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Critters

Critters

1986 86 min ★ 6.5 Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

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

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Cast

Dee Wallace

Dee Wallace

Helen Brown

M. Emmet Walsh

M. Emmet Walsh

Harv

Billy Green Bush

Billy Green Bush

Jay Brown

Scott Grimes

Scott Grimes

Brad Brown

Nadine Van der Velde

Nadine Van der Velde

April Brown

Don Keith Opper

Don Keith Opper

Charlie McFadden

Lin Shaye

Lin Shaye

Sally

Billy Zane

Billy Zane

Steve Elliot

Ethan Phillips

Ethan Phillips

Jeff Barnes

Terrence Mann

Terrence Mann

Johnny Steele

Details

Director

Stephen Herek

Screenplay

Stephen Herek

Tagline

"The battle began in another galaxy. It's about to end in the Brown's backyard."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$2,000,000

Revenue

$13,167,232

Production

New Line Cinema, Smart Egg Pictures, Sho Films

Reviews

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Gimly

August 25, 2019

★ 7/10

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 t...

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Sheldon Nylander

September 2, 2019

★ 6/10

"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 t...

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Kamurai

July 10, 2021

★ 7/10

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 looking, the acting is decent, the story is good, and I'm a big fan of the shape shifting hunters sent to kill them. W...

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Wuchak

December 28, 2024

★ 8/10

**_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” or “War of the Worlds,” but meshes it with the tone and furry creatures of “Gremlims” from two years prior. The Ka...

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r96sk

April 22, 2025

★ 7/10

<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 particularly great. Scott Grimes is the actor that stood out most to me whilst watching. I do like how the kid is written, ...

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