Variety Magazine has taken note of all the scary clown sightings and scary clown hysteria that has spread across the country and around the world.  You’ll recall the Corn Maze in Union Gap has gone so far as to ban clowns from its premises to ease the fears of families out for fun.

Variety Magazine’s Matthew Chernov recounts his top-10 scariest clowns.

10. Stitches,the clown in the movie of the same name who returns from the grave to take revenge on the teenagers who accidentally killed him.

9. The clown in Killjoy a low-budget slasher film about a supernatural clown who avenges the murder of a teenager.

8. A clown named Shivers who stalks an artist suffering from Fear of Clowns in the 2004 movie of the same name.

7. In The Clown at Midnight a college student refurbishing an old opera house gets a vision of a clown that killed her mother years ago.

6. In The Last Circus a happy clown and a sad clown vie for the affection of a trapeze artist.

5. A prank on the housemother of a sorority house results in her death... after which sisters begin to get killed... by a clown living in the attic in 1983's The House on Sorority Row.

4. JOHN WAYNE GACY's stint as Pogo the Clown is featured in the biography of the serial killer.

3. Zombieland features a flesh-eating clown.

2. In Xtro, a boy's father returns home after being abducted as aliens and becomes a creepy dwarf clown.

1. "Shakes the Clown," BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT's movie, has a TV host named Binky the Clown who kills a man with a juggling pin while high on cocaine.

Take your pick, they're ALL CREEPY!!!!

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