Interview With "Clown In A Cornfield" Stars Katie Douglas, Kevin Durand & Director Eli Craig

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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"Clown In A Cornfield" had its world premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its adaptation of the 2020 novel by Adam Cesare, the performances from the cast, and the bloody fun direction from filmmaker Eli Craig. Craig and stars Katie Douglas and Kevin Durand were all kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters on May 9th from RLJE Films and Shudder. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Cody Derrick's interview with the director and writer for the film clown in a cornfield, Eli Craig, and the film stars Katie Douglas and Kevin Durant.
0:14.4	This is what I wanted to show you. Isn't it cool?
0:17.4	Yeah, it is really cool. Where did you get it from?
0:19.5	I'm OG Cattle Springs, baby. I got all kinds of stuff.
0:22.6	Does it work?
0:23.6	Try it.
0:24.6	They're really big on tradition around here.
0:41.3	Every year there's this parade where everyone gathers around a friend of float.
0:45.3	Frundo. It's the clown on all the bay pen corn syrup labels.
0:49.3	He's practically local legend.
0:51.3	Hi everyone, how are we doing today?
0:53.3	Not bad. How you doing?
0:55.0	Fabulous. All right. So I'm here with writer, director of clowning cornfield, Eli Craig, along with stars Kevin Durant and Katie Douglas.
1:03.0	Thank you so much all for joining me today.
1:05.0	Great to be here.
1:07.0	Of course. So I want to start out. Clowns in cornfields, out of cornfields.
1:12.9	I want to know what each of you thinks of them.
1:15.2	Are you scared of them? Are you fans of them?
1:18.1	I'm just curious what your experience is with clowns.
1:22.6	I think it's the greatest thing ever.
1:24.7	When I was hearing about people sheishing clowns and
1:28.6	the clowns earnings of 2016.
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