Critters
Directed by Stephen Herek
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
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- SoCalPete_July 18, 2025Critters (1986) is a gleefully chaotic sci-fi horror-comedy that capitalized on the Gremlins (1984) craze, delivering its own breed of snarling, spiky aliens to a small-town farm and spawning a cult franchise that led to four sequels: Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Critters 3 (1991), Critters 4 (1992), and the TV movie Critters Attack! (2019). Directed by Stephen Herek and written by Herek, Dominic Muir, and Don Keith Opper, the film stars Dee Wallace as Helen Brown, a tough mom fending off the toothy critters with grit. A great cast of character actors, including—Scott Grimes as spunky teen Brad, Don Keith Opper as lovable dimwit Charlie, Billy Green Bush as the gruff dad, and Terrence Mann and Lin Shaye as a quirky preacher and nosy neighbor—infuses this B-movie with 80s charm, making it a wildly fun romp that kicked off a lovingly fun and enduring series!
Critters Trivia
Critters was released on April 11, 1986.
Critters was directed by Stephen Herek.
Critters has a runtime of 86m.
Critters was produced by Rupert Harvey.
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
The key characters in Critters are Helen Brown (Dee Wallace), Harv (M. Emmet Walsh), Jay Brown (Billy Green Bush).
Critters is rated PG-13.
Critters is a Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction film.
Critters has an audience rating of 4.5 out of 10.
Critters had a budget of $2M.
Critters has made $13.2M at the box office.