This is a shot showing Captain Spaulding from the movie House
of 1000 Corpses. This plays to the social context of a lot of people being
afraid of clowns, this is called Coulrophobia. His dirty teeth and unkempt
beard denote uncleanliness which is shunned upon in society. He looks like a stereotypical
psycho killer from horror movies although he does not primarily play that role
in the film. Clowns are a common occurrence in horror movies, for example there
is Pennywise in Stephen Kings IT, who is probably the most iconic killer
clown in all of horror, or Mr Caruthers who is the psychotic killer clown from The
Clown at Midnight. In this scene, Spaulding shoots a man using his phallic
gun to represent his male dominance. The black lipstick he wears also connotes
evil and the make-up connotes the fear of the unknown as you cannot fully see
his face.
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