Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Michael S. Siegel
- Rich Terenzi
- (as Michael Siegel)
Christopher Titus
- Bob McReed
- (as Chris Titus)
Aeron Macintyre
- Punk #1
- (as Brian Degan Scott)
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- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe scene in which a car is thrown over a cliff was initially intended to be far more spectacular - the car was to fly over the cliff and crash down to the ground. Unfortunately, the sling rope snapped because effects crew members neglected to remove the stoppers from underneath the car's wheels. The result was what is seen in the final film, the car slowly tumbles over the edge and becomes caught on a tree.
- GoofsWhen the farmer goes in his house to get supplies, the prop master is visible inside the doorway as he exits.
- Quotes
Security Guard: What're ya gonna do with those *pies*, boys?
- Crazy creditsFilm was released in 1988, but the ending credits claim copyright 1987
- Alternate versionsIn the TV version before the puppet show the guy throws his popcorn bag over his head which is then tossed back at him. This is the reason he heads up to the puppet show.
- SoundtracksKiller Klowns (From Outer Space)
Performed by The Dickies
Written by Leonard Graves Phillips (as Leonard Phillips)
Produced by Leonard Graves Phillips (as Leonard Phillips) and Ron Hitchcock
Courtesy of Enigma Entertainment Corporation
Published by El Porto Music (ASCAP)
Featured review
Seriously deranged stuff with a ridiculous premise of alien clowns setting up camp near a small town, abducting the local inhabitants and turning them into cotton candy and snacks. Any film with a title like this deserves this amount of attention and it's still a stellar cult favorite in the Midnight- and Bad Movie circuits. Most of the films intentionally made as bad movies or camp usually blow it (like most of Troma's disasters), but this is a surprisingly fun and good-natured homage to some silly sci-fi and horror classics of the fifties like FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) and THE BLOB (1958).
Our heroes are Debbie and Dave, two of your typical annoying eighties' youngsters with bad hairdos and less than impressive acting skills, trying to persuade the locals something's seriously wrong here. "Nobody stores Cotton Candy like this", observes Debbie when they enter the alien Klowns' circus tent. Smart girl, but how to get rid of these cosmic bozos. Now, clowns are plain creepy and evil. We all know that. Although the tone is generally tongue-in-cheek, the film does manage to throw in some genuine scares. The make-up fx are very impressive and when these Klowns are on the rampage, they are a seriously scary bunch. Undeniably a campy affair, with its truly off-the-wall premise, cheezy acting and predictable storyline, the whole film is laden with an irresistible charm, nicely complemented with a catchy theme song by cult punk band The Dickies, so eighties and so dated, it was already seriously out of fashion by the time the film was released. Cheezy fun all the way.
Camera Obscura --- 7/10
Our heroes are Debbie and Dave, two of your typical annoying eighties' youngsters with bad hairdos and less than impressive acting skills, trying to persuade the locals something's seriously wrong here. "Nobody stores Cotton Candy like this", observes Debbie when they enter the alien Klowns' circus tent. Smart girl, but how to get rid of these cosmic bozos. Now, clowns are plain creepy and evil. We all know that. Although the tone is generally tongue-in-cheek, the film does manage to throw in some genuine scares. The make-up fx are very impressive and when these Klowns are on the rampage, they are a seriously scary bunch. Undeniably a campy affair, with its truly off-the-wall premise, cheezy acting and predictable storyline, the whole film is laden with an irresistible charm, nicely complemented with a catchy theme song by cult punk band The Dickies, so eighties and so dated, it was already seriously out of fashion by the time the film was released. Cheezy fun all the way.
Camera Obscura --- 7/10
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- Mar 4, 2007
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Clowns asesinos
- Filming locations
- 65 & 75 & 85 Nielson St, Watsonville, California, USA(Interior of the ship was filmed in at the time a Seagate Computer Electronic's Manufacturing Facility. Now it's owned by Watsonville Community Hospital in present time.)
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Box office
- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,412
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1(original ratio, open matte)
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