A guy and his girlfriend sitting in their car on a hill sees something big falling from the sky and land not too far away from where they are, so they go there to find out exactly what it was that fell from the sky. They stumble upon a big circus tent in the middle of a forest which has all of these clowns inside, but they don't seem like your normal circus clowns.
Here we have a true classic cheesy 80's movie that I guess have somewhat of a cult status, no wonder since it's a very cool movie about murderous clowns from outer space, how cool isn't that?
There are so many small details in this movie that makes it great, you have everything that has to do with clowns and circuses, even their space ship looks like a big circus tent. Then the clowns are mean as hell and instead of being "normal" earthly clowns, these ones comes from outer space.
After coming to earth, these clowns goes around and captures people trapping them inside cocoons made out of cotton candy and brings them back to their tent (well space ship) to drink their blood (no, the clowns are not vampires). Funny thing though is that no one in town realises what's going on and they are not afraid of the clowns either because the clowns look like, well clowns.
Another cool thing that has to do with the details I mentioned earlier is that they kill people with stuff that clowns use and that simply just looks like clown gear but are all deadly weapons. So no one realises what's going on except for this couple that saw when they came from the sky and two of their friends who are similar to some kind of village idiots working driving a ice cream truck.
It's a b movie, don't expect anything else, but it's still very well done and has some cool effects and even if it's low budget it still looks like they actually had some budget to it. It's not a serious movie but it's so not supposed to be either.
t's highly entertaining and enjoyable and if you haven't seen it yet, well then you've definitely missed out on some good stuff from the great 80's.
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MOVIE YEAR: 1988
DIRECTOR: Stephen Chiodo
WRITING CREDITS: Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
CAST: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Vernon
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 88 min
RATING: 7/10
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