When the film Clue came out in 1985, audiences were baffled.
What Do You Mean, Murder? dives deep into the Making of Clue and walks fans through the movie they know and love..
Today, almost forty years later, Clue is the epitome of a Cult classic, with midnight screenings, script readings for charity, cosplaying fans, and a stage play.
The creepy mansion and eerie music contrasted with slapstick gags and double entendres, deflating the tension.
The movie appealed to kids.
Instead, Gen Xers and millennials, raised on pop culture and cable TV in an era long before the streaming wars, discovered this zany farce about a group of six strangers locked in a remote house with a killer.
When it unceremoniously premiered on Showtime a year after its theatrical debut, there was no sign it was destined for anything other than obscurity, another flop bound to be forgotten.
Clue , outgrossed at the box office by films that had been released months earlier, quickly faded away.
A movie based on a board game, with three different endings, and you had to pick which one to go see? Bad reviews compounded the problem, and instead of choosing one ending, most people stayed away entirely.
When the film Clue came out in 1985, audiences were baffled
