I love movies like this. I love movies where you know, you just know, someone made something so perfectly awesomely bad on purpose.
How, you ask, is it so awesomely bad?
Let’s take it step by step:
The super stealthy clown tracking method: Make your own bird dog animal balloon and have at it.
Okay, so these clowns like to um, mummify people in cotton candy, and they do it with this nifty cotton candyfier gun thingy..majig. Aren’t the special effects AMAZING?
Sally Jesse Raphael is totally pissed that her make-out session was totally interrupted by a bunch of jerks.
The clowns pose as pizza delivery men…
And as Candygram delivery men to sugar-mummify the local townies.
Oh, dear.
Death by shadow finger puppets!
The town’s mean, nasty, Jack Daniels drinkin’ cop meets a rather nasty end.
But that’s okay, because apparently, you kill clowns from outer space by blowing off their noses…which results in this:
And this:
The real fun in Killer Klowns is the cheese-factor. I’m sure you can already predict how it ends, all the movie cliches it contains, and probably would still be entertained by the rampant cheesiness of it all. It remains one of my favorite movies from the ’80’s, partially because it’s just so fricking ridiculous and low-brow that it makes me laugh to watch it with people who have never seen it before. There’s no use expounding on how awful it is, because it’s pretty much everything ever in this movie. It’s bad. It’s wrong. It is, however, funny – not in a normal way, but an “oh my god, someone actually made this movie” kind of way.
I’d kill to have been a fly on the wall when someone came up with the idea for this ridiculous movie. If you can’t gain fame for a good reason, I guess shooting for notoriety and infamy is pretty good, too. You can’t imagine that anyone that decided to make Killer Klowns From Outer Space has an even keel, if you know what I mean. (And I think you do).
A horribly awful movie, for sure, but one that’s so very entertaining.
REST IN PEACE, SALLY JESSE RAPHAEL
May you run in syndication for many years to come
Killer Klowns! Love it. Such a fantastically bad movie. It has a place up there along side “Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama” and “Leprechaun in the Hood” as one of the bad-greats.
Catching up on the week…the weirdest thing. I had never heard of Fantastic Planet until a few days ago. My cousin is a crazy music freak and was playing the soundtrack for me. I thought it was great, but I still haven’t seen the movie. I’ll have to check it out soon.
YES!
I just went to a triple feature (Return to Oz, Beetlejuice, and Meet the Feebles) and they showed a trailer for Killer Klowns. I love this movie. How can you not? They know they’re making a bad movie and you’re supposed to laugh at it. It’s awesome.
Andrew, those are great choices! And I hadn’t heard of Fantastic Planet either until Piper suggested it. You should see it – it’s a trip.
They know they’re making a bad movie and you’re supposed to laugh at it. It’s awesome.
Scott, I know, right? (And happy belated birthday, by the way!) It’s so fun. I love it when people make bad movies on purpose. And that sounds like a killer triple feature that you went to! I’m envious…!