Summaries

When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances, the recently-fired clown mascot seeks vengeance for the loss of his job.

Funland is about to open for the new season, and we follow several employees through the rituals of opening the park for the season. Owner Angus Perry refuses to sell the land to a shady development company. A few days later, he's found dead, and the company, headed by Maurio DeMauro, buys up his shares. Concerned only for the profit margin, they start to cut costs and install less family-oriented rides. No one is more upset by this than clown mascot Bruce Burger. Once park accountant Neil Stickney, and one of the founder of the park, he suffered a nervous breakdown, and was kept on by Perry out of pity, he has started to believe he really IS Bruce Burger, and considers himself and Stickney separate people. When a prima donna named Chad Peller is hired to replace him, Burger starts to lose his tenuous grip on reality. He is soon visited by Perry's ghost, who tells him he was murdered. Enraged, Burger plots to take down the park, but decides to first get rid of his replacement...—Kyle Palkowski

When the owner of Funland dies, a sleazy mob family buys his share of the park and proceeds to change the attractions to something more to their liking. As a result of the buyout, the park's Bruce Burger mascot, who is revealed to have been a park accountant who had a nervous breakdown but was kept on out of pity by the owner, gets fired and replaced with a prima donna clown. Crushed by the loss of his job, Bruce goes on a rampage, hunting down the clowns who cost him his livlihood.—Jean-Marc Rocher <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • revenge
  • family relationships
  • clown
  • amusement park
  • killer clown
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Crime
Release date Oct 15, 1987
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG-13
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Six Flags Over Georgia - 7561 Six Flags Parkway, Austell, Georgia, USA
Production companies Double Helix Films RMC Films

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 38m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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