Clown in a Cornfield is More Than Meets The Eye + Interview With Writer/Director Eli Craig
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On the May 9, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about Eli Craig’s new horror movie Clown in a Cornfield, and present an interview with co-writer/director Eli Craig.
In Our Feature Presentation: Clown In A Cornfield Is One Of The Best Scary Clown Horror Movies Ever Made [SXSW]
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- Interview with Eli Craig
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Friday, May 9th, 2025. On today's |
| 0:04.8 | episode of the show, we're going to be talking about Eli Craig's Clown in a Cornfield, |
| 0:08.8 | and we'll present an interview with co-writer director, Eli Craig. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an |
| 0:13.6 | editor at slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. Hey, hey, everyone. How's it going? |
| 0:21.3 | All right, Ryan. |
| 0:23.9 | I know you're a big fan of clown in the cornfield. |
| 0:29.7 | You talked about it earlier on this podcast in the South by Southwest episode that we did. |
| 0:34.7 | So people can go back and listen to that for sort of brief thoughts and some reactions to other movies that you saw at that festival. |
| 0:36.7 | But I had a chance to see this movie. |
| 0:38.5 | And I should mention we're recording this very early. |
| 0:40.7 | So just in case that factors into anything, |
| 0:43.4 | just want people to know just for transparency sake. |
| 0:46.2 | I had a chance to see this movie. |
| 0:48.3 | And Ryan, |
| 0:50.0 | I got to tell you, |
| 0:50.5 | I was kind of cringing my way through some of the character introductions, |
| 0:54.2 | set up the movie was doing. I was really like impatient and I was not impressed by the performances |
| 1:00.2 | and I was generally just not digging this film. And I was like, man, like this movie? Like what |
| 1:04.6 | is going on? And typically when that happens with the first few minutes of a movie, |
| 1:08.8 | I know I'm in for a bad time and it's very unusual unusual that a film will win me over, but this one did. |
| 1:15.1 | So by the end, I was fully on board, and I appreciated what it was going for, |
| 1:19.1 | and I wish the first act could have been maybe a little bit more natural or something, |
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