Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
Practical Effects
Those furry nightmare puppets have more personality than most CGI.
Acting
M. Emmet Walsh plays small-town sheriff like he's solving actual alien invasions.
Direction
Stephen Herek squeezes genuine tension from a toilet gag.
Director
Stephen Herek
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
Montrose Hagins
Organist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Chiodo Brothers designed the Critters after their rejected Killer Klowns prototypes—same chaotic energy, smaller bodies.
New Line Cinema rushed this into production to ride Gremlins' coattails, accidentally creating its own durable midnight-movie franchise.
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