Stitches is an Irish Film Board (mostly) sponsored horror comedy about a clown who is killed at a child’s birthday party. Stitches, the name of the clown, is played by Ross Noble a stand-up comic better known in Europe than in the states and can also be seen in The Circle. Stitches is a discount clown who performs at birthday parties and shows up drunk at his latest job. The kids at this party are all different levels of d-bags. Through a series of pranks set up by the kids Stitches ends up dying. Six years later little Tommy is now almost an adult and decides to have another birthday party.
Stitches rises from the grave seeking revenge on Tommy and his group of friends. Tommy is played by Tommy Knight who co-starred in the Doctor Who spin off show The Sarah Jane Adventures. Playing Tommy’s friend Kate is Gemma- Leah Devereux who played Liza Minelli in Judy. I will say this about Stitches; there are some original kills in this one. So over the top that I found myself laughing hysterically a few times. I know it was a low budget film, so I give them extra credit for making their limited funds go farther than humanly expected. Even when it looks ridiculously cheap it’s so humorous that you forgive the low budget.
Every kill is presented with buckets of blood and plenty of gore. It’s not all just dead clown back from the grave killing spree stuff there is also an interesting side story that involves a secret sect of clowns. They prove what we always suspected: Clowns Are Creepy. Speaking of which, this isn’t a clown back from the dead like we think of with Pennywise in It, this is totally different. Noble is funny enough as Stitches and Tommy is almost a sympathetic character but I kept thinking that all the kids sort of deserved what they got. I mean they killed him first. All the kids, both teenagers and when they are young, are all fairly unlikable. Aside from Tommy and Kate that is, I guess.
Stitches is entertaining but I will say due to the strong accents of the actors sometimes the film is hard to understand. I needed the subtitles a time or two just so I knew what the characters were talking about. I’m not sure how many dollars were spent making this, but they made the most out of each and every one of them. When the secret clown organization is thrown into the story it adds another layer I wasn’t expecting. I will give Stitches three and a half ice cream scoopers out of five as I’m sure it will make everybody happy.
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