Critters

Name: Critters
Released: 1986-4-11
Cast: Dee Wallace Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde

Critters

PG-13
1h 26m
1986

58%

age 13+

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The battle began in a galaxy far away . . . but it's about to end in the Brown's backyard. It's man against a hoard of small, furry, voracious aliens--the Critters! When a band of hardened extraterrestrial criminals escape from a maximum-security prison asteroid and commanders an escape craft, the flesh-eating ETs unwittingly head to a small, unsuspecting planet--Earth--pursued by a pair of awesomely powerful, if unbelievably inept, bounty hunters. Now, it's the humans against the very hungry, man-eating aliens in a battle for the future of mankind!

Director:

Stephen Herek

Producer:

Writer:

Cast:

Dee Wallace Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde, Don Opper, Billy Zane, Ethan Phillips, Terrence Mann, Jeremy Lawrence, Lin Shaye, Michael Lee Gogin, Art Frankel

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

58%

Reviews

Cinelipsis

Federico Furzan

Even though it's campy, Critters is a mixture of three genres that just works. [Full review in Spa...

The script's infectious sense of humor and a highly appealing performance by Grimes as the teenage...

One of the most enjoyable films of the summer, Critters harks back to the low-budget science ficti...

Low-budget '80s horror-comedy has violence, cursing.

June 25, 2017

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Douglas Pratt

A variety of modest but well-executed special effects enlivens the otherwise run-of-the-mill effor...

December 22, 2018

Common Sense Media

age 13+

Common Sense Says

Low-budget '80s horror-comedy has violence, cursing.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the 1986 Critters is a low-budget knock-off of producer Steven Spielberg's 1984 hit horror comedy, Gremlins. Be aware that the violence and profanity of Gremlins made it one of the movies that prompted the creation of the PG-13 MPAA rating, and the same factors make Critters iffy for sensitive younger viewers. Voracious, man-eating space creatures take large bites out of people, exposing lots of flesh and blood. Alien bounty hunters blow things up, and there is some clothed making out and profanity, including "f--k," "s--t," and "goddamn." An alcoholic who claimed to be receiving signals from outer space is vindicated by the arrival of two large spaceships.