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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Name: Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1988-05-27
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 6.9

PG-13 (US) | USA | English | 88 min

Directed by: Stephen Chiodo

6.9

Comedy Horror Sci-Fi

When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the danger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends.

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Cast & Crew

Stephen Chiodo

Director

Grant Cramer

Mike Tobacco

Suzanne Snyder

Debbie Stone

John Allen Nelson

Dave Hansen

John Vernon

Curtis Mooney

Michael S. Siegel

Rich Terenzi

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KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988) | Puppet Show | MGM Studios

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KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE | What Are You Going to Do With Those Pies, Boys? | MGM Studios

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Release Date

Canada

No data

1988-05-27

USA

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1988-05-27

West Germany

(video premiere)

1988-11-30

Also Known As (A.K.A.)

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

(Original title)

Asesinos de otra galaxia

Argentina

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Australia

Parent Guide

All of the violence in the film is very silly and over-the-top.

An old man is shocked by an electrical wire.

In the scariest scene of the film, A police officer's dead body is used as a ventriloquist dummy. There are bloody smears on his face and cheeks. After saying a series of disturbing phrases, the Klown takes his hand out of his back, covered in blood, and throws the body away.

In the film's most iconic scene, Shorty the Klown sucker-punches a biker gang leader's head off. The head flies through the air and falls into a trash can. Although we see the neck gore and some blood, the scene is meant to be cartoonish and funny.

Slim the Klown drives an invisible car into another man's car, sending him off a bridge and crashing down into the water.

Slim the Klown makes a shadow puppet dinosaur that eats a crowd of people. The dinosaur shrivels back into his hands, and he reveals the people have been turned into popcorn.

The Klowns use rayguns that cocoon their victims in cotton candy. Inside of the cocoon, their bodies are converted into a bloody, milkshake like substance. The Klowns then drink from the cocoons with crazy straws.

A group of Klowns chuck dozens of cream pies at a security guard. The man starts to melt, until he's a steaming pile of the pies, as they were made with acid.

Rudy the Klown cocoons two girls in cotton candy offscreen inside of a store. He then walks up to a cashier, holding a bunch of vitamins and wearing a propeller hat. We hear a zapping sound and the cashier screaming over the phone, implying he was also cocooned.

Jumbo the Klown uses a paper whistle-type extendable arm device to snap the neck of a police officer.

When the Klowns are killed, they spiral around and a bunch of flashing lights emit from their bodies, before they explode into confetti.

Many are shot by ray guns that mummify then in cotton candy.

Sometimes, the cocoons have gruesome faces and/or limbs tearing out of them. At one point, a man's severed arm (completely turned hot pink from the cotton candy) drops down.

A man is pulled into a trash bin by unknown creatures. Screaming and crunching sounds can be heard as his legs shake violently.

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