Stitches
- 2012 film
Psychological comedy-horror-fantasy film starring Ross Noble as a zombie clown. Also features Tommy Knight and Gemma-Leah Devereux.
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Press clippings
Ross Noble interview
Ross Noble talks about unicycling and being a creepy clown for new film Stitches.
Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, 2nd November 2012Video: Ross Noble left desensitised to horror
Comedian Ross Noble is making his feature debut in horror film Stitches, where he plays a murderous clown.
Noble defended the gore and violence in the film saying it was done in a "funny way".
He was speaking to Newsbeat's entertainment reporter Nesta McGregor.
Nesta McGregor, BBC News, 26th October 2012Stitches review
Mishandled killer clown comedy-horror starring Ross Noble.
Niki Boyle, The List, 26th October 2012Ross Noble on playing it straight for Laughs
The proverbial tears of a clown? The sadness behind every famous funny bone? Absolute nonsense, according to Ross Noble, who reveals instead that it's just taken him a while to become "a real human being".
Caroline Frost, The Huffington Post, 26th October 2012Stitches (18)
This splatter comedy aims to marry a potty-mouthed irreverence to a tale of bloody revenge, but everything about it is so cackhanded as to be nearly unwatchable.
Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 26th October 2012Movie review: Stitches (18)
It's a pity the one-liners, most of them unrepeatable here, just aren't funny, meaning the mooted sequel really would be stretching the joke too far.
David Edwards, Daily Record, 26th October 2012Stitches is already hovering over the DVD bargain bin
Stitches' script is stuffed with knowingly crap puns and aimed at adolescent males still giddy from their first lager shandy.
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Metro, 26th October 2012Film review: Stitches (18)
Some of the slayings are well above average, both for their inventiveness and the special effects required to pull them off. And yet the 'black' tone of the black comedy is generally kept relatively light, thanks to some extended use of what looks like an entire hot summer's supply of raspberry topping hijacked from a passing ice cream van.
Graham Young, The Birmingham Mail, 26th October 2012Stitches (18): Mad clown cuts it fine
Noble gives a good account of himself as he goes about his bloody business. OK, I'll say it. He had me in stitches!
Alan Frank, Daily Star, 26th October 2012Stitches review
It doesn't take that much imagination to cast lanky funnyman Ross Noble as a zombie clown with a score to settle (come on, he barely needs a change of shirt), but what Stitches lacks in originality, it makes up for in the deliciously gruesome.
Natasha Hodgson, SFX Magazine, 26th October 2012