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Critters
Directed by
Stephen Herek
PG-13
1986
86m
Comedy
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Horror
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6.1
52%
45%
6.5
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A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
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Cast of Critters
Dee Wallace
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
Lin Shaye
Sally
Billy Zane
Steve Elliot
Ethan Phillips
Jeff Barnes
Terrence Mann
Johnny Steele
Jeremy Lawrence
Preacher
Michael Lee Gogin
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)
Critters Ratings & Reviews
Variety
Variety Staff
Critters resemble oversize hairballs and roll like tumbleweeds when prodded into action, the perfect menace for this irritatingly insipid and lightweight film which unfolds with plodding predictability and leaves few cliches unturned.
San Francisco Examiner
Michael Heaton
Once all the cards are on the table, the movie quickly becomes little more than a human meat-fest.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Tom Long
Don't expect much from Critters and you might find yourself pleasantly surprised. No big deal, but some nice chuckles.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Candice Russell
Critters is a low-budget suspense film with fairly successful special effects and a story that keeps you on tenterhooks.
Sioux City Journal
Bruce R. Miller
The film has some nifty special effects (particularly for a low-budget feature) and a healthy chunk of comedy and scares. Of the vast lot of rip-offs, Stephen Herek's production rates quite highly.
Philadelphia Daily News
Joe Baltake
If Gremlins worked, it's because their killers seemed real. But it's hard to get worked up over hairy tittle toys.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Indigestible, if not toxic, entertainment.
New York Daily News
Jay Maeder
So it's mostly derivative. So it ends just as predictably as it possibly could. We don't care. We like this movie a bunch.
United Press International
Joe Bob Briggs
Four stars. Best of '86. Joe Bob says check it out.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
Gremlins wasn't my kind of movie, and neither is Critters. The mixture of sitcom and gore is too cruel for my tastes.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
There are only so many ways to play out this scenario, and we've seen them before
Los Angeles Times
Michael Wilmington
The movie has its moments, and it may even delight some sleaze-loving audiences largely because the cast is good, and first-time director Stephen Herek gives it some pizazz and pace.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perry Stewart
Poor Dee Wallace. Werewolves bit her in The Howling. A rabid St. Bernard mauled her in Cujo. Now she's set upon by sharp-teethed extraterrestrial aliens with none of the charm of her friend, E.T.
Detroit Free Press
Catharine Rambeau
Sure, it's a Gremlins derivative. But this nifty little alien invasion movie is a thoroughly engaging, simultaneously funny and frightening pop horror romp with much of the same trash culture verve as The Howling.
Chicago Tribune
Rick Kogan
What a pleasant sense of humor Critters has and it is this attribute that is most responsible for making this playfully scary film more satisfying than most of the other items on the monsters-from-outer-space-come-to-Earth-and-try-to-kill-everybody menu.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Critters is perky fun -- it's sci-fi ripoff heaven, and it's going to be a honey of a midnight cult movie.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Even if it does play it safe, the movie is well-played and unexpectedly entertaining. Especially good are Scott Grimes as the boy-hero and Terrence Mann as the alien on MTV's wavelength.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Critters as a franchise has nothing on the Nightmare on Elm Street films, but it's proven popular enough with Gen X-ers who forward "You know you're a child of the '80s if..." emails to all their office mates.
New York Times
Caryn James
Even the nastiest creatures can be fun if their creators have a little panache; who minds being scared by the vicious mogwais in Gremlins? Critters just doesn't make the audience laugh or jump often enough.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What makes Critters more than a ripoff are its humor and its sense of style. This is a movie made by people who must have had fun making it.
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