Horror Nerd and Art House Enthusiast
If my rating system is to be believed, I might have terrible taste.
While far from perfect, this movie does one thing so undeniably, so completely, that it earns its four star rating easily: THIS MOVIE CLOWNS. Seriously, no other movie clowns like this movie clowns. Lesser movies would slowly tease a clown here and there leading up to a 2nd or 3rd Act reveal of a few clowns. Not this movie. This movie is clowns from start to finish. Big clowns. Small clowns. Alien tentacle clowns. Bimbo clowns. You name it, they clownin’. So, in summation, this is the clowniest clown movie to ever clown. 🤡
Probably the best of the “Gremlins rip-offs” that would plague the mid-to-late 80s and bring hundreds of jobs to the rubber puppet industry. What separates Critters is its bonkers story of renegade foul-mouth aliens pursued by two alien bounty hunters, one of which looks JUST like the singer of “Power of the Night”. What are the odds? Anyway this whole hullabaloo takes place on a quaint little “Kansas” farm (gotta love those beautiful California hills) with everyone’s mom from the…