In some ways, I think so. It has the advantage (and difference) of being vaguely based on real events somewhere, too. (The real events being that people are dressing up like clowns, not that they’re necessarily doing the scary things attributed to them, nor present in all the places they’re supposed to be. That puts it ahead of the Satanic Panic, and like that event, people are getting hurt, killed and arrested just over the fear of clowns doing imaginary things.)
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