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Gremlins film image; young man looking over his shoulder at the small critter in his backpack

Gremlins

40th Anniversary

Image: © 1984 WBEI

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Youth tickets available for $10!

The perfect last minute Xmas gift: give your special someone a cute ball of fur and don’t worry about where it came from. Just don’t put it under bright lights, don’t get it wet, and whatever you do, please, please don’t feed it after midnight…

Gremlins
began life as a horror movie but mutated into a big budget family entertainment – somehow retaining its genuinely vicious teeth. One of the most astringent, least sentimental directors around, Joe Dante fashioned it as an anti-Christmas film, inserting mischievous riffs on such seasonal classics as It’s a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz and Phil Spector’s Christmas Album, trashing parochial small town Americana, consumerism, greed, and in a particularly delicious conceit holding up his rampaging signifiers as a mirror image to the ravenous, popcorn-belching movie hordes.

Director

Joe Dante

Cast

Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman, Dick Miller, Hoyt Axton, Key Luke

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

1984

Language

English

Content Warning

Violence, coarse language

PG

Open to youth!

110 min

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Credits

Screenwriter

Chris Columbus

Cinematography

John Hora

Editor

Tina Hirsch

Original Music

Jerry Goldsmith

Production Design

James H. Spencer

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