Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Production: Paul Mason (Executive Producer) — Helen Szabo (Executive Producer)

Screenplay: Charles Chiodo (Writer) — Stephen Chiodo (Writer) — Edward Chiodo (Writer)

Music: John Massari (Original Music Composer)

Cinematography: Alfred Taylor (Director of Photography)

The life of a quiet American provincial town is disrupted by the arrival of some terrible, yet bizarre, aliens. These beings have the appearance of circus clowns, attack humans with plastic guns similar to toys, but turn out to be really dangerous and lethal. They trap the human prey in a sort of cocoon and then feed on it, sucking out the blood... Directed and written by the Chiodo brothers, creators of the special effects for the "Critters" series, this "Killer Klowns" is a kind of grotesque horror that alternates jokes and sequences of pure comedy with scenes of blood and moments of suspense, revisiting classics of the genre like "Bad Taste" or "Spaltters" by Peter Jackson. It is an unusually pleasant and original trash movie; a "gem" almost never broadcast on television but which can be easily found on VHS.

Amusing, but too ridiculous, yet interestingly relates to the Hebrew diaspora

A town by the central California coast is invaded by circus-like extraterrestrials, who prey upon humans for their blood.

"Killer Klowns From Outer Space" (1988) is a colorful and fun alien invasion flick in the mold of “Critters” from two years earlier but, unlike that flick, is too preposterous to suspend disbelief. For instance, “Critters” offers a good explanation for how one of the extraterrestrials appears like a striking rock star, but you’ll get nothing like that here.

Nevertheless, there are multiple funny moments and winsome redhead Suzanne Snyder is a highlight as Debbie. Also, John Vernon is entertaining as the curmudgeon officer and the sequence involving one of the Klowns using a certain character as a ventriloquist dummy is worth the price of admission.

An interesting interpretation is that the Klowns are analogous of the dispersed Israelites who learned to hide in plain sight and thrive (not just survive) by changing their names and taking control in their new environments thru influencing and manipulating entertainment, politics, the media and financing (e.g. Federal Reserve banking).

It runs 1 hour, 28 minutes, and was shot in Watsonville, California (and nearby Santa Cruz), which are located 80-90 miles south of San Francisco.

GRADE: C

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