Storyline
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, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Directors
Cast
Bob Bergen, Frank Welker, Dick Miller, Jonathan Banks, Glynn Turman, Corey Feldman, Frances Lee McCain, Polly Holliday, Howie Mandel, Judge Reinhold, Zach Galligan, Harry Carey, Jr., Phoebe Cates, Belinda Balaski, John Louie, Hoyt Axton, Keye Luke, Jackie Joseph, Edward Andrews, Scott Brady, Don Steele, Susan Burgess, Donald Elson
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Reviews
100
A delightfully offbeat reminder of how inventive and witty blockbusters seemed when you were a kid.
91
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
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
Gremlins has enough style and savvy to stand on its own as the summer's most original Hollywood picture.
80
A jangling, lunatic sugar rush of a movie, in love with everything it satirises and bursting at the seams with psychotic energy
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