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Critters

  • 6.1 /10

  • 937

  • 52%

Plot

Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.

Cast

Dee Wallace as Helen Brown
Dee Wallace

as Helen Brown

M. Emmet Walsh as Harv
Billy Green Bush as Jay Brown
Billy Green Bush

as Jay Brown

Scott Grimes as Brad Brown
Scott Grimes

as Brad Brown

Nadine Van der Velde as April Brown
Nadine Van der Velde

as April Brown

Billy Zane as Steve Elliot
Billy Zane

as Steve Elliot

Lin Shaye as Sally
Lin Shaye

as Sally

Ethan Phillips as Jeff Barnes
Ethan Phillips

as Jeff Barnes

Don Keith Opper as Charlie McFadden
Don Keith Opper

as Charlie McFadden

Terrence Mann as Johnny Steele / Ug
Terrence Mann

as Johnny Steele / Ug

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG-13

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • April 11, 1986

Production Companies

  • New Line Cinema

  • Smart Egg Pictures

  • Sho Films

Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $2,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $13,167,232.00

Runtime

  • 1.43 hrs

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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 precisely the differences **from** _Gremlins_ that make _Critters_ any kind of success. The more overt sci-fi elements of …

"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 family farm that's attacked by Crites, voracious little eating machines from outer space, rather than a world-spanning …

"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 family farm that's attacked by Crites, voracious little eating machines from outer space, rather than a world-spanning …

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