TMR 042 Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 9:29 a.m.

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This week on Total Movie Recall, one man\\u2019s fun trash is another man\\u2019s not-fun trash. Steve gets typically indignant at Ryan\\u2019s casual, cruel dismissal of somebody\\u2019s 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\\u2019s therapist has her work cut out for her this week.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

d. Stephen Chiodo
w. Charles Chiodo,\\xa0Stephen 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,\\xa0Chi-Hwa Chen, Maggie Cheung,\\xa0Brigitte Lin)

Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong, Jackie Chan,\\xa0Anita Mui,\\xa0Fran\\xe7oise Yip)

Drunken Master (Woo-Ping Yuen, Jackie Chan,\\xa0Siu-Tin Yuen,\\xa0Jang-Lee Hwang)

The Toxic Avengers (Michael Herz,\\xa0Lloyd Kaufman, Andree Maranda,\\xa0Mitch Cohen,\\xa0Jennifer Babtist)

Flock of Seagulls & The Cure hair doos

The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O\'Bannon, Clu Gulager,\\xa0James Karen,\\xa0Don Calfa)

Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon,\\xa0Ben Affleck, Robin Williams)

Dave Made a Maze (Bill Watterson, Meera Rohit Kumbhani,\\xa0Nick Thune,\\xa0Adam Busch)

Primer (Shane Carruth, David Sullivan,\\xa0Casey Gooden)

Doctor Who and The TARDIS

Videodrome (David Cronenberg, James Woods,\\xa0Debbie Harry,\\xa0Sonja Smits)

Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein, Jess Weixler,\\xa0John Hensley,\\xa0Josh Pais)

Idiocracy (Mike Judge, Luke Wilson,\\xa0Maya Rudolph,\\xa0Dax Shepard)

Epic Levels - Dungeons & Dragons music

The Sopranos (David Chase, James Gandolfini,\\xa0Lorraine Bracco,\\xa0Edie Falco, Steven Van Zandt, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Tony Sirico)

Schitt\'s Creek (Dan Levy,\\xa0Eugene Levy, Catherine O\'Hara,\\xa0Dan Levy, Annie Murphy, Chris Elliott)

Perry Mason (Ron Fitzgerald,\\xa0Rolin Jones, Matthew Rhys,\\xa0Juliet Rylance,\\xa0Chris Chalk, John Lithgow, Lili Taylor)

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Bad Boys for Life (Adil El Arbi,\\xa0Bilall Fallah, Will Smith,\\xa0Martin Lawrence,\\xa0Vanessa Hudgens)

Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Jonathan Majors,\\xa0Jurnee Smollett,\\xa0Courtney 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,\\xa0Victoria Tennant,\\xa0Kristy Swanson)

Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)

Amadeus (Milos Forman, Peter Shaffer, F. Murray Abraham,\\xa0Tom Hulce,\\xa0Elizabeth Berridge)

Critters (Stephen Herek, Domonic Muir, Dee Wallace,\\xa0M. Emmet Walsh,\\xa0Billy Green Bush)

Large Marge from Pee Wee\'s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, Phil Hartman,\\xa0Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily,\\xa0Mark Holton)

Puppet Master

Bad cops in Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) and Shaft (Gordon Parks, Richard Roundtree,\\xa0Moses Gunn,\\xa0Charles Cioffi)

Ghoulies (Luca Bercovici, Jefery Levy, Peter Liapis,\\xa0Lisa Pelikan,\\xa0Michael 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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