Critters

Comedy horror with entertainment, funny scenes and deft satiric edge. A gang of furry, razor-toothed allies getting away from its prison ship to Earth with their bounty hunters right behind them. The not-so-loveable critters make it to a small town in Grovers Bend, Kansas, where they start attacking anything that moves.

Along the way they meet the Brown family who, unknowingly, becomes the main dish on their menu. However, the Browns will have the unexpected help of a couple of intergalactic hunters. The original tasty entree! 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. They eat so fast, you don’t have time to scream.

Director Stephen Hopkins presents a quite acceptable and violent but far more campy vision, paying myriad surreal tribute to movies as well as soundtracks of the 80s with great sense of amusement. Not just a thrill-kill adventure, but a sarcastic other-worldly thrill-kill epic. Naturally, there’re lots of mayhem, frolics, antics and jokes, this all happening at the town and the countryside, while the result is a gang of nasty creatures who decide to tear up the houses, causing wreak havoc.

The story is nothing more than an amusing excuse to string together gags, silly sketches, ironical craziness and fast-paced set pieces. Hopkins is surely right to let his visual imagination run along with likeable comedy, irony and inventive enough.

Inspired by ‘Gremlins’, a dangerous bug film that enjoyed a certain popularity among fans of the genre, it has had three sequels. The ‘Critters quartet’ is made up of: ¨Critters I¨ with Dee Wallace, Billy Green Bush, Don Opper, M. Emmet Walsh, Scott Grimes, Billy Zane, Lin Shaye. ¨Critters 2¨ by Mick Garris with Scott Grimes, Don Opper, Barry Corbin, Terrence Mann. ¨Critters 3¨ by Kristine Peterson with Frances Bay, Leonardo DiCaprio, Don Opper, Aimee Brooks. ¨Critters 4¨ by Rupert Harvey with Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Don Opper, Terrence Mann.

This watchable enough motion picture was professionally directed by Stephen Hopkins displaying the characteristic surrealist humor and sense of style. Graduated from the film school at the University of Texas, Herek went to live in Los Angeles to join the editing department at Roger Corman Productions, before starting out as a director.

His debut as a director was with Critters, and he has been known for making films of all colors and flavors, such as: Lost in space , Predator 2 , Under suspicion , Night on El Street 5 : The Dream Child , The Ghost and the Darkness , Blown away, Judgment Night , Race, and he uses to work with his longtime collaborator Peter Levy to be the film’s cinematographer. Rating: 6/10. The film will appeal to science fiction lovers with drops of humor and terror.