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* BigBrotherBully: Randy spends the entire movie bullying and threatening his two younger brother; Geoffrey and Casey.
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* StopMotionLighting: One of the antagonists is shown passing by one of the protagonists while a lightbulb flickers.
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* NeckSnap: Lunatic Cheezo's preferred method of killing people. In a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome, this is shown as being much harder to do than it is in most movies and Cheezo has to put serious effort into it.
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* NeckSnap: Lunatic Cheezo's preferred method of killing people. In a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome However]], this is shown as being much harder to do than it is in most movies and Cheezo has to put serious effort into it.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive and tries to help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive and tries to help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive and tries to help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non-Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive and tries to help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non-Ironic {{Non Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive and tries to help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive and tries to help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non Ironic {{Non-Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive of him and try tries to help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* AfraidOfClowns: Casey is terribly afraid of clowns, to the point they even haunt his dreams. Randy enjoys teasing him for it, while Geoffrey attempts to be more supportive of him and try help him overcome it when they go to the circus to interact with some {{Non Ironic Clown}}s, but it ends up badly.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Cheezo enters the living room searching for Casey and walks around the room, but fails to spot him and leaves. Not only was Casey hiding under the table--the one piece of cover in the room--but a later shot shows that the underside of the table is immediately visible from the door, and Casey would have been direct line of sight as soon as Cheezo opened the door.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Cheezo enters the living room searching for Casey and walks around the room, but fails to spot him and leaves. Not only was Casey hiding under the table--the one piece of cover in the room--but a later shot shows that the underside of the table is immediately visible from the door, and Casey would have been direct directly in the line of sight as soon as Cheezo opened the door.
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* StaircaseTumble: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByfore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey [[KneelPushTrip kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a fall down the stairs.
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* StaircaseTumble: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByfore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing forces him to back up. As he does so, Casey [[KneelPushTrip kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a fall down the stairs.
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* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:Geoffrey kills the lunatic Cheezo and saves Casey by buying an axe in Cheezo's back.]]
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* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Geoffrey kills the lunatic Cheezo and saves Casey by burying an axe in Cheezo's back.]]
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* PoliceAreUseless: As the boys return home from the circus, the mental patients target their home. Casey and his brothers are locked inside their isolated farmhouse and the power is turned off. Casey attempts to call the police, but the police officer assumes that Casey's fear of clowns caused him to have a realistic nightmare.
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* PoliceAreUseless: As the boys return home from the circus, the mental patients dressed as clowns target their home. Casey and his brothers are locked inside their isolated farmhouse and the power is turned off. Casey attempts to call the police, but the police officer assumes that Casey's fear of clowns caused him to have a realistic nightmare.nightmare and hangs up.
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* PoliceAreUseless: As the boys return home from the circus, the mental patients target their home. Casey and his brothers are locked inside their isolated farmhouse and the power is turned off. Casey attempts to call the police, but the police officer assumes that Casey's fear of clowns caused him to have a realistic nightmare.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Casey is an adolescent boy whose life is constantly influenced by his intense fear of clowns.
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* BaldOfEvil: The lead escaped psychopath--who assumed the identity of head clown Cheezo--has a shaved head.
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* NeckSnap: Lunatic Cheezo's preferred method of killing people. In a SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome, this is shown as being much harder to do than most movies and Cheezo has to put serious effort into it.
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* NoNameGiven: The names of the three escaped lunatics are never revealed, and they are only referred to by the names of the clowns whose [[MuggedForDisguise costumes they stole]].
* NoNameGiven: The names of the three escaped lunatics are never revealed, and they are only referred to by the names of the clowns whose [[MuggedForDisguise costumes they stole]].
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* NeckSnap: Lunatic Cheezo's preferred method of killing people. In a SuprisinglyRealisticOutcome, this is shown as being much harder to do than most movies and Cheezo has to put serious effort into it.
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* ExremelyShortTimespan: Less than 24 hours. Starts in the morning and ends before dawn the next day.
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* MuggedForDisguise: The three escaped lunatics murder three circus clowns and steal their clown costumes.
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* DeathByFallingOver: Dippo takes a fatal StaircaseTumble after falling victim to Casey and Geoffrey's KneelPushTrip.
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* ChekhovsGun: The axe Randy uses as a prop when telling his ghost story [[spoiler:winds up being buried in Cheezo's back by Geoffrey to save Casey]].
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* BringMeMyBrownPants: In his dream at the start of of the film, Casey is scared by a clown and wets himself. when he wakes up, he discovers he has EmbarrassingDampSheets.
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* BringMyBrownPants: In his dream at the startof of the film, Casey is scared by a clown and wets himself. when When he wakes up, he discovers he has EmbarrassingDampSheets.
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* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:Geoffrey kills the lunatic Cheezo and saves Casey by buying an axe in Cheezo's back.]]
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* DestinationDefenestration: Casey and Geoffrey shove the lunatic Dippo out of the upstairs window of the house to his death.
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* TwoByFore: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber, forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey [[KneelPushTrip kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a Staircasetumble.
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* TwoByFore: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber, forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey [[KneelPushTrip kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a Staircasetumble.StaircaseTumble.
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* KneelPushTrip: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByFore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him and takes a Staircasetumble.StaircaseTumble.
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* TwoByFore: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber, forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey [[KneelTripPush [[KneelPushTrip kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a Staircasetumble.
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* KneelTripPush: KneelPushTrip: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByFore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him and takes a Staircasetumble.
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* StaircaseTumble: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByfore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey[[KneelTripPush [[KneelPushTrip kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a fall down the stairs.
* StaircaseTumble: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByfore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey
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* MonsterClown: Three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
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* KneelTripPush: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByFore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him and takes a Staircasetumble.
* MonsterClown: Three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken theiridentities.identities.
* StaircaseTumble: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByfore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey [[KneelTripPush kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a fall down the stairs.
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* MonsterClown: Three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their
* StaircaseTumble: When Casey and Geoffrey are confronted by a MonsterClown in the attic, Geoffrey [[TwoByfore hits him repeatedly in the head with a piece of timber]], forcing him to back up. As he does so, Casey [[KneelTripPush kneels down at the top of the stairs. The retreating clown trips over him]] and takes a fall down the stairs.
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* CatScare: Jasper goes into the darkened barn to see what is spooking the chickens. As he uses a flashlight to look around, a chicken jumps out; scaring him. A few moments later, he is killed by the {{Monster Clown}}s.
* EmbarrassingDampSheets: Casey wets his bed at the beginning, and it is referred to throughout the film by his brothers.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Is set just before Halloween, and Randy has set up a dummy hanging from a noose in the tree in the yard, much to his mother's annoyance.
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''Clownhouse'' is a 1989 American slasher film written and directed by Victor Salva in his feature-length directorial debut.
Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
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