Critters

Critters (1986)

Timing: 1:26 (86 min)

6.469/10
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Actors and characters

Release date

1986-04-11

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

New Line Cinema, Smart Egg Pictures, Sho Films

Genre

Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Budget

$2 000 000

Revenue

$13 167 232

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Director

Stephen Herek

Actors

Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van der Velde, Don Keith Opper, Lin Shaye, Billy Zane, Ethan Phillips, Terrence Mann
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Scenario

Producer

Rupert Harvey, Robert Shaye

Operator

Tim Suhrstedt

Composer

David Newman

Artist

Audition

Elisabeth Leustig

Editing

Larry Bock
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• Cory Burton (born Corey Gregg Weinberg), who voices the Gremlins, invented their language himself. According to him, it is a mixture of French and Japanese.
• The film was advertised as a response from New Line Cinema to the release of Gremlins (1984), which Joe Dante directed for Warner Bros. However, it should be noted that the script for Critters was written before Gremlins was released. The script was based on a childhood nightmare that future film director Steven Herek once had.
• The characters of Don Keith Opper and Terence Mann are the only ones to appear in all four films of the franchise.
• When the critters destroy everything in the bedroom, one of them discovers and devours a figurine of the alien from Steven Spielberg's film of the same name (1982).