With all the abuse the poor clowns are receiving in ads lately, I wouldn't be surprised if a clown union starts throwing lawsuits around. Yeah, we get it, bad clowns are scary, because bad clowns are your dad dressed in a crazy wig and makeup. Nobody wants to see that.

Here come the clowns! Bring in the clowns. Yeah, they can be scary. For once though, they managed to show a reason to use 542542 (kgbkgb) "Answers, not links", ain't that grand?

Created entirely by Stink Digital, this new interactive campaign promotes Philips’ latest entrant into the television market, the CINEMA 21:9. Berg conceived it to work as an endless loop. Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to ‘spin’ through the film’s single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot.

FROM DIRECTOR RUSSELL BATES:
I was hanging around with some friends after surfing, and we got to talking about the various addictions that everyone faces at one time or another. Probably because my wife has a long-standing and very deep fear of them. I said, "man, I wish I could quit killing clowns." Someone at the table liked this a lot, and encouraged me to turn it into a spot.

A month or so later I had a two-day shoot on the Paramount back lot, and my DP Marc Laliberte pointed out that we might be able to squeeze in some extra work at the end of our second day. I wrote the dialogue, called an actor I know who works in the same collaborative, give-and-take style that I do, and the next day we shot Clown Killer in about 45 minutes of quickly fading sunlight. The rest of the cast consisted of friends from my art and make-up departments.

Crossroads Owner/EP Cami Taylor comments, "Clown Killer is very typical of Russell Bates - hysterically funny and exceedingly dark. I love it."

Yes, it´s creepy.

Escape the paint that explodes all over these council flats!