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Critters
(1986)
When you've got Critters... you need all the help
you can get.
Director: Stephen Herek, rated PG-13 for language,
violence
  Starring: Dee
Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Scott Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Don
Keith Opper, Nadine van der Velde, Lin Shaye
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
- good
"We're
here for the Crites." - Ug
Why watch this?
Just sit back, suspend belief, and have a blast with these nasty
little alien creatures.
Plot Summary: A
group of small, carnivorous alien creatures, called Crites,
escape from prison and crash-land near a Kansas farmhouse. They
begin terrorizing the family living there, eating everything in
sight. Two shape-shifting bounty hunters arrive on Earth, hot on
the trail of the fuzzy little creatures. This all leads to a
chaotic battle between the aliens, the family, and the bounty
hunters.
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Dad's Preview:
This is a rare example where the lower-budgeted "idea rip-off"
film is actually better than the original - and I am comparing this film
to Gremlins
(1894).
Any way you slice this movie concept, it should not work - its
premise is absurd. But I
am here to tell you, it does work. A ship full of tiny, fang-mouthed
creatures from space crash land on earth, and they terrorize a small
family farm.
They roll along the ground, then shoot their prey with poison darts...
then
they eat you... and they grow very fast. Space bounty hunters, who just happen to be
shape-shifters, are in pursuit (naturally). Please stay with me
here. This excels because it hits that "sweet spot" -
the blend of sci-fi, comedy and horror. |
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Sho Films;
New Line Cinema
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