Richard Grindle aka Stitches, is an alcoholic man who supports himself in his work as a children's clown, calling himself "The funniest clown", he is late for Tom's birthday and due to his alcoholism he accidentally dies from the children's jokes.
Origin[]
Richard Grindle, is a clown named Stitches, who is late for Tom's birthday, and tries to entertain the children, but instead they ridicule him, one of the children named Vinny ties the clown's shoelaces, causing him to trip and fall on a kitchen knife, killing him.
Six years later, Tom is preparing for his seventeenth birthday, hesitating between throwing a big party, decides instead to invite just a few friends, ultimately a big reunion is held and Vinny secretly distributes many more invitations to through the Internet. Tom, Vinny, Richie, and Bulger, all of whom had been present when Stitches died, as the guests prepare the house, Stitches comes to life and emerges from his grave.
Old wounds[]
Tommy, surprised by Paul dressed as a clown to surprise them, injures his head, so Bulger takes Tommy to find a first aid kit.
There, Tommy goes to his tree house with Kate, to whom he tells of his memories of the ritual he encountered when he was a child; where the clowns performed a kind of ritual at Stitches' grave. Meanwhile, Paul is killed by Stitches and with this, he clown finds Bulger whose skull he opens with a can opener. Sarahd the girlfriend Paul, goes into the attic to look for him. There, she is attacked by Stitches with a fist gun, but she runs away from it, but the clown is faster and sticks an umbrella through her skull.
Through his telescope, Tommy sees Stitches in the house, and goes to warn Vinnie of his presence, outside, Stitches attacks Richie, who tries to flee, but stumbles and falls, there Stitches rips out his intestines and He makes an animal out of the balloon, then stabs it with a bicycle inflator, who inflates it like a balloon and it explodes.
The cult of clowns[]
Vinnie, realizes what Tommy was saying, Stitches returned from the dead to take revenge, then they try to get out, but the clown attacks them, Tommy manages to hurt Stitches and covers Vinnie with a blanket and they escape.
Tommy and Vinnie go to rescue Kate, but the clown knocks her unconscious in the attempt to escape from her, Tom tries to resurrect her; Stitches tries to drown Tommy in a sink, Kate wakes up and throws a knife at Stitches, while Tommy deduces that to defeat the clown they must destroy the egg he kept in his truck.
Tommy and Kate are chased by Stitches, where they accidentally enter a grave in the cemetery, where they find a hiding place, Tommy searches for Stitches' egg, but there is a huge collection of them, while Kate watches in case the clown manages to enter. , Tommy finds the egg, then Stitches arrives and is about to kill them, but Vinnie without being discovered ties the shoelaces Stitches, who trips and drops his egg, Tommy forces the clown to crush the egg, and the clown explodes in a mix of party supplies and egg yolk.
The nightmare does not die[]
Six months later, Tommy has moved into a new house and is dating Kate, who gives Tommy a new telescope, at which point Motley the clown is trying to rebuild Stitches' broken egg, the egg has been completely restored. indicating that the clown will return.
Trivia[]
- It is currently considered a modern cult film. Despite the low audience in America, but it was a resounding success in Europe.
- Despite many requests for a 2nd part, "Conor McMahon" director and screenwriter of the film has stated that the film ended like this: with a "possible return" of Stitches but there will be no second film.