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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
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Release Date:
27 May 1988 (USA)
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It's Craaazy! more
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Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town. full summary | full synopsis
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Clown
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Alien
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Small Town
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Ice Cream
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Ice Cream Truck
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Awards:
2 nominations
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(4 articles)
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Seriously deranged cult-stuff!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Grant Cramer | ... | Mike Tobacco |
| Suzanne Snyder | ... | Debbie Stone |
 | John Allen Nelson | ... | Dave Hanson |
 | John Vernon | ... | Curtis Mooney |
| Michael Siegel | ... | Rich Terenzi |
| Peter Licassi | ... | Paul Terenzi |
| Royal Dano | ... | Farmer Gene Green |
| Christopher Titus | ... | Bob McReed |
| Irene Michaels | ... | Stacy |
| Karla Sue Krull | ... | Tracy |
 | Brian Degan Scott | ... | Punk #1 |
| Danny Kovacs | ... | Punk #2 |
| Adele Proom | ... | Mrs. Franco |
| Howard Malpas | ... | Mr. Myers |
| Karen Raff | ... | Mom #1 |
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88 min | Argentina:90 min
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Canada:G (Quebec) |
Argentina:13 |
Iceland:16 |
Germany:18 |
Australia:M |
Canada:14A |
France:-12 (TV rating) |
UK:15 |
USA:PG-13
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The scene where a Klown rams a car off the road and kills the driver was originally intended to be an opening prologue to the film, and the driver was to be the character Joe Lombardo. For this prologue there was also a scene shot where Joe and his date are kissing on a deserted dark road and after his date rejects him, he angrily drives off alone only to meet his demise with the Klown. However when it was decided to have an opening credit sequence be seen first, the kissing rejection scene ended up on the cutting room floor, and the car crash scene was placed at a later point in the film with the driver not being Joe Lombardo. He ended up being the name of a dead person that Mike and Debbie discover wrapped up in a cotton candy cocoon in the final version.
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Continuity: When Debbie is attacked in her bathroom, the little clowns bite holes in her shirt. Later, when Mike and Dave rescue her, the holes are gone.
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Incredible Melting Man (#8.4)" (1996)
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Sandals in the Sand
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Why did the klowns put debbie and the other girls in giant balloons?more
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Yes, this movie really does handle about evil aliens, shaped like clowns, that strand near a remote American village. Their circus tent mysteriously appears in the woods after a meteorite crash and the klowns (yes, with a "k") go on a rampage in the village to turn people into cotton-candy with their funky armory. Their mission is to take the human snacks back to their planet but a team of local dummies makes a counter-attack in their ice cream-truck! This movie unquestionably has the most absurd premise in cinema ever and you either love it or downgrade it as being a ridiculous piece of trash. I am a great fan of this campy horror-comedy flick and I can't possibly say anything negative about it. My best defense for this movie would be that it is an ingenious and successful attempt to parody and homage the 50's and early 60's SF classics in which paranoid people witnessed alien-invasions from all over the universe. But actually, the silliness of this movie doesn't require justification at all. It feels like the idea started out as a joke between 3 brothers and eventually it resulted in a long-feature film. The acting isn't very impressive (apart from veteran actor John Vernon in a great 'angry old copper'-role) and the dialogues are unimaginably dumb. On the other hand, the clown-costumes are terrific and the least you can say about the plot-twists is that they're creative (a Godzilla-clown, anyone??). So, in case you have only the tiniest sense of morbid humor in you, I strongly recommend tracking down this "Killer Klowns from Outer Space". It will, without a doubt, be one the most bizarre film projects you ever laid eyes on.