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!!!
Pretty 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.
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