First time watching GREMLINS (and I love Gizmo!!!)
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Let’s try this again! This was blocked globally shortly after posting it earlier today, so hopefully this edit sticks! If you had the chance to watch this when it was up earlier, help me out by liking this video and commenting your favorite fun facts about this movie! Happy holidays everyone!!
Thank you, Addie!💋❤️💖
I wanted to watch this video the first time you posted it
It got pulled before I could watch it, so will save for later and watch tomorrow
Merry Christmas. 🎄🥰💕
I still love this movie! 🎉😂
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Gizmo was pushing the size limit for a animatronic puppet at the time, and the puppeteers hated working the damn thing. Which is why Gizmo gets tortured so much here and in Gremlins 2.
Mogwai is Cantonese for monster, evil spirit, devil, or demon.
Gremlin is an imaginary creature that is mischievous.
The writers combined the two ideas and made the final form somewhat deadly… cuz that’s fun for Christmas!
You should definitely check out Gremlins 2. It's great. It's much more campy and silly while not being as much of a horror movie
And very self-aware
I don't remember who said it, but one reviewer said Gremlins 2 was one of the best satires about 80s Yuppie materialism ever made.
The sequel is fucking bananas in the best way.
Gremlins II is actually genius in its presentation; plus with Clamp Tower & the “Smart Building” it’s actually pretty prophetic XD
And the best part? You don't need to wait 'til next Christmastime to watch it, it's ideal any time of year.
Addie: "How could I ever think this is a scary movie?"
Joe Dante 40 years ago: *evil smile*
*Spielberg wrapping his arm around Dante, smiling too.*
0:57 "It's rated PG..."
>It's '80s PG. PG in the '80s was awesome.
Mainly because pg-13 wasn’t a thing until after this movie and Temple of Doom.
The sweet Mom going brutal in the kitchen is everything.
She is literally on my list of movie badasses. Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, and Billy's mom.
Lynn Peltzer, Slayer of Gremlins.
@@0okamino I don’t have the dexterity to do it myself, but I always wanted to see some fanart of her dressed as the Gremlin Butcher-bloody smock, knives at her waist, wall swords criss-crossed on her back, lit cigarette w/precariously dangling ash (another behind her ear), a can of RAID in her right hand, and a mesh sack of gremlin skulls in her left.
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Perhaps I’ve said too much.😐
I love Gremlins! The santa in the chimney is such a dark segment, and Billy's mom is an absolute badass! Gremlins 2 is good and worth a watch too. Great reaction Addie 👍
That story was so jarring, out of place 😂
The way the mom takes care of the gremlins is amazing. i never found this movie scary, even as a kid. i found it hilarious
"Oh, how could I ever think this was a scary movie!" Famous last words...
We were all thinking-"wait for it...wait for it..."🤣😂
@@wiccalady9948 FACTS! LMAO!
TRULY
Yep. I'm sitting back, as someone who was at exactly the right age when the film came out to be traumatized by it, think "Oh, just you wait, friend. Just you wait."
Still, love this movie.
Did you know the orig script writer of this movie feared mice ? He said he would keep his hands under the covers because he was scared that mice would bite them off.
The music score was composed by the late, great Jerry Goldsmith, and it's one of his best (among a plethora of great scores). It's one of those cases where he was allowed to let loose. He was one the very few people who understood that music is *the* most important feature to deliver an emotional response in a movie, and then could deliver also the best emotion the movie needs, even for subtle things. There are a few videos here on youtube where orchestras perform the main theme (The Gremlin Rag, mostly the end credits version from Gremlins 2, because that is actually arranged for a large orchestra, while the version recorded for this movie features synthesizers heavily), and they have one thing in common: The musicians go absolutely wild for the fun performing it!
Also, watch Gremlins 2.
Movies back then weren't projected quite as brightly in theaters as they are today, which might explain why it wasn't too bright for the gremlins.
"I always thought it's a scary movie, but... it's rated PG."
LOL! That was soooo cute...
The second one might be even better. Definitely check it out too!!
The second one is possibly the most amazingly crazy self-parody of all time. Looking back, it’s astonishing that it actually got made and released.
@@gerstelb The Key and Peele sketch about the Gremlins 2 pitch meeting does a great job calling out the absurdity of it all.
"We kinda lucked out with Gizmo! Gizmo is so well-behaved!"
My parents have an adorable cat named Gizmo, and he doesn't climb the Christmas tree or disrupt the ornaments, so it was kinda funny hearing you say something nearly identical to something I said to my folks.
I hadn’t noticed before until you brought it up, but the inventor at the convention who disappeared was sitting in the time machine from the 1960 movie *The Time Machine!* The guys on The Big Bang Theory actually had possession of the movie prop in one episode.
Yup, never saw that before until now. Very cool Easter egg.
Whenever I watched this as a kid, my family would always find a distraction for me to not here about the dad in the chimney. Not because it was too dark, but because she said "that's how I found out there was no Santa Clause." And yes it was PG back then.
The idea of Gremlins started amongst the RAF pilots in the 1920's. The story goes that they lived at the top of the Asian mountains and they would jump onto the planes as they flew past. Author Roald Dahl is credited with popularizing the myth outside of the air force (and let's face it, it definitely has a Roald Dahl flavor to begin with). Mr. Futterman's muttering about gremlins in foreign cars and equipment is an outgrowth of that original mythology.
Yeah searching "Gremlins war propaganda" shows how well the title fits this movie.
In the original draft of the film the mom's head gets cut off by the gremlins and rolls down the stairs and Gizmo became a Gremlin but the test audience hated it so alot was changed to make the movie more enjoyable
Loved this movie as a kid. You’ve got to watch the sequel. A very self aware satire. And a lot of fun.
I hadn't thought it was satire but I think you're right. It has tons of good jokes from beginning to end
The Gremlins Mr. Futterman was referring to were a myth getting a lot of traction in the World Wars, especially II. The idea that equipment failures had supernatural causes, instead of more natural/shoddy reasoning.
Yeah, i see a lot of people get that wrong. These creatures aren't "real" gremlins, Billy is just calling them that cause Futterman happened to tell that story.
Hopefully we will get a reaction to Gremlins 2 sometime soon.
Yeah, Gizmo is cute and watching thoughs who see him for the first time is just so adorable. And here’s a fun fact: Gizmo’s sounds are voiced by Howie Mandel.
The part that always bothered me (and still do it today) is that the Professor maybe wasn't even dead.
The main character just saw him laying unconscious under the desk and didn't even bother to check if he needed help.
He just run away and left him there and the movie just forgets about him.
Gremlins already existed in modern folklore as mischievous unseen creatures that enjoy getting into machinery and causing it to break down for no discernible reason. The idea was popular among WWI pilots and some current motorcycle riders still attach bells to their machines to keep the gremlins away.
This is what the guy toward the beginning of the movie was ranting about and it ties in to the dad's monolog at the end where he talks about how you possibly having gremlins if your washing machine breaks down. It's also a running theme relating to the dad's inventions always malfunctioning, so it's fitting that he's the one who discovered the mogwai.
'Cuteness Overload'😁...I haven't the heart to tell her.
Gremlins are legendary, especially in the military, for making devices not work right. I think that's the basis of the joke about the Dad's inventions never working right.
It evolves from tribbles, gremlins and then into critters
Heard on the radio before the department store fight: "the police are coming with water cannons..." which is a subtle miss but imagine the scene if they'd done that!
If you pay close attention, they never disposed of the gremlin at the school. The filmmakers noticed during editing that there's no good place to put the kill scene, and they just left it out. Kinda worked, most people don't notice it unless told.
"This is the cutest movie I've ever seen." Did she really say that? 🤣
The Gremlins hadn't even appeared yet 😅
At the Inventors Convention, the machine that disappeared is in fact the time machine prop from the 1960 movie The Time Machine. Definitely worth a watch.
Steven Spielberg makes a cameo in that same scene
And the robot behind him was from Forbidden Planet
There is a Gremlins 2, so you can see more of Gizmo, Billy, and Kate.
Fun fact; Bugs Bunny encountered a gremlin in 'Falling Hare" (1943, directed by Bob Clampett)
A few easter eggs;
- At the beginning of the movie, the movie theater is showing a double feature of 'A Boy's Life' and 'Watch the Skies' (original working titles for 'E.T.', and 'Close Encounters'... Spielberg was the producer of this film)
- Chuck Jones compliments Billy's artwork in the bar (Director Joe Dante is a huge Chuck Jones fan...)
- At the inventors convention, the person who dissapears was first sitting in the Time Machine from the George Pal film of the same name, Stephen Spielberg can be seen diving a little electric car, and music composer Jerry Goldsmith can be seen talking on a pay phone, later replaced by Robbie the Robot from 'Forbidden Planet' (quoting his lines from the same...)
- I'm sure I missed a few...
I wholeheartedly agree with everyone who is suggesting seeing 'Gremlins 2'
I have a gizmo that I put on top of my christmas tree every year
"Its rated PG... i'm hoping its not scary." Hahaha, this is 1980's PG, kids were tougher back then!
Addie, some fun facts about the cast:
Hoyt Axton, who played the dad, was a singer-songwriter and spent a lot of time with Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night back in the day, writing some of their hits ("Joy To The World" by Three Dog Night, and both "The Pusher" and "Snowblind Friend" by Steppenwolf).
The deputy is played by the great Jonathan Banks, aka Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad!
At the inventor's convention, there was H.G. Wells's time machine (the one from the George Pal movie) that vanishes between cuts. There was also composer Jerry Goldsmith standing behind Mr. Peltzer in the phone booth, and Steven Spielberg was wheeling through the frame in an electric wheelchair.
I remember my Mom taking me to see this in the theater. I was 13. There were many mothers with their very young kids there. There was a mass exodus when Stripe and his minions started going nuts!!
Addie upon seeing Gizmo: "This is one of the cutest movies I have ever seen."
Me: "Wait about 20 minutes and see if you still think that." LOL
GREMLINS!!! THERE EVERYWHERE!!!😳😳😳
80's PG is waaaay different than today's.
Yeah, back then movies that should’ve been PG-13 were PG because back then there was no PG-13 rating… Beetlejuice was another 80s movie that should’ve been PG-13
It's funny that you were misled by the PG rating. That is exactly why this was one of a few films that were directly responsible for the PG-13 rating. I saw this in theaters, and my brother was 7. Him and all the other kids had to sit in the lobby crying and freaking out with some angry moms.
Yup. I saw this in the theaters as well but was 11. Loved it! The younger kids not as much. Lol
@@Sir_Osis Same, though I was only 7, I always loved dark shit, especially if it was humorous. I remember watching the original Nightmare on Elm Street later that year too, and thought it was a comedy; my friends informed me otherwise, haha!
@@darkwyve It’s kinda what our generation did though lol. Our parents didn’t seem too terribly worried about us getting traumatized. I remember at age 7 going to a drive-in double feature of The Shining and Friday the 13th. There wasn’t shit on tv so I guess any chance to get out of the house and see something new we jumped at!
@@Sir_Osis I didn't get to go to the movies too often, but really enjoyed it when I did (first movie I saw at 4 was Return of the Jedi; amazing experience)
I grew up in a tiny trailer, 5 of us raised by a single mom, so no cable for us til much later So we had a grand total of 3 channels on television as well at that time, so yea, there really wasn't shit to watch (except on Saturday, Saturday morning cartoons rocked back then!)
@@darkwyve Ahhh. Yeah we were fortunate enough to have a drive in down the street that charged per car, and a lot of eager neighborhood kids. We’d all pile into in one of the neighbors pickup beds with blankets and pillows.
My 1st movie was at 4 also. And also a Star Wars movie but the original. 👍
I like the good transformation Gizmo goes through in the second movie
I heard that in the first draft of this movie, Gizmo was Stripe. The horror aspect was that Billy had to fight and kill his little buddy, who had turned into a remorseless monster. I like the way this movie came out, but it would be interesting to see the original concept revisited.
When my mom's cat had babies, one of them looked exactly like Gizmo. She's now nearly 16 and sleeping in my lap. 😺
I would be very interested in seeing your reaction to Gremlins 2. It's legitimately insane and has two of the funniest scenes from when I was a kid.
Please react to the sequel : *Gremlins 2: The New Batch* (1990)
Also i reocmmend you react to :
★ *The 'Burbs* (1989) /starring *Tom Hanks* , *Corey Feldman* & *Carrie Fisher*
★ *Small Soldiers* (1998) /starring *Kirsten Dunst* & *Tommy Lee Jones* (voice)
Both movies Directed by *Joe Dante* (Gremlins Saga)
Seconded. Gremlins 2 is basically required viewing after the first one. One of the best and most clever sequels I've ever seen.
Yes !!!
I Agreed , All Great Choices!
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@@rockyoumonkeys yes, that's true , i love even better than the first one
@@sebastianandres8781 thanks bro!
In a classic Bug's Bunny cartoon , he explains what a Gremlin is. If you search , you'll find it.
Trivia: The movie Gremlins was shot on the same backlot as Back to the Future...the theatre what gets exploded in Gremlins was also the theatre the DeLorean drove into in BTTF.
This part of the Universal backlot was also prominently featured in Monster Squad
2:36 "Power carries with it great responsibility." -Edward R. Murrow, reporting from London for CBS on V-E Day: May 8, 1945
First thing Have a wonderful Christmas 🎄 Addie. Your reaction was so fun.
Yes cuteness overload.😅 Hilarious.
I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 9. Gizmo is adorable. Remember a mogwai isn't a Gremlin until it transforms. However clearly not a mogwai are friendly like Gizmo.
The original script was darker/disturbing. The dog wasn't originally going to be alive when found hanging and Billy's mom was also going to die. In the original script there wasn't going to be a mogwai/Gremlin named Stripe. The plans was for Gizmo to go bad and transform into a Gremlin called Stripe.
However I'm very glad they didn't go down the dark path and kept Gizmo truly good/kind.
The cruel Mrs Deagle got what she deserved. She knew she was a bad person, and thought the Gremlins were demons coming to take her soul to hell. We know she thought that, because when the Gremlins come to her house. She first says what are they? but after looking out the window at them. She then states "They've come for me" and then repeats "I'm not ready" a couples times just before getting launched out the window to her death.
I also believe the disturbing story of Kate's fathers death was likley a plot point kept from the darker orginal script.
On a side note: Gizmo coming to the rescue driving a pink Barbie corvette was hilarious.
Fun fact: The final scenes in Billy's town of Kingston Falls were shot at Universal Studios' backlot, specifically in Courthouse Square. Which a year after Gremlins becomes famous for its role as Hill Valley in the "Back to the Future" trilogy. The town center where the clock tower is. The movie theater the Gremlins watch Snow White/ burns down is seen multiple times in Back to the Future. Marty even crashes the DeLorean into it.
Like a lot of people have said: You should definitely watch the second movie. But I like to add: afterwards (and only afterwards) you should watch the sketch "Key & Peele - "Gremlins 2" Brainstorm" Just 5 minutes, but please also react to that as well. :D
And anyone else reading this who has already seen the second movie but not the sketch. I highly recommend it.
Addie: "How could I ever have thought this was a horror movie?"
Me, who saw half this movie in theaters when I was 8 and had to leave as soon as the gremlins showed up: "Give it fifteen minutes."
It's funny that you mention that the movie is PG. This movie was a big part of why the PG-13 rating was created. A lot of parents took their kids to see this movie and were like "This is NOT appropriate for kids even WITH parents."
In the last sequence Gizmo is driving the Barbie's corvette, a hot toy from the '80s. 😂
I watched this on a VHS when it was new, i was around 7 years old then. Oh, the 80's and Spielberg movies, so many good movies from my childhood 😏
16:15 my favourite Addie's facial expression up till now lol
Addie the next time your air-conditioner goes on the fritz, or your washing machine blows up, or your video recorder conks out, before you call the repairman, turn on all the lights. Check all the closets and cupboards. Look under all the beds. 'Cause you never can tell. There just might be a gremlin in your house
@AddieCounts You should check out Gremlins 2: The New Batch. It may not be quite as good as the original film, and it's less popular, apparently, but the sequel is a fun movie worth watching. I think. (I love the iconic Gremlins theme tune, lol)
She has. It's one of her Patreon exclusives.
@@alextan1478 thank you (I just joined her Patron after reading your comment, and I see she uploaded that on Patron on the 9th of February, I wonder why she hasn't yet uploaded it onto TH-cam, yet, not that I'm complaining. It just seems a bit odd)
@@owenwildish331 That's why it's called a Patreon exclusive. The previous version of this video was blocked when she originally uploaded it.
@@alextan1478 Yeah, I kind of realise that now, having these videos being blocked is so annoying, right. I've joined her Patron now and watched the Gremlins 2 upload. :)
I can't believe I never knew Mike from Breaking Bad was in Gremlins.
Wish had kept the Gizmo plush toy/doll from back in day
You are the first reactor that I have seen notice the time machine from the 60s? movie by the same name disappeare in the background. Congratulations. Most people miss that one.
"This is PG-13, how scary could it be?" Well, it's also the reason PG-13 exists... it released as PG.
"This is the cutest movie I've ever seen!" Oh no. Oh dear. This is gonna be fun. :)
This is actually the first movie I remember seeing, it was at the drive in and I was 4 years old
I think it's the contrast in tones that makes 'Gremlins' so effective. When it first starts out, it's all comfy-cozy; we get the wacky inventor and his most-wholesome-in-the-world family, and we meet Gizmo, and Gizmo is cute - but there's that kind of spooky intro, with the rules, and the rules are a stroke of genius, because you KNOW they're all going to be broken, and you're on tenterhooks 'til when they do. Then it kind of goes back and forth between sinister and heartwarming, until finally the Gremlins are unleashed - but even then, it's not full-on horror. It goes back and forth between cute and scary, so you never quite know WHAT to expect. It's a tricky balancing act, but it's pulled off very well.
11:05 The title of the movie comes from the notion of gremlins that was first conceived during the 1920s when mechanical failures in RAF aircraft were jokingly blamed on the small monsters.
Proof that the original Disney Snow White truly is everyone's favorite, except for the stars of the new garbage one.
Great reaction to a great classic! Now you gotta do part 2.
Watched this as a kid and loved it. Wasn't until I rewatched this as an adult that I began to have questions.
1. Don't feed them after midnight is impossibly vague. Every day starts with midnight, so it's always after midnight. When does it become safe to feed a Mogwai? Sunrise?
2. Is Mogwai biology affected by time zones? Say you lived 15 minutes east of the Eastern/Central time zone line, it was 12:20 am and your Mogwai was hungry. Could you drive your Mogwai 15 minutes west and then feed it?
The sequel asks those same questions. The guy asking them immediately gets strangled by Gremlins.
This movie along with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom were part of the reason they came up with the PG-13 rating. I was 9 when I saw it in the theater and I loved it.
Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was the reason pg-13 was created. Love this movie and your reacts!
Love this movie and the sequel! The first one is one of my favorite movies of all time never get tired of watching it! We had awesome movies in the 80’s😁
0:07 this is going to be fun
In the 80s & 90s Gizmo was the number one per name (I had a guinea pig named Gizmo an ex-girlfriend had a cat named Gizmo) Etc
The good news is that Gremlins 2 isn't a Christmas movie, so hopefully you can watch that as soon as the holidays are over.
Saw this at aged 11 and i loved it so much, i went back to the cinema and saw it again a week later.
The BEST Christmas movie.
Fight me.
Gremlins (especially the kitchen scene) and Temple of Doom inspired the introduction of the PG-13 rating.
Gizmo is a mogwai, not a Gremlin.
When the other Mogwai eat after midnight, they form a cocoon and then hatch out of it, fully transformed into Gremlins.
Gizmo, the original Grogu or "Baby Yoda". 🥰
Fun fact since you already watched Beverly Hills Cop,so we all know Billy from this movie was in that movie but anyone else look familiar?Oddly and Ironic enough one of the cops in this movie,the one who asks can we go now once MsDeagle goes through the window,he’s a cop in this movie yet he was also in Beverly Hills Cop,the same one who Axel through over the buffet table at that club.
Directed by Joe Dante, but Spielberg is the producer of this movie, yes.
I don't like pulp either in orange juices, I thought I was the only one! 😃😉🙂
The UKs Royal Airforce invented the story about gremlins. Little creatures that would get into their planes and other machinery and wreak havok. So every time something went wrong they just blamed it on the gremlins.
10:20 "If the Gremlins get ahold of any of his inventions, we're in trouble"
Gremlins 2 - "Hold my beer"
Judge4 reinhold might be Billy from Beverly Hills Cop to you but he's always Brad from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to me
And Phoebe is forever Linda Barrett.
I always love spike.
One of the top three Christmas movies. The other two are DIE HARD and HOLIDAY.
Gremlins is rated PG, but it was one of the last films released before the PG 13 rating was enacted. When they were explaining the rating, they used Gremlins as an example of what would have been PG 13.
Incidentally, Phoebe Cates was my biggest celebrity crush from that era. I might faint just thinking about Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Temple of Doom was also used as an example along with Gremlins, to bring about PG13. I find it funny that Spielberg was involved in both.
@@dracomaster4 Didn't Poltergeist also get used as an example. Also a Spielberg production. He really wanted to create a new rating didn't he?
Did you catch the Wicked witch of the West parallels with Mrs. Deagle? "I'l get your little dog" etc. The when she was laying dead in the street she had red shoes on and all you can see were her feet.
Now time to watch GREMLINS 2, it's a Wacky Sequel
My male cat name is Gizmo too. And he looks a little bit like a Gremlin. 😅
Gremlins 2 was a fun watch also. A little more silly but still good.
A Little? They break the fourth wall one too many times and Hulk Hogan has to tell them to cut it out.
@@jmsmys13ify Oh that's right. 🤣 I completely forgot about that scene. I haven't actually seen the movie since it's original release in 1990. It might be time to change that.
Just another Gremlins 2 recommendation!
Sup from New Zealand 🇳🇿🥝🙃, Merry Christmas to all 💛🌏💛
My head canon says that Gizmo has lived a while (responsible owner etc.) so he's reasonably mature; Gizmo's progeny however, are newborns and seem to be clever,
but no real maturity. So Stripe & Co. are a bunch of little shits (like most kids).
They are also imitative & learn fast in either Mogwai or Gremlin form.
...and doesn't everyone have a Christmas story like Phoebe Cates?
Ollie in the beginning was cute af
Great reaction to a classic movie Addie. Glad that you liked it.
Fun movie facts....
Gremlins & Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom were the two films in 1984 that were responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating (prior to 84, films were only rated R, PG and G. When these two movies came out many parents & parents group were understandably upset that these films were too intense for very young children - as I'm sure you could tell).
Howie Mandle (Bobby's World, Deal Or No Deal/America's Got Talent host & comedian) voiced cute little Gizmo.
Frank Welker (voice actor who voiced many iconic animated characters in the 80s, 90s & 2000s - such as Brain & Dr. Claw in Inspector Gadget, Megatron & Soundwave in The Transformers, Wild Bill in G.I Joe: A Real American Hero, Fred Jones in Scooby Doo Where Are You?, Slimer & Ray Stanz in The Real Ghostbusters, most of the Beagle Boys in DuckTales and Garfield in The Garfield Show) voice the 'Stripe' gremlin
Michael Winslow (Officer Laravel Jones in the Police Academy films and the radar operator in Spaceballs) also did several of the Gremlins voices in various scenes.
Peter Cullen (voice actor who voiced many iconic animated characters in the 80s, 90s & 2000s - such as Optimus Prime in The Transformers movies & animated shows, Monterey Jack in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Eeyore in many Winnie the Pooh shows and movies, KARR in Knight Rider & the voice of the Predator in the Predator movies) he also did several of the Gremlins voices in various scenes.
Gizmo was the inspiration for the Furby toys in the 90s early 2000s.
There are a lot of Spielberg-ian references/Easter eggs thoughtout...the billboard (at the beginning of the film), looks like Indiana Jones, the movie theater is playing 'Watch The Skies' - a 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' reference & 'A Boy's Life' - an ET: The Extra-Terrestrial' reference - along with Stripe hiding behind an ET doll in the department store. And Steven Spielberg himself has a, blink & you might miss it, cameo in the movie at the inventor's convention. Also Pete (Corey Feldman) would star in another Steven Spielberg produced film the next year in 1985, The Goonies (as the part of Mouth...also in 'The Goonies' there is a 'Gremlins' reference/Easter egg as well, when Chunk, played by Jeff Cohen, is talking to the Sheriff, played by Paul Tuerpe, on the phone, the Sheriff said "just like that other prank you told about all those little creatures that multiply when you pour water on em?")
Throughout Gremlins, there are also many sci-fi movie references/Easter eggs (as both Steven Spielberg & Joe Dante are big sci-fi fans as well), such as Robbie The Robot from 'Forbidden Planet', the time machine from 'H.G. Wells The Time Machine', 'Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior' & 'Twilight Zone: The Movie' posters are in Billy's room, Gizmo and Billy both fall asleep watching 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers', the Gremlins pods are very similar in design to the 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' pods, are the Gremlins are playing a 'Star Wars' arcade game in the bar and the smoking gas station attendant is played by Kenneth Tobey who was in the sci-fi classics 'The Thing: From Another World', 'The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms', 'It Came From Beneath The Sea' & 'Strange Invaders'.
Legendary Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones has a cameo in the bar scene early in the movie (he was the old man talking to Billy about the drawing of Mrs. Deagle) and he would later provide animation for another Joe Dante film 'Looney Tunes Back In Action' (that would be the very last film he would work on to some extent before he passed away in 2002).
Dick Miller & Jackie Joseph (Mr. & Mrs. Futterman) who were good close friends in real life, would star in over a dozens of movies together (and in several Joe Dante films as well, such as Piranha, The Howling, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Explorers, Interspace, The 'Burbs, Small Soldiers & Looney Tunes: Back In Action)
The main town square (which was the in the Universal Studios backlot for decades) was used in lots of television shows and movies, such as To Kill A Mockingbird, the Back To The Future trilogy, The Monster Squad, Jingle All the Way, Escape From LA, Psycho II, Delirious, The Nutty Professor, The Incredible Hulk, The Dukes Of Hazzard, Leave It To Beaver, Growing Pains, Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I. & House MD to name a few.
Hardee's restaurants had a promotional tie in with Gremlins for their kids meal in 1984 (long before McDonald's started to do that kind of thing). If you bought a kids meal you would get a Gremlins storybooks (that would also come with a read-along record or audio cassette tape, depending on your preference and/or availability...there was a total of 5 storybooks in all, which told the entire story of the movie, broken up in 5 parts, briefly). I had all 5 of them back in the day.
Definitely check out the sequel, 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch' It is a whole lot of fun as well.
We need Ollie at the intro from now on!
Gremlins…. The epitome of “What’s the worse thing that can happen?”
"How could I ever think that this is a scary movie?" Famous last words, Addie. Famous last words.
I would hate to have to clean up that kitchen after all those gremlins got killed by the mom.
I have a feeling they have cleaned up worse with the Dad's inventions....
Gremlins were first written about by Roald Dahl, renowned children books author of the twentieth century.
He was a fighter pilot during the first year of the Second World War, and while flying missions, he and his colleagues thought it strange and frustrating how technical issues could crop up just like that.
A perfectly fine working plane could be taken into the skies and a few minutes later the pilot would find he was lost over unknown territory due to a faulty compass, suddenly having no fuel or other bad things.
Eventually they started ascribing these incidents to little creatures who lived inside their airplanes and liked to disconnect cables, or outright destroy stuff.
Dahl called these little mischievous creatures Gremlins.
After a war injury forced him to stop flying, he worked with Walt Disney on a film named 'Gremlins' in 1943. But the film was never made and Disney cancelled the project.
Dahl served in the RAF during World War II, first based in North Africa, later fighting over Greece.
He was injured after miraculously surviving a massive air battle, where hundreds of German bombers and fighters were up against his squadron's twelve Hurricane fighters. His squadron leader was shot down plus most of his men, Dahl and one or two others miraculously escaping.
He was then sent to Washington D.C. as a goodwill ambassador, the USA had not entered the war yet.
A journalist asked him to write some notes about his aerial adventures, so he could base a newspaper story on it.
Dahl had never written before so he tried his best. After having mailed his notes to the newspaper, the journalist called him a few days later.
He said 'I asked you for some notes, not a complete story!' He thought it was a very good story and that Dahl should publish it under his own name.
That was the start of Dahl's long and succesful writing career, first for Hollywood and later in life Dahl started writing his famous children's books like Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.