DryadGurrl
weird question: Where is all the Killer Klowns From Outer Space love coming from all of a sudden?
DryadGurrl
like, prior to idk, last year? I only knew a handful of people who A, already knew about it and B, weren't my immediate family
DryadGurrl
But now it's popular(?) or at least well known enough that Sprit frickin' Halloween has officially licensed costumes
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WHERE WAS THIS WHEN I WAS BEING TOLD I WAS WEIRD FOR LIKING IT???
DryadGurrl
Is this what it feels like to be old???
DryadGurrl
(for clarification: I'm not mad, I'm just confused)
DryadGurrl
it's not even an anniversary (25th etc) it's 33 this year
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(okay maybe i'm a little mad)
Sing Anyway
I can explain
Sing Anyway
HHN had a scare zone three years ago based on it. and then last year they had a house.
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*two years ago
Sing Anyway
nothing happened last year
DryadGurrl
...okay that actually makes a lot of sense
DryadGurrl
my only other explanation was that one or more of the actors died recently and people were going through their filmography
Sing Anyway
lmao
Sing Anyway
nah that's how I found it too
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I was wondering why HHN picked the movie and then just watched all the movies the houses were based on
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it was wild
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but then I became a fan 🤣
PrincessBatty
it started with the 30year nostalgia swing being well timed with 'clown' sightings, IT remakes and 80s horror nostalgia in general.
DryadGurrl
Fun fact tho: Farmer Greene (who is also Wrenchmuller in Spaced Invaders which is also worth a watch) is Royal Dano, AKA: president heckin' Lincoln in Great Moments With in Disneyland
PrincessBatty
KK just had really affordable licensing.
❄️waffle❄️
Dead Meat also covered it on the Kill Count a couple years ago, but I don’t know if that spurred anything... it’s a popular show on Youtube but I don’t know if it’s THAT popular
PrincessBatty
HHN has leaned on it somewhat in years past with Treaks and Foons scarezones, that were more or less knock off KK
DryadGurrl
PrincessBatty
: Affordable licensing is a factor as well, I'm sure
DryadGurrl
❄️waffle❄️
: I wouldn't discount it completely though!
DryadGurrl
a lot of times there will be a title in like a 'top ten weirdest deaths on screen' list or something, where I go: "WTF I've never heard of this" and go check it out and then later rec it to people
𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤
True story: the troll monsters in Ernest Scared Stupid are repaints of the Killer Klowns.
DryadGurrl
𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤
: you know that actually makes a lot of sense
𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤
It's really the first use of "drab is Realistic" that I can like, point to in my own screen-watching experience!
Haunted Boobs
Yeah, it's just kind of floated back up to the top of the public conscious due to HHN and a lot of retrospectives that have come out in the last couple of years. Like three separate documentaries I've watched lately on horror have focused a section on Killer Klowns.
DryadGurrl
yeah! something I saw recently is that it's the "original scary clown movie" because it predates the Tim Curry 'It' by a couple years at least, and they were lamenting that nobody knew that
DryadGurrl
which, I mean, same