Psycho Clown Child CostumeYou know that you have a clown phobia when a child in a psyco clown child costume comes up to your house on Halloween night and you scream and give them the whole bowl of candy then go in the house, lock the door and shut off the lights. Face it clowns are scary.

Especially clowns from the movies. Come on! We all grew up on killer clown movies and any of them can scare you and give you a fear of clowns for life.

Even the young Michael Meyers from the original “Halloween” was wearing a clown suit and a mask. What kind of stuff was that? So when a kid shows up at your house on Halloween night, of all times of the year, wearing a psyco clown child costume your thoughts immediately run wild. Is he going to stab me? Is he insane?

Will he come back years from now to kill again?

Even the clown movies with adult clowns are enough to give you nightmares not only as a child but as an adult as well. Take “The Clown at Midnight” for instance where the seven teens are chased into an old opera house and murdered one by one. That movie is enough in itself to give you chills.

Clown phobias are real as anyone who has watched the movie “Saw” or Rob Zombies “House of a 1000 corpses” can tell you. Try running into one of those clowns in the dark and you’ll never go to another child’s birthday party where a clown is the entertainment.

When you are little clowns are these fun comical creatures that run around acting silly and driving cars that are too little for their bodies. When you get older however and watch horror movies clowns take on a whole new meaning. That is why all of these children showing up on Halloween night wearing psyco clown child costumes can do so without being scared of themselves.

The one movie that is guaranteed to give you a clown phobia for life is Stephen Kings Pennywise from the movie “It.” If you aren’t scared of clowns watch that movie one time and you soon will be. Pennywise is the creepiest, scariest clown ever made and will give you nightmares until you are very old.

Even TV has gotten in on the act with clowns showing up on the show “Supernatural” to not only scare us but try to kill Dean and Sam on the way to it.

All in all even without the killer clown movies to make us terrified of anything with a pale face, big red nose and poufy hair a child showing up at your house in a psyco clown child costume is enough to make you run for the hills.

Especially when the costume consists of a ragged black and white  costume with skulls around the collar of the shirt, a pair of creepy white gloves and a mask that has an evil grin and red hair sticking out of it. And don’t forget the big red nose that no one thinks is funny. So if a child shows up at your door in a psyco clown child costume this year don’t feel guilty when you shut the door and run. We’ve all been there!