Eli Roth's "Clown"
 

Eli Roth has signed on to produce two horror projects for Cross Creek Pictures and Vertebra Films.

The first project is Clown, the story of “a loving father who dons a clown outfit and make-up to perform at his son’s sixth birthday, only to later discover the costume — red nose and wig included — will not come off, and his own personality changing in horrific fashion." To break the curse of the evil outfit, the father must make grim choices with his own family facing danger. He and his family race to break the curse of the evil outfit before he undergoes a complete transformation into a homicidal killer with over-sized shoes.

A fake trailer for the film made the rounds around the internet a couple of weeks ago, and included Eli Roth’s name in its faux credits. Boldly splashing industry names such as Lionsgate, Screen Gems and Roth himself, the HOSTEL-esque trailer gained Ford and Watts immediate notoriety and meetings with Roth, Prince and Oliver.



The trailer got Roth’s attention: “I was blown away when I saw that Clown trailer. Everyone thought it was real, or that I had at least made a fake trailer. I called the guys right away and their first response was ‘Thank you for not suing us!’ I said ‘Sue you? Let’s make this into a real film!’ They are incredibly talented, smart guys ready to make their feature debut.”

Jon Watts will direct from a script he will co-write with Christopher D. Ford. Watts has directed numerous commercials as well as music videos for artists including Fatboy Slim and TV On The Radio.

Production is aiming for the first quarter in 2011.

I am not sure what to say, the only word that seems to come to mind is "interesting". The fake trailer actually made this a believable idea, but on what level? While I do think this film would have great potential, I am a bit worried if it would be good enough to work beyond the festival circuit, but who knows. They've made good movies from weirder ideas.

Eli Roth IS a Clown.

Sorry but Hostel took things too far IMO

what a strange concept for a film.

Agreed. Hostel was a bad joke.

What was wrong with Hostel? gotta love gore. and I for one will defenitly be seeing this one

Where do I begin? Hostel was a travesty as far as good horror goes. It lacked originality, plot and anything that would have made it even remotely watchable. I had to go through this film in three sittings, that's how bad it was. The ending was just a rip off of good-turned-bad endings that are so classic in for example Wes Craven's earliest. It completely lacked feeling and conviction. Just... bleugh.

I disagree. I really enjoyed this film. I think Eli Roth has a lot of talent.

I'm a big Eli Roth fan too. I'd much rather see one of his films(which I find original and refreshing) as opposed to some remake.