Killjoy

October. 24,2000      R
Rating:
2.7
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Deep in an inner city hell, a ghastly figure is killing off the bad guys. A vigilante, or a demon? For the beautiful high school student, Jada, that's the question that will bring her face to face with the killer clown Killjoy.

Carl Washington as  Ray Jackson
Napiera Groves as  Kahara
William L. Johnson as  Lorenzo
Arthur Burghardt as  Homeless Man

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Reviews

Alicia
2000/10/24

I love this movie so much

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Intcatinfo
2000/10/25

A Masterpiece!

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Deanna
2000/10/26

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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Geraldine
2000/10/27

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Hannah Sutcliffe
2000/10/28

This movie is atrocious beyond comprehension. As a fan of the sillier side of horror, I was actually really looking forward to watching this movie. I wish I had read up on some reviews before I wasted £3.50 on this awful film. From the cover, Killyjoy looks like a terrifying clown who could easily create bloodshed amongst the protagonists...but this movie is anything but scary, or funny. With laughable dialogue, bad acting, horrible special effects and a stupid plot line; this movie takes the cake. The only thing even remotely frightening about this movie is that it was even allowed to be made in the first place. It looks like it was created by a group of teenagers using Windows Movie Maker. Honestly, I would not recommend this movie to anyone whatsoever. Spend your money on better clown movies. Killer Klowns From Outer Space is the perfect example of what a silly, scary horror should be and Killjoy is anything but.

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black_rose0997
2000/10/29

This movie was horribly dull and stupid. Not only that, it was extremely and pathetically ghetto as hell.I'm not going to waste time and tell you what the movie is about because other reviewers have already done that. I just want to exclaim to everyone to SKIP THIS MOVIE.The acting is cheap and horrible and the death scenes are just stupid and extremely fake. Killjoy the clown is incessantly annoying and more gay than scary.The only scene I liked in this whole mess of a movie was the scene where a woman's breasts are seen and the shower scene. Yeah, the nudity is the only good part of this film..lol

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Lady M
2000/10/30

If you like cheesy B movies, add this to your watch list. The acting was terrible. To a point where I actually couldn't tell whether the characters were lying to fool the bad guy and intentionally trying to make that obvious to the viewers or not. They were not. It was just really really bad acting. Also, at parts where it was only people having a conversation and no real action happening, the camera man like to wave the camera around wildly. It seemed like it was to make it look more mysterious or dream like, but it really just made me dizzy. However, the clown and the acting of the guy who played the clown were excellent. Most evil clowns in movies are either just plain evil with nothing funny about them, or try to be funny but fail completely. Killjoy has the perfect sick sense of humor for an evil clown. If you enjoy dark humor, I'd suggest watching for his lines alone. The good parts were really good, and the bad parts were so bad that it made them funny. I fully intend to watch the sequels.

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mikemdp
2000/10/31

Sometime after Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Oscar for her role in "Gone with the Wind," someone asked her if she felt she had done a disservice to her race by playing a maid. Her response was something like, "Better to play a maid than to be one."The urban horror film "Killjoy" seems to have been written and produced specifically in that mindset. An inner-city take on the traditional supernatural stalker movie in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" vein, "Killjoy" concerns a demonic clown who exacts revenge for the violent murder of a young man who dared to talk to the girlfriend of a sadistic gang member.Almost every negative urban minority and female stereotype is present here. In the ghetto world of "Killjoy," most African-American and Latino males are violent, drug-obsessed gang members, and most women adore the wrong men and get naked all the time. When confronted with something that puzzles them (for instance, a murderous demon clown), the reaction most often of the male characters is a posturing, strutting "Yo, cuz? What the f***?""Killjoy" makes you feel sorry for its actors, who are obviously compromising everything they believe in as the grandchildren of the Civil Rights Movement to pay their bills with their salaries as performers here.And folks, there are some talented people in "Killjoy." Arthur Burghardt, who played a doctor on "One Life to Live" and an attorney on "Knots Landing," is here reduced to playing a magical negro (Spike Lee's term, not mine) homeless man who, somewhere in the middle of the movie delivers a monologue which does nothing but summarize the entire first half of the film that came before it, clips and all. That's right - "Killjoy" is so condescending to its audience that it assumes its viewers couldn't even pay attention for its first 45 minutes."Killjoy" isn't awful cinematically. There's some eerie, atmospheric filmmaking present here which services the story nicely, if in an unremarkable way. Killjoy, as a character, is sufficiently creepy (but really, it's not all that difficult to create a creepy clown, and a zillion movies have done it a zillion times better).But what "Killjoy" truly represents as a movie is the sad reality of the racist nature of the American film industry. Really, how many positive, hopeful, truthful stories can be told about urban American life by Hollywood? But how many are? How often are black and Latino actors required to play stereotypical or negative characters in movies, and how representative are those characters of the true population of those minorities in the United States?That's the saddest part of all. The makers of "Killjoy" could have explored horror and terror in an inner-city environment in a truthful and honest way without perpetuating negative racial stereotypes. Look, for instance, at a film like "Candyman" for well-executed, terrifying urban horror that has the confidence in itself not to fall back on the unfortunate and unjustified social fears of the white majority.Actually, I take that back. The real saddest part of all is that "Killjoy" spawned two sequels.

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