“A clown that doesn’t finish a birthday party can NEVER rest in peace…”
If you have a fear of clowns (It’s shocking the amount of people who do!) Stitches should be left well alone!
Stitches is an Irish comedy gore-fest about a crappy kid’s party clown and his untimely death at a kids birthday party. Tom, the birthday boy, and his group of friends torment and abuse Stitches until one prank causes Stitches to trip face first onto the cutlery basket of a dishwasher carelessly left open.
A face full of knife, a shitty funeral, clown voodoo and some years later, we fast-forward to Tom’s birthday and this year’s party. We re-meet Tom’s friends to find they are a bunch of complete twats. Unfortunately for them, Stitches has risen from the grave and is out for revenge! All the elements are there, sex, booze, drugs and rock & roll…everything NOT to do in a horror movie!
As you can imagine with a killer clown played by British comedian Ross Noble, Stitches is comedy violence filled with fantastic one-liners. There are some very creative deaths, buckets of blood and gore, and the kill scenes come thick and fast with some real originality. From the ice cream scooping of brains to a flying clown umbrella to the eye, we are treated to deaths galore in some really hilariously brutal ways.
One particular scene shows stitches helping a cat use its 9 lives. I was in fits of laughter, but did feel bad for the little kitty. A great scene, but probably quite controversial.
This is an excellent film. My only gripe with it is that the kids in the film are so unlikeable it didn’t matter weather they lived or died. At highlight though was the amazing musical montage mid-film. set to Foreigner’s ‘I just died in your arms tonight’ – it totally doesn’t need to be in there, but it is, and it’s great! For a reason I can’t explain, it had me grinning from ear to ear.
Stitches is well worth a look, a proper off-beat comedy horror, and Ross Noble makes a wicked messed up clown.
