So when did they get so spooky? Cinematic clowns have a reputation for being scary, and might just leave you with a touch of coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. Clowns have existed way before the ...

Why, though? Why do our brains draw the line at clowns? Interestingly, until last year, there hadn’t been a lot of research ...

For a lot of people, the fear of clowns actually is part of a more general fear of masked creatures. In regular parlance it's called: coulrophobia. We don't like things that are familiar but then ...

"Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy" will peel "back the twisted layers of John Wayne Gacy's life while weaving in the heartrending stories of his mostly gay victims." Peacock is making sure that ...

These clowns are not (all) funny. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I used to find the idea of “creepy clown horror movies ...

or as unnerving as coulrophobia (fear of clowns), fear of retirement is a real phenomenon for millions of older Americans. Take heart, though; there is still hope for a happy retirement.

Around the same time in France, everyone was laughing at Jean-Gaspard Deburau's Pierrot, a clown character with a white face, black eyebrows and red lips — one of the first professional silent ...