

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
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.