Claire Bacon is a model and photographer from the UK who has worked on various shoots. She specialized in finding rundown, abandoned, and neglected urban areas and staging elaborate photoshoots with her husband Richard. In addition, she’s dabbled in cosplay, designing her costumes and creating unique characters, one of which was a psychopathic clown. At some point, she met aspiring filmmaker Joe Cash, who I talked about in my Carnal Monsters review. With his help, Claire expanded her character, Slutty the Clown, and the two discussed ideas for potential movies. Cash cast her for the short film She Dogs of the SS, which was part of the anthology Grindsploitation 9. After that, they gathered a budget of £500 and shot their dream project featuring Claire’s character. Following a brief filming period, Slutty the Clown finally premiered on the streaming service Troma NOW in 2022.
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Synopsis
Slutty the Clown (Claire Bacon) is a crazed, sex-obsessed psychopath who wanders the English countryside looking for victims. Two urban explorers, Cheryl Williams (Lauren Annetts) and Mia Rosemary (Eve Bamfield), check out some ruins near where Slutty resides. They stumble across Slutty’s residence during their exploration and proceed to deface it, not knowing who lives there. Naturally, Slutty is none too happy about strangers messing with her things, so she sets her eyes on the girls. After running into her, the girls watch a video from Professor Fellatio (Lloyd Kaufman), explaining who or what Slutty is. They even get a warning from survivalist Sean Voorhees (Ari Lehman) about what Slutty is capable of. Unfortunately, the girls don’t listen to the alarm, and they get captured and tortured by Slutty. Will the girls be able to escape, or will they be the latest victims of Slutty the Clown?
Review
Once again, I’d like to thank Joe Cash from Screaming Screening for reaching out to me to review his movies. Unfortunately, many of the problems I had with his previous film are here. Like Cash’s last effort, this barely qualifies as a movie since there’s hardly a plot or characters. Sure, things happen, and people are in it, but aside from Slutty, none of the leads even have names. I know I mentioned the other female leads by name, but they never refer to each other as such. Even the synopsis I provided is a series of random events rather than a cohesive plot. I understand that low-budget filmmaking is challenging, but that’s no excuse for whatever dreck this is. Admittedly, I don’t go into a movie called Slutty the Clown expecting Citizen Kane, but I at least expect competency.
For her part, Claire Bacon seems to be having fun playing the titular character, skipping around with psychotic glee. She seems to be the only one since the two other leads look disinterested and don’t want to be there. Lloyd Kaufman seems confused in his cameo, and Ari Lehman is giving a performance that’s almost too good for this. To call the filmmaking shoddy would be an understatement, as there are times when it’s hard to tell what’s happening. Not only that but there are at least six or seven times where a “Missing Reel” title card pops up. I’m not sure what happened behind the scenes, but they should’ve either reshot the missing scenes or scrapped the footage. The movie is only an hour long, but there are far better ways to kill an hour than watching this. Overall, Slutty the Clown is a waste of time.
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