Critters
Critters
Director:
Stephen Herek
Tagline:
« The original tasty entree! »
Actors:
Helen Brown
Harv
Jay Brown
Brad Brown
April Brown
Charlie McFadden
Steve Elliot
Jeff Barnes
Johnny Steele
Preacher
Rating:
(42’616 votes)
(42’616 votes)
Writers:
story, screenplay
screenplay
additional scenes written by
Country:
United States
Goofs:
continuity:
Helen Brown drops a plate she is cleaning, and it smashes on the floor. She runs to the window to look outside, and when she steps back, part of the smashed plate is on the counter.
continuity:
When the Browns decide to hit the road, the front door locks behind them. Later, when Brad reopens the door for everyone, he unlocks different locks.
continuity:
Lee breaks off the patrol car’s gear shift when first trying to learn to operate it. But, we later see them shifting the car into park and drive.
revealing mistake:
When Ug transforms into Johnny Steele, you can see that when Ug reaches over to insert the «Earth Disc» prior to the transformation sequence that he is in human form already.
revealing mistake:
When Lee transforms into Reverend Miller, Jeremy Lawrence is obviously replaced by another actor at the podium.
revealing mistake:
At the end of the film when the sheriff drives the Browns back to the ruins of their farm, six people are seen riding in his car, three in the front seat and three in the back seat: the sheriff, the Browns, and presumably Charlie. But when everyone gets out of the car, Charlie is nowhere to be seen. This is explained in Critters 2 where it’s revealed that Charlie left with the bounty hunters.
error in geography:
The image of Earth showing the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea is a mirror image.
Plots:
A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
A Kansas farm is attacked by a hoard of hungry flesh-eating monsters from outer-space with razor sharp teeth and a witty attitude! The family who inhabit the farm must seek the help of a local drunk and his critter-fighting bounty hunting pals before its too late…
Related movies:
Featured in:
Stripper/Critters/Violets Are Blue…/Police Academy 3 (Reviewed; clips are shown.)
,
Peggy Sue Got Married/That's Life/Crocodile Dundee/The Name of the Rose (Ebert’s Video Pick of the Week.)
,
Pesadilla en Elm Street 3: Los guerreros del sueño (One the characters watches it on television.)
Followed by:
Critters 2
,
Critters 3
,
Critters 4
Official websites:
Abandomoviez.net,
Actors Compendium,
CinemaClock.com – info, user reviews, movie showtimes,
Das DGF-Magazin – Article (2014/10/22),
Gravedigger's Local 16,
Horror Movie Talk – Horror Movie Podcast,
IMCDb.org: cars, bikes, trucks and other vehicles seen in this production,
MUBI: The global community for film lovers
Tags: Terror