548 – Killer Klowns from Outer Space

There’s a new circus in town and you’ll die laughing. Fusion Patrol movie night finds John and Eugene looking at the cult film, Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Movie Synopsis: Crescent Cove is just another example of a small rural American college town. It’s a nice little, until the circus big top arrives. Mike and Debbie are making out at the Top of the World, the local make-out place when they see a shooting star and go to investigate. What they find is a circus big top in the middle of the woods. Inside, they find themselves inside a spacecraft from another world and also the dead bodies of two locals, wrapped in a cotton candy cocoon. That discovery is followed rapidly by them being discovered the ship’s occupants – giant clowns from another world. The escape and head to the local sheriff’s office. Debbie has a “friend” there, Deputy Dave, who happens to be her former boyfriend, making for an uncomfortable time with her current boyfriend, Mike. Dave thinks their story is wild, but is willing to check it out for Debbie’s sake. Deputy Mooney, on the other hand, an old school cop with old-school ideas, thinks it’s a college kid prank to make dummies out of them. He refuses to play along. Mike accompanies Dave back to the spacecraft, which is no longer there. Things are not looking good for Mike until the pass the Top of the World and find all the cars abandoned or wrecked, and coated in something that looks like cotton candy. Unbeknownst to them, the clowns have arrive in town and have begun killing everyone. There’s one thing you can say for these clowns: Sure, they’re going to brutally murder everyone, but they’re going to do it with a sense of fun! The calls start flooding into the Sheriff’s office, but Mooney, convinced it’s all a prank, ignores them, until one of the clowns comes to the sheriff’s office to visit. Mike, Dave, and two annoying comedy-type characters, the Tarenzi Brothers, try to rescue Debbie but she’s taken hostage in a balloon. They chase her, and the clowns, back to their hidden base of operations at the local amusement park. Here they find the spacecraft and the clowns sinister secret. They are cocooning the humans, which liquifies their bodies, then the clowns drink the liquid. They rescue Debbie, and after a final battle with a Clown Boss, the ship is destroyed as it attempts to leave Earth. Debbie, Mike, Dave, and the Tarenzi Brothers survive, but they may be the only remaining inhabitants of Crescent Cove.