DVD Features:
- Audio Commentary with the Chiodo Brothers
- 5 Featurettes
- 2 Deleted Scenes with Director's Commentary
- Bloopers
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 3 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: August 28, 2001
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Packaging: Keep Case - Checkpoint, Lenticular, Sensormatic;
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
- Behind-The-Scenes
- Making-Of
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Stills/Photos - 1. Animated Photo Gallery
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Entertainment Reviews:
Los Angeles Times - 06/04/1988
"...This offbeat, black-comic homage to '50s monster movies demonstrates both above-average technical skill and large dollops of imagination..."
Entertainment Weekly - 08/24/2001
"...It's goofy, cultish stuff, the ultimate in clown camp..."
Total Film - 11/01/2008
3 stars out of 5 -- "Stephen Chiodo's kult kamper may be just for laughs, but it holds up surprisingly well after 20 years."
Description by OLDIES.com:
Finally the truth about clowns is out! Beneath their smirky sinister grins and wildly patterned clothes are clever killer from out of this world.
A spaceship - looking like a circus tent - lands in a field near a small town, signaling the attack of deviant, red-nosed, balloon-twisting psychos from another world who plan to annihilate mankind - by turning people into cotton candy! Luckily, the town's teen citizenry decides to fight back and teach the cosmic bozos a lesson. But these klowns are no klutzes, turning popcorn, peanuts and caramel corn into playful - but deadly - weapons of madcap destruction and mayhem!
Product Description:
A kampy, kult favorite! After a meteor plunges to Earth, young lovers Mike and Debbie discover a circus tent-spacecraft piloted by grinning, red-nosed aliens. The klown passengers are not happy makers of merriment however, but instead demented homicidal aliens with rather unique ways of killing their victims (acid pie, anyone'), who methodically preserve tasty human treats in cotton candy cocoons. Naturally, the kruel killer klowns kreate khaos for the kops, until someone discovers the aliens' weakness--by a nose...
Description by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Finally the truth about clowns is out! Beneath their smirky sinister grins and wildly patterned clothes are clever killers from out of this world. The "juxtaposition of their toy-store arsenal and malevolent intent proves to be a tasty combination" (Los Angeles Times) in this killer entertainment that will leave you fearing these big-top creatures for good. A spaceshiplooking like a circus tentlands in a field near a small town, signaling the attack of deviant, red-nosed, balloon-twisting psychos from another world who plan to annihilate mankindby turning people into cotton candy! Luckily, the town's teen citizenry decides to fight back and teach the cosmic bozos a lesson. But these klowns are no klutzes, turning popcorn, peanuts and caramel corn into playfulbut deadlyweapons of madcap destruction and mayhem!
Plot Synopsis:
A kampy, kult favorite about a spaceship disguised as a circus tent, which lands in a small town. The klown passengers are not happy makers of merriment however, but instead demented homicidal aliens with rather unique ways of killing their victims. (Acid pie, anyone'). Naturally, the kruel killer klowns kreate khaos for the kops, until someone discovers the aliens' weakness -- by a nose...
Plot Keywords:
Alien Attacks |
Alien Life Forms |
Aliens |
Black Comedy |
Cannibalism |
Cult Film |
Enemies |
Science-Fiction |
Spoof
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