Wrinkles the Clown

Name: Wrinkles the Clown
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Comedy, Documentary
Released: October 4, 2019
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Andrew Caldwell, Benjamin Radford, Christopher Barcia, D.B. Lambert, George Holden

2019

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Magnet Releasing | Release Date: October 4, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrew Caldwell, Benjamin Radford, Christopher Barcia, D.B. Lambert, George Holden, Jarrett Wideman, Ken Miller, Rena Sellars, Sean Whitaker, Trevor J. Blank

Summary: A silent black and white surveillance video is uploaded to YouTube, a child sleeping amongst stuffed animals and blankets. A few seconds later, a drawer under the bed starts to slide open, and a disheveled old man done up as a clown – soon to be known as Wrinkles – emerges, before the footage cuts to static. Over the next year, additionalA silent black and white surveillance video is uploaded to YouTube, a child sleeping amongst stuffed animals and blankets. A few seconds later, a drawer under the bed starts to slide open, and a disheveled old man done up as a clown – soon to be known as Wrinkles – emerges, before the footage cuts to static. Over the next year, additional bizarre videos appear online, showing the clown pushing a cart in a parking lot, waving alongside a busy highway, holding balloons in front of a suburban home. The mysterious clips, which immediately go viral, launch Wrinkles to internet infamy. Cryptic stickers with his clown mask and a phone number appear on telephone poles and in bathrooms all over Southwest Florida promising to scare your misbehaving kid straight, a staggering 312,000 voicemails are left and Wrinkles receives over 1,000 calls on some days. … Expand

Director: Michael Beach Nichols

Genre(s): Mystery, Horror, Comedy, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 75 min

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Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 26, 2019

Fun, fun stuff. And scary? Yes, but not necessarily in the ways you might think going in. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Oct 2, 2019

The film’s mid-act about-face lends a refreshing sense of complexity to an otherwise superficial depiction of Wrinkles. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 3, 2019

This movie’s a reminder that even abstract concepts can have a dark, persuasive power. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Oct 8, 2019

Audiences aren’t as malleable as our most overprotective impulses might lead us to believe, which is why kids can both adore Wrinkles and shriek at Wrinkles and why the kids are all right. Read full review

Chris Tilly

Sep 26, 2019

Wrinkles the Clown is a documentary that frequently entertains, but lacks true insight into the viral phenomenon. Read full review

Josh Modell

Sep 30, 2019

The story of Wrinkles The Clown and the public reaction to his antics is funny, weird, and timely — there may just not be enough of it to warrant a feature-length documentary. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Oct 3, 2019

We keep getting glimpses of a compelling subject, but it’s hard to know what Nichols is really going for, since he tosses so many disparate elements together without tying them into a meaningful thread. Read full review

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Cconnor

Oct 21, 2019

Started by a youtube video, this clown obsession with wrinkles may just be us predicting what's behind the mask. Behind the mask may not be what you expect. Twist and turns come out of this documentary, surprising enough. One of the best documentaries I have recently seen.

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tellmikeyy

Jul 6, 2021

Not a bad documentary. The twist in the middle of the doc was interesting but to me, I felt the doc could of been shorter but it was still interesting.

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