This is Captain Spalding form the film ‘The Devils Rejects’, the over the top clown makeup may show this character has something to hide. The blood around the characters hands would suggest death and violence.

I think that a clown was used in this film because there are a lot of people who as children were afraid of clowns, maybe the director wanted to illustrate this fear by showing a violent clown.

The make up on this character is mainly made up of black, white, blue and red, this may illustrate death, the black around his eyes and mouth make his piercing eyes and stained teeth stand out, this adds to his threatening appearance.

The way his head is positioned may show he is an unbalanced character; he may be mentally unstable or psychotic.