Killer Klowns from Outer Space

The title really says it all. Do I even need to provide a review? Much like movies such as "Piranha" or "Anaconda" you pretty much know exactly what you're signing up for when you press play. However, there's something special about Killer Klowns that I think at least deserves some words written about it.

The concept of Killer Klowns is rather simple. Aliens who just happen to look like clowns, use cotton candy and popcorn as weapons, and whose spaceship is coincidentally shaped like a circus tent, land for an unknown reason in this small town and proceed to capture or kill every single person there in clown-like fashion. There's your stereotypical hero, maiden, powerful ally (cop), supposed comic relief (ice cream brothers), and stick-in-the-mud who doesn't believe a damn thing until he's dead (other cop), all with acting skills developed at whatever place casting directors went to for every actor from every bad horror movie made in the 80s (the mall?). So after stumbling on the big secret that this circus tent, which mysteriously appeared in the woods right where a meteor they watched fall should've crashed down, is actually a spaceship filled with deadly klowns, our heroes spend the movie running from death and trying to warn everyone before they all get turned into cotton candy cocoons.

If you really need it...SPOILER ALERT...everyone but the kinda hero, maiden in distress, powerfully ally and supposed comic relief end up dead. Somehow during the entire movie, the cop is the only one who figured out how to kill the klowns (shoot their noses off), and is able to kill the big boss klown, subsequently blowing up their ship and killing any other possible survivors from the town. Miraculously, he survives the explosion by locking himself in the klown car, and the comic relief escapes the previous explosion they were in AND the destruction of the ship by hiding in their ice cream truck's freezer. The cavalry, in the form of police from a neighboring town, show up just in time to see the ship explode. And just as the movie ends, with our heroes asking if it's finally all over, they get pied in the face, setting up a sequel if they ever chose to do one. END SPOILERS

It's ridiculous. It's all pure and utter failure in pretty much every sense. The acting, direction, script, sets, just about damn near everything is just plain BAD. The only redeeming thing is that the klowns were at some points pretty darn scary looking. So why even give this film a mention?

Because it was funny. It was damn funny. It was all just so ridiculous that I couldn't help but enjoy it. If it hadn't been filmed in the same period as, and thus been one of, all of those terrible 80s horror films I would've said it was a wonderful spoof. You just have to think that they knew they were making a terrible terrible film and so they had fun with it. But almost better is to think that they were taking themselves absolutely seriously, just because it makes their predicament all the funnier.

Killer Klowns is by no means a good movie, and I'm sure many would not have as fun a time with it as I had. Still, if you've got several people over and have fun supplying additional commentary while a movie is going then this is a great way to waste an hour and 20 minutes.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space gets a 4/10.