language - English
Genre - Horror, sci-fi, comedy
Crescent Cove is a normal American small town. One Friday night a group of the local teens are at the ‘Edge of the world’, the local make out spot when a shooting star passes overhead and seems to land in nearby woods. Debbie and Mike decide to see if they can find where it landed they go into the wood only to be distracted by a circus big top. As there is no one around they decide to go inside and, instead of the open ring they were expecting they find themselves in fun house type corridors. As they explore they find a room a few pieces if candyfloss hanging up. They hide when they hear someone coming and watch as a clown comes into the room who starts to do something with a popcorn machine. As they hide Mike knocks one of the hanging candyfloss and discovers a body in it, the clown hears them and chases them out firing popcorn at them as they go. As they leave the big top the clown is joined by another. Debbie and Mike make it back to their car just as the clowns catch up with them, they run over the clowns but they just get back up.
Mike and Debbie go to the local police, officer Kurt Moonie believes its
a joke but Dave, the other police man agrees to go back the tent with Mike but
when they get there the tent is gone. In the mean time an army of clowns
are rampaging through the town killing and abducting the locals.
Killer Klowns from outer space is a good little B movie from the 1980’s
with good fun effects and costumes. The Klowns themselves are quite
creepy looking as any horror/sci-fi clown should be and they carry out their
kills with a creepy almost childlike glee, most of the time entertaining the the
victims first. The film does a good job of keeping the Klowns clown
like but also making them not quite human. The circus theme is also kept
up well with the various weapons and ways of killing that the Klowns use
whether they be candyfloss guns or shadow puppets.
The story in Killer Klowns follows a pretty standard, alien invasion B
movie plot. something is seen landing near a small American town, some
locals go and look and discover the alien, they try to warn the town but no one
believes than until it’s too late and I find that many of these films easily
become a clone of another film with a generic monster or alien rampaging
through the town, a blond female who normally does a lot of running around
screaming (mostly without much clothing on) and then the military or local
jock/nerd team up save the day and most of these films tend to bend in with one
another. Killer Klowns stands out from some of the other because the
monsters, the Klowns are memorable, they are not ‘Pod people’ or an unintelligent
monster killing everything it’s path. The klowns obviously enjoy the
carnage they are creating and, although they may give off the impression of
being the rampaging monster of other films they have put some thought into how
to get their victims.
Killer Klowns also has some memorable scenes, without giving too much
away the scene with the small Klown and the bikers always sticks in my head.
So If you want a low budget b movie with a sense of humour give Killer Klowns from outer space a watch.
Whilst writing this I have come across the imdb entry
for the sequel due out in 2016, whether this will happen or I can’t say but it
may be worth keeping an eye open here
