For the longest time, Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Stephen King's "It" has held the position as the most horrifying fictional clown of all time.
He's now been unseated by a human but far more terrifying contender: Twisty, from the latest season of the FX series "American Horror Story."With the
recent creepy clown incidents in California, the nation has clowns, particularly the creepy kind, on the brain, and Twisty has appeared at just the right time.
I passed on the previous seasons, but the freakshow/carnival angle was too hard for me to resist. I watched the first two episodes today, and while there's no shortage of depraved and horrible characters in the show so far, Twisty takes the cake as the absolute worst. He's a murdering clown who doesn't speak, clad in a filthy clown outfit with a clown mask out of which he's cut out the upper face. He murders numerous townspeople and then captures two children, who he psychologically tortures in a bus in the woods. What's under the smile on his mask is revealed in episode #2, but I don't dare show it here...
Who Twisty is and his motives remain unclear, but are to be revealed soon. Here are some pics to keep you from sleeping soundly tonight.
