As you can imagine, the movie is very campy, and opens like many low-budget sci-fi films do--something streaks across the sky above lover’s lane, prompting a young couple to investigate. When they reach the landing spot they see a large circus tent. Unfortunately, the tent is really a spaceship filled with aliens who look like clowns, except that their teeth are a little larger (and sharper) than most. Their main interest seems to be cocooning the local population into cotton candy, so that they can feed upon them a little later (which they do using oversized crazystraws).

This is definitely a B-movie. But despite that, the movie is full of style and great low-budget special effects, and is energized by punchy art direction and characters more-than-colorful enough to overcome the so-so acting. Most memorable is grizzled Officer Mooney (John Vernon), who drinks Jack Daniels, suffers one of the most creative demises, and spews a lot of the film’s best lines. Directed by Stephen Chiodo and co-written with his brother Charles, Killer Klowns from Outer Space maintains an incredible pace and holds one’s interest with its imaginative killings and comedy.