Critters (film)

Critters is a 1986 science fiction film comedy horror film starring Dee WallaceStone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush and Scott Grimes. It was the directorial debut of Stephen Herek who cowrote it alongside Domonic Muir story and Don Keith Opper additional scenes. It is the first film in the Critters series. Although widely believed to have been inspired by the success of Joe Dantes 1984 film Gremlins, Herek has refuted this in interviews, pointing out that the script was written by Muir long before Gremlins went into production and subsequently underwent rewrites to reduce the apparent similarities between the two films.

On Earth, the Brown family are living in a rural Kansas town the father, Jay the mother, Helen the teenage daughter, April and the son, Brad, who keeps company with mechanic Charlie McFadden. When he and Brad are outside,shooting off homemade fireworks and playing with Brads slingshot. Charlie accidentally hits Brads sister with a slingshot pellet, and Brad assumes the blame on himself to protect his friend one of his apparent only friends thought the movie Charlie. When later on the roof, Brad mistakes the Crites spaceship for a meteorite. The ship thereafter lands, causing the ground to shake. Investigating, Jay discovers Brad in a tree, and takes him into the investigation.Devouring the majority of a steer, the Crites are interrupted by Jay and Brads discovery of the carcass. The Crites thereafter consume a police officer, and later approach the farm and cut its electrical connection. To explore this, Jay, Helen, and Brad go to the circuit breaker where Jay is attacked by one of the Critters. The Critters reveal they can shoot small metal darts laced with a fast acting poison that tranquilizes their targets, rendering the limb or the body temporarily numb or useless, and hit Jay in the right leg with one as his family struggles to pull him out of the basement. In the barn, April is attempting sexual intercourse with her boyfriend Steve when he is killed by the Crites, which Brad then kills one of them by tricking it into eating a cherry bomb firecracker he had in his pocket. Meanwhile the two bounty hunters search the town, causing a ruckus at the town church, and then the local bowling alley and are later recruited by Brad. The Critters return to their ship when the bounty hunters arrive, with their leader having kidnapped April, and start the ship up to fly away and escape the bounty hunters as well as firing the ships weapons to destroy the familys house out of pure malice only then do they realize that Charlie and Brad were able to get April out of the ship

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