Stitches(2012)
2012 · Conor McMahon · 86 min
The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
Horror
6.2462 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
5/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How Stitches scares
It starts as a goofy setup with a bumbling party clown and a dumb kid prank, then jumps years ahead into a body-count slasher once the clown comes back for payback. The pace is quick and gleeful, moving from one over-the-top kill to the next rather than building slow dread. Blood and gore are turned way up, but it's played for laughs and shock value instead of real horror, like a cartoon with a knife. This is for people who want gross, funny, so-dumb-it's-fun kills, not something that will actually creep you out.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Stitches rates psychological 1/5, visceral 4/5, gore 5/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 5 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 10 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
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Starts light and comedic, then steadily ramps up into a gory, gag-filled slasher rampage before a big finish.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 3.
How scary is Stitches?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Stitches rates 3/5 — solidly scary, balancing creeping dread with well-placed shocks. It attacks the body more than the mind — physical, in-your-face horror. Expect it to be heavy on gore and fun-first. The dread fades once the credits roll.
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