearsome character of Pennywise the clown that was played by Tim Curry. I was too scared to watch it for the first time but gathered courage to watch it the second time. It doesn’t seem so gory unless you have read the story or watched the ominous villain in a movie. Don’t be surprised if you get nightmares after watching the movie or reading the story. The dancing clown from Stephen King’s novel is the perfect nightmare for Halloween. Though it was published in 1986, it has the reader base far stretched and is a popular theme even today. Warner brothers are in the process of unwinding the story in a horror movie for it's next reincarnation.

The story is based on an alien form marauder, a predator who thrives on the fear of his victims, prominently the kids. It exploits the phobias of the children and has the ability to alter himself into the victim’s worst fears. His popular camouflaged disguise is that of a dancing clown which lures the prey in his clutches unaware.