Critters
Critters
Directed By: Stephen Herek
Release Date: 1986
Source: Retail DVD
Synopsis: Hungry tumbleweed escape prisoner aliens with razor teeth from space fly to earth and terrorize a small town. However alien bounty hunters are hot on their trail, can they track down Critters before the town has been eaten? Watch as the blood flies and the bounty hunters leave no building unscathed as they lay waste to the town trying to kill off every one of the Critters.
Drive-In Totals: Outstanding Slime-Spewing, 1 Breast, 2 Dead Bodies, 4 Mutilated Bodies, 8 Dead Critters, One Motor-Vehicle Chase, with 2 Crashes, 3 Tumbleweed Chases, 3 Gallons Blood, Stomach-Eating, Pitchfork-Chewing, Gross-Out Mush-Face Alien Transformation Into A Mick Jagger Lookalike, Explicit Cow Guts, Also Known As Bovine Fu, Garbage-Disposal Symbolism, Finger Rolls, Extra Point For Gratuitous Toy E.T. Eaten By A Critter, Gratuitous Eighties Song Called “Power Of The Night”, Gratuitous Methodist Church Destruction, Shotgun Fu, Toilet Fu, Aerosol Can And A Lighted Match Fu. Four Stars, Joe Bob says CHECK IT OUT!
Joe Bob Briggs Quote: You know what makes these outer space aliens truly annoying? They land on bowling league night! Of course that’s Billy Zane as the dork from New York; making out with the horny little family pork chop Nadine Van Der Velde. Nice ponytail there on Billy, this was his second flick after a small part in Back the Future; several years before he plucked his eyebrows and played the mean fiancee in Titanic. Critters is one of those movies that set off a couple of careers it was the first thing Stephen Herek wrote and directed, and he has gone on to be pretty major. He did Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Holy Man and one of our favorites around here Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Texas boy, went to UT to play baseball, didn’t make the traveling squad and so he decided to be a filmmaker. But to get into the senior filmmaking class you had to write a script and do a budget on it and he didn’t make the cut there either. So basically he was a big loser; till he graduated and went to Hollywood and proved em all wrong with Critters!
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Low resolution, bad audio whine and hum.
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