Monday, January 22, 2018

Arrow Video's 4K Restoration Of Killer Klowns From Outer Spaces Heads To Blu-ray On Mar. 27


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has staked out Mar. 27 as the release date for a new 4K restoration (from the original camera negative) of writer/director Stephen Chiodo’s 1988 tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror film, Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

With Stephen King’s It making clowns scarier than ever — come on, you know in your heart of hearts that clowns are just creepy by nature — it didn’t take long for Arrow Video to update this alien clown tale with a new Blu-ray release chockfull of extras.

Much like the 1958 Steve McQueen/Aneta Corsaut sci-fi thriller, The Blob, we are introduced to two “high school” kids out for an evening of “necking” at the local lover’s lane.   These would be Mike Tobacco (Grant Cramer — Hardbodies, New Year’s Evil … and the forthcoming release (September of this year) of The Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space in 3D) and his main squeeze, Debbie Stone (Suzanne Snyder) — don’t you just love those name Tobacco and Stone!!!

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyPretty soon the night sky lights-up and something lands (or crashes) in the nearby woods.   Buy unlike The Blob, this alien craft looks like a circus tent and Mike and Debbie are soon confronted by an alien invasion of … Killer Klowns!!!

Bonus goodies include commentary from writer/director Stephen Chiodo and co-writer Charles Chiodo (who also doubles as Klownzilla), two newly-prepared production featurettes — “Let the Show Begin! Anatomy of a Killer Theme Song” and “The Chiodos Walk Among Us: Adventures in Super 8 Filmmaking” — video sessions with Grant Cramer and Suzanne Snyder, and vintage featurettes titled “The Making of Killer Klowns,” “Visual Effects with Gene Warren Jr.,” “Kreating Klowns” and “Komposing Klowns.”

Lastly, there are deleted scenes (with commentary) a blooper reel and Klown auditions.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


   


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