Killjoy (film series)

Killjoy
A double feature containing the first two films.
Directed by	Craig Ross Tammi Sutton John Lechago
Written by	Carl Washington Douglas Snauffer Tammi Sutton John Lechago
Starring	Ángel Vargas Trent Haaga
Cinematography	Carl Bartels Balthazar Jones Terrance Ryker
Edited by	Craig Ross Don Adams Henry Gordon Jago
Music by	Richard Kosinski Jon Greathouse Michael Sean Colin
Distributed by	Full Moon Entertainment Full Moon Features
Release date	2000–present
Running time	220 minutes (combined total)
Countries	United States China
Language	English
Budget	$180,000 (combined total of first two films)

Killjoy is an American slasher film series which focuses on the titular Killjoy, a demonic clown who is summoned to assist revenge plots in all five films, only to prove too overwhelming for each character who calls him.

Films

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer
2000	Killjoy	Craig Ross	Carl Washington	Mel Johnson, Jr. & Charles Band
2002	Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil	Tammi Sutton	Tammi Sutton	Charles Band & J. R. Bookwalter
2010	Killjoy 3	John Lechago	John Lechago	Charles Band
2012	Killjoy Goes to Hell
2016	Killjoy’s Psycho Circus
2019	Bunker of Blood 07: Killjoy’s Carnage Caravan	Craig Ross	Brockton McKinney	Mel Johnson, Jr.

Produced by Full Moon Features, the series was established in 2000 with the eponymous first installment, starring Ángel Vargas. A sequel, Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil, followed in 2002, which saw Trent Haaga replace Vargas for the role of Killjoy due to Vargas being busy with other projects. In spite of the negative reception of both films, Full Moon filmed a third installment while shooting Puppet Master: Axis of Evil in China, and in 2010 Killjoy 3 was released. Haaga reprised his role for Killjoy 3, eight years after the release of the previous film.

The original film was essentially an effort in the blaxploitation genre, and this was carried over to a lesser extent in Deliverance from Evil. Both of these films consisted of a largely African American cast; however, this element was greatly diminished for Killjoy 3, which was presented as something of a teen-slasher film. The titular character, as a clown, makes a number of crude jokes throughout the first two installments, but Killjoy 3 appears to be a genuine effort in black comedy. The third installment was also a first in establishing that Killjoy can be summoned through a blood pact; two different spoken rituals are used in the earlier films. The first film had a significantly more generous budget than its sequel, at a projected $150,000, dwarfing the $30,000 budget of Deliverance from Evil.

Full Moon Features launched a Kickstarter in early August 2014 to help raise funds for their upcoming movie named Killjoy's Psycho Circus. The company announced that the Kickstarter would raise $60,000 while the company itself would add another $100,000 to make sure the series was produced. Full Moon set a one-month limit to raise their funds. The Kickstarter ended on September 3, 2014 and was unsuccessful. Charles Band has been quoted as saying that this is the company's way of experimenting and bringing their brand into the modern way of filmmaking. The film eventually premiered on October 30, 2016, on the El Rey Network.

Characters

Characters	Film
	Killjoy	Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil	Killjoy 3	Killjoy Goes to Hell	Killjoy's Psycho Circus	Bunker of Blood 07: Killjoy's Carnage Caravan
	2000	2002	2010	2012	2016
Killjoy	Angel Vargas	Trent Haaga				Angel Vargas / Trent Haaga
Jada	Vera Yell
Jamal	Lee Marks
Monique	"D" Austin
Michael	Jamal Grimes		Quentin Miles
T-Bone	Corey Hampton
Baby Boy	Rani Goulant
Kahara	Napiera Danielle Groves
Homeless Man	Arthur Burghardt
Lorenzo	William L. Johnson
Singer	Penny Ford
Tamara	Dionelle Rochelle
Ray Jackson	Carl Washington
Nic		Charles Austin
Charlotte		Olimpia Fernandez
Denise Martinez		Debbie Rochon
Harris Redding		Logan Alexander
Eddie		Jermaine Cheeseborough
Ce-Ce		Nicole Pulliam
Kadja		Rhonda Claerbaut
Ray-Ray		Choice Skinner
Batty Boop			Victoria De Mare
Sandie			Jessica Whitaker
Rojer			Michael Rupnow
Zilla			Spiral Jackson
Erica			Olivia Dawn York
Punchy			Al Burke
Freakshow			Tai Chan Ngo
The Professor			Darrow Igus
Skid Mark				John Karyus
Beelzebub				Stephen Cardwell
Detective Ericson				Jason Robert Moore
Detective Grimley				Cecil Burroughs
Dr. Simmons				Randy Mermell
Baliff				Ian Roberts
Scribe				Jim Tavaré
Samantha					Victoria Levine
Jezebel					Lauren Lash
Handy					Tim Chizmar
Luann					Robin Sydney

Reception

Jimmy Totheo of JoBlo expressed that the series is "cheesy b-movie goodness".

External links

• Killjoy at IMDb 
• Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil at IMDb 
• Killjoy 3 at IMDb 
• Killjoy Goes to Hell at IMDb 
• Killjoy's Psycho Circus at IMDb 
• Bunker of Blood 07: Killjoy's Carnage Caravan at IMDb