Synopsis
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, unleashing a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
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Cast
- Zach GalliganBilly Peltzer
- Phoebe CatesKate Beringer
- Hoyt AxtonRandall Peltzer
- Frances Lee McCainLynn Peltzer
- Corey FeldmanPete Fountaine
- Keye LukeGrandfather (Mr. Wing)
- John LouieChinese Boy
- Dick MillerMurray Futterman
- Jackie JosephSheila Futterman
- Polly HollidayRuby Deagle
- 100
Empire
A delightfully offbeat reminder of how inventive and witty blockbusters seemed when you were a kid. - 91
Christian Science Monitor
In many ways, though, Gremlins is ingenious. Gizmo yanks at your heartstrings with both furry fists, then sits out a few scenes while suspense builds, then plunges back with more vim than ever. The small-town setting, right out of a gushy Frank Capra movie, manages to be timeless, nostalgic, and slightly ridiculous all at once. - 88
Chicago Tribune
A horror-comedy about cute little Christmas toy/pets who turn into murderous monsters wreaking havoc on a Norman Rockwellian town. There's a moral there someplace. - 80
Time
Gremlins has enough style and savvy to stand on its own as the summer's most original Hollywood picture. - 80
Time Out London
A jangling, lunatic sugar rush of a movie, in love with everything it satirises and bursting at the seams with psychotic energy - 80
The Telegraph
A welcome reissue of the 1984 creature feature in which a Capra-esque idyll is besieged by ravening beasties. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Gremlins was hailed as another "E.T." It's not. It's in a different tradition. At the level of Serious Film Criticism, it's a meditation on the myths in our movies: Christmas, families, monsters, retail stores, movies, boogeymen. At the level of Pop Movie-going, it's a sophisticated, witty B movie, in which the monsters are devouring not only the defenseless town, but decades of defenseless clichés. But don't go if you still believe in Santa Claus. - 70
Chicago Reader
What's confusing yet ultimately illuminating is the way his gremlins function as a free-floating metaphor, suggesting at separate junctures everything from teenagers to blacks to various Freudian suppressions.
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