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* WhatAreYouInFor: Asked of a Klown by a fellow prisoner after he allows himself to be locked in the town jail.
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* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Largely balanced. The film is played surprisingly straight for such a silly premise which the filmmakers wisely didn't take too seriously. The klowns are very often LaughablyEvil, but the movie keeps some genuine scares for even non-coulrophobes.
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* AlwaysNight: The entire film takes place at night during one night. Oddly though, it's late enough for young lovers to be out at makeout point - usually implying it being a late hour - however there are still families with children having dinner at the BurgerFool.[[note]]In the United States (The movie was filmed in Santa Cruz, California), in summer the sun goes down sometime between 9:30pm at latest and 8:30pm at earliest. Considering it's already well into night when the movie starts, that burger joint is doing crazy good family business that late![[/note]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The alien invaders are an entire race of {{Monster Clown}}s, and are consequently all pure evil. They're essentially [[OurVampiresAreDifferent space clown vampires]], but rather than [[NonMaliciousMonster killing humans only to feed on them]], they're all utterly sadistic and genuinely enjoy murdering people in increasingly gruesome ways and laughing psychotically about it.
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** A gang of bikers decide to pick on the small Killer Klown by wrecking his bike, despite it not even looking human. He decapitates the offending biker.
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* YouAreTooLate: Mike takes Dave back to see the circus tent which is gone. Oddly enough, the huge hole it left behind does not count as any evidence of anything strange to Dave, who promptly handcuffs Mike for some reason.
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* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: The first place the Killer Klowns go to so they can harvest humans for their blood is the teenage make-out spot. When the heroes later inspect the place, they find only cars full of cotton candy and a pair of glasses.
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''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' is a 1988 BMovie. A spaceship shaped like a giant circus tent lands on the outskirts of a small town. The occupants are aliens that look like {{Monster Clown}}s. They begin abducting the townsfolk, sealing them in cotton candy cocoons, and then [[OurVampiresAreDifferent draining them of their blood]]. Only one man, his two delinquent friends, his girlfriend, and her cop ex-boyfriend can stop them.
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* WouldHurtAChild: In an otherwise silly movie, the prospect of this provides a moment of true suspense. Also, one of the cotton candy cocoons near the end is suspiciously smaller then the rest.
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* OneSceneWonder: John Vernon (Sgt. Mooney) has a grand total of seven minutes of screen time. He gets an "AndStarring" credit. Then again, he was pretty much the only big name in the cast.
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* FamousLastWords: "Nobody's going to make a dummy out of me!"
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* CompleteMonster: All the Klowns. Their leader Slim is obviously the worse one.
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* AchillesHeel: Destroying a Klown's nose kills them instantly.
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->''[[TitleDrop Killer clowns? From outer space?]] [[SarcasmMode Holy shit]].''
--> -- '''Mooney'''
''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' is a 1988 BMovie. A spaceship shaped like a giant circus tent lands on the outskirts of a small town. The occupants are aliens that look like {{Monster Clown}}s. They begin abducting the townsfolk, sealing them in cotton candy cocoons, and then [[OurVampiresAreDifferent draining them of their blood]]. Only one man, his two delinquent friends, his girlfriend, and her cop ex-boyfriend can stop them.
A very AffectionateParody of 50's {{B Movie}}s (particularly ''Film/TheBlob'') with just about every alien invasion and circus trope present.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody
* AncientAstronauts: One of the Terenzi brothers jokingly suggests that previous visits from the Klowns are why we fear clowns.
* AnyoneCanDie: The rest of the townsfolk.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Klowns.
* BadHumorTruck: The Terenzi brothers' latest get-rich-quick scheme. Also devised as a way to get fat girls.
* BMovie: Understatement
* BoldlyComing: {{Downplayed}} example ([[KissingDiscretionShot apparently]]). The Terenzi brothers get separated from the other main characters briefly ending next to two lady Klowns. Cut away, and they come back shortly after CoveredInKisses.
* BreastExpansion: Two "female" clowns.
* BullyingADragon: A group of bikers [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWOxxKFsiI mock the smallest klown in the bunch]]. It does not end well for the main instigator.
* CassandraTruth: Inverted. Sgt. Mooney believes the hundreds of calls coming in of Monster Klowns are part of an elaborate hoax.
* CircusOfFear: What the Klowns' mothership is designed as.
* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe example happens when farmer Green sees the Klowns' arrival on earth he deduces that it's the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet Halley's comet]].
* DeadGuyPuppet: One of the Klowns uses a sheriff as a ventriloquist's dummy to talk to one of the teenaged heroes, apparently shoving its hand into his back.
* DecoyProtagonist: Mike. Dave turns out to be the real hero.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:The Klowns' spaceship blows up at the end of the film with Dave and the Terenzi brothers on board. All three of them are alive and well a minute later.]]
* EarthShatteringPoster
* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: The Klowns' ship explodes...and everyone has a "thank goodness that's over" moment...only to be hit by cream pies]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: See the Page Quote.
* ImMelting: Near the end the Klowns dispose of a security guard by showering him with throwing pies... which promptly melt him down to a pile of bones.
* InferredHolocaust: The [[spoiler: town's entire population gets killed outright or turned into cocoons (apparently an irreversible process)]] and then [[spoiler: blown up when the Klowns' spaceship explodes]]. Only five characters survive, three of whom merely due to [[spoiler: their {{Disney Death}}s]]. Um... yeah?
* LargeAndInCharge: The boss Klown.
* LivingShadow: One of the Klowns entertains a crowd with ImpossibleShadowPuppets before creating a T-Rex one and devouring them with it.
* LoadBearingBoss: The giant monster klown.
* MakeOutPoint: Near where the Klowns land. ChristopherTitus makes his film debut as one of the unfortunate teens.
* MonsterClown: ''From Outer Space''.
* MuggingTheMonster: Mooney tries a little PoliceBrutality on a klown, thinking it's a prankster in a costume.
* OffWithHisHead
* OneSceneWonder: John Vernon (Sgt. Mooney) has a grand total of seven minutes of screen time. He gets an "AndStarring" credit. Then again, he was pretty much the only big name in the cast.
* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: Mooney]] after being killed by a Klown.
* PoliceAreUseless: Mooney is absolutely convinced that the Klowns are a hoax perpetrated by the Terenzi brothers.
** And, apparently, that the same hoax is supported by the entire population of the town. [[LogicalFallacies He thinks they're]] ''[[LogicalFallacies all]]'' [[LogicalFallacies in on it.]]
* RabidCop: Mooney.
* RayGun: The Klown's main weapon of choice is a ray gun that turns people into cotton candy.
* ShowerScene: We don't get to see anything, but the love interest apparently spends a good half-hour in there...
* StrippedToTheBone: Acidic custard pies.
* ToServeMan: As mentioned above, the Klowns capture people to drink their victims' blood.
* VisualPun: The Klowns' "Big Top" tent/spaceship, when it takes off at the end of the movie, is revealed to actually be shaped like a Big "top"
* WouldHurtAChild: In an otherwise silly movie, the prospect of this provides a moment of true suspense.
* XtremelyKoolLetterz
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[[caption-width-right:268:Stop it! That's ''our home!'']]
->''[[TitleDrop Killer clowns? From outer space?]] [[SarcasmMode Holy shit]].''
--> -- '''Mooney'''
''Killer Klowns from Outer Space'' is a 1988 BMovie. A spaceship shaped like a giant circus tent lands on the outskirts of a small town. The occupants are aliens that look like {{Monster Clown}}s. They begin abducting the townsfolk, sealing them in cotton candy cocoons, and then [[OurVampiresAreDifferent draining them of their blood]]. Only one man, his two delinquent friends, his girlfriend, and her cop ex-boyfriend can stop them.
A very AffectionateParody of 50's {{B Movie}}s (particularly ''Film/TheBlob'') with just about every alien invasion and circus trope present.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody
* AncientAstronauts: One of the Terenzi brothers jokingly suggests that previous visits from the Klowns are why we fear clowns.
* AnyoneCanDie: The rest of the townsfolk.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Klowns.
* BadHumorTruck: The Terenzi brothers' latest get-rich-quick scheme. Also devised as a way to get fat girls.
* BMovie: Understatement
* BoldlyComing: {{Downplayed}} example ([[KissingDiscretionShot apparently]]). The Terenzi brothers get separated from the other main characters briefly ending next to two lady Klowns. Cut away, and they come back shortly after CoveredInKisses.
* BreastExpansion: Two "female" clowns.
* BullyingADragon: A group of bikers [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWOxxKFsiI mock the smallest klown in the bunch]]. It does not end well for the main instigator.
* CassandraTruth: Inverted. Sgt. Mooney believes the hundreds of calls coming in of Monster Klowns are part of an elaborate hoax.
* CircusOfFear: What the Klowns' mothership is designed as.
* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe example happens when farmer Green sees the Klowns' arrival on earth he deduces that it's the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet Halley's comet]].
* DeadGuyPuppet: One of the Klowns uses a sheriff as a ventriloquist's dummy to talk to one of the teenaged heroes, apparently shoving its hand into his back.
* DecoyProtagonist: Mike. Dave turns out to be the real hero.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:The Klowns' spaceship blows up at the end of the film with Dave and the Terenzi brothers on board. All three of them are alive and well a minute later.]]
* EarthShatteringPoster
* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: The Klowns' ship explodes...and everyone has a "thank goodness that's over" moment...only to be hit by cream pies]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: See the Page Quote.
* ImMelting: Near the end the Klowns dispose of a security guard by showering him with throwing pies... which promptly melt him down to a pile of bones.
* InferredHolocaust: The [[spoiler: town's entire population gets killed outright or turned into cocoons (apparently an irreversible process)]] and then [[spoiler: blown up when the Klowns' spaceship explodes]]. Only five characters survive, three of whom merely due to [[spoiler: their {{Disney Death}}s]]. Um... yeah?
* LargeAndInCharge: The boss Klown.
* LivingShadow: One of the Klowns entertains a crowd with ImpossibleShadowPuppets before creating a T-Rex one and devouring them with it.
* LoadBearingBoss: The giant monster klown.
* MakeOutPoint: Near where the Klowns land. ChristopherTitus makes his film debut as one of the unfortunate teens.
* MonsterClown: ''From Outer Space''.
* MuggingTheMonster: Mooney tries a little PoliceBrutality on a klown, thinking it's a prankster in a costume.
* OffWithHisHead
* OneSceneWonder: John Vernon (Sgt. Mooney) has a grand total of seven minutes of screen time. He gets an "AndStarring" credit. Then again, he was pretty much the only big name in the cast.
* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler: Mooney]] after being killed by a Klown.
* PoliceAreUseless: Mooney is absolutely convinced that the Klowns are a hoax perpetrated by the Terenzi brothers.
** And, apparently, that the same hoax is supported by the entire population of the town. [[LogicalFallacies He thinks they're]] ''[[LogicalFallacies all]]'' [[LogicalFallacies in on it.]]
* RabidCop: Mooney.
* RayGun: The Klown's main weapon of choice is a ray gun that turns people into cotton candy.
* ShowerScene: We don't get to see anything, but the love interest apparently spends a good half-hour in there...
* StrippedToTheBone: Acidic custard pies.
* ToServeMan: As mentioned above, the Klowns capture people to drink their victims' blood.
* VisualPun: The Klowns' "Big Top" tent/spaceship, when it takes off at the end of the movie, is revealed to actually be shaped like a Big "top"
* WouldHurtAChild: In an otherwise silly movie, the prospect of this provides a moment of true suspense.
* XtremelyKoolLetterz
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