Killer Klowns from Outer Space

A rare occurrence, when a film this silly turns out to be so great! 'Killer Klowns From Outer Space' is a wonderful homage to the Sci-Fi and monster movies of the 50's. While watching this ultra campy "Cult Classic" you can't help, but think of 'The Blob' film from 1958. The story pretty much follows the same basic story line except no blob, just really sinister looking space klowns!

The clown make-up is fantastic and the sets look like Pee Wee's Playhouse on acid! Clever use of all known Klown props including funny little car, balloon animals, puppets, shadow puppets, popcorn, cotton candy, pie throwing and the big top itself....you name it's in here! Although the Klown make-up is quite creepy, the film is played purely for laughs.

It would have been interesting if this film had a couple of really good scares in it! I think they missed a golden opportunity there.....anyone remember 'Night Of The Creeps'? Another campy Horror comedy from the 80's, but that one had some tension and scares in between the laughs. That is why I deduct half a star. The DVD transfer is excellent and this release has a nice amount of extras including commentary, making of, FX, Klown concepts, trailer,deleted scenes and much more!

Thanks "C" for reminding me to watch this one! Happy Shocktober!

Huh-huh. Not. This movie rode the horror short bus. So awesomely retarded. So stupidly brilliant. The coolest of the cool. The dumbest of the dumb. The cultiest of the cult. One of the most entertaining movies EVER freakin' made. That is no joke.

I know what you're thinking--evil klowns from outer space trying to destroy mankind--how lame. Well, no argument there. Still this somehow works in a big way. Watch these sinister bozos shoot their cotton candy photon guns. Or making balloon animals into dangerous little hunters. Or how bout transforming single popcorn morsels into small deadly psycho snack monsters. Pure unadulterated geniousity.

Allright, enough talking. Go buy this now!

'Killer Klowns From Outer Space' is a 1988 movie written, produced, and directed by the Chiodo Brothers. It stars Grant Cramer, Susanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, and John Vernon.

Our story starts off on a quiet night in the small town of Cresent Crove. After a brief introduction to officer Mooney(Vernon; see if you can spot Christopher Titus), We are introduced to Mike(Cramer)and Debbie(Snyder), two young adults spending time together at the local make-out spot. Their night out is interupted by a giant fireball in the sky. They let their curiosity get the best of them, and decide to investigate. the next cut shows the fireball is actually a spaceship that oddly resembles a circus tent. Unfortunatly, the local town drunk stumbles upon it to a bad consequence. After a quick cut that further introduces Moony and Hanson(Nelson), Mike and Debbie have found the ship(tent). Again they let their curiosity get the better of them, and they learn the terrible truth; A spaceship full of aliens that resemble clowns has landed to harvest humans as food!!

What can I say, I like off-beat humor, and this movie has LOADS of it!! Cult films span all types of genres; When it comes to horror/comedy this film is on par with 'Dead Alive' and 'The Evil Dead II'. The plot is obviously straight forward, and is meant in a satyrical way.

The acting and dialoge is just awesomely bad!! It's acted and played rather serious, but is balanced really well with the ridiculuos plot. The contrast in the serious acting and goofy plot will have you grinning in the first ten minutes! Even today, most of the actors remain obscure, but play the parts ssssoooo well!

The editing is good. The movie runs 86 minutes and never drags. The 'Klowns' are breifly shown in the beggining and as the movie progresses, we see more of the klowns and their anticts. The film has an escalating tension(reletively speaking). In the beggining, see little of the klowns, but the movie progresses to show the full human harvest.

The cinematography is suprisingly great for a low-budjet flick. The movie is really sharp and doesn't suffer from the 'gritty' look, and even the shots at night are clear and lit well.

The effects are sssssooooo great, and compliment the movie sssooo well. The klowns themselves to look quite bizarre; kind of a schizophrenic, distorted, scarier version of circus clowns. The klowns look so twisted they would fit nicely in a 'Silent Hill' game. Toy ray-guns, shadow puppets, balloon dogs, and cotton candy coccoons are some of the unique, and silly instruments of genocide. Don't let the goofiness fool you, this movie does have its fair share of blood and disturbing imagery(It's killer klowns after all).

The DVD comes with some cool extras. Deleted scenes, commentary, 5 featurettes, and two easter-eggs(the popcorn in the special features sub-menu)are included with the DVD.

I was 14 when I first saw this, and all these years later, this movie still makes me giggle. I still watch it and find LOADS of entertainment value in it. If you like horror/cult-comedies, then this is a MUST HAVE!!

I first watched this movie when I was 13 or 14. It's not scary at all but it is funny. May not be for ppl that doesn't like clowns already but hey give it a try.

Somehow, this film kept eluding me for years until I finally got it from Amazon two decades after it was made. Of course it is a cheap, campy, ridiculous B-movie... but it is very enjoyable at the same time.

A spaceship looking like a circus tent lands on a small town. Aliens looking like monstrous clowns go on a rampage, attacking everybody and putting them on cotton candy cocoons from which they feed.

Unbelievable? Yes. Improbable? Yes. With lots of unexplained twists? Yes. Some bad acting? Yes. Some cheap effects? Yes. Terribly dated? Yes.
...But STILL very funny to watch. And the clowns are nicely done. Only during the 80's a film like this could be made.

Recommended for what it is.

The DVD comes with an impressive array of extras:
-Deleted scenes
-Trailer
-Five featurettes (no less!)
-Interviews
-Photo gallery
-Storyboards
-Early films from the Chiodo Brothers
-Audio Commentary
-Bloopers
...And the copy I bought from Amazon comes with nice a 3D cover on the top of the original DVD case.

Sadly, it does not come with English subtitles (why not?). Only French and Spanish.