There’s nothing as seemingly innocuous as a balloon at a child’s birthday party. A bright sack of floating air never fails to entertain children and adults alike. But what happens when all the joy and wonderment of something so simple is stripped away, replaced by something wholly terrifying and beyond belief? What happens when the innocence is stripped from that rainbow tapestry of of childhood delights and replaced by a moment of abject fear. That’s exactly what writer/dire

It’s strange to think that there’s a book published in 1841 that could help explain the current clown phenomenon, but the Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds may shed some light on what has oddly become an epidemic of fear. Awhile back, when the first wave of clown terror rose up in a sleepy town in South Carolina, I predicted the problem would soon fade away, as it was most likely a publicity stunt gone too far, a joke that wasn’t as funny, or some peop