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Joe Dante's black comedy horror film was one of the last PG films before Hollywood realized they needed a new bridge between PG and R. As a direct result of complaints to this films more violent sequences as well as the continuing discourse following Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins producer Stephen Spielberg suggested the rating system's alteration which came a mere 2 months after the film's release.
With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town — until the gremlins take over. A father returns from Chinatown with an unusual pet, a Mogwai — a gift for his son. The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from water, bright lights and, most importantly, never, never feed him after midnight. But the rules are inadvertently broken, and the consequences multiply at an alarming rate.
Reviews
"Gremlins was hailed as another E.T. It’s not. It’s in a different tradition. At the level of Serious Film Criticism, it’s a meditation on the myths in our movies: Christmas, families, monsters, retail stores, movies, boogeymen. At the level of Pop Movie-going, it’s a sophisticated, witty B movie, in which the monsters are devouring not only the defenseless town, but decades of defenseless clichés." – Roger Ebert
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