Critters Review

Review of Critters (1986) by screenqueeen: 👍 3.5/5

HE HAS RISEN: CARPEASTER 1.0 DAY 2 OF 13

This is about as fun as you can get for a GREMLINS style creature feature knockoff except for the fact that these guys didn't just rip off another movie, they created a basis for another GREMLINS ripoff to rip off these guys in HOBGOBLINS, letterboxd's lowest-rated 80s film that I love with all of my heart and will defend until the day I die.

But seriously there's not a whole lot you can hate on here (even though some of the small town stuff is underwhelmingly middling compared to the scope of the rest of the movie) as there's something for everyone: alien bounty hunters who can assume the face/form of anyone they see, a ginger kid with a homemade explosives fetish (a real FIREcracker if you ask me), M Emmett Walsh, Dee Wallace, Lyn Shae, a too-brief role for Ethan Phillips, and the reason why anyone would watch a movie called CRITTERS: alien fugitives escaping from a prison inside an asteroid to a planet that has enough food for them to eat until they burst or die or however that works. They're pretty much tribbles with killer personalities and they're the best thing in this movie.

Something about the feeling this gives off about living in the middle of nowhere with little creatures reminds me of LEPRECHAUN. It's just missing a Mark Holten type (with or without overalls).