Horror comedy Gags The Clown, which delighted and terrified audiences at its 2018 Cinepocalypse world premiere, will be released by Doppelgänger Releasing (the genre label of arthouse distributor Music Box Films) and horror genre website Bloody Disgusting beginning September 3, 2019. This is the feature film debut for director Adam Krause and was inspired by the viral media frenzy and worldwide phenomenon of ‘clown roaming’ sparked by his sixteen-minute short film Gagsin 2016.
“Gags the Clownis a scary, creatively shot and often-times humorous look at how the arrival of one mysterious clown can turn a city upside down and inside out…literally,” said filmmaker Adam Krause.
“Gags The Clown”– Synopsis:
A small city in Wisconsin is terrorized by a mysterious clown who roams the streets late at night with nothing more than a handful of black balloons. The local news stations scramble to break the story on who he is and what he wants while a group of high schoolers see the clown’s arrival as an excuse to create a little trouble themselves. The police try to maintain order in a city that has gone clown crazy and a conservative podcast host vows to put a stop to the clown known as Gags while broadcasting his “clown hunt” on social media for the world to see.
In 2016, director Adam Krause released his short film “Gags”and won Best Director at the Madtown Horror Film Festival and the Above and Beyond Award at the Green Bay Film Festival. Doppelgänger Releasing and Bloody Disgustingare releasing Gags The Clownin select theaters and VOD platforms beginning September 3, 2019. A home entertainment release will follow later in the year. Send in the killer clowns!
More information on GAGS THE CLOWN may be found on the DOPPELGANGER RELEASING website at https://www.doppelgangerreleasing.com
