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Critters [1986]
Country
of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1986
Running Times: 82 mins [UK; USA] 85
mins [Sweden]
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: New Line Cinema / Sho Films / Smart
Egg Pictures
Executive Producer: Robert Shaye
Producer: Rupert Harvey, Barry Opper
Associate Producer: Sara Risher
Production Manager: Daryl Kass
SCRIPT
Script: Domonic Muir, Stephen Herek, Don Keith Opper
Story: Domonic Muir
DIRECTION
Director: Stephen Herek
1st Assistant Director: Leon Dudevoir
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Tim Suhrstedt
Grip: Dave 'Foots' Footman
Colour: DeLuxe
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Editor: Larry Bock
MUSIC
Music: David Newman
Songs Performed By: Mann [Power of the Night]; White
Chicks [Leather]; The Mix [Still You Turn Me On]
SOUND
Sound Effects / Re-Recording Mixer: Matthew Iadarola
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Hilary Wright
SPECIAL MAKE UP
EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: R. Christopher Biggs, Bill
Foertsch
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Critter Effects: Chiodo Brothers Productions
[Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo, Stephen Chiodo]
Miniatures: Ron Thornton
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Gregg Fonseca
Art Directors: Philip Dean Foreman, Isabel Bau Madden
Set Decorator: Anne Huntley
STUNTS
Stunts: Mike Cassidy, Vince Deadrick Jr, John Escobar,
Bill McIntosh, Bobby Porter
CASTING
Casting: Elisabeth Leustig
CAST
Dee Wallace-Stone [Helen Brown]
M. Emmet Walsh [Harv]
Billy Green Bush [Jay Brown]
Scott Grimes [Brad Brown]
Nadine Van der Velde [April Brown]
Don Keith Opper [Charlie McFadden]
Billy Zane [Steve Elliot]
Ethan Phillips [Jeff Barnes]
Terrence Mann [Johnny Steele / Ug]
Jeremy Lawrence [preacher]
Lin Shaye [Sally]
Michael Lee Gogin [Warden Zanti]
Art Frankel [Ed]
Douglas Koth [bowler 1]
Montrose Hagins [organist]
Roger Hampton [Jake]
Chuck Lindsley [pool player 1]
David Stenstrom [pool player 2]
Adele Malis-Morey [woman 1
Corey Burton [critter voices]
SUMMARY
Furry little monsters
from space escape captivity and land on Earth to
terrorise a small, mid-western town, eating everything in
their path. They are pursued by a pair of bounty hunters
and angry locals who decide that enough is enough and
it's time to fight back.
CAPSULE REVIEW
As Gremlins
[1984] begat the awful Ghoulies [1985],
so Ghoulies begat this silly but fun
space invaders piece about hairy aliens [sort of Tribbles
with teeth] wreaking low budget mayhem. It's all very
dumb and predictable, but there's a charm to it that's
hard to resist. It lead to a series of increasingly
annoying sequels.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: RCA/Columbia
USA
Theatrical Distributor: New Line Cinema
Video Distributors: Columbia TriStar; New Line Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Columbia TriStar
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Finland
Rating: K-16
Germany
Rating: 16
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: PG-13
TIMELINE
1986
April
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release
September
10: France - theatrical release
26: Sweden - theatrical release
1987
September
25: Finland - theatrical release
1988
February
Day Unknown: Portugal - shown at the Fantasporto Film
Festival
2001
May
18: UK - television broadcast [on Sky One]
POSTER TAGS
When you've got
Critters... you need all the help you can get.
They bite!
The battle began in
another galaxy. It's about to end in the Brown's
backyard.
AWARDS
1988
Fantasporto
Best Film [Stephen Herek] - nominated
Young Artist
Awards
Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor Starring in a
Feature Film - Comedy or Drama [Scott Grimes] - nominated
LINKS
SEQUELS
Critters 2: The Main Course [1988]
Critters 4 [1991]
Critters 3 [1991]
SEE ALSO
Ghostbusters [1984]
Gremlins [1984]
Lilo and Stitch [2002]
The Outer Limits [1963]
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
A Nightmare on
Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors [1987]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Films and Filming July
1987 p.13
credits, review
Première [France]
September 1986 p.15
review [by Jean-Philippe Guerand]
Video World August 1987
p.26
review
BOOKS
Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.178
credits, review
Hoffman's Guide to Science
Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 pp.83-84
credits, review
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits [incomplete - opening titles only] KEYWORDS
aliens; bounty hunters;
human duplication
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