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Tommy dos Santos wasn't born a psychopath, really, nor was he made into a sociopath, per se. He was something entirely new, and he was walking his own path - a path that will run red with the blood of the foulest most fiendishly frightening creatures ever conceived by man - CLOWNS. No longer the madmen and monsters that nightmares are made of, it is the clowns who are the victims now, running for their lives from a killer who won't stop until every single one of them is dead. As Tommy's body count rises, he finds himself getting closer and closer to what he thought was a ghost, the once great clown king known as "Giggles," and wonders - if laughter can't die, how about Giggles? From the mad movie-making mind of writer/director Jaysen Buterin ("Between Hell and a Hard Place," "Don't Let the Light In," "The Corner") comes KILLING GIGGLES, the proof-of-concept short film version of the harrowing Hitchcockian horror story that will take a timeless terror trope and turn it on its rainbow wig-covered head. Next summer, it's time to send in the clowns - to die.

Awards

Killing Giggles

ConCarolinas Short Film Festival

Austin Revolution Film Festival

GenreBlast Film Festival

MystiCon Independent Film Festival

Wreak Havoc Horror Film Festival

Stranger Days Independent Film Festival

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