When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
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Gremlins - riiviöt, 그렘린, Gremlins: O Pequeno Monstro
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I love how little shits anyone gave in the 80's. and honestly, more children need to die in movies
All Gizmo ever wanted to do was chill out and watch movies. Gizmo spends basically all of his time in Gremlins being so captured in what was on screen during the various movies he decided to watch. So in a way everyone on this site is Gizmo. I'd wager a good deal of us react the same way to sunlight as well, and that makes Gizmo the most relatable movie character of all time for cinephiles.
We are all Gizmo
Every time Gizmo did literally anything I got super emotionally invested. I squealed with delight whenever he was happy, I shouted "No no no no no no no no" every time he was scared or in pain. I would fucking die for Gizmo you have no idea
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I was going to write a lengthy, misty eyed, nostalgia tainted review about how amazing Gremlins is.
But we all know this, right? We all know it's mischief on film, perfect kiddie horror and so much fun.
So I'll just shut up and leave you with two words:
Dick Miller.
That is all.
95
It doesn't feel like Christmas until you watch Mrs. Deagle being sent flying out of a second-story window via a "malfunctioning" stair lift. Absolute insanity.
Recorded a commentary track for this classic holiday favorite:
does anyone else think it's more than a little f*cked up that the mom literally throws a gremlin into a blender, stabs one in the head, and microwaves one more to death and then her horrible son throws one into the fireplace and they rejoice as it roasts to death?? GREMLINS NEVER ASKED FOR THIS!! like excuse me but if took care of your pet with the super easy instructions that were provided to you this never would've happened and now ur punishing them for it?? this movie is all about white + male entitlement tbh. like this guy just wandering into chinatown and demanding that mogwai as if it's owed to him.. get over it! it's not yours! you…
"Patriotic little fella, ain't he?"
"Careful, Frank. He might tear your arm off."
Not breaking any new ground to call this quintessential Dante, a perfect smirking Looney Tunes subversion of Americana that suggests that the splintering of some vague, idealized-but-never-really-there way of life is basically our own stupid fault. Its internal logic is so elastic; the "rules" barely make sense to begin with, and so the cartoon anarchy seems inevitable from the start, and you just savor the merry-go-round breaking down. What I'd forgotten in the dozen or so years since I last saw this is what a phenomenal analog technical achievement it is. The animatronic work is almost completely seamless and entirely convincing. Somehow it's more amusingly unpleasant as an asshole adult than it was to me as an asshole kid.
now i totally understand why the PG-13 rating was invented after this movie came out.
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Metacritic Metascore: 70
IMDb: 7.3
91/100
Release Date: 08 June 1984
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Budget: $11M
Worldwide Gross: $153.6M
Viewing Platform: Alamo Drafthouse Theater
Total Film Awards: 8
Chinese Boy: ”First of all, keep him out of the light, he hates bright light, especially sunlight, it'll kill him. Second, don't give him any water, not even to drink. But the most important rule, the rule you can never forget, no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs, never feed him after midnight.”
SYNOPSIS: A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Director Joe Dante’s impact on the horror…
