Overview:
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.| Status: | Released (1986-04-11) |
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| Awards: | 3 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $13,167,232 |
| Screen: | Domonic Muir, Stephen Herek, Don Keith Opper |
| Productions: | New Line Cinema, Smart Egg Pictures, Sho Films |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 62001: Dee Wallace - Helen Brown
- 588: M. Emmet Walsh - Harv
- 35090: Billy Green Bush - Jay Brown
- 35091: Scott Grimes - Brad Brown
- 35875: Nadine Van der Velde - April Brown
- 35092: Don Keith Opper - Charlie McFadden
- 7401: Lin Shaye - Sally
Crews
- 18356: Stephen Herek - Director - Directing
- 18356: Stephen Herek - Screenplay - Writing
- 35087: Rupert Harvey - Producer - Production
- 3393: David Newman - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 17146: Tim Suhrstedt - Director of Photography - Camera
- 16567: Larry Bock - Editor - Editing
- 4142: Elisabeth Leustig - Casting - Production
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Reviews
Gimly
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It's great when you re-visit a film you enjoyed as a kid and find that as an adult it still totally holds up. Sure _Critters_ almost definitely found its start as nothing more than one of the slew or various _Gremlins_ rip-offs that were being written up at the time, but it's precise ....
Continue reading ->Sheldon Nylander
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"Critters" is one of those rare movies that comes along that, despite all odds against it, manages to strike just the right chord. A little-monsters mix of scifi, horror, and comedy, the film uses its low budget as part of its charm. It scales the film farely small, that being a fami ....
Continue reading ->Sheldon Nylander
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"Critters" is one of those rare movies that comes along that, despite all odds against it, manages to strike just the right chord. A little-monsters mix of scifi, horror, and comedy, the film uses its low budget as part of its charm. It scales the film farely small, that being a fami ....
Continue reading ->Kamurai
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Good watch, could watch again and do recommend. This is a good one to jump into the way back machine for, and I'm waiting on a reboot to happen. (Actually...."The Tomorrow War" is sort of on the same track) The critters themselves are (in a horrible way) cute and vicious looki ....
Continue reading ->Wuchak
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**_Entertaining popcorn flick from the mid-80s is both cartoonish and horrifying_** Small, furry extraterrestrials harass a farm town in America while two bounty hunters try to capture them. "Critters" (1986) takes the basic premise of 50’s alien-invasion flicks, like “The Blob ....
Continue reading ->r96sk
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<em>'Critters'</em> is <em>'Gremlins'</em>-esque fun overall, though it isn't supremely enjoyable all the way through; I felt some pacing issues. The titular aliens do look the part though, even all these years later. The practical effects are nice, that house explosion is particular ....
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