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“ | I-I did it out of spite, I guess. I hope you're not mad at me. | „ |
~ Edwin the Clown explaining his motive to his mother during his video confession. |
“ | Are you enjoying the show? | „ |
~ Edwin mocking Valerie. |
Edwin the Clown is a psychotic serial killer clown and the main antagonist in the 2010 dark comedy horror movie Klown Kamp Massacre.
After unfairly losing his only chance to becoming a circus clown, he takes revenge on the camp by murdering every student there.
He was portrayed by Jared D. Herholtz who reprises his role in the unreleased 2013 short "Bloody Birthday".
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Nothing is known about Edwin's childhood, not even his last name. However, it is safe to say that he has always wanted to be a clown to make the world laugh. His mother supported his dream by paying for him to be sent to Clown Camp at Bonzo's Ranch with a whoopee cushion signed "Love, Mom". His father however wanted him to stay and work in their family store stacking the shelves.
May 15, 1991 Massacre at Bonzo Ranch[]
Once he arrived at Bonzo's Ranch, he failed at everything he did and never made anyone laugh. At the last day of camp, Bonzo held try-outs for every student at the camp, this being Edwin's final chance to pass and become a real circus clown.
When he was called to the stage, he called for a volunteer that quickly came to his side, readying the whoopee cushion his mother gave him so his assistant could sit on it. However, once the assistant did, another student's phone started loudly ringing and ruined his act. Edwin started begging and pleading for another chance, but all the other students only yelled at him to get off the stage and assaulted him with pies while laughing at him until he ran off, utterly humiliated.
The next day, he murdered every student and teacher alike at the camp, except for Bonzo, out of pure spite. After filming a video confession and sending it to his mother, Edwin went into hiding for 15 years. Ironically, this would make the world become infatuated with the massacre as everyone wondered who had committed the grisly crime and even made documentaries based on it.
2006 Massacre at Bonzo Ranch[]
Long after the horrors of the massacre had died down and mostly forgotten about, Bonzo announces a grand re-opening of the camp on live television, sending Edwin into a rage, and forces him to return to the camp to take revenge on Bonzo and kill every student once again so it would stay closed forever. Once he was back at the camp, he quickly killed the two teachers working at the camp so he can safely get to Bonzo and hang him inside his bathroom. Edwin then turned his attention to the students and over the course of a week, killed all but one student named Valerie, Bonzo's niece.
After she accidentally knocked herself out running away from Edwin, she awakens to see Edwin at the very same stage his dream was destroyed at 15 years ago, with all of her dead friends and Bonzo posed as the audience so he can attempt his try-out once again. Once she sits on Edwin's whoopee cushion, there was a brief moment of silence. Suddenly, laughter starts coming from the crowd revealing that the whole ordeal was an elaborate national prank TV show for Bonzo to regain his fame. Edwin the Clown is shown to have been portrayed by fictional actor, Vic Vickers.
It was then revealed that Valerie had to be sent to an insane asylum due to her trauma that left her catatonic. The real Edwin the Clown watches all of this unfold on his TV and angrily declares he will kill everyone who did this to Valerie since she had been humiliated much like he was.
Bloody Birthday[]
According to producer Phillip H.R. Gunn and director David C. Valdez, Bloody Birthday would have began with Edwin going to a child's birthday party uninvited and start performing for the children to try and make them laugh, not knowing how uncomfortable he's making them with the children believing him to be a monster. The father of the birthday child would then approach Edwin and ask/demand for him to leave, sending Edwin into another rage and kill the father by hanging him up from a tree like a piñata and possibly several others at the party.
Appearance[]
Edwin the Clown is a mid-20s/early 30s man with dyed blue curly hair, white, red, and blue face paint, a yellow and white clown jumpsuit, large clown shoes, yellow eyes, and dirty teeth.
Personality[]
His entire life, even after the 1991 massacre, Edwin was shown to be a shy and socially awkward man that still wanted to make his mother proud and become a circus clown. When he didn't get what he wanted, he quickly flew into a psychotic rage and didn't calm down until everyone that angered him was dead, afterwards returning to his usual shy nature and apologize on camera for everything he did but not actually regretting his actions.
Whenever he would stalk and eventually kill his victims, he would laugh the entire time and sometimes make a bad pun at their expense. At times, he would be incredibly cruel. In one instance he silently killed Brandi by decapitating her in a dark room while her boyfriend Tipsy investigated a noise Edwin made while they were having sex. When Tipsy returned, he went back to having sex with Brandi's body, not realizing what he was doing until he noticed her bleeding. Then, Edwin held up her severed head and the hatchet he killed her with for him to see right before killing him.
At times however, unlike most horror movie killers, he did show remorse for some of his kills and actions. For example, after switching a spray bottle of seltzer with acid, he let Lenny spray his friend Vinnie the Clown in the face with it. Horrified at the sight, Lenny ran from the camp into a field where he found a pie with lots of whipped cream on it hiding a bomb (poorly) and blew up his head. After the second massacre, he saw in an interview with Lenny that he wanted to entertain the world like he did with his incredible ukulele playing abilities despite his mental handicaps, saying the thought was "beautiful".
There is a possibility that Edwin was a cannibal since Butzer's song about Edwin's massacre mentioned that he "ate some of them, while they were still breathing". It's possible that he was just making this up to scare the other campers at a campfire, however Edwin did scalp and force one of his victims in the 1991 massacre to eat pieces of their own brain and he could have eaten some as well, but it's not shown on screen and he never hints, implies, or threatens to eat someone again in the movie.
Powers and Abilities[]
Edwin has no superhuman special powers, from the reason he is a human being like everyone around him, yet he indeed had a variety of abilities such as;
- Incredible Strength: Edwin was able to punch through Butzer's back and out his chest to rip out his heart. He was also able to hang Bonzo the Clown despite him being taller and much heavier than himself.
- Stealth: Edwin was able to avoid detection from all of the campers in the second massacre at Bonzo's Ranch until he intentionally showed himself to Gerald when he was by himself and even then, it wasn't until there was only four living people left that anyone knew he was killing anyone. During all of this, he wore a bright and colorful outfit that should've made him very easy to spot at night.
- Weapon Improvisation: Edwin was able to use items like a rubber chicken, a sliding door, balloon strings, and a high striker game mallet to name a few.
Equipment[]
- Magical Clown Car: Edwin owned a car that was able to drive around in small circles so fast that the pressure could crush a human's skull against the windows. It also had the ability to fly as shown in Philbert's death when he was hiding on a tree branch from Edwin, but he still managed to run over Philbert with it. It was also able to use it's seemingly infinite storage space to store eleven adult bodies despite its apparent small size.
Kill Count[]
Directly[]
May 15th, 1991 Massacre[]
- Unknown Male Clown - Throat slit by Edwin the Clown.
- Unknown Male Clown - Stabbed off-camera in the abdomen/chest by Edwin the Clown.
- Unknown Male Clown - Stabbed in the ear with a pencil offscreen by Edwin the Clown, body shown.
- Unknown Female Clown - Rubber chicken shoved down her throat and suffocated off-screen by Edwin the Clown, body shown.
- Unknown Male Clown - Stomach blown up with an air pump off-screen by Edwin the Clown, body shown.
- Unknown Male Clown - Stabbed up through the chin and out the top of the head with a sword off-screen by Edwin the Clown, body shown.
- Unknown Male/Female Clown - Cut in half with a sliding door off-screen by Edwin the Clown, only legs shown.
- Unnamed Male Clown - Strangled with balloon strings during a flashback by Edwin the Clown.
- Unnamed Male Clown - Head impaled with whipped cream spray can during a flashback by Edwin the Clown.
- Unnamed Female Clown - Stabbed in the stomach with a clown horn during a flashback by Edwin the Clown.
- Edwin's Male Clown Roommate - Scalped with a knife and then forced to cannibalize pieces of his own brain by Edwin the Clown.
2006 Massacre[]
- Hippy Clown - Head crushed against the window of Edwin the Clown's magic car.
- Tex - Stabbed in the back with a hook and then shoved head first into grass packer by Edwin the Clown.
- Sergeant Thaddeus Funnybones The Third - Stabbed through the face with a knife by Edwin the Clown.
- Bonzo - Strangled, neck snapped, and then hung with a noose by Edwin the Clown. Head later smashed with a mic stand.
- Squirts - Throat slit by Edwin the Clown.
- Brandi - Decapitated with a hatchet off-screen by Edwin the Clown, body shown.
- Tipsy - Killed off-camera with a hatchet by Edwin the Clown.
- Vinnie the Clown - Face melted off by acid (initially survived) when Edwin the Clown switched it with a seltzer spray bottle, sprayed by Lenny. Later accidentally stabbed in the chest off-camera by Edwin the Clown.
- Lenny Bobowski - Head blown up with dynamite hidden in a whipped cream pie by Edwin the Clown.
- Gerald - Head smashed seven times with a high striker game mallet by Edwin the Clown.
- Butzer - Punched through the back and out his chest, heart ripped out by Edwin the Clown.
- Philbert - Run over by Edwin the Clown while he was hiding in a tree with his magic car off-screen.
- Bananas - Neck snapped by Edwin the Clown.
- Puff - Sawn in half while he was still alive by Edwin the Clown.
Possibly[]
- Crazy Ernie - Ernie was hit by a car off-screen that sounded like Edwin's clown car, however his body wasn't present at Edwin's second try out, though it could've been because he wasn't a clown or a friend of Valerie's since they never met.
Overall[]
- Total - 26
- 21 Male Victims
- 4 Female Victims
- 1 Victim of Unknown Gender
Gallery[]
Images[]
Behind the Scenes[]
Trivia[]
- There are several references to other horror movies throughout Klown Kamp Massacre. Edwin uses a butcher knife like Michael Myers from Halloween and stalks around like him, a parody of Friday the 13th's "ch ch ch ah ah ah" sound effect from Jason Voorhees is replaced with "ch ch ch and three clown horns", and Edwin kills a female clown in a shower much like Norman Bates from Psycho.
- For those confused, the real parts of the movie were the 1991 massacre, Valerie's Father's Murder, Crazy Ernie's death, and everything else before the 2006 massacre. The 2006 "Massacre" was based off the 1991 Massacre and a cruel joke at the expense of Valerie, with Vic Vickers using Edwin the Clown's un-trademarked persona.
- Edwin the Clown himself is based off of a character in a short film made by Phillip H.R. Gunn and his friends in 1994, called "Edwin: The Clown Who Couldn't Make Anybody Laugh", played by Phillip H.R. Gunn himself.
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