Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday and Frances Lee McCain, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of the Mogwai character, Gizmo. It draws on legends of folkloric mischievous creatures that cause malfunctions—"gremlins"—in the British Royal Air Force going back ...
Gremlins: Directed by Joe Dante. With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Louie. After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
“Gremlins” is a confrontation between Norman Rockwell’s vision of Christmas and Hollywood’s vision of the blood-sucking monkeys of voodoo island. It’s fun. On the one hand, you have an idyllic American small town, with Burger Kings and Sears stores clustered merrily around the village square, and on the other hand you have a plague of reprehensible little beasties who behave like a ...
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While prepping Gremlins, Dante would also shoot a very well-received segment (It's a Good Life) for Twilight Zone The Movie (1983). With Dante’s wickedly playful sense of humor and imaginative, inventive puppet effects by Chris Walas, Gremlins is a wildly unique spectacle of hilarious mischief!
Gremlins is a 1984 horror comedy film directed by Joe Dante and horror franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. On Christmas, a teenager discovers a small, seemingly harmless, creature that comes with special instructions to never be broken.