It's weird, but this film has a feel to it much like creature-features of old, most notably the original "The Blob" with Steve McQueen, ie it all takes place in a small-town, rural America, whose citizens are terrorised by an evil force from space. Though this time it is not a mass of goo, it is little razor-teethed fuzzballs (think Furrbies with rabies) who have escaped from a galactic prison, and ended up landing on Earth, and these little Critters are hungry!
The "Krites" (aka Critters) terrorise a family out in rural Kansas, and are pursued by shape-shifting bounty hunters, one with a ferocious mullet, who resemble a travelling comedy duo with leaf-blowers. While bounty hunting the Krites they only succeed for the most part in terrorising the townsfolk...these scenes are bizarre, especially the trigger happy bounty hunter who cant seem to decide on a shape to shift into. But anyway, these fairly inept space hooligans end up teaming up with Scott Grimes, in one of his first roles(great as the kid fighting the Critters with some help from his big sis, Dad and ET's Mum) and suffice it to say they make short work of the Krites with much explosive goodness! They also demonstrate their magic powers when they reconstruct the family home (obliterated in the Krite-battle)...hmmm i wonder if they bothered to do the same with the church and bowling alley they destroyed!
The performances are definitely good for this kind of "B" movie, the scenes of Scott Grimes' character fighting with his big sister will ring true to anyone who has shared that relationship...very real!
This movie is cool, no-brainer fun for a Saturday night. The story is exciting, and though it bears a resemblance to Gremlins you can hardly call this a "rip-off" of that film, and although I love Joe Dante's work, I like this film better than Gremlins anyway. Some great lines too...the bounty hunters' dialogue consists mainly of "We're here for the Krites." and "Where are the Krites?" But the best line...comes from one of the furrballs themselves...
Critter 1: "They have weapons..."
Critter 2: "So what?"
(Critter 2 is then blown off the porch with a shotgun)
Critter 1: "F*ck!"
So, before you browse the new releases section, take a walk through the horror weeklies and grab this one, you could do a lot worse for 4 bucks, and these campy, cheesy, bad, cheap horror flicks of the 70's and 80's walk all over any of the modern day efforts, where, for the most part, cheap thrills have replaced genuine scares. This is good stuff, sink your teeth in!!!
The "Krites" (aka Critters) terrorise a family out in rural Kansas, and are pursued by shape-shifting bounty hunters, one with a ferocious mullet, who resemble a travelling comedy duo with leaf-blowers. While bounty hunting the Krites they only succeed for the most part in terrorising the townsfolk...these scenes are bizarre, especially the trigger happy bounty hunter who cant seem to decide on a shape to shift into. But anyway, these fairly inept space hooligans end up teaming up with Scott Grimes, in one of his first roles(great as the kid fighting the Critters with some help from his big sis, Dad and ET's Mum) and suffice it to say they make short work of the Krites with much explosive goodness! They also demonstrate their magic powers when they reconstruct the family home (obliterated in the Krite-battle)...hmmm i wonder if they bothered to do the same with the church and bowling alley they destroyed!
The performances are definitely good for this kind of "B" movie, the scenes of Scott Grimes' character fighting with his big sister will ring true to anyone who has shared that relationship...very real!
This movie is cool, no-brainer fun for a Saturday night. The story is exciting, and though it bears a resemblance to Gremlins you can hardly call this a "rip-off" of that film, and although I love Joe Dante's work, I like this film better than Gremlins anyway. Some great lines too...the bounty hunters' dialogue consists mainly of "We're here for the Krites." and "Where are the Krites?" But the best line...comes from one of the furrballs themselves...
Critter 1: "They have weapons..."
Critter 2: "So what?"
(Critter 2 is then blown off the porch with a shotgun)
Critter 1: "F*ck!"
So, before you browse the new releases section, take a walk through the horror weeklies and grab this one, you could do a lot worse for 4 bucks, and these campy, cheesy, bad, cheap horror flicks of the 70's and 80's walk all over any of the modern day efforts, where, for the most part, cheap thrills have replaced genuine scares. This is good stuff, sink your teeth in!!!