Killer Klows from Outer Space
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It’s taken far too long, but here we go with The Chiodo Brothers’ “Killer Klowns From Outer Space”. A film in which Dean Wormer is still having trouble with disrespectful young punks; we discover quite how bad popcorn can be for your health; and reveal the safest place to hide in an ice cream van, in the event of an explosion. A perennial of the video shop, and many a young horror fan’s gateway to the genre; “Killer Klowns…” still looks magnificent, mostly due to the Chiodo Brothers’ mastery of practical effects and unique style. Embracing its B-Movie premise (it’s similarities to “The Blob” are marked), with performances to match; this film knows its ridiculous and revels in it’s cartoonish silliness. Watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers and join us.
I'LL TEAR THIS THING APART WITH MY BARE HANDS!!!
Famous lines
- "In Space, No One Can Eat Ice Cream!"
- "I'm supposed to read you your rights. But you're in Mooney's jail, and you ain't got no rights!"— Curtis Mooney
- "Nobody's gonna put me in a balloon again!"— Debbie Stone
- "Killer clowns from outer space? Holy shit!"— Curtis Mooney
Quotes verified against Wikiquote.
Transcript
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LeeGood evening and welcome to horror.
LeeI'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamHey, Adam.
LeeI can't breathe.
ChrisHe's coughing.
LeeI can't believe it's taken us 200 episodes to get here, but here is where we are, we're going to be discussing 1988's fantastic movie by the Chiodo Brothers, Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
ChrisYes.
Adam
LeeNow, I know this has a particular place in the hearts of myself and Adam.
AdamSo, having not seen it, I would be interesting to hear about.
ChrisI'm assuming.
LeeI'm assuming.
LeeSpoiler alert.
LeeOh, yes, speaking of which, there will be spoilers and swearing.
AdamYou brick.
LeeSo, on your first watching, Chris.
ChrisThey're they're clowns.
LeeWhat did you make of Killer Klowns? There are a lot of clowns.
ChrisBeware the Bozos. Killer Klowns are carnival of chaos, crazier than critters, more Ghoulish than Gremlins, and freakier than Freddy, and no, the cops aren't going to be much help.
ChrisUntil a bit later on when they they improve a bit.
LeeYeah.
ChrisSo, yeah, you just said, how have we waited this long to get here?
ChrisCome on, who's who's got a good answer for that?
AdamNo one.
LeeNo, no.
LeeI I think it it's unfortunately, I think it's one of those ones that is just it's so prevalent that it almost seems daft to cover it a bit like The Exorcist.
ChrisOh, yeah, yeah.
LeeIt's but it's a very niche film. Everybody who's seen it loves it, but it is a little bit of an odd hard sell, really.
ChrisIt's another one where you saw the cover a lot in the.
AdamYes, in Blockbuster.
AdamBut it's also one of those, it's on it's on a different list.
AdamKiller Klowns from Outer Space is never going to be on like.
AdamI mean, fuck me, I mean, this is shaming me on a Barry Norman list of films. That was the that was literally the first film critic I could think of, which shows goes to prove how up to the fucking minute I am with my.
Adamwith my knowledge on this.
AdamBut no, it's The Exorcist or Night of the Living Dead are always going to be on classic horror movie lists.
AdamKiller Klowns from Outer Space isn't, but.
AdamEveryone who's seen it loves it, and everyone everyone who's seen it has an affection for it, which is just as important, I think.
ChrisI could imagine it being a film that almost gets better with age.
ChrisIn that you know, it could it's surprising how good it still looks now for what I assume is a fairly budget friendly film.
LeeYeah, yeah, definitely.
Leebut yeah, as you were saying about it being one of those that you always saw in the video shop.
LeeIt that was how I first saw it, so when we were younger, my parents both worked.
LeeSo, a couple of nights a week, my nan would pick us up from school and take us to hers, she had no idea what certificates were.
LeeSo she would take us to the video shop and let us go.
AdamThis little, is this little Geordie nana?
LeeLittle Geordie Nana, yeah, yeah.
AdamYeah, yeah.
ChrisGod bless her.
LeeI I don't know how she didn't get ID'd, she's only two and a half foot.
LeeBut we.
ChrisI get it.
LeeSo me and my brother went and hired this out, and then it became one of those staples, every three weeks or so, we'd just hire it out and watch it again, because it's just such a fun film.
Leeyeah.
LeeAnd then it was one of the first things I had to get when I got a DVD player.
LeeAnd I've never fallen out of love with this film, it's just so much fun, and so much better than it's got a lot of right to be in some respects.
ChrisYeah, yeah, I mean it certainly comes across as we've said, I think a few times recently.
ChrisIt's a film that knows what it is and it does what it is well, but it's not trying to be something other than that.
LeeYeah.
AdamNo.
AdamAnd I think weirdly and this is this, I mean, because I'm I'm late I was late to the party on it.
AdamI didn't see it when I was really little when it first came out, but it must have been sort of mid-90s.
AdamAnd actually, it was sort of it's weird because you do get a glut of or it's or it's a cyclic thing, you get clown horror movies.
AdamYou know, you obviously had it and then most recently the example would be Terrifier and things like that, so it's but so clowns are a horror staple, and.
AdamBut this I I think the weirdest thing is how well it stands up in terms of its production.
Chris
AdamYou know, I mean, the the the the sort of character the the human characters and everything else like that is it's clearly the 80s, it's clearly, you know, of it of that time period and everything else like that.
AdamBut actually the effects are fucking great.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know, the the clowns the practical effects, the clowns themselves, the sets, particularly like the big top spaceship.
AdamI mean, that bit I mean, watched it with Claire, it was Claire's first time ever seeing it, and she genuinely wowed when they go into the room and there's the.
AdamLike you know, where it's like the sort of mat shot and they've got the power ball thing, like the power coupling thing going off.
AdamAnd
AdamYeah, it's just it it's remarkable that it still holds, you know, holds up so well.
AdamThat it's like, you you wouldn't have to make allowances showing this to someone.
Chris
AdamDo you know what I mean, you don't have to prep someone by saying oh, it's the 80s or oh, well, there is there is this bit that's a bit crap or that looks a bit shoddy or whatever like that.
AdamBecause actually nothing does in it, it's all.
AdamAnd and all the the stuff is so you want all the fucking kit.
AdamBecause it's like you want their guns, you want their fucking weird sweeper thing that they use, like a giant Hoover thing that they've got.
AdamOr the clown car.
AdamAnd all that you want the popcorn gun and things like that because everything looks so fucking good.
AdamAnd follows the the same like everything looks right, it's like, of course that's what alien clown technology looks like.
ChrisYeah, exactly.
LeeYeah.
LeeIt's it's and that's the thing, it is such a ludicrous idea, it would be a hard sell.
LeeBut you know, that but that's what we've said, you know, if once you've seen it, there's nothing about this film that let that lets it down.
LeeIt's just excellent and it's yeah, it's thoroughly entertaining, it's gorgeous to look at.
Leethe soundtrack by The Dickies is obviously outstanding.
AdamWell, it's only the theme tune that's The Dickies.
LeeAnd the theme tune, sorry, not the soundtrack.
AdamYeah, and but yeah, and but the but the soundtrack is fucking amazing.
AdamThe guy who did the soundtrack John John Massari.
AdamAnd he.
Adambut yeah, The Dickies did the theme song because we were we were listening to some Dickies the other day.
Adamand yeah, they did release an EP called Killer Klowns from Outer Space, which is the theme tune and four other songs.
AdamBut the four other songs aren't in the film or anything to do with the film, it's just that was yeah.
ChrisBut they sound like they could be.
AdamOh, they it's well, The Dickies have a particular sort of sound that they it's that very sort of jerky punk sound, kind of like sort of Devo, a bit like Devo, a bit Ramonesy but not too much like that, it's that sort of sound.
LeeSo Cramps sort of.
AdamYeah, because they're they're best they're best known song is they did like a really speed freak cover of the theme tune from the Banana Splits, you know.
AdamThey did like a cover that's like twice, I mean that's already quite hyped song, and they did it like twice the fucking speed.
AdamAnd they do a lot of really cool covers, they did like Paranoid by Black Sabbath and just.
AdamLoads of great songs, but they are they're a genuinely great band.
AdamBut apparently they did the they were just told the title and did the song, they didn't see the film or anything.
ChrisIt seems no.
AdamThey just did it and got commission for it.
AdamAnd yeah, and the guy who the guy who did the score for it, the the he reused a couple of bits because the the actual march when they're going into town, which is one of the best pieces of music well, in the film certainly, but just one of the best pieces of music full stop.
Adamhe originally wrote that for his high school band, but the rest of the band chucked it out because they were like, oh, it sounds a bit jazz.
ChrisAll right.
AdamSo,
AdamAnd actually the the music when the Clownzilla appears at the end.
ChrisYeah.
Adamthat was he originally wrote that as trailer music for Friday the 13th Part Six.
ChrisOh, right.
Adambut they didn't use it in that trailer, so it was like, well, I've got this, you know, and so he had so, you know, wasn't afraid to keep all these ideas around and use them when they actually were appropriate and could be sort of utilized.
AdamBut yeah, I mean, he's done.
AdamLike, because he does lots of because so he did.
AdamDo you remember a film called The Wizard of Speed and Time, Lee?
LeeNo.
ChrisI I definitely remember, I do definitely remember that, yeah.
AdamYeah, so he did the music for that, and he did the music for Retro Puppet Master.
AdamAnd then lots of his I think he does a lot of library stuff.
AdamSo his stuff's turned up on a lot of TV shows like, like American Pickers, RuPaul's Drag Race, Stranger Things, Key and Peele.
ChrisAll right.
AdamSo like his tracks, he hasn't necessarily written them for that, but those tracks have appeared on there.
ChrisOkay.
AdamYeah, and like The Ray Bradbury Theatre and Practical Jokers and stuff like that.
AdamSo it's sort of stuff that's around and has been used in all those shows.
AdamHe also did music for a thing called The Heart She Holler, which I'm fucking desperate to see and I've never been able to find it anywhere to watch properly.
AdamWhich is like adult swim did like a comedy version of like a sort of Twin Peaks thing, and it's got Patton Oswalt and, Amy Sedaris in it.
AdamAnd it looks it looks brilliant, it looks fucking mental because like people have said, oh, it's like, you know, it's an over it's like Twin Peaks, but way more exaggerated and way more funny and weird.
AdamLike deliberately funny and weird, not just like awkwardly funny in the way that you do with sort of Lynch or whatever.
Adam
AdamBut like, yeah, so there's yeah, I mean, the music's fucking fantastic.
AdamAnd.
AdamThe I mean, the the acting is the the other great thing is.
AdamIt's everyone's doing a B movie, so all the humans are in a B movie.
AdamSo it's not it's just on the edge of over the top.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYou know.
ChrisWhich fits perfectly.
AdamYeah, you don't you don't need a Ken Loach version of Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
AdamYou don't need like, you know, it's like well, it's it's you know, we want naturalistic performances with people mumbling.
AdamNo, you do need people to.
LeeYou need The Terran brothers, like that's what you need to be, that is 100% what you need.
Lee
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd Moony.
LeeAnd I've got I've got I was about to say I've got to bring it up, my favorite character in it is Moony, he's just absolutely outstanding.
LeeYeah.
LeeHe just.
AdamJohn Vernon.
LeeYeah, again always brings in a stellar performance.
Leebut he just works so well in this, just his I've had enough of this shit and I'm not taking it anymore.
ChrisIt's.
ChrisIt's just the it's just the amount of venom that comes out.
ChrisYeah, his disdain for the entirety of pretty much all humans, but especially the youth of the town.
AdamYeah, he's he's coming to work pissed off and he's staying.
ChrisIt's.
ChrisIt's it's not getting any better.
AdamAnd I'll be honest, that's a feeling I know.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd just the I mean, just the amount of little prick and just all the stuff that.
AdamBut I'd forgotten we've actually had him on the show before, not not on the show.
AdamObviously, and here he is, special guest.
AdamBut because I always forget he's in The Uncanny, the the cat anthology horror film, he's like the Hollywood producer in that.
LeeYes.
AdamAnd I always forget about that.
AdamBut obviously.
AdamProbably, I mean, it's Doctor Stone in Airplane II.
LeeYeah.
AdamWhich is just just the pinnacle, one of the pinnacles of the career.
AdamWhere it's is that a good sign?
AdamOh, well, it does the trick and you know.
AdamWhat's your impression of?
AdamI'm a psychiatrist, I don't do impressions.
AdamAnd and obviously Dean Wormer in Animal House.
LeeThat's good to say, that's what he's always always going to be Dean Wormer for me.
Lee
AdamDid you know that there's a spin-off, there was a TV version of Animal House?
AdamAnd he's in it as Dean Wormer.
LeeOh, I might have to track that down.
AdamApparently, it's called Delta House.
AdamI don't know if anyone I don't think anyone else is in it.
AdamBut,
AdamYeah, there is like a spin-off TV series that ran for one series.
LeeOh, I'm 100% gonna try and find that.
AdamYeah.
AdamAnd obviously, and he's brilliant in as the mayor in Dirty Harry.
AdamAnd just yeah, he's just a fantastic.
AdamI also didn't realize this.
AdamBut during the sort of 60s, he was the voice of half of the Marvel cartoons, like half the Marvel superheroes.
AdamHe was Iron Man, the Sub-Mariner.
Adamin Iron Man, the Sub-Mariner in stuff like Captain America, The Mighty Thor.
AdamObviously, Iron Man, The Hulk.
Adamhe was Doctor Strange and General Ross in stuff.
AdamHe was Doctor Doom.
Adamand he does like he's did voice work in Heavy Metal and Duckman and stuff like that as well.
AdamNice.
AdamAnd yeah.
AdamIt's just always fucking.
AdamHe's just always great to see.
LeeI think I I do think that Heavy Metal is something we could possibly.
Leeshoehorn in as horror, just to cover.
LeeI don't know if you've ever seen it, Chris.
ChrisNo.
LeeIt's it's a strange adult animation.
LeeIt's very fantasy, it's very weird.
LeeIt's kind of awesome.
Leeyeah.
LeeBut it's one of those I I've seen it about four times.
LeeAnd I can only ever remember the kind of initial wrap around bit.
LeeAnd every time I watch it, I'm it's like I'm watching it for the first time.
LeeI think because it always goes on at one o'clock in the morning when I'm pissed.
AdamYeah.
ChrisYeah.
AdamSee I I I I only.
AdamI remember I remember image-wise, but I only saw it once as a kid because I think there was the mistaken belief that it's oh, it's animation, so kids can watch it.
LeeNo, it's not really.
AdamAnd it's like, yeah, it's not really, it's.
AdamNot not really that sort of thing.
AdamBut but like you said, obviously, and I I'll.
AdamI only found out that it's the the so the team who made this.
Adamit's actually The Chiodo Brothers, that's how you pronounce it.
AdamSo I heard an interview with him, but I always thought it was Cheeto to be honest.
Adam
AdamAnd basically, it's three they're three brothers from New York who started an effects started doing effects and stuff like that.
AdamAnd Stephen Chiodo is the director and he wrote it with Charles and Edward like his brothers.
Adam
AdamAnd and they're they specialized in creature design, puppeteering, animatronics, claymation and stop motion and it all.
AdamYou can see it all in here.
LeeYeah.
Adamand they designed and puppeteered the critters.
ChrisYeah, okay.
Adamin that.
AdamThey did large Marge in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
AdamAnd they also did stuff for
AdamOh, what's the what's the short, Victor?
AdamThe the Edward fuck me.
AdamThe Tim Burton short, Vincent.
LeeOh, yes.
AdamThey they did they did that as well, and they were meant to do Beetlejuice, but were actually making this.
AdamBut you can so see that that following the same and everything else like that.
ChrisIt would yeah.
Adambut they also did the stop motion stuff in Elf.
AdamYou know where it's like him recalling the north like talking about the North Pole.
LeeOh, yeah, yeah.
AdamThat's The Chiodo Brothers, the commercial for the 6000 X in Robo Cop.
AdamMarcel the Shell with Shoes On.
AdamTeam America World Police, Monsters in Stupid and
AdamAlien Abduction and The Monsters TV series, Beastmaster 3, Screamers.
Adamand they also did a puppet segment and five claymation segments for various episodes of The Simpsons.
Lee
LeeNice.
AdamSo, you know, they they do a lot, and you know, and that was the thing, they just started off like together like just as kids.
AdamAnd that was what they like I listened to this interview and they were like.
AdamYeah, other kids were out playing ball and we were indoors like making sort of trying to make Ray Harryhausen films and sort of do stuff like that.
AdamOr building monster heads and things like that.
AdamAnd
LeeWell, yeah, they're clowns in this, I love it is that balance of they are every clown in it is very different.
LeeThey've all got a.
ChrisYeah, yeah.
LeeThey've got their own style, which I love.
Lee
AdamThey've all got names as well, did you know that?
LeeI didn't know that.
AdamNo, they obviously, obviously you don't hear them on the thing, but yeah, they they have all got individual names as well, so.
AdamIt's really, include what I wrote down a couple of them.
AdamThere's McGorey, Jumbo, Shorty, Slim, Rudy, and Clownzilla, obviously.
AdamBut yeah.
ChrisThat makes it a bit easier to refer to them while you're.
AdamExactly, yeah.
LeeThey just managed to be creepy and sinister.
LeeAnd just, oh, they just look filthy as well, like I love that, they look dirty, like they're just, oh, they're so.
LeeI wonder how much this led to people's fear of clowns as much as, you know, possibly Pennywise did.
LeeBecause they're.
AdamYeah.
AdamWell, that that was the one thing we were debating because like having watched it with Claire, we were like.
AdamThat would be the only thing, because we were kind of like, you know, Ted could possibly watch it.
AdamBecause it's not extreme, it's silly.
ChrisYeah.
AdamThere's not.
AdamBut equally, the clowns are scary enough that that would be the thing.
AdamYou take away the and she do we do we want to give him what is it, or I can't remember, but.
LeeYeah.
LeeOh, I don't know the name.
AdamDo we want to make him afraid of clowns yet?
AdamSo, so instead, we just put on a documentary about John Wayne Gacy.
LeeThat's a good idea.
ChrisThat's good.
AdamHow many your back.
ChrisI I introduced Toby to
ChrisI've just completely forgotten his name.
ChrisIt's in Rick and Morty.
ChrisOh, what is he called? Cronenberg, there you go.
AdamOh, really?
ChrisThe Cronenberg episode, which it's funny.
AdamOh, right.
ChrisBut he's got the concept of what a Cronenberg type thing is, and yeah, that's it's gone a bit too a bit too real in his mind.
AdamYeah.
AdamWell, well, I.
ChrisSo, I won't be rushing to show him Cronenberg films just yet.
AdamFor a second there, I thought you were actually showing him like The Brood or The Fly or something.
AdamIt was like, that's a bit much, Chris.
ChrisNot not quite there.
ChrisI mean, we'll start with Rick and Morty cartoon, but yeah, you know.
ChrisI was going to make this I was going to make this slightly more serious in that another horror film that I think is possibly ahead of its time.
ChrisIn that it presented the female character, Debbie.
ChrisAs being very logical, very like cautious.
ChrisBut also, this is probably not a cotton candy factory.
ChrisLike, have you ever seen this before?
ChrisAnd the guy's like typical overconfident, just rushing in.
LeeLike, to back a clueless thing.
AdamWhich is a fantastic fucking night.
ChrisYeah, yeah.
AdamBut also, yeah, that was kind of what they said they wanted to do is they kind of wanted to invert it.
AdamThat he was the dumb blonde sort of character that you would usually get in a horror film.
AdamAnd she was like the smart one.
ChrisBut it's funny how a lot of horrors do flip it, so like we do get the typical, but then yeah, we also get the very progressive.
LeeVery opposite, yeah.
ChrisThat's not how it always is.
ChrisYeah, often the men are very stupid.
AdamHorror as as a trope, there is the final girl.
AdamYou know, it's it's the woman who survives by actually working shit out.
AdamAnd actually, you know, either through sense or strength or whatever manages to come out on top.
AdamYou know.
ChrisMike does have a redeeming quality.
ChrisOf he does want to do good.
ChrisHe's just slightly.
AdamOh, yeah, he's just a bit he's just a bit fucking thing.
AdamYou know, he's just And similarly, they actually, there was like the original ending of it.
AdamApparently, they were going to kill Dave off.
ChrisOh, okay.
Adam
AdamAnd then they basically, they showed it to a test audience.
AdamAnd the test audience were like, oh, we wanted to have a bit of a happier ending.
AdamAnd so they refilmed it so that Dave survived.
Adambut apparently when like the producers went to them and said, oh, you know.
AdamThey've said about that and they were like, yeah, but come on, we want to make it realistic.
AdamAnd they were like, it's a film about clowns from outer space.
ChrisYeah.
AdamYes, fair point, okay, we'll go and.
ChrisI like the fact I've learned how to.
Adamto suddenly go, no, we want this to be for real.
AdamYou know, we don't want this to be.
ChrisHow how to survive a huge explosion in an ice cream truck?
ChrisHide in the freezer, of course.
AdamExactly.
ChrisAnd don't worry about gravity, how far they fell, that's that's fine.
ChrisThat's fine.
LeeYeah.
ChrisI did like the very end, the pies on their face.
LeeYeah.
AdamWell, not only that, but also everyone knows that an old fridge can survive anything.
AdamThat's why they used to put public information films about not locking your mate in a fridge.
AdamBecause even with like diamond tip drills.
LeeYeah.
ChrisYou ain't getting them out.
AdamYeah, that was it.
AdamThey they were trapped forever, mummified.
LeeYeah.
LeeWhat again Dave is a very similar character.
LeeIn that he is trying to do the right thing, but he's just fairly ineffectual, really.
AdamYeah.
AdamAlthough at least I think obviously.
AdamBecause obviously Moony is definitely part of the list of funny coppers of Film Land.
Adambecause for a start he he makes the film in, you know, he is the most entertaining.
AdamHe's the most entertaining human.
LeeYeah.
Adambut it's also it's also that sort of thing of being yet another in a long line of American films.
AdamParticularly came out in the 80s, I don't know whether it was well, I do, I kind of get what it was, but of a small town in America.
AdamAnd chaos turns up to actually sort of.
AdamYou know, basically a gang.
ChrisThey are not prepared to deal with any of this.
AdamNo.
AdamIt's like.
AdamNo, but it's like Gremlins.
AdamIt's like Critters.
AdamYou know, it's just like this.
AdamBasically, it it's the same thing as all that.
AdamPanic, it's almost the same as the panic about.
AdamOh, bikers are going to turn up and fuck everything up.
LeeYeah.
AdamYou know.
LeeYeah.
AdamThat is actually one of my favorite sequences as well.
AdamIt's just outside the biker club.
LeeYeah.
AdamWhere they smash his bike up, and then he just punches his face off.
LeeHe's clean off.
ChrisYou're going to knock my block off.
AdamApparently, yeah.
AdamYeah, well, because there's lots.
AdamThere's lots of bits in that.
AdamIt's like Moony saying, you're not going to make a dummy of me.
AdamAnd then obviously they go.
AdamSo.
LeeHe's he's a very slapstick humor.
LeeBut a lot like it never, I say it never gets silly.
LeeOf course, it is fairly, but like it's yeah.
LeeThere's something about it that isn't too slapstick, cuz I can find slapstick sometimes just tedious.
Leebut yeah.
LeeBut this walks a really nice line of keeping it sort of not too ridiculous.
LeeAnd you know, the gore and stuff is good as well.
LeeWhich again sort of helps keep it less daft in a funny way.
ChrisWell, balanced.
AdamClaire referred to it as Looney Tunes.
LeeYeah.
AdamAnd it is that because that's kind of what clowns you need that.
AdamIt's clowns, they kind of have to be all sort of over the top and sound effects and sort of ridiculousness.
AdamYou know, lots of and that kind of everything has to be sort of that cartoonish level of sort of violence or whatever.
AdamYou know.
AdamAnd and actually and The Terranzy brothers.
AdamThey're actually that's a they're a double act or were a double act.
LeeOkay.
AdamCalled and they did they like used to do like a comedy show.
AdamSomething called a TV sketch film called Cheeseball Presents.
AdamBut I don't know if you remember this, do you remember Packing Them In, which was like a variety comedy show that used to be on Channel 4?
AdamAnd it was Jenny and Frank Skinner played two people who were running a theater.
LeeOh.
LeeI remember that.
AdamYeah, and they used to just put acts on but it would be like English, American acts.
AdamAnd apparently they ran an episode of that, and they did The Paul Daniels Magic Show and shit.
Adam
AdamAnd
AdamMichael Sieger who played Rich moved to the UK in the 90s and he's now he just now crops up in all the usual places that acts have appeared in Britain.
AdamLike Midsomer Murders and casually and things like that.
AdamAnd, whereas Peter unfortunately,
AdamHe unfortunately took his own life in 2020 because apparently he'd had suffered from depression for years.
AdamSo which is which is sad.
AdamAnd what way went this jolly movie that we've been talking about.
ChrisYes.
AdamHere here I come, here I come with the mallet behind my back of that sad news.
AdamBut forever immortalized as The Terranzy brothers, you know, they they.
AdamAgain, although Claire was very disappointed that any teenager would not want an ice cream van around.
LeeYeah.
LeeYeah.
LeeLike, yeah, I mean, it's a crazy idea.
LeeBut it does make me laugh, yeah, that they just start throwing beer cans at you.
LeeYou just ignore them, surely, you've got better things to but, you know.
AdamI I've worked it out though is because obviously, whenever there's a makeout point, it's always a thing for the police come.
AdamRight, all of you breaking up everything.
AdamSo maybe it was just like, we don't need a fucking set of chimes and a screaming megaphone while we're trying to do this.
AdamYou know.
Lee
LeeBut yeah, it's it's just one of those great fun classic, it's a great late night film.
LeeIt's one of those that's great if you've got people over and you need something mental on in the background.
LeeIt it's yeah, it's ideal, really.
LeeI've definitely.
AdamIt would be ideal to stick on a Halloween party.
AdamIt's just a visual.
ChrisYeah, definitely.
AdamAnd and actually the weirdest thing is because they did a they had a themed Killer Klowns from Outer Space zone at the Halloween Horror Night at Universal Orlando in 2018.
Adamand they've turned they turned it into a full haunted house in 2019 and then they recreated it in 2022.
Adamat Universal Hollywood.
AdamAnd as long as I mean, they've obviously always talked about sequel.
AdamBut obviously, there's a game coming out fairly soon.
LeeYeah.
LeeThat looks that looks I've not really a fan of online co-op games.
LeeUnfortunately, otherwise, I would 100% be behind that, because it looks stunning.
LeeSo.
AdamAnd you get to be the clowns, which is which let's face it is the only way that you want a horror adaption.
AdamYeah, you know, if there if there's a I don't know if there is one, there probably is, but if there's a computer game of Nightmare on Elm Street, you want to be Freddy.
AdamYou don't want to be.
LeeYeah, you don't want to be one of the victims.
LeeNo, yeah.
AdamYou just.
AdamSo, so they've got it the right way around, yeah.
LeeDefinitely.
LeeAnd again, I'm kind of glad they didn't do a sequel, because it works perfectly on its own, and it would be one of those that just gets watered down and messed about with.
LeeSo I yeah, I think they made the right call.
AdamYeah, although apparently Grant Kramer who plays Mike and Suzanne Snyder who played Debbie are back for the game.
LeeOh, cool.
AdamWhich is pretty cool, so yeah.
LeeExcellent.
Leeso as we mentioned, we are not doing this film in conjunction with another in a themed month.
Leebecause we've got something rather exciting for our next episode, we are very lucky to have been given the opportunity.
LeeWe're going to be covering Burnt Flowers, which is Michael Fousty's new movie.
ChrisOh, excellent.
Leehe's worked on a few films that we've been watching recently, lower budget stuff, so the video shop tales of Taro, which we've been discussing.
AdamAnd he was the.
LeeCover at some point.
AdamAnd and he was the captain, who has to speak to.
Adamin Tales from the Great War.
LeeYes.
AdamHe was the captain who's on the phone to and then he just cheats him.
LeeYeah.
Leeyes, so we're going to be covering that next, we are covering a lot more of these independent movies recently, I'm sure you've all noticed.
Leeit's we've found.
Leewe it's one of those things we've gotten into a vein and realized how much of this and once you start discovering it and then following it down the rabbit hole.
LeeSo we're taking you all with us on this, and, you know, as we've said before.
LeeThe beauty of independent film as it is, is that there's no studio interference, you've got no one dicking about telling you, oh, well, if you change this, you'll get a bigger audience.
LeeSo it's a much more pure vision of the filmmakers idea, really.
Leeyeah, which is something that really appeals to us.
LeeSo we are yeah, following this current trend that we're on at the moment of these lower budget films and this circle of filmmakers who are doing stuff.
AdamAnd and they've just been very generous to let us have the opportunity to see him, so, you know, we want to.
AdamWe want to see him spread the word, you know, and yeah, and and not only that, but also we've had a pretty good hit rate so far with a lot of these.
AdamYou know, we've we've enjoyed we've enjoyed the the stuff that we've given.
AdamSo, you know, hoping the trend continues.
ChrisYeah.
LeeFingers crossed.
AdamRight, but rest assured, we will also do stuff that you can pick up in a bargain bin for 5 quid as well.
AdamOr or or shit that you've seen a billion times before.
AdamSo.
LeeYeah, that's what it.
LeeYeah.
LeeFilms that are so old, they're on YouTube and nobody cares.
AdamYeah, because everyone involved is dead.
LeeJust put your hammer away.
AdamSorry.
LeeThanks for listening, everybody.
LeeGo and check out Kill Klowns from Outer Space, if you haven't seen it, or if you just haven't seen it for a long time.
LeeIt's a good one to remind yourself on.
AdamYeah, always always a great rewatch.
LeeYeah, and we'll be back in a fortnight's time with Burnt Flowers.
LeeThanks very much for listening.
LeeGood night.
ChrisGood night.
AdamYeah, night.
