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🎪 SALEM PREMIERE SCREENING — CLOWNSPIRACY 🎪

Join us on June 13th at 9PM at Cinema Salem for the premiere screening of Clownspiracy, hosted by Salem horror host Wretched Lydia.

Sponsored by East Regiment Beer Co.

The night will feature:
• Q&A with the cast and crew
• Filmmaker panel with Chef Joe Gatto, Luke St. Germaine, and Rob Fitz (God of Vampires, veteran SFX artist)
• Beer, prizes, and more!

🎟 Tickets are $12
Scan the QR code on the poster or grab tickets through Cinema Salem’s website.

Come support indie horror with us!!!

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We spent about a year making a no-budget fantasy horror feature called Clownspiracy with a 2-person crew on set and a single VFX artist handling everything in post. It was a mix of live action with little creatures.

The tone sits somewhere between Beetlejuice and Gremlins — weird, slightly comedic, but still trying to feel unsettling.

The challenge was pulling that off at this scale. We couldn’t rely on full CGI, so we ended up mixing practical effects, camera tricks, and targeted VFX to sell things that should’ve been way out of reach for our budget.

A lot of shots were designed around limitations — what we could physically build, what we could fake in-camera, and what one VFX artist could realistically finish.

We put together a breakdown of how we approached the creature and effects — would genuinely love feedback from other filmmakers working at this level!

VFX breakdown here if anyone’s interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IY2hvWuMSE