It’s hard to forget the infamous clown sightings of 2016 that caused a fever pitch in America and across the globe, where reports of people disguised as evil clowns in incongruous settings, such as near forests and schools were reported all over the world.
These evil clowns sightings spawned the proliferation of videos and images that ripped through the cyber-world and social media via posts and viral sharing, in which some of these creepy and not so jolly jokers were cited or arrested for making violent threats to schools, and some incidents involved robberies and assaults on children and adults.
The first of these reported sightings were in Green Bay, Wisconsin in what has turned out to be the inspiration behind the recently released horror film, Gags. Presented by Bloody Disgusting and directed by film maker Adam Krause, Gags was filmed entirely on location and caused quite a buzz in and around Green Bay, and stirred up creepy flashbacks of the eerie 2016 sightings.
The movie takes place over a single night in Green Bay. The villain, referred to as Gags the Clown, a cryptic and creepy character holding a string of black balloons, emerges from the darkness to grip the town in total terror. As reports start circling of his strange appearances, a local news reporter scrambles to investigate Gags’ true identity. Meanwhile, the police attempt to maintain civil obedience as the city starts to go clown crazy. So much so in fact, a group of local high school students get in on the action, using the clown phenomenon as an excuse to cause a little copycat clown trouble of their own.
Some the town folk take to social media at the request of a popular right-wing podcast host and begin a live stream “clown hunt” in order to bring Gags to justice. Gripped to their streaming feeds, the world tunes in as the horror unfolds.