Fantastic!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I wasn't expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised. Plenty of dark humor, groan worthy one liners and over the top gore made this a fun little film. Ross Noble, the actor playing the clown, makes a deliciously good villain. The young actors are surprisingly good and it is easy to find yourself rooting for them. Well, some of them. Some of them you can't wait to see what interesting way Stitches will dispatch them.

what a load of rubbish. It got a few laughs in the beginning with the humourless clown and his bad attitude and poor clown skills, but quickly went downhill from there. This movie is somehow even worse than the scary movie series which is also barely tolerable. I stopped watching at the point that ripping apart a man's genitals is presented as a humorous event. Had this been a clown ripping out a woman's genitalia, and everyone finding that hilarious I am pretty sure the movie would have been banned everywhere, but because its a man, its just fine, as men are objects to be abused and laughed at. Any time a man gets hurt or injured in a movie its a source of amusement, and any time a woman gets hurt or injured its a source of tragedy, even if its just her precious feelings. It's crass, cheap and offensive. That's why I gave this a 1/10 and didn't bother watching to the end.

The comedy genius of Ross Noble is put to excellent use in this brilliantly conceived horror satire. In the lead role of the tragic clown, Noble is nothing less than superb. He is the pillar that supports the film and makes it so memorable. The director is obviously a master with the camera and keeps the pace almost frenetic as the hilariously horrible proceedings build to their satiric climax. It doesn't hurt that the script is insightful, well written, and full of societal observations that cut to the bone. Overall, a beautifully realized horror comedy that is slashingly effective, tremendously entertaining, and borders on cinematic magnificence at times.

I really wasn't expecting anything from "Stitches", but to my surprise, it actually turned out to be an immensely entertaining slasher joint out of Ireland.While putting on a half-assed show for a bunch of misbehaving brats at a birthday party, Stitches the Clown has an unfortunate mishap that results in his bloody accidental demise. Cut to six years later, those same kids are in high school and the birthday boy from the ill-fated party is still haunted by the death of Stitches, especially after having stumbled across a strange clown ritual going on in the cemetery following Stitches' funeral. While the teenage friends are throwing a big drunken house bash, Stitches rises from his grave for revenge...As far as slasher-comedies go, I rarely see any true effort put into them - especially these days. "Stitches" is actually a pretty refreshing entry in the genre - being clearly of modest budget, yet still managing to come across as a professional looking flick with an unusually likable cast of characters, a reasonably memorable villain and a few instances where the humor actually worked. There's also a few decent and relatively gory deaths, cleverly themed after traditional clown tricks (one guy gets his head inflated like a balloon and popped). The one thing I feel like it could've done without, however, was the clown cult/painted egg thing that I felt didn't quite work and takes ya out of it a little toward the end. Otherwise, this one is definitely a fun way to blow an hour-and-a-half.More Gorepump horror reviews at http://swinesewage.blogspot.com/