CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD director Eli Craig

Looking for a fresh start, Quinn and her father move to the quiet town of Kettle Springs. They soon learn the fractured community has fallen on hard times after losing a treasured factory to a fire. As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning clown emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time.

Based on the praised 2020 novel by Adam Cesare, CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD is a hilarious, horrific new slasher flick that introduces a new iconic masked figure to the genre – Frendo the Clown.

Following its acclaim out of this year’s SXSW, Peter Gray spoke with director Eli Craig about balancing both the comedy and the carnage the story requires, the unlikely social commentary of the story, and if his relationship with fear has altered over the course of his career.