It causes suspense, and the clown is good at acting, I wish there was a bit more to the story like how he became a killer or something, but they do good at portraying the characters, if I were to rate this a certain way I would but I'm saying it could be like a 7/10; I wish the evil characters could talk making it more suspenseful and scary to the main characters, but the gory and the violence really puts the creepiness to the people watching; id personally say this is a movie for 16 and up for our mature people out here; I can say this for myself; it's not personally traumatizing to our gore lovers out there because it doesn't show much of the villains eating people and stuff cuz I know how that can put off a weird display to people; but it puts more to the suspense when we see the clown out of nowhere staring at the character, we just know that they are all in for something; makes a lot of us feel suspenseful but again wish the villain had more of a personality, not a mime but creating suspense to the characters by threatening them in a evil way.