This is an advance review out of Fantastic Fest. Wrinkles the Clown debuts in theaters and On Demand on Oct. 4th (yes, the same day Joker opens).
It all started with grainy black-and-white video of a clown called ‘Wrinkles’ emerging from under the bed of a little girl, a Craigslist offer to scare your kids for money, and a sticker of said clown’s phone number posted around towns in southwest Florida. What followed was viral success, thousands of phone calls, nearly as many death threats, and nationwide panic.
Michael Beach Nichols’ film endeavors to detail the strange story of ‘Wrinkles,’ featuring folk who love him and folk who hate him, alongside an extensive interview with the man himself. Kind of. It doesn’t get to the heart of the matter however, the movie proving engaging when focusing on the character’s meteoric rise to fame, but failing when it messes with the documentary format.
Source: IGN.com Wrinkles the Clown Review