25 Scary-Clown Movies That'll Give You Nightmares for Days

Released in 1976, Martin Burke's "The Clown Murders" is one of the late John Candy's earliest onscreen performances. On Halloween night, four young friends dress up as clowns and kidnap a businessman's wife to prevent him from closing a real-estate deal on a farm. The abduction is meant to be a practical joke, but the scheme — to keep her until morning — takes a deadly turn. It turns out another figure, also dressed in a clown costume, is actually stalking the group — and not for laughs, either. With murder on their mind, this killer clown is ready to pick each member off one by one.