Directed by:
Stephen ChiodoCinematography:
Alfred TaylorComposer:
John MassariCast:
Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Peter Licassi, Harrod Blank, Royal Dano, Christopher Titus, Brian Degan Scott, Howard Malpas (more)VOD (2)
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When Mike and his girlfriend Debbie warn the local police that a gang of homicidal alien-clowns have landed in the nearby area (in a spaceship shaped like a circus big-top, no less), the cops are naturally sceptical. Before long however, reports are coming in from other anxious residents detailing similar run-ins with the large-shoed assailants. There can no longer be any doubt – the Killer Klowns from Outer Space are here, and they’re out to turn the Earth’s population into candy floss! (Arrow Academy)
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This magnificently nonsensical eighties flick, which reveals the hideousness, perversity and degeneracy of clowns, was very aptly described by one viewer as “the best 1950s sci-fi B-movie that wasn’t made in the 1950s”. This unique project by the Chiodo brothers, who otherwise work as special-effects artists on Hollywood productions and are specialists in animatronic effects (e.g. Critters and Team America), is pure camp. The film literally and self-indulgently revels in the overwrought tastelessness of the eighties mainstream while simultaneously pushing it to an entirely absurd level by means of the titular killer clowns from outer space and, especially, phantasmagorical ideas about the clowns’ weapons and methods of killing.
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