“All he had to do was say it once and then all the other media outlets just sort of accepted it and ran with it, which to him was sort of surprising and sort of shocking that they took him at his word,” he said. “It’s sort of similar process that you take with any documentary, you have to earn that person’s trust,” he explained. Even though we’re still revealing a lot of information about Wrinkles that’s never been revealed before, we’re not revealing the identity, so there’s still something there for people to play with and project upon in terms of who they think Wrinkles might be… For us it became more complicated but also more fun to stay anonymous and make the whole film a sort of homage to the power of myth and imagination and the way that sort of plays out now online, mostly with children.”.
“I don’t think he was the sole cause, but I definitely think he was a factor,” Nichols said. Nichols said he doesn’t have any set message that he hopes people walk away with after watching the film. You have the most damaging and dark type of call that is the parents pretending to talk to Wrinkles while you can hear their kids losing their minds on the other end of the line. Of course, that changed the movie’s premise quite a bit. Logo Concept by: Illumination Ink. They’re the rotten and deviant reality lurking beneath the goofy, smiling façade.
Did he influence all those 2016 clown sightings? Without giving away its central surprise, Wrinkles the Clown eventually transforms into an extension of Wrinkles’ performance-art pranksterism. Then there’s the obvious messed up calls that were like death threats and sex stuff, which is disturbing. Why did you feel like that was important to cover in the documentary? This is the kind of film with a concept so clear and bonkers you instantly want to know everything there is to know about its subject, how did you find out about Wrinkles? Well, if you’re a demented mother and father interested in traumatizing your little one for years to come, you can follow in the footsteps of a shocking number of other American parents and dial 407-734-0254—the phone number for Wrinkles the Clown, a Naples, Florida, creep who, for a small cash fee, will lurk around your kid until they get the message and straighten themselves out. “I’m in the development stage for a couple projects but none that have gotten financed or anything like that, so I can’t talk too much about them,” he said. Powered by. Posted on Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 by Rafael Motamayor. Then the fact that no one knew who he was and that he was from Florida like me, got me engaged in wanting to find out more. We spent four months preparing and doing research, listening to voicemails all day long. What he didn’t expect were how many messages children would leave threatening Wrinkles with violence. You just have kids speaking in a way that sort of doesn’t really line up with them being 10 years old when they’re saying these really obscene things…”, WARNING: Major Spoilers Below for Wrinkles’ Identity.
How did you strike that balance? This is both not a joke and a hilarious gag, as detailed by Wrinkles the Clown (in theaters Oct. 4). “(They learn that) you’re not going to try to get them, or manipulate them or manipulate how they’re portrayed in the film… In this instance, one of the first things he told us was he would not be revealing his identity, that wasn’t even on the table to him…”. In an age of viral horror fads (Slenderman, Momo, etc. I had the opportunity to interview the man behind the documentary, director, ‘Wrinkles the Clown’ Director Michael Beach Nichols on Internet Urban Legends and Why We’re Afraid of Clowns [Interview], ‘Wrinkles the Clown’ Unmasks a Modern Boogeyman in This Delightfully Delusive Documentary [Fantastic Fest 2019], ‘Wrinkles the Clown’ Trailer: A New Documentary Profiles a Clown Hired to Scare Children. He doesn’t live in a van. We always wanted to present the whole story. It was just really interesting seeing how his mind works and how he viewed all this. Nichols talked with Heavy about the movie, about Wrinkles’ identity, and about the strange twists he learned along the way while making the documentary. That’s exciting for Wrinkles.”.
“Once he told us that wasn’t a possibility, we still were able to see maybe even more possibilities in this sort of richness of playing with myth by keeping the mystique of not having a face or name to put behind the mask. How did he get Wrinkles to open up to him? Go to main menu Heavy
Wrinkles was an instant hit with the adolescent online set, who promptly began recording themselves phoning and texting him—an act that folklorist Trevor J. Blank claims, persuasively, is a rite of passage of sorts, and part of a contemporary ritual of helping create and spread modern myths. Wrinkles the Clown is, on the one hand, a portrait of how a few images and suggestions can take on an insane life of their own, eliciting responses across the spectrum. Those include adoration, as Nichols profiles two boys and a girl whose fondness for Wrinkles has motivated them to embark on their own dreadful-clown paths (much to their parents’ befuddlement). But the craziest ones came from the children who called him. A friend built us a searchable database off Google archive which helped organize the more interesting or colorful voicemails and then go off from there and find the caller. But for the documentary’s director Michael Beach Nichols, one of the more shocking revelations didn’t even come from Wrinkles the Clown himself.
For Nichols, one of the most surprising things about the documentary was listening to the voicemails left for Wrinkles the Clown. Wrinkles the Clown complements its cornucopia of non-fiction material (online videos, interviews with children) with plentiful scenes of Wrinkles both in and out of his costume, going about his daily toil. And then once you find out the big twist, you see how important the Internet itself was to the creation of Wrinkles. The further we got into this subject the more we realized this was about the Internet, because we only found out about Wrinkles because it went viral. We learned that the older man living in a van was not Wrinkles after all, but an actor. For clarity and spoilers-sake, the interview has been edited so as to not ruin the surprise, and believe me – you’ll want to experience the insanity that is Wrinkles The Clown yourself when it arrives on October 4, 2019. I had a reaction similar to a lot of people that see that video of Wrinkles coming out form underneath the child’s bed, and it is damn creepy.
Wrinkles the Clown Review: An Unexpected Documentary with a Fresh Look at Myths.
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