Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!
Practical Effects
Puppet creatures that look gloriously cheap
Acting
Harvey Korman playing his own evil twin
Direction
Tina Hirsch's only feature film — cult curiosity
Director
Tina Hirsch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roger Corman produced this as a direct response to Gremlins' success, rushing it to theaters in under a year.
This bombed so hard it killed Munchies 2 and 3, which were already in pre-production. The surviving puppets allegedly haunt a storage unit in Reseda.
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