Laura Allen (“Awake,” “Terriers”) has joined producer Eli Roth’s, a creepy—and funny—frightener from newcomer Jon Watts about a father (Andy Powers) consumed by the clown costume he wears at his young son’s birthday party when the hired talent doesn’t show.

Allen plays the wife of the good-intentioned, but doomed dad. Production on the film is currently underway in Ottowa, Canada.

Watts and producing partner C.D. Ford first shot Clown as a faux trailer for a fake Eli Roth movie. The short caught Roth’s attention and the rest is the kind of Hollywood fairytale that pisses the fuck out of the broke and struggling screenwriters using the free wifi at Starbucks.

Peep the original short: