This comedy sees a troupe of clowns, living statues and ravers roaming about a dystopia where electricity has been stopped by a solar flare
was the only adult-oriented black comedy featuring an almost all-clown list of dramatis personae. But hooray – now there’s another one! Or nearly, because admittedly there are a few nonclown characters here. This superbly titled film is a goofy, wildly uneven but ultimately watchable low-budget Irish caprice that mostly revolves around an ad hoc troupe of outsider clowns who are thrown together when a freak solar flare wipes out all the electricity in Ireland, or maybe the world.
Luckily, Bobo , a washed-up clown with a squirty-flower boutonniere and little to no talent, does have a wind-up car that doesn’t need electricity. He ends up piling in the vehicle with prissy aspirant mime-clown Pepe , a helium-voiced street clown named Funzo who may have “gone Scary” judging by her, duplicitous gag-thief The Great Alfonso and, strapped to the car roof, the corpse of Pepe’s erstwhile mentor, clown emeritus Jean DuCocque .
Along the way, they meet up with Jenny , a journalist who once hooked up with Bobo in a broom cupboard, a fact that her colleagues never let her forget. Jenny is determined to prove her theory about how the solar flare is connected to various other conspiracy theories, and ends up with blowhard Alfonso seeking out an ageing, reclusive former boyband member who is called “Tim from Bromanz” .
Obviously, the above will suggest that the plot is an absurdist farce that keeps piling on ridiculous elements and crazy twists of fortune, just like the rickety human tower the clowns put on as a spectacle for an audience of murderous children. That’s exactly what makes it fun, even if some of the jokes splat like cream pies.
Apocalypse Clown is released on 1 September in UK and Irish cinemas, with an Australia release to be confirmed.
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