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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Finally the truth about clowns is out! Beneath their sinister grins and wildly patterned clothes are clever killers from out of this world. The "juxtaposition of their toy-store arsenal and malevolent intent proves to be a tasty combination" (Los Angeles Times) in this killer entertainment that will leave you fearing these big-top creatures for good. A spaceship looking like a circus tent lands in a field near a small town, signaling the attack of deviant, red-nosed, balloon-twisting psychos from another world who plan to annihilate mankind by turning people into cotton candy! Luckily, the town's teen citizenry decides to fight back and teach the cosmic bozos a lesson. But these klowns are no klutzes, turning popcorn, peanuts and caramel corn into playful but deadly weapons of madcap destruction and mayhem! (official distributor synopsis)
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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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