Cast Filling Out to Clown Around for Eli Roth

News comes from the strangest places sometimes. Case in point: the Niagara Falls Review, which is reporting that seven-year-old Niagara Falls native Christian Distefano is currently in Ottawa filming the spook flick Clown, produced by Eli Roth.

The film co-stars Elizabeth Whitmere and Matthew Stefiuk.

Jon Watts is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Christopher D. Ford. It became an internet “thing” when a spoof trailer circulated back in 2011. In the film “a loving father dons a clown outfit, wig, bulbous nose, and pancake makeup to entertain at his son, Jack’s (Distefano), sixth birthday after the clown-for-hire is a no-show. Unable to take off the clown garb, dad’s personality changes in horrific fashion. He and his family race to break the curse of the evil outfit before he undergoes a complete transformation into a homicidal killer with over-sized shoes.”

Clown is scheduled for release next year.