Dead Eyes Behind the Painted Smile

A twisted serial killer aims to satisfy his murderous blood-lust, donning a clown mask and pursuing a young theater worker and her friends. As the slasher slices and hacks his way through innocent victims, will Jenna survive the night? Award-winning cult horror filmmaker Joe Sherlock brings his relentless genre love to the killer clown world with grind house gore, eccentric characters and a throwback synthesizer score.

Dead Eyes Behind the Painted Smile is a 2026 horror movie directed by Joe Sherlock, starring John Bowker, Kelli Maroney, Jackey Neyman Jones. It runs 1h 15m.