Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Scott Grimes

Carnivorous aliens who feed on human flesh invade Earth. Starring Dee Wallace-Stone and M. Emmet Walsh. Year: 1986 Director: Stephen Herek Starring: Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush

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PG-13, 86 min.

Directed by: Stephen Herek

Release Date: April 11, 1986

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DVD Release Date: August 5, 2003

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  • August 23, 2009
    I could barely stay awake during this movie, it was so underwhelming. I liked the idea of anchoring an alien invasion movie on a family in an isolated farm house, and I liked the Critters character design. I hated however the Critters' puppetry, and the actual execution of the fa...( read more)mily idea: they were all horrible and annoying human beings, the kind you hope get killed in movies like this. I don't know. Perhaps I was expecting too much. It was my understanding that hunting Critters comes with one caveat: you can't kill them because, since thier planet was destroyed, they are an endangered species. I was disappointed that this didn't happen in the film, but I did like the bit about them being escapees from an interstellar prison transport ship. But there was very very little else I liked about this movie. Plaaaaah.
  • April 10, 2009
    Classic 80s sci-fi horror comedy where intergalactic bounty hunters (or pest control) track down a bunch carnivorous aliens that have landed on Earth.
  • September 7, 2008
    A very average creature comedy horror. This is probably the best of the series but not a patch on Gremlins.
  • March 1, 2008
    One of my best horror films because I love aliens and this is so funny simular to Gremlins but not boringly simular.
  • December 2, 2007
    say what?
  • October 20, 2009
    Not very original, or even well acted, but something about the chemistry in this movie makes me like it! Great B movie entertainment.
  • October 12, 2009
    Some nice effects can't help this carnivorous alien creatures from space nonsense from being nonsense. Fuck knows how it spawned 72 sequels.
  • September 19, 2009
    If Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hated it, it must be shit.
  • September 14, 2009
    Entertaining, and the only good one in the series. XD

    37/100
  • August 7, 2009
    Evil alien furballs steals a spaceship and goes to planet earth. The terrorize a farmer family, tear down a church and a bowling alley and eats Billy Zane. Only strong family values can stop this lot

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