The only things I remember about this movie is the climactic scene involving an ice cream truck that saves the day. The baddies (aliens? zombies?) are attracted to the ice cream truck’s music. Our heroes set up the truck to drive over a cliff (I think) luring the baddies with them. At one point during the trip the movie’s soundtrack dramatically picks up the music with the full orchestra.
I seem to recall it is a B-style monster movie, black and white.
I’ve been googling all evening and not getting anywhere.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
I’ve come across Killer Klowns in my googling - doesn’t ring a bell. I don’t remember seeing that movie. My memory is not reliable, but I seem to recall the discovery about the ice cream truck’s music was made late in the movie - a big eureka moment. Is this what happens in Klowns?
(off to see if I can track down a copy)
I haven’t seen it. I googled “aliens follow ice cream truck - movie” and that’s the plot description that came up.
Doesn’t sound like Killer Klowns to me. It does remind me of various cartoons I’ve seen, including that Simpsons Hallowe’en episode with the Homer horde.
From the OP’s description, it’s not KKfOS.
There is an ice cream truck in KK, but it’s not used to lure the clowns over a cliff or anything like that; it’s in the movie because 2 of the characters (brothers Paul and Rick) own it.
The big battle at the end of KK sees the Boss Klown destroy the truck, in fact, before he is killed and the Klown ship explodes.
Okay. It looks like it might be Zombietown.
ETA: “We weren’t even going to release any press info on the shooting of the film until concerns about the publics’ exposure to some of Monster Paint and FX’s very realistic makeup work ran into some of the actual public,” added Producer Zorinah Juan. Some of the very realistic makeup effects involve the ghoulish and darkly comic use of an ice cream truck for luring zombies to their doom.
No, not Zombietown. Imdb* says it came out 2007. I recall seeing this as a kid - late 70s likely. It felt old then. My guess is some 50s era creature feature.
*Zombie Town (Video 2007) - IMDb
I think it might be Day of the Triffids. Classic Sci-Fi Movies: The Day of the Triffids
“The three travel south in an ice cream truck they found. In Spain, they come to an estate of a man whose wife is pregnant. They stay to help deliver the baby. While they stay, millions of triffids surround the compound’s fence. Deducing that they are attracted to sound, Bill lures them away with the annoying ice cream trucks’s music. This allows everyone else to escape to Cadiz and be rescued by submarine.”