Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Director: Stephen Chiodo
Stars: Grant Cremer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson


Review:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) is a so-bad-it's-good kinda cult classic. It is self-aware that it is stupid, but added with the cheesey special effects, dumb characters, and silly clowns it really goes a little too stupid.

The plot is the common cliche sci-fi story, which alien monsters come, and only a bunch of kids know about it and the whole town do not believe them. This formula has been done to death and this time they are klowns, with laser that turns human into candy cocoon, and guns that shot pop-corns. "Why pop-corns?" "Because they are clowns!"

It turns out that the clowns come down to turn human into candies and have a feast. But half of the movie we see the clowns having fun in town and fucking around. In this aspect it seems closer to Gremlins (1984), with more B-movie touch to it.

In this kinda formula there always a stubborn character that does not believe no matter what. That character in this movie maybe the most stubborn of them all, until Buffy in Scary Movie (2000). He does not believe when some kids tell the story at first, and he does not believe when another cop is telling the story, and still does not believe when his friend who is another old man is telling the story, and continue disbelieving when the whole town in telling him. When he actually sees one, he think it was one of the kids. He just loses to Buffy that he finally believes right before he dies.

*Screams in the phone*
"How the kids had the whole town in this?"

This is one of those cheesey trash films, though not one of the best even in that regard, it still worth a bunch of laughs.