Clowns are constantly being shown to us in movies, sometimes as major characters (such as Pennywise in IT) but more often as smaller roles and even just flashes of subliminal imagery. This series, “Clowns in Film & Movies,” shows examples of this horrifying reality.

Today it’s Zombieland (2009). The key point of our anti-clown guide book, WHEN CLOWNS ATTACK: A SURVIVAL GUIDE, is just that we all fear clowns (and for good reasons). In Zombieland, what does the main character (Jesse Eisenberg) have to face down in the finale? A zombie clown.