The musical phenomenon group Insane Clown Posse inspired legions of juggalos to paint their faces and listen to the thrashes of hip-hop horror-core in the aughts, and in the year 2016 (a year known for, well, some more real-life horrors), armed people in full clown makeup took to the streets in a bizzare sequence of national clown attacks.
In this post-Pennywise world, the freak clown has prospered. It’s a familiar trope: take an innocent image from our collective childhoods and sculpt it into bait for our wildest nightmares (we thought we were safe, after all).
In 1986, Stephen King’s It was published, since launching a 1990 TV miniseries, a 2017 film, and an iconic SNL skit (Kate McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway spoof “ Kellywise” ). Long gone are the days of clown-free nightmares. Once upon a time, if you said the word “clown,” you were more likely to conjure the image of a lovable, daffy performer like Bozo than the freakish phantasm Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
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