Critters (film)
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| Critters | |
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| Directed by | Stephen Herek |
| Produced by | Robert Shaye |
| Written by | Stephen Herek Don Keith Opper |
| Starring | Scott Grimes Dee Wallace-Stone M. Emmet Walsh Don Keith Opper Billy Green Bush Terrence Mann Ethan Phillips Billy Zane |
| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Tim Surhstedt |
| Editing by | Larry Bock |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | April 11, 1986 |
| Running time | 82 min. |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Followed by | The Main Course Critters 3 Critters 4 |
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| IMDb profile | |
Critters is a 1986 horror film starring Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush and Scott Grimes. It was directed by Stephen Herek and written by Don Keith Opper and Stephen Herek. It is part of the Critters series.
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[edit] Plot
The film begins on a prison satellite in outer space. A group of unseen creatures known as the Crites are set to be transported to another station. However, when the seemingly intelligent creatures hijack a ship away from the station, the leader of the station hires two transforming bounty hunters to hunt the Crites down.
Meanwhile on the Earth we are introduced to the Brown family, living in a rural Kansas town. the father, Jay, the mother, Helen, the teenage daughter, April, and the trouble-making son, Brad. Brad often hangs out with dopey mechanic Charlie. When he and Brad are outside, Charlie accidentally hits Brad's sister with a slingshot pellet and Brad, not wanting his friend to get into trouble, passes the blame himself. He is grounded, but sneaks out onto the roof and takes a seat in a tree. In the tree, he sees a comet streaking the sky that fall somewhere in the distance, making a loud crash, and prompting Jay to run outside, where he is surprised, but not necessarily angry to find his son in the tree, who says he was blown outside by the explosion. Jay, obviously not believing this, takes his son along with him to find the comet.
At the crash site, we see that the comet was in actual the Critters' ship. Subtitled, we see that the creatures want food. Shortly afterward the Critters make their way towards the farm and manage to cut the power. Jay, Helen, and Brad go to the circuit breaker where Jay is attacked by one of the Critters. The family manages to evade the Critters and get into the house. Meanwhile the two bounty hunters, already landed on the Earth, travel from pillar to post in the town looking for the Critters. When Brad goes for help he manages to bring the bounty hunters to his home. After their arrival the Critters flee back to their ship but manage to kidnap April. Brad rescues April from the ship and he and Charlie manage to get a firecracker in through the ship's door, shortly after the Critters blast the Brown's house into pieces their ship explodes. The following morning the bounty hunters leave to their ship after giving Brad a strange remote-like device. The bounty hunters manage to repair the Brown's house in less than a minute with the device and fly off, afterward the camera pans toward the barn where green eggs can be visible implying there will be a sequel.
[edit] Cast
- Scott Grimes as Brad Brown
- Dee Wallace-Stone as Helen Brown
- M. Emmet Walsh as Harv
- Don Keith Opper as Charlie McFadden
- Billy Green Bush as Jay Brown
- Terrence Mann as Johnny Steele / Ug
- Ethan Phillips as Jeff Barnes
- Billy Zane as Steve Elliot
- Lin Shaye as Sally
- Corey Burton as the voices of the Crites
[edit] Trivia
- Don Keith Opper, who plays Charlie in the film, is the brother of Critters producer Barry Opper.
- A poster for the film appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was also distributed by New Line Cinema.
[edit] External links
- Critters at the Internet Movie Database
- Critters at Allmovie
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