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Burning flesh across the town,
hide the bodies where they'll never be found.
Hide the spirits beneath the ground.
Now all the clowns wear a frown.
Sometimes bugs crawl in your eyes,
but clowns grow strong when others die.
Night to day, and day to night,
you don't want to feel their bite.
Flesh and blood and searing pain,
see them and you'll go insane.
Raging fire burns them down.
Now they are accursed clowns.
Once they tried, and twice they failed
to stop the clowns, and now they're impaled.
Fire and ash fall like the rain.
Now the clowns inflict the pain.
Fire and ash is raining down.
But there's no way to kill a clown.
Silly Lilly

Clown Motel is a Horror Movie by Joseph Kelly.

Ian (Steven Vogel), Spencer (Eric Prochnau), and Chris (Donald Schell) are the makers of a ghost hunting show called "Haunted Earth" who are looking for a new place to make an episode about in hopes of something better than "haunted coins". Brooke (Elinor Price), Casey (Amanda Knott), Kristen (Angeline Mirenda), and Gemma (Julie Anne Prescott) are a quartet of girls on their way home from a bachelorette party in Vegas to celebrate Brooke's wedding. These seven find themselves at a motel out in the Nevada desert and, not seeming to be able to find a way out, decide they might as well spend the night.

The next day, however, they all find themselves in a world of clownish horror.

The movie was funded on Kickstarter on April 19th, 2018. The film was released on June 4th, 2019.


Clown Motel contains examples of:

  • An Arm and a Leg: The clowns rip Ian's arms off after they catch him.
  • Apocalyptic Log: One of the girls finds a journal belonging to a police officer named "Jane Doe" from The '70s.
  • Blood from the Mouth: Blood spurts from Chris' mouth when he's killed by having a windshield wiper jammed down his throat.
    • Ian has blood coming from his mouth after being caught by the clowns, losing both his arms, and dying from falling against a rock.
  • Boom, Headshot!: One of the clowns gets shot in the head.
  • Breast Attack: Casey gets a crowbar impaled through her breast by one of the clowns.
  • Couldn't Find a Pen: After spending the night at the motel, the group finds that someone wrote "Enjoy The Show" on the window in blood.
  • Creator Cameo: Joseph Kelly makes a cameo at the beginning of the movie as Brooke's fiance, video chatting with her.
  • Creepy Doll: Plenty on the property. The movie also shows some shots exclusively of the dolls.
  • Crowbar Combatant: A couple of the clowns are seen wielding crowbars.
  • Downer Ending: The film ends with Brooke being trapped in a motel room with Gemma, and the clowns banging against the door.
  • Fading Away: After some of the group are killed, the movie cuts to shots of clown figures fading out of existence.
  • Fanservice Faux Fight: A couple of the girls have one when the whole group spends the first night in their motel room.
  • Monster Clown: Plenty, even pretty creepy looking ones, populate the motel. They sacrifice anyone who comes to the motel.
  • My Car Hates Me: At one point, the group tries to get away from the motel by starting the guys's RV. It doesn't start no matter what, even when surrounded by killer clowns banging against it.
  • The Place: The movie is set at the "Clown Motel".
  • Third-Person Person: One of the clowns in the prologue, Gandalya, speaks in this manner.
  • Tongue Trauma: Casey gets her tongue ripped out by one of the clowns.
  • Wrench Whack: One of the girls kills one of the clowns with a wrench, driving the handle into his skull.

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