Trailer
Plot summary
On the edge of Crescent Cove, a farmer chases what he takes for a comet into the woods and finds a strange structure shaped like a circus tent. Debbie Stone and her boyfriend Mike Tobacco drive out to the same spot and walk inside, where they find odd rooms, a man sealed in a cocoon of cotton candy-like material, and clowns who shoot popcorn at them from a bazooka. The two flee to the police station and tell Officer Dave Hanson and his partner Curtis Mooney what they saw. Mike takes Dave back to the site, but the tent has vanished, leaving a crater behind.
Cast
- Peter Licassias Paul Terenzi
- Irene Michaelsas Stacy
- Karla Sue Krullas Tracy
- Danny Kovacsas Punk #2
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Klowns' popcorn gun was the production's costliest prop at seven thousand dollars and six weeks of work, because it hid a real compressor so it could actually fire popcorn at the actors.
- The effects department painted latex onto the legs of the Klowns' living balloon-animal dog so that it would not burst on the pine needles covering the ground where it was filmed.
- Nearly every vehicle was rented and could not be damaged, so two accidents hurt. One car went off a bridge when it was only meant to roll a short way, and solvent in the cotton-candy cocoon material ate the interior of a Jeep, costing three thousand dollars in repairs.
- The brothers wanted Soupy Sales, famous for taking pies in the face on Lunch with Soupy Sales, as the guard killed by the Klowns' acidic pies, but the executive producers would not pay for his plane ticket, believing audiences would not recognize him.
- Giant Klown leader Jojo the Klownzilla was meant to be a stop-motion creation, but ended up being played by Charles Chiodo inside a creature suit.
SPOILER
Officer Dave originally died in the destruction of the Klown ship; the filmmakers changed that after test-screening audiences asked for a more upbeat ending.- The punk title song was written blind. Leonard Phillips, frontman of the American band the Dickies, wrote "Killer Klowns" without seeing the movie, and the band released it on an EP of the same name in 1988.
