Review of Gremlins (1984) by Steven1981 — 24 Apr 2020

Gremlins is a comedy, horror fantasy film made in 1984, the same year as great films such as Beverly Hills Cop, The Terminator and Ghostbusters were made. Gremlins spawned only one sequel but it was great and even better than this original one in my opinion.

... GREMLINS was made in 1984 as I said by director Joe Dante who also did The Howling. In Gremlins we see Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan, Judge Reinhold, Corey Feldman and many other actors and whatever but Gremlins is a very simple story and it consists of somebody's dad getting this mogwai fireball creature for his son for Christmas and there's three golden rules he must follow.

The main two are never get his new pet wet and keep him away from bright lights and sunlight but being a dopey and clumsy guy Billy (Zach Galligan) gets him wet and this reproduces an army of the little creatures who are cute but later form cocoon's and hatch into bigger and more nasty creatures who wreak havoc on the community and town.

The idea is good and we have great scenes such as the gremlin getting mangled in a food blender or something, we have Gizmo having darts thrown at him from the gremlins, we have one gremlin exploding in a microwave and they even watch Snow White and the Seven dwarfs in cinema.

Also in Gremlins there always seems to be snow on the ground, Christmas lights up, a film filled with lighting and bright colours, some very good and likeable characters and the acting is okay. Overall I'd say it's a great film but I still think Gremlins 2 was better with the electric gremlin, brain gremlin, bat gremlin and spider gremlin.