Clown in a Cornfield

2025 96 min ★ 6.1 Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time.

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Cast

Katie Douglas

Quinn Maybrook

Carson MacCormac

Cole Hill

Kevin Durand

Mayor Arthur Hill

Dylan McEwan

Tyler Anderson

Aaron Abrams

Dr. Glenn Maybrook

Alexandre Martin Deakin

Matt

Vincent Muller

Rust Vance

Will Sasso

Sheriff Dunne

Cassandra Potenza

Janet Murray

Verity Marks

Ronnie Queen

Details

Director

Eli Craig

Screenplay

Eli Craig

Tagline

"Are you a friend of Frendo?"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$1,000,000

Revenue

$13,850,731

Production

Temple Hill Entertainment, Rhea Films, Protagonist Pictures, Thundersnow Pictures, 1821 Pictures, Hercules Film Fund, RLJE Films, Shudder

Reviews

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Manuel São Bento

May 7, 2025

★ 7/10

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/clown-in-a-cornfield-movie-review-when-tradition-kills-literally/ "Clown in a Cornfield is a pleasant surprise in the 2025 horror landscape. It starts off rather generically - a conservative town, a group of rebellious teens, a masked killer - but quickly finds its own identity through well-crafted social commentary and a strong executi...

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Chris Sawin

May 7, 2025

★ 6/10

Based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Adam Cesare, Clown in a Cornfield follows 17-year-old Quinn Maybrook (Katie Douglas) and her father (Aaron Abrams) moving to Kettle Springs, Missouri. After the passing of Quinn’s mother the previous summer, Kettle Springs had an opening for a family doctor which caused the surviving Maybrooks to move from the big city to a small rural town. The local...

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CinemaSerf

June 11, 2025

★ 7/10

Ok, so there’s not much original about this cornfield chopper, but I think that’s the point. It sets itself up right from the start as more of a parody of so many other films of the genre, and I really quite enjoyed it. Of course we have to start with the daughter/father relationship that’s reeling from a tragedy, then they move to an old rickety house that really does need it’s chimney seeing to ...

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Chandler Danier

June 13, 2025

★ 7/10

I haven't read the book. I'm kind of an idiot. I liked the title. I liked the movie. I think that's how it works. The phone thing was funny. There is gore. There are clowns (spoiler).