The writer of best sellers of terror Stephen King once asked him what was for him the embodiment of terror. The answer was revealing: Ronald McDonald . The clown in charge of deforming the figure for millions of children worldwide through its prefabricated hamburgers received that rare honor. And no wonder, since many people we are disturbed when we see a clown smile. Maybe we can not help wondering what the hell he laughs. Maybe we doubt that you keep your smile behind the mask. Or the smile that has not exactly friendly ... Probably the bitter and contradictory halo accompanying the clowns is something we owe to the Italian OPEA Pagliacci's character, which over time has become more sinister tones. Somehow, as an element that touches our most fragile stage and enabler, childhood, the figure of the clown has got that ability to awaken many of us irrational and childish terrors. 
Stephen King himself explored the fear of clowns in one of his most disturbing, It . The novel was a terrible film adaptation (top) and television distribution. And it is something general to say that horror movies with clowns series B are cut very poor or gore movies without any real interest for fans of the genre. The most prominent genre films is perhaps the rare and fun Clowns Murderers ( Killer Klowns from Outer Space , 1988) where the clowns were also aliens. Other titles Dead Clowns (2003), Fear of Clowns (2005), which had a sequel in 2007, does not merit a viewing.
But if there is a medium that has been brilliantly adapted the figure of the clown in all its complexity is the television through the quintessential animated series, The Simpsons . The figure of Krusty the Clown , a television clown drunk, speculator and narcissistic, vicious tyrant with children and their subordinates, as few characters representing the ambiguity of the clowns. The drink also the sinister character Ronald McDonald, and in fact has a chain of restaurants, among many other businesses of dubious provenance. The character has starred in some of the popular Halloween events, leaving out the more macabre side of the series.
As if this were not enough the series offers another sinister clown figure of the villain par excellence, Bart's alter-ego in the series, the Machiavellian, intellectual and refined psychopath Sideshow Bob. The character has starred in numerous plans of annihilation, becoming one of the most popular side show. 
Another medium that has known exploit the figure of the clown incident has been the comic through the figure of Joker, nemesis of the Dark Knight, Batman. The character was designed by the creator of the comic, Bob Kane, in 1940, inspired by the film The Man Who Laughs (1928), a silent film by director Paul Leni expressionist. The film is a melodrama based on the work of Victor Hugo , but the terrifying image of the protagonist's contorted smile (below) served to define the clown of the most popular crime comics. The Joker was the perfect counterpoint to Batman sinister, depicting a colorful harlequin a sinister side and extremely psychotic. Originally the character was very dark, a ghoulish murderer who was turning in 60, through the popular comics and the Batman TV series into a joker joker and heavy.
is in the 80's when the character recovers all the horror of its origins, through such notable works as The Killing Joke, probably the masterpiece of character, a jewel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland . Tim Burton chose to call Jack Nicholson to play the character in the movie adaptation, a Specialty wise choice given the actor's wacky characters, but Nicholson was not the physical aspect of the Joker. Christopher Nolan has chosen to take better care of their part of the image (and possibly less background) by hiring the late Heath Ledger for what will be one of the blockbusters this summer, Batman: The Dark Knight . 
And we left for the final as terrorism, the reality. We talked about John Wayne Gacy , also known as Pogo the clown or murderer. This sinister serial murderer killed 33 people, of which 28 bodies were found, between 9 and 20. Gacy was a model citizen, a businessman who loves his family spent their free time to entertain hospitalized children dressing up as a clown. He even submitted to council, but the fact that one of his victims did survive the discovery of the secret macabre Gacy, who sexually abused 33 young people and children and then kill them and end up burying them. In 1978 he confessed his crimes.
Gacy was executed in 1994 during his time in prison painted many naive-style paintings, one of the reasons most often repeated the clowns. After his death his paintings were auctioned, and as often happens in such cases the murderer macabre found a small cult of fans who every year celebrate its implementation shirts and holidays. There are also films based on the life of Gacy, the telefilm To Catch a Killer (1992) and the latest movie Gacy (2003), and various musical groups that have paid their particular cult clown terror through bizarre songs and other tributes.
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