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Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
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Genre: Sci Fi
Plot: Debbie and Mike are hanging out on some place they call "the top
of the world" where alot of fucking usually goes on, and they see a
comet shoot through the sky and land! Also in the aforementioned scene,
we are introduced to Mike's friends the Torenzi brothers, two dorky
hilarious guys who make their living selling ice cream in their truck.
Well, this old man also saw it,
and went out to investigate with his dog, thinking Haley's COmet just
landed in his back yard. He gets there and finds nothing else but a
bigass circus tent. He foolishly thinks a bunch of hilbillies are
having a back woods circus and goes to see if there's a ticket booth.
Well, his dog his kidnapped by someone offscreen, and the old guy (this
whole scene is hilarious, as well as the rest of the film) turns around
to see these clowns standing around, and they shoot him with a weird
gun and turn him into cotton candy! So, Debbie and Mike finally get
there. They check the place out, and they enter. We see all sorts of
weird shit in there, and they go into a room FILLED with things of
cotton candy. They rip off a piece and see a human face! Debbie
screams, and alerts the attention of a klown! The klown gets one of his
buddies, and chase the 2. He shoots them with popcorn, but the make it
out of there and escape to the police station. Well, that's not good,
because the klowns follow them to town! Debbie and Mike make it to the
police station and tell the cops all about ehat happened, to Debbie's
old b/f, David. We are now introduced to smartass, hilarious officer
Mooney (played wonderfully by John Vernon) who basically tells them
that they're full of shit. David says he'll take both of them home. The
clowns have made it into town, and they're zapping people with the
magic cotton candy guns! A few instances includes this goofy dork who
watches one of them put on a puppet show, a REALLY REALLY drunk girl
answering a door, thinking they are delivering her a pizza, and this
old woman who thinks her husband has arranged something special for
her. Great, priceless shit here people. He takes Debbie back to her
house, and he and Mike drive around to see where the circus tent is.
They get to the location and find a big hole. He tries to tell them
that they probably relocated, but he isn't believing it and arrests
him. That is, until he finds one of Mike's friend's car filled with
cotton candy, and a pair of broken glasses that the guy wore. So, he
uncuffs Mike and they go back to town. Alon gthe way, they see one
Klown showing his skills at wall shadows with stuff like a 1700's era
boat filled with the politicians at the time, and a gypsy woman, and
finally, a bigass rex that eats them! Meanwhile, a little clown is on
his own motorcycle going to hang out with some biker punks. One of them
destroys his bike, and they get into a fight. He foolishly lets the
klown take the first shot, thinking it's a joke, and the klown knocks
his head off, which flys into a garbage can in a pretty sweet scene.
So, they go back to tell Mooney
what happened, and he's still not believing anything. Also, from time
to time we see Mooney get hilarious phone calls, with him responding to
them like this: "They took your wife away in a balloon? Well you don't
need the police pal, you need a psychiatrist!" or "I made through
Korea, I can make through some of this bullshit!" Too bad for him
though, because a klown comes to the station! At first he thinks it's a
joke, and some hilarious shit happens. Anyway, he arrests the clown,
and when he puts him behind the bars with two people who were arrested
earlier in the movie, he takes what I will call a "killer party horn"
and it wxtends into a long arm with a hand on the end, and slams him
into the bars. He also turns the two other people into cotton candy.
David comes by to check the place out again, and sees the mess, and
that the clown is using Officer Mooney as a hand puppet. We lets go of
Mooney and tries to come after David, and David shoots the klown in the
nose. It's now found out that shooting a klown in the nose is the only
way to kill it! Meanwhile, Debbie is at her apartment, and is about to
take a shower, and we see the popcorn fall off of her, and we find out
that it's a living creatures. We also cut to a burger restaurant. This
little kid is there, not eating, and sees a klown outside tellingher to
come here, we see him giving the "come here" gesture with one hand,
while he holds a big hammer behind his back with the other. She's about
to get to him, but the mother grabs her and brings her back into the
store. We also see the klown put popcorn in the trash dump. When an
employee goes to throw trash away, he hears something. He looks in, and
is instantly grabbed and thrown into the dump, never to be seen again.
Anyway, Debbie gets out of the shower, and goes to put her towel in a
clothes hamper, and we finally see the popcorn monster!!! Anyway,
there's one on the wall, two the clothes hamper, and one in the toilet.
She escapes and runs into her room, where a klown is. She tries to jump
out the window, but there are even more klowns outside, and then she is
confronted by three of them, zapped, but instead of turning into cotton
candy, she is enveloped ina balloon and taken away. So, we see the
Torenzi brothers again, and Mike and David basically tell them to drive
their ice cream truck after the car with the balloon on the back, afte
rhe sees that it's Debbie. Well, no such luck, because they lose it's
trail. Fortunately for David, he's smart and realizes that they hid
their ship in an amusement park. The klowns are just getting there, and
the ice the security guard (who somehow made it onto one of the
posters) with acid pies. Hilarious! So they get there and go into the
ship, and we see a
whole lot of craziness, and pretty much all the clowns come into the
main room. Fortunately, the Torenzi brothers distract them, but they
then realize it's time to wake up their leader, who is called
Klownzilla. Basically what he is is a 700 foot versio f the rest of the
klowns, only he roars like King Kong instead of the weird sounds the
other klowns make. Anyway, he throws the Torenzi brother's ice cream
truck into a corner and it explodes, supposedly killing them. Anyway,
Debbie and Mike run out of the tent, and all of the cops have shown up,
leaving David to battle with the klown, who grabs him. He tries
constantyl to shopot it in the nose, but he must not be good at aiming
when it comes to enormous monster klowns. SO it picks him up in one
hand, and thinking cleverly, David takes his badge off of his shirt,
and stabs the clown in the nose with the needle, dropping him. So, he
falls, and it looks like he heads off somewhere. But the clown blows
up, which is apparently enough force to explode the entire tent, which
was lifting off during the battle. But wait, we see a klown kar drop
from the sky! THe evil reign is not over! OH wait, it's just the
Torenzi brothers (who "hid in the freezer") and David somehow. (It
should be known that this was not the original ending, originally David
and the Torenzi bros died but audiences didn't like the ending) Anyway,
we think all is well again, but they are hit with falling pies at the
end! Then the end credits come on, playing the awesome title song.
My thoughts: THis movie fuckin rocks! It has everything a great horror
comedy should have! Plenty of laughs, a sweet decapitation, an awesome
title song, and other good shit! Mooney was priceless, I loved him. The
acting is pretty good too, as well as the special effects. Sometimes
it's hard to believe that this is a B movie. What's even more amazing
is that most of the special effects cost very little! So I guess they
made the most of their budget. The script is very well written, and
full of jokes. Oh and did I mention this movie was hilarious? See it!
Also check out the DVD from MGM, it is LOADED with features, and one of
their best DVDs to date. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the "Killer
Klowns from Outer Space" (the title song by a group called "The
Dickies") music video, which the original Media VHS had. Also, this DVD
doesn't have the orignal cover art on the poster and Media VHS, which
was a lot cooler. But fortunately, they showed an image of it on the
back, so I guess things are cool. I reccommend it to anyone who love a
really funny movie. See it now!
Gore: A cool decapitation, and a slightly bloody "human puppet" and
cotton candy covered dead bodies. Not much, but then again it's rated
PG-13.
Nudity: Once again it's PG-13, so none of that stuff. Debbie goes to
take a shower, and we see nothing. And that's a damn shame too.
Bodycount:
Practically everyone in town except for the main characters turned into
cotton candy, so minus that and the shadow scene, we have:
1. Biker guy has his head knocked off
2. Guy dies in a car crash
3. Old man turned into human puppet.
Rating: 5 out of 5 Genes
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