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Charles Chiodo was born on 24 May 1952 in Bronx, New York, USA. He is a producer, known for Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), Screamers (1995) and Team America: World Police (2004).
- Additional Crew, Special Effects, Producer
- May 24, 1952
- Charles Chiodo
The Chiodo Brothers (Stephen, Charles & Edward Chiodo; / k i ˈ oʊ d oʊ /; born in Bronx, raised in Deer Park, New York) are an American trio of sibling special effects artists, specializing in clay modeling, creature creation, stop motion and animatronics.
Oct 24, 2023 · Stephen Chiodo directed Killer Klowns from a script he co-wrote with Charles Chiodo. Both Stephen and Charles also produced the film with their younger brother, Edward Chiodo.
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As a designer he has created creatures large and small, from giant radioactive mutant rats to the man eating rolling fur ball “Critters.” He even designed 25 foot tall In’ Sync marionettes for the American Music Awards.
- It Was written, Produced, and Directed by Three Brothers.
- The Clowns' Explosive Noses Were An Homage to Zombie Cinema.
- Mike’s Rubber Raft Has Its Own backstory.
- The Drag Racer Clown Literally Had A Few Tricks Up His Sleeve.
- It Was Christopher Titus’s First Movie.
- To Keep That Balloon Animal from Popping, The Effects Team Coated It in Latex.
- The Pie Scene Was More Complex Than It looked.
- Four Primary “Generic Clown Head” Mask Molds Were built.
- The Dickies Wrote The Killer Klowns Theme Song Before They Saw The Movie.
- A Sequel Has Been in Development Hell For 29 years.
This passion project was a family affair. Bronx natives and special effects artists Charles, Edward, and Stephen Chiodo arrived on the Hollywood scene back in the 1980s. In 1982, they founded their own company, Chiodo Brothers Productions. Since then, a huge array of directors have enlisted the trio’s services. Some of their most iconic works inclu...
Every monster needs an Achilles’s heel, and—as Officer Dave learns in the above clip—the space clowns are no exception. Punch, kick, or shoot one of these aliens in its bright red nose and the creature will explode. At the 2011 Spooky Empire horror convention, the Chiodos revealed that this little attribute was inspired by a familiar trope in zombi...
Zombie references are just the beginning. Growing up, the Chiodos were big monster movie fans. Killer Klowns spoofs a lot of their all-time favorites. The cotton candy cocoons, for example, are a riff on the pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And in an obvious wink at The Blob, the first big scene in Killer Klowns finds a pair of teenagers m...
Stephen Chiodo’s original thought experiment—the spark which set the whole project into motion—was realized in a heart-racing action sequence, which shows a space clown with headlights on the soles of his giant shoes levitating next to a car and then driving the vehicle off the road. To pull off that visual, a stuntman in a killer klown costume was...
Keep an eye out for Christopher Titus during the opening credits sequence: He’s the blonde teen who casually strolls in front of Officer Mooney’s police car while downing a can of beer. Today, this standup comedian is best known for his edgy network sitcom, Titus, and his one-man special Norman Rockwell is Bleeding. Although most of his scenes were...
Being teenagers in a horror movie, Mike and Debbie can’t help but do some snooping when they discover a circus-themed spaceship. The clowns soon chase them out and then use a balloon dog to track their scent. This gag proved difficult to shoot. In the scene, the inflatable pooch gets dragged over some rough forest floor terrain. As Charles Chiodo e...
Pie-in-the-face humor is a time-honored tradition, one that Killer Klowns subverts by having a luckless security guard get pelted to death with highly acidic desserts. For this famous scene, the Chiodos decided to use actual pies instead of the more conventional shaving cream-filled tins. Though more realistic, the approach had some drawbacks. “We ...
At the 2011 Spooky Empire convention, Charles Chiodo toldthe crowd that Stephen wanted his team to sculpt “four generic head types: one round, one triangular, one inverted triangle, and one peanut-shaped.” Once completed, these were mass-produced, with the effects artists creating two clown characters from each of the four molds. On top of that, an...
Just like The Blob, Killer Klowns From Outer Space opens with an original title song. However, instead of a sax-heavy lounge number, we get an energetic punk rock jam, courtesy of The Dickies. When the band was asked to compose the theme song for Killer Klowns From Outer Space, they wrote one entirely on the basis of their gut reaction to the movie...
Will our home world ever be revisited by those murderous space clowns? The Chiodos started toying around with a second Killer Klowns movie very early on. “Look, Hollywood is a very fickle industry,” Stephen Chiodo toldThe Odd Podcast in 2016. “We’ve been working on a sequel since the day after we made [the first movie]. I mean we have tons of ideas...
Charles Chiodo is a special effects artist and one of the Chiodo Brothers, known for Killer Klowns from Outer Space and other films. He has also acted, directed, produced and created various projects in the entertainment industry.
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