{"id":617496,"date":"2026-10-01T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617496\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:38:08","slug":"original-r-l-stine-horror-movie-afraid-of-clowns-set-at-tubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617496\/","title":{"rendered":"Original R.L. Stine Horror Movie &#8216;Afraid of Clowns&#8217; Set at Tubi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/r-l-stine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_r-l-stine\" data-tag=\"r-l-stine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R.L. Stine<\/a>\u2018s Afraid of Clowns,\u201d a new original horror movie from the prolific \u201cGoosebumps\u201d author, is coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/tubi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tubi\" data-tag=\"tubi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tubi<\/a> in 2027, Variety can exclusively reveal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCast members for \u201cAfraid of Clowns\u201d include Frankie Honey, Ava Ferrer, Azriel Dalman, Joe Moore and \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race All Stars\u201d Season 8 champion Jimbo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAn official logline for the film reads, \u201cWhen Ringmaster Rollo and his mysterious clown troupe arrive in Redhaven, Frankie discovers their visit may be connected to a child who vanished years ago. Convinced they\u2019ve now set their sights on her little brother, Frankie must convince her friends to help uncover the truth and stop the clowns before her brother disappears with them for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cAfraid of Clowns\u201d marks the third collaboration between Tubi and Stine after \u201cR.L. Stine\u2019s Pumpkinhead,\u201d which released on the streamer in October 2025, and the sequel \u201cPumpkinhead 2,\u201d which debuts on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cR.L. Stine has been the first taste of fear for legions of fans \u2014 and the beginning of a lifelong love of horror,\u201d said Adam Lewinson, chief content officer at Tubi. \u201cTubi\u2019s collection of R.L. Stine movies gives longtime fans more of the stories that sparked their imaginations, while welcoming new audiences to the thrill of being scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStine added, \u201cClowns have been scaring kids long before I ever got to them \u2014 I just gave them a reason to be afraid of the ones in Redhaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJem Garrard, who also helmed and penned the \u201cPumpkinhead\u201d movies, serves as writer-director for \u201cAfraid of Clowns.\u201d Producers include James Mattagne, Joan Waricha, Harvey Kahn, Yvonne Bernard, Dan Bernard, Garrard, Allen Lewis and Rama Diallo. Front Street Pictures serves as producer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cR.L. Stine\u2018s Afraid of Clowns,\u201d a new original horror movie from the prolific \u201cGoosebumps\u201d author, is coming to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69,304133,43775],"class_list":["post-617496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-r-l-stine","tag-tubi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}