Clown Panic

About Clown Panic

Revisits the bizarre nationwide hysteria of 2016, which began with reports of creepy clowns hiding near woods in South Carolina and quickly spiraled into widespread panic, school lockdowns, and police interventions across the United States. This in-depth documentary features interviews with eyewitnesses, law enforcement officials, cultural commentators, and professional clowns whose livelihoods we…

Ed Perkins's Clown Panic is a 2026 documentary film. Released in October 2026, it runs 84 minutes.

Its themes are 2010s, clown, social & cultural documentary, and epidemic.

It streams on Hulu in the United States.

It Chapter Two and Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel make useful companions to Clown Panic. It carries a R rating.