SummaryA silent black and white surveillance video is uploaded to YouTube, a child sleeping amongst stuffed animals and blankets. A few seconds later, a drawer under the bed starts to slide open, and a disheveled old man done up as a clown – soon to be known as Wrinkles – emerges, before the footage cuts to static. Over the next year, additional bizarre... Read More
Directed By:Michael Beach Nichols
Written By:Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker
Wrinkles the Clown
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Sep 26, 2019
75
Fun, fun stuff. And scary? Yes, but not necessarily in the ways you might think going in.
Oct 2, 2019
63
The film’s mid-act about-face lends a refreshing sense of complexity to an otherwise superficial depiction of Wrinkles.
Oct 8, 2019
60
Audiences aren’t as malleable as our most overprotective impulses might lead us to believe, which is why kids can both adore Wrinkles and shriek at Wrinkles and why the kids are all right.
Oct 3, 2019
60
This movie’s a reminder that even abstract concepts can have a dark, persuasive power.
Sep 30, 2019
50
The story of Wrinkles The Clown and the public reaction to his antics is funny, weird, and timely — there may just not be enough of it to warrant a feature-length documentary.
Sep 26, 2019
50
Wrinkles the Clown is a documentary that frequently entertains, but lacks true insight into the viral phenomenon.
Oct 3, 2019
40
We keep getting glimpses of a compelling subject, but it’s hard to know what Nichols is really going for, since he tosses so many disparate elements together without tying them into a meaningful thread.
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Oct 21, 2019
7
Started by a youtube video, this clown obsession with wrinkles may just be us predicting what's behind the mask. Behind the mask may not be what you expect. Twist and turns come out of this documentary, surprising enough. One of the best documentaries I have recently seen.
Jul 6, 2021
5
Not a bad documentary. The twist in the middle of the doc was interesting but to me, I felt the doc could of been shorter but it was still interesting.
