TMR 042 – Killer Klowns from Outer Space

This week on Total Movie Recall, one man's fun trash is another man's not-fun trash. Steve gets typically indignant at Ryan's casual, cruel dismissal of somebody's labor of love, and Ryan reaches heretofore unplumbed depths of his warped psyche, exploring the lingering effects of watching movies like Killer Klowns at too tender of an age. This is what happens when a little boy lets teenage girls bully him into watching movies. Ryan's therapist has her work cut out for her this week. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) d. Stephen Chiodo w. Charles Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo, Edward Chiodo Starring: Grant Cramer Suzanne Snyder John Allen Nelson John Vernon When teenagers Mike (Grant Cramer) and Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) see a comet crash outside their sleepy small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns. They try to warn the local authorities, but everyone assumes their story is a prank. Meanwhile, the clowns set about harvesting and eating as many people as they can. It's not until they kidnap Debbie that Mike decides it's up to him to stop the clowns' bloody rampage. Things discussed in the show: Coulrophobia - The fear of clowns (Agoraphobia, Anablephobia, Triskaidekaphobia) John Wayne Gacy / Pogo the Clown Spawn and The Violator (Image Comics) King Missile (John S. Hall) - The Leather Clown Police Story (Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin) Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong, Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip) Drunken Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jang-Lee Hwang) The Toxic Avengers (Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman, Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist) Flock of Seagulls & The Cure hair doos The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon, Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa) Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams) Dave Made a Maze (Bill Watterson, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch) Primer (Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden) Doctor Who and The TARDIS Videodrome (David Cronenberg, James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits) Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais) Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard) Epic Levels - Dungeons & Dragons music The Sopranos (David Chase, James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Steven Van Zandt, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tony Sirico) Schitt's Creek (Dan Levy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy, Chris Elliott) Perry Mason (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones, Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Chris Chalk, John Lithgow, Lili Taylor) Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult Bad Boys for Life (Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens) Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Wunmi Mosaku, Abbey Lee, Jamie Chung, Jada Harris, Michael Kenneth Williams) Bozo the Clown Flowers in the Attic (Jeffrey Bloom, Virginia C. Andrews, Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson) Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) Amadeus (Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge) Critters (Stephen Herek, Domonic Muir, Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush) Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, Phil Hartman, Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton) Puppet Master Bad cops in Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) and Shaft (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi) Ghoulies (Luca Bercovici, Jefery Levy, Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres) The Willies Metallica - Metal Up Your Ass Sigmund Freud's uncanny effect Commedia dell'arte Hop-Frog (Edgar Allen Poe) & Regicide David Carradine The Dickies - Killer Klowns from Outer Space theme illiterates - Makeout Mountain (punk record) Where did I Come From? (Howie Mandel) The Joker Insane Clown Posse (ICP) Next Week: Aladdin (1993)

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