| Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) |
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| Director: | Stephen Chiodo |
| Writers: | Charles Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo |
| Starring: | Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, and Royal Dano |
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The Plot: Killer Klowns From Outer Space focuses on the events that transpire when a flying object can be seen crash landing in the woods surrounding Crescent Cove, California. When Mike Tobacco (Grant Cramer) and his girlfriend Debbie Stone (Suzanne Snyder) see this, they assume that it is a comet and they head into the woods to get a closer look. What they find is something very familiar and yet completely foreign. In the midst of the woods they find a circus tent, and being adventurous young adults, they decide to go inside and check out this strange find. Inside they make a discovery, this is no regular circus tent, but instead it is an alien spaceship. The aliens look like deformed clowns and they apparently want to harvest the blood of humans by surrounding them in cocoons of cotton candy. Now it is up to Mike, Debbie, and Debbie’s former boyfriend, Sheriff Dave Hanson (John Allen Nelson), to find a way to defeat these homicidal alien creatures! |
| The Review |
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Killer Klowns is, without a doubt, a movie that is completely devoid of all logic. This turns out to be precisely why it has caught on with fans throughout the years. Does it truly make any sense why a clown from outer space would make a balloon dog in order to search for humans? How would they know what a dog is or use it, in particular, as a way to track humans? I mean, if dogs perhaps originate from the Klown planet, then perhaps the Klowns should just use dogs instead? Such ideas make zero sense, but does the movie care? Not in the least. If you can’t get along with the joke, then audiences are likely to give up before the movie even starts. Honestly, how would a killer clown from outer space actually know anything about Washington’s crossing of the Delaware in order to make a shadow puppet of the scene on a wall. The filmmakers included this reference to American history as if these clowns were aware of what was happening on earth, but if this were to be a massive invasion with tons of calculated planning, why was only one ship sent? If someone wanted to, they could fill up an entire review with the weird ideas spread throughout this movie, but ultimately, that is a grand part of its quirky charm.
| The Conclusion |
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