Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

An action-packed slog

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Before Stephen King's It, there were aliens who look like clowns! This movie has everything! The casting, the 80s special effects, the soundtrack, and more! The Chiodo Brothers did a fantastic job making this movie! You'll have a crazy good time for watching this movie!

Terrible movie but also great space killer clowns what more can u ask for very interesting

The urban dictionary defines a cult film as "A movie that has a significant following". One thing they omit in that definition is that cult films for the most part are movies that didn't do well at the box office when initially released but found an audience after that. Early on audiences found them at midnight movies but with the invention of video and later disc it was in these markets that lost treasures suddenly became go to movies for fans. Among those movies is one involving that highly dreaded, nightmare inducing, phobic founding image known as the circus clown. No, not IT, I'm talking about KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE.Released in 1988 to little recognition when the movie played on cable in heavy rotation it developed a huge fan base. On tape even more so. When it finally appeared on DVD fans flocked to it and continue to do so. Now Arrow Video is releasing the ultimate version of the film to blu-ray and fans will be thrilled with this release.If you missed out on the movie when first released it told the story of young couple Mike Tobacco (Grant Cramer) and Debbie Stone (Suzanne Snyder) who while parking witness a glow in the night time sky. Following the path it traveled they find a vast circus tent lit up in a nearby field and investigate. Inside they discover all the twisted crazy lights and colors one would associate with a funhouse as well as huge hanging loops of cotton candy. The problem is inside each loop is a human being slowly deteriorating.The pair realize that this is no circus tent but a spaceship. It isn't long before they're being chased by aliens, beings that resemble demented circus clowns. From floppy footwear to garish make up they might look like the clowns but with fang filled faces and cotton candy embalming ray guns they aren't quite what one would remember.Mike and Debbie escape and make their way to town. At the police station they're confronted by hard-nosed Officer Curtis Mooney (John Vernon), one of those stereotypical officers who thinks all kids are just punks, and Officer Dave Hansen (John Allen Nelson) who thankfully is in charge. We soon learn that Dave was once Debbie's boyfriend. He drops Debbie off at home and takes Mike to where they tell him the ship was located. The ship having moved, he arrest Mike for creating a disturbance.In the meantime the clowns have been taking over the town and wrapping up the populace in cotton candy to munch on later. When Dave finally sees what's going on he and Mike head back to Debbie's to make sure she's safe. Recruiting a pair of goofballs in an ice cream truck, the Terenzi brothers, and calling in the State Patrol, they set out to find the ship and save the town.Yes, the movie really is that simple and yes that goofy. It is a mixture of those famous alien invasion flicks of the past, most notably THE BLOB, turned upside down and combined with an off the wall sense of humor. The klowns themselves are memorable to see and have a combine looking funny with a feeling of dread at the same time. The tools they use range from the cotton candy ray guns to guns that shoot popcorn that later develop into more clowns.The antics of the klowns display how deadly they can be too. Boxing gloves that give them enough punch to decapitate, cream pies that liquefy bodies and balloon animals that help them track down their prey are just a few of the items they use. The combination of the creations that were meant to make us laugh when young turned into the deadliest of foes gives viewers some truly funny sequences with an underlying sense of menace at the same time.As I noted earlier, the movie gained fame after being released to theaters finding a huge crowd of fans on cable and tape/discs. So much so that the stars now find themselves surrounded by fans at conventions and the klowns memorialized in ink via tattoo. Show a movie lover a picture of the klowns from this film and they can immediately tell you the name of the movie as well as scenes from it. In addition to that the theme song from the film, performed and written by punk band The Dickies, is a catchy tune that fans have adored as much as the movie itself.Arrow Video has been doing a great job of presenting lost and cult films for some time now and they've done an amazing job with this one. The presentation of the movie on blu-ray looks stupendous here, better than ever. And the extras they've included, as always, make the entire experience worth viewing rather than just a press package feel.Arrows version here begins with a 4k scan restoration using the original camera negative. It gets better from there. How so? The extras include an archive audio commentary with the Chiodo Brothers, LET THE SHOW BEGIN! ANATOMY OF A KILLER THEME SONG an all-new interview with the original members of the American punk band The Dickies, THE CHIODOS WALK AMONG US: ADVENTURES IN SUPER 8 FILMMAKING an all new documentary about the Chiodo brothers early films made when they were teens, new HD transfers of the Chiodo brothers 8mm and Super 8 films, TALES OF TOBACCO an interview with Grant Cramer, DEBBIE'S BIG NIGHT an interview with Suzanne Snyder, BRINGING LIFE TO THESE THINGS a tour of Chiodo Brothers Productions, THE MAKING OF KILLER KLOWNS archive production featurette, VISUAL EFFECTS WITH GENE WARREN an archive interview with co-writer/producer Charles Chiodo and visual effects supervisor Gene Warren Jr., KREATING KLOWNS an archive interview with Charles Chiodo and creature fabricator Dwight Roberts, KOMPOSING KLOWNS an archive interview with composer John Massari, klown auditions, deleted scenes with filmmaker's audio commentary, bloopers, image galleries, the original theatrical trailer and a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck that is amazing. Whew! That's an exhaustive amount of extras!So if the killer klowns brings back fond memories for you then give this one a look. Better yet pick up a copy and add it to your collection. It's nothing to be taken seriously but is certainly one of the more fun movies of the cult film genre to garner your attention. Just make sure when you watch it to keep an eye on your popcorn and don't let anyone have a cream pie sitting on the counter.

Where do I even begin? This film is hilariously made, both in bad and good ways. First off, the story is very random, but also pretty good in my opinion. The acting is so-so. The performances in this film are very cheesy and sub par at best. And when I say cheesy, I mean the most corniest acting ever done in a film. I mean seriously. It's almost funny every time someone is on screen, as viewers might just wait for the next stupid thing to be said/acted out as. Also, the acting isn't very believable in a few scenes. The editing, however, is the biggest flaw, as this film is terribly edited. The reason why I say that is because scenes cut off at random times. The sound sometimes is gone too in a few scenes. All in all, the editing is just very sloppy and not great in the slightest. The special effects in this film are actually very well done, though. So besides all that, I honestly don't know if I care for this film or not. As there are a lot of flaws, but at the same time, the amount of hilarious cheesiness and good special effects are almost enough for me to recommend to anyone who wants to see anything out of the ordinary, or to anyone looking for an extremely corny 80s movie to laugh at. As this film doesn't disappoint in the slightest with those 2 things.