They Bite!
Furry little space monsters, with sharp teeth and a proclivity for devouring any and all life, escape a stellar prison, commandeer a ship (that'll be of the space variety), crash land on Earth, hide out in a barn and scare all the nice folks there abouts with their rolling into balls and firing spikes at people...then eatin' them. On their trail are a pair of inter-galactic bounty hunters, they morph their appearance to blend in and one even choses to mimic a Playboy model...shame.
This first of the four films, filmed in 1986, starred Dee Wallace-Stone (E.T. & Alligator 2: The Mutation) and a bit part for Billy Zane, the second-written by director David Twohy (Pitch Black & The Chronicles of Riddick), with Leonardo Di-Caprio (yep HIM) in the third, Critters 3: You Are What They Eat and Angela Bassett in Critters 4: Critters in Space.
Budget: $2,000,000
Gross: $13,167,232
Seems being involved with the Critters franchise is good for your career.
I've, uh...seen them all :-(
I was young OK! Impressionable! I blame my brother!..The first one's fun though.
Fun Fact: Scriptwriting on this film actually started prior to that of Gremlins. Due to re-writes, the film was delayed and followed Gremlins by two years.
Furry little space monsters, with sharp teeth and a proclivity for devouring any and all life, escape a stellar prison, commandeer a ship (that'll be of the space variety), crash land on Earth, hide out in a barn and scare all the nice folks there abouts with their rolling into balls and firing spikes at people...then eatin' them. On their trail are a pair of inter-galactic bounty hunters, they morph their appearance to blend in and one even choses to mimic a Playboy model...shame.
This first of the four films, filmed in 1986, starred Dee Wallace-Stone (E.T. & Alligator 2: The Mutation) and a bit part for Billy Zane, the second-written by director David Twohy (Pitch Black & The Chronicles of Riddick), with Leonardo Di-Caprio (yep HIM) in the third, Critters 3: You Are What They Eat and Angela Bassett in Critters 4: Critters in Space.
Budget: $2,000,000
Gross: $13,167,232
Seems being involved with the Critters franchise is good for your career.
I've, uh...seen them all :-(
I was young OK! Impressionable! I blame my brother!..The first one's fun though.
Fun Fact: Scriptwriting on this film actually started prior to that of Gremlins. Due to re-writes, the film was delayed and followed Gremlins by two years.
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