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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
1988
· Movie
· 86 min
C
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3304
- IMDb #4224
- Google retired #776
- Rotten Tomatoes #2443
- Metacritic #3100
- Letterboxd #2616
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2146
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3303
- Metacritic Audience #1118
- Criticker #2812
- Douban #1619
- Kinopoisk #4700
- AlloCiné #3703
- Trakt #4043
Every rating
37–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 37, highest is Google on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Aliens that look like sinister circus clowns invade a small town, arriving in a spaceship shaped like a big top tent. They capture the residents, wrapping them in cotton candy cocoons to later consume. A group of teenagers discover the threat and must find a way to stop the extraterrestrial clowns and their deadly, carnival-themed weaponry before the whole town is harvested.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Chiodo
- Writers
- Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo
- Released
- 27 May 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $43.6M
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