4:35 Funny, true story: when I was a kid and the sequel came out, me and my family watched it at the theaters during a very bad storm. It wasn't until this scene, with the Gremlins stopping the film reel, that the lights in OUR actual theater actually went off! The emergency lights came on and the theater's staff soon appeared, apologizing to everyone and telling us all we had to leave. None of us moved; everyone at the theater thought it was a prank! XD But nah, the theater actually did shut down from the power outage and we all had to leave (I don't think we got a refund). I had to wait until the movie came on TV to watch the rest of it. Needless to say, we all had pale looks on our faces, thinking actual Gremlins caused this. :P
A while after Fight Club had come out, my buddy hadn't seen it so I took him to one of the art house showings. At the scene in the hotel room when Jack is about to find out the truth, the actual film broke and the house lights came on. With all the film tricks in the movie, my buddy thought it was part of the movie.
99% of theaters would have given you a "re-ad" a re-admission. They're happy to. That ticket didn't have to be reported to the distributor, and you patronize the concession stand twice.
Many years later I had the same thing happen watching Spider-Man Far From Home. When the staff member came out to apologize, one of the teenagers in the theaters claimed it was the what was after the heroes
My favourite little bit is when Murray gets talking about the gremlins messing with his crew's equipment in WW2. What makes this such a great little detail is the fact that did actually happen. Unexplained stuff, almost exactly like what the critters did in the movie, happened to equipment in WW2. Interestingly enough, to both sides. Cars breaking down, weird noises in the night. There's even an eye witness account of a pilot who saw them on his plane. While he was flying. That, to me, is one of the best little easter eggs in that movie.
"Watch the skies" was the working title for Close Encounters also.According to the novelizations, the snow thing was explained by saying that Mogwai can't multiply with water if the outside temperature isn't a certain degree. I guess the filmmakers didn't feel it nessesary to explain that for some reason. The mogwai were also explained to be alien creatures from another planet who were created by a scientist who tried to create the ultimate animal that was lovable, smart, and easy to breed. Obviously, it didn't work, there were unforseen miscalculations with the experiment, which is where the 3 rules came from.
Anti white lol. It's not being anti white to think racism is wrong you div. It's called being a normal human being. I'm surprised you like NC, you know a black guy works on the show, right? Do you just skip past those bits or something? Or do you start stabbing your screen with a pitchfork when he's on?
Kate: something horrible happened to me on Lincoln’s birthday, i was six or maybe seven, and their was this man with a beard and a hat, he looked just like Lincoln... Billy: I know, I know, thats how you found out there was no Lincoln.
Frank Welker who does Stripe and Mohawk also does the voice of various Lilo and Stitch experiments especially Sparky, in fact Chris Sanders was such a fan of Gremlins that he based some of the monsters' personalities for Stitch.
I never understood why everyone thinks Kate's backstory is so random and out of nowhere. Earlier in the movie she mentions how she doesn't celebrate Christmas and how she doesn't like the holiday season. It's because her dad died during Christmas. Granted this doesn't have much to do with the plot itself, but it's still part of her character, not just something that was brought up for no reason.
Exactly what I had to point out to someone who mentioned the scene was stupid nonsensical scene.... I had to explain to the fool that she was explaining the reason why she did not like Christmas cause billy had asked her.....some people are idiots
Phoebe Cates' story in the second one sounds like it's setting up a flasher with a raincoat, which makes the joke even darker in the first movie when you see the gremlin in the bar flash her. She gives a disgusted look and kicks him.
Forgive me for being a total Gremlins fanboy, but the Water/snow and Midnight rules have explanations that make sense. The water has to be soaked through their skin/scales for it to take effect, explaining why drinks and snow don’t work. Also, the midnight rule has a bit more elaborate of an explanation. The sun actually plays a big role in two of the three rules. Sunlight kills them, obviously, but it’s also how the midnight rule works. Midnight is opposite of noon, which is the farthest away the sun is to the Mogwai’s location. This explains how the midnight rule and its loopholes work. Time zones do take effect because of the sun’s position, so the discussion about time zones and the Mogwai travelling g and whatever in the second movie is true.
In the first movie, they also reference E.T. in the scene where Billy calls up his mom and urging her to get out of the house due to the Gremlins hatching out of their cocoons, and the gremlin says, "Phone home" as he disconnects the phone lines. I don't know how he knew that was from E.T. seeing how it was released in theaters 2 years prior to Gremlins, rereleased a year after Gremlins, and it wasn't even available on home video until 1988. Though he could've seen E.T. on a bootleg VHS which a lot of people ended up creating in 1983 due to E.T. not being available for home entertainment at the time.
My best guess for why they can consume beer and touch snow without multiplying is either that the water needs to hit the outside of their body for them to multiply and they can consume water and other liquids just fine since it’s touching the inside of their body instead, and maybe frozen water like snow and ice won’t work on them unless it melts into a sufficient amount of water. Either that or maybe it’s because since beer is water but combined with various other ingredients, those extra ingredients alter the fluid enough to not work on Gremlins As for why Gizmo survived out during the daylight? My best guess is that it was somewhat cloudy enough when that happened, enough to at least cover the sun from where Gizmo was, providing enough protection from its harsh light to allow Gizmo to walk freely
Here's one you missed -- in the scene where the Gremlins take over the bar, you see one of them dancing like the woman in "Flashdance". The irony is, in Gremlins the song "Mega Madness" is sung by none other than Michael Sembello, the same person who sang "Maniac" in the movie "Flashdance".
3:24 Not only did Frank Welker (voice of Megatron) do the voices, but so did Peter Cullen (voice of Optimus) And ironically this movie came out the same year as Transformers did
Love both Films. The only thing that saddened me was that poor Dog in the first film that fell victim to Gremlins. Other than that scene - both Films were and still are pure Gold. Thanks for making me want to rewatch them this instant.
I watched that movie as a little kid and my cousins noticed I was scraed and teased me about it. I had nightmares for weeks! My mu m said she coulda killed em. They still give me the willies. I hope they make a sequel
Years before Gremlins, Disney planned on making a fun gremlin cartoon of their own, but it never caught any ground. Perhaps the charming theatre scene is a subtle nod to what could have been.
Here's more fun facts: Does Kingston Falls look a little familiar? It should. It's the same set as Hill Valley in "Back to the Future". The first movie originally featured an entire subplot about Ms. Deagle working under the table with the bank to try and take over the town. This plot thread was eventually edited out but, as a result, Judge Reinhold's character was almost completely left on the editing room floor, almost to where he himself was just a glorified cameo. Deleted scenes reveal he managed to survive the gremlin attack by locking himself in the bank vault, but was driven insane by the carnage. (I think it would have made more sense to leave that in and Kate's out-of-nowhere monologue about the worst day of her life being Christmas out...) The crew hated working with the problematic Gizmo puppet in the first movie, especially since the script was reworked during shooting to make him a "nice" Mogwai and, therefore, needed to be present through the entire film and longer than they expected to use it. They kept a list of things they wanted to do to the puppet to vent their anger, and one of them was to tie him to a dartboard and fling darts at him. They ended up putting that in the first movie. Grandpa Fred laments at one point that Daniel Clamp won't show old classic black-and-white horror films because he only likes color films. This is another nod to Ted Turner and his infamous push to colorize all the old classic black and white movies.
I'll NEVER understand why Looney Tunes: Back In Action didn't do better. It was funny, clever, had lots of neat in-jokes, and overall showed WAYYYY more respect for the characters than Space Jam did.
Jennifer Schillig 2 words Michael Jordan. Back then he was one of if not THE most popular athlete in the world at that time. Probably still is. Anything with his name on it was a success no matter how ridiculous it was.
Regarding #11, alcohol actually does more to dehydrate whereas water hydrates. So the Gremlins being able to drink beer may have something to do with that.
I remember Gremlins 2 coming out to a largely confused audience because it was so different from the first movie. It doesn't seem to come outright and say it was a satire of the first movie. I liked it better out of the two movies because it was so ridiculous that it felt like watching a cartoon acted out by humans and puppets.
The video says they snuck an early E.T. toy cameo into Gremlins, implying that Gremlins came out before E.T. What we're saying is that that's just not true, since it was a reference to a film that had come out two years before Gremlins. By the way, your comment says nothing that we don't already know, and it misspells three words ("itself", "your", and "will"), so maybe proofread before calling someone else stupid.
A "working title" is just an early draft of the final title. Even if ET had already come out, they still could have put the first draft of the title in as an inside joke. It's not like they wouldn't have remembered it.
I love the What You Never Knew About series. Some movies I have or have not seen, or heard about have things I've never paid attention to. Even sometimes when I look up trivia on IMB or other sites, there's smaller info.
TheSUPERPOTATO2000 Sharing genetic data with a Raptor does not mean you will look like a raptor. They clearly gave the Indominus the T-Rexes physical characteristics (imporoved the arms) only a couple of the raptors physical characteristics, but more importantly intelligent, and then a slew of other genes from other animals.
In Gremlins 2, after Kate pulls the Clamp building fire alarm and people are evacuating, it looks like one of the office name tags says "R. Corman". If I'm right, this is a nod to legendary B-movie director Roger Corman, who Dante has worked with and has a deep respect for. Also: Corman produced the 1987 Gremlins-inspired "Munchies".
I literally just got done watching the first one, and it was interesting. Sometimes I was grossed out, sometimes I actually got a little nervous, and sometimes I felt a little bored. But as soon as the gremlins broke out on that snowplow, I laughed and thought "Okay, this is going to be fun."
I remember seeing the background gag of the Time Machine disappearing and cracking up. I was watching the movie with my family and they couldn't figure out why I was laughing because the foreground dialogue wasn't particularly funny. 🤣
In the first film I always wondered why she was serving beer to the Gremlins in the bar. When they first showed up why did she even start serving them? Did she ID them first (remember most of these things are under a day old, so not old enough to drink). Why did she continue to serve them when they didn't pay? Why didn't she leave or fight back when they started tearing the place up? I love the scene it's a lot of fun and I still enjoy watching. It's just really really weird that it happened at all. If you were making tea in your kitchen and a bunch of Critters rolled in would offer them some?
cause the design of the ceitters is actually pretty good,like remember when a giant critter came into the house was a good cliffhanger or what about when critters always say something in every film,isn't it just really good,it's such a pity that so little people know about this film
Shawnee Longbow i guess its because in the end, some see them as Gremlins rip offs. I mean, its like how people think Ghostbusters or Indiana Jones or Star Wars are original and others ripped them off with lower budgeted films and similar titles. If Critters is a rip off, at least it goes all the way with horror and they're aliens and they aren't about dangerously mischievous behavior, they're just little killers with big appetites and the first critters movie is barely like Gremlins in so many ways.
It's also worth mentioning that the town the first Gremlins movie takes place in is actually the same setup that was used as Hill Valley in Back to the Future. Also 7:53 that's not an AMC Gremlin, an AMC Gremlin is a hatchback.
i never noticed the time machine thing before but now that you pointed it out, its bloody amazing..... i hope should it ever get remade, the guys who do it, put the same kind of heart into it
Actually, that robot, Robbie is his name, is one of Sci-fi's biggest Easter eggs. After Forbidden Planet, Robbie has appeared in numerous other material including Columbo, The Addams Family, Lost in Space, The Twilight Zone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E and even Mork and Mindy. Truly one if history's most famous robots.
Yeah, He has parts in his early comedy routines where he's telling the audiences how he "came across" the Voice when he accidentally started choking on a piece of birthday cake at a friend's birthday party once, when he was a lot younger. And then not long after that he got the gig for doing Bobby's world, and then went on to voice Both SKEETER AND SCOOTER from Muppet Babies, AND Gizmo. He then makes the revelation to his audiences that "have you ever listened to them all AT THE SAME TIME?? IT'S THE EXACT SAME VOICE !!!! LOL :) :) I Love that man! He's so Freaking Hilarious!!!-- His early career comedy routines are on You Tube.
One of my favorite touches that goes sadly unnoticed here is the Flashdance reference during the bar scene. Without the knowledge that Michael Sembello sings it, it doesn't make much sense, but knowing that, it's pretty funny rather than being a random reference that doesn't go anywhere.
Joe Dante's other Movie "Explorers" makes mention of the events in "gremlins" in a newspaper article….making the two movies take place in the same cinematic universe.
Heh, this actually happened to my theater! When I was a kid, we watched the Gremlins 2 during a bad storm. Right around the time the Gremlins did their film gag, our theater's power actually went off and the emergency lights came on! OAO The theater's staff soon appeared and told us all to leave, but no one in the audience moved. We all thought it was a prank related to the movie. XD Eventually, we all did leave and I kept asking my parents on our way home if the Gremlins did that. :P
For that matter, I was always confused as to why the DVD version included the theater gag rather than the TV one - the TV gag makes no less sense for a DVD player than it does for a VCR, whereas the theater one only works for home viewing on the off-chance that you're watching it on a projector setup. I say make the VCR gag the one that plays during the movie, and make the theater one viewable as a DVD extra.
3:05 The injection wasn't what killed him, getting dragged under the desk to have his jugular knawed open or his neck snapped did. The needle in his ass was the just gremlin that killed him indulging in petty vengeance for having his blood drawn earlier.
Someone commented on another video, saying it's possible that the "Gremlins", just like the "real" ones, don't actually exist, so the whole movie is a cover story for Billy's killing spree. The creature is purchased, many people die, then the creature is given back. The start and end of the movie is the father telling an adventure/story, yet he is barely in the movie. I'd love to see a video of you entertaining how this could be possible for the first Gremlins movie. You must consider that the details within the movie (like witnesses/cops) were not actually around during the murders.
man the scene in the 2nd movie where phoebe gates starts telling the abe lincoln guy story actually is really messed up if you think about it. a story that starts like that almost always ends with the realization that something really not-good happened
I would have laughed a lot if they added a small scene at the end with TNC being trapped in his review room with the Female Gremlin, as a nod to the funny scene at the end of the second film.
watch the skies was also the tag line for strange encounters of the third kind which was a reference to the final line of the original "the thing" from 1951, also the robot from the forbidden planet is named Robbie.
There is a commentary track on Grimlins with the dude who plays Billy and he is FUCKING hiliarious!! Seriously! He has a great sense of humor about the whole thing.
I would love to see NC's opinion on gremlins 2. Personally I love it, I think most of the criticism people bring up can basically be applied to the original, but they don't seem to care because of course the first is regarded as a classic meaning it apparently can't have any faults.
Here's a few things. The movie theatre does not have much luck in both Gremlins and Back to the Future. In Gremlins, it gets blown up and in Back to the Future, the Delorean crashes through the boarded up doors when Marty goes back to 1985. I wonder if it was closed down because it was blown up the year before. In Billy's bedroom, he has an obscure poster on the wall of The Twilight Zone Movie which I'm sure Joe Dante worked on as well. Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2 plays a doomsday tape that is based on an actual tape that was made to be used in the final hour when the end of the world comes.
There's two scenes in the second movie that insinuate 911 happening also the movie takes place in New York in a tower. The first scene is where two news reporters stand next to each other with there broadcast microphones and one has 9 the other 11 almost touching. And then later in the film where you here a jet go by the tower but literally for no reason. I think there are others just can't remember off the top of my head. Good video!
4:30 and when the movie is shown on cable TV, the gremlins mess with your TV guide and go into movies like Batman, Batman Returns, Exorcist, and Raiders of The Lost Ark
John: I've smiled wide, cause I'm happy to see that nostalgia critic knew and talked about chuck jones, I was 9 years old when I was inspired and influenced by chuck Jones while I watched the chuck jones show.
In the first Gremlins movie Billy's dad is played by Singer Songwriter Hoyt Axton he wrote a lot of songs for Three Dog Night. His works include Joy To the World, and Never Been To Spain.fun fact.
I kinda think the mimes in Gremlins 2 were a reference to that scene in Batman where the Joker kills that guy with a pen, while his henchmen are disguised as mimes. Both movies are from the same studio, afterall.
Although their voices sound very similar, Billy's boss, played by Haviland Morris, is not the same woman who voiced Korben's mother in The Fifth Element, who was Jill Mullan
The twin scientists played by Dan and Don Stanton also played the Warner Brothers in Looney Tunes: Back in Action; and again in Erie, Indiana both directed by Joe Dante!!
Here's one you missed. In the first movie's projection room scene, there's a poster on the wall that says MIRACLE PICTURES. IF IT'S A GOOD PICTURE, IT'S A MIRACLE. That poster's from Joe Dante's first movie, HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.
The reason they were arresting the mimes, is because they did unspeakable things.
Brilliant :D
Rockpanther KTA nice
Ooofta!
Rockpanther KTA ba-dump!
That's such a funny joke, I'm SPEECHLESS.
The first Gremlins movie, along with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, were both responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating
4:35 Funny, true story: when I was a kid and the sequel came out, me and my family watched it at the theaters during a very bad storm. It wasn't until this scene, with the Gremlins stopping the film reel, that the lights in OUR actual theater actually went off! The emergency lights came on and the theater's staff soon appeared, apologizing to everyone and telling us all we had to leave. None of us moved; everyone at the theater thought it was a prank! XD But nah, the theater actually did shut down from the power outage and we all had to leave (I don't think we got a refund). I had to wait until the movie came on TV to watch the rest of it.
Needless to say, we all had pale looks on our faces, thinking actual Gremlins caused this. :P
A while after Fight Club had come out, my buddy hadn't seen it so I took him to one of the art house showings. At the scene in the hotel room when Jack is about to find out the truth, the actual film broke and the house lights came on. With all the film tricks in the movie, my buddy thought it was part of the movie.
What?!?that actually happened!i would pee in my underwear!!
99% of theaters would have given you a "re-ad" a re-admission. They're happy to. That ticket didn't have to be reported to the distributor, and you patronize the concession stand twice.
well people are pretty stupid, so this tracks.
Many years later I had the same thing happen watching Spider-Man Far From Home. When the staff member came out to apologize, one of the teenagers in the theaters claimed it was the what was after the heroes
My favourite little bit is when Murray gets talking about the gremlins messing with his crew's equipment in WW2. What makes this such a great little detail is the fact that did actually happen. Unexplained stuff, almost exactly like what the critters did in the movie, happened to equipment in WW2. Interestingly enough, to both sides. Cars breaking down, weird noises in the night. There's even an eye witness account of a pilot who saw them on his plane. While he was flying. That, to me, is one of the best little easter eggs in that movie.
"Watch the skies" was the working title for Close Encounters also.According to the novelizations, the snow thing was explained by saying that Mogwai can't multiply with water if the outside temperature isn't a certain degree. I guess the filmmakers didn't feel it nessesary to explain that for some reason. The mogwai were also explained to be alien creatures from another planet who were created by a scientist who tried to create the ultimate animal that was lovable, smart, and easy to breed. Obviously, it didn't work, there were unforseen miscalculations with the experiment, which is where the 3 rules came from.
HULK HOGAN: Sorry folks, it won't happen again....
Awkward
Hahaha
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***** now why in hell would that be okey?
Anti white lol. It's not being anti white to think racism is wrong you div. It's called being a normal human being.
I'm surprised you like NC, you know a black guy works on the show, right? Do you just skip past those bits or something? Or do you start stabbing your screen with a pitchfork when he's on?
***** you are ridiculous
Kate: something horrible happened to me on Lincoln’s birthday, i was six or maybe seven, and their was this man with a beard and a hat, he looked just like Lincoln...
Billy: I know, I know, thats how you found out there was no Lincoln.
4:32 actually, the DVD does have that scene on it. It's an easter egg accessed by selecting the Gremlin's claw on the Special Features menu.
These scenes are just in the film on my DVD and Blu-ray copies,
Freddy's Jeugdsentiment I'm talking about the scene that was originally on the VHS
Ow okay sorry for the misunderstanding :)
pgj1997 THANK YOU!! I love the original but I really like the VJS version too.
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Number 1 blew me away. That time machine scene! OMFG... such brilliance
Did you also catch The Road Warrior poster is Billy's bedroom in Gremlins part 1?
Frank Welker who does Stripe and Mohawk also does the voice of various Lilo and Stitch experiments especially Sparky, in fact Chris Sanders was such a fan of Gremlins that he based some of the monsters' personalities for Stitch.
Stitch was certainly programmed to ACT like a Gremlin. To "reverse street signs, back up sewers and steal everyone's left shoe."
And above it all, is both Fred Jones and Scooby Doo themselves.
Don't forget Peter Cullen! Though his exact credit isn't mentioned, the iconic voice of Optimus Prime DID lend his voice talents to the first movie.
Gremlins: A Christmas Picture.
pharaohyami5000 no a family picture (bring the kiddys)
I used to love Gremlins when I was 9/10 yrs old - Heck I still do love Gremlins 30 years later!
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A FAAAAAAAMILY picture!
Just like Die Hard and Home Alone
I never understood why everyone thinks Kate's backstory is so random and out of nowhere. Earlier in the movie she mentions how she doesn't celebrate Christmas and how she doesn't like the holiday season. It's because her dad died during Christmas. Granted this doesn't have much to do with the plot itself, but it's still part of her character, not just something that was brought up for no reason.
Exactly what I had to point out to someone who mentioned the scene was stupid nonsensical scene.... I had to explain to the fool that she was explaining the reason why she did not like Christmas cause billy had asked her.....some people are idiots
Phoebe Cates' story in the second one sounds like it's setting up a flasher with a raincoat, which makes the joke even darker in the first movie when you see the gremlin in the bar flash her. She gives a disgusted look and kicks him.
Forgive me for being a total Gremlins fanboy, but the Water/snow and Midnight rules have explanations that make sense. The water has to be soaked through their skin/scales for it to take effect, explaining why drinks and snow don’t work. Also, the midnight rule has a bit more elaborate of an explanation. The sun actually plays a big role in two of the three rules. Sunlight kills them, obviously, but it’s also how the midnight rule works. Midnight is opposite of noon, which is the farthest away the sun is to the Mogwai’s location. This explains how the midnight rule and its loopholes work. Time zones do take effect because of the sun’s position, so the discussion about time zones and the Mogwai travelling g and whatever in the second movie is true.
I'd agree with you except for the snow part, you bury yourself in snow like they did and tell me your clothes aren't soaked through.
@@WTKB82 So saltwater wouldn't work either?
Sorry to break this to you, I prefer Gremlins 2 and I hate Gremlins 1.
@@strifenineteen It’s possible that Gremlin just wasn’t covered in snow long enough for it to melt and soak into its skin
Actually it was mentioned to not even let Gizmo drink water. Watch the first movie again if you don’t believe me.
In the first movie, they also reference E.T. in the scene where Billy calls up his mom and urging her to get out of the house due to the Gremlins hatching out of their cocoons, and the gremlin says, "Phone home" as he disconnects the phone lines. I don't know how he knew that was from E.T. seeing how it was released in theaters 2 years prior to Gremlins, rereleased a year after Gremlins, and it wasn't even available on home video until 1988. Though he could've seen E.T. on a bootleg VHS which a lot of people ended up creating in 1983 due to E.T. not being available for home entertainment at the time.
My best guess for why they can consume beer and touch snow without multiplying is either that the water needs to hit the outside of their body for them to multiply and they can consume water and other liquids just fine since it’s touching the inside of their body instead, and maybe frozen water like snow and ice won’t work on them unless it melts into a sufficient amount of water. Either that or maybe it’s because since beer is water but combined with various other ingredients, those extra ingredients alter the fluid enough to not work on Gremlins
As for why Gizmo survived out during the daylight? My best guess is that it was somewhat cloudy enough when that happened, enough to at least cover the sun from where Gizmo was, providing enough protection from its harsh light to allow Gizmo to walk freely
Bad time to say, "You tell 'em Hulk!"
TheSuperSeanyo this video is old for a few months, i think.
What...
+planterota chill
I'm really feeling it!
Vote for Monado! Blue Power unite!
Here's one you missed -- in the scene where the Gremlins take over the bar, you see one of them dancing like the woman in "Flashdance". The irony is, in Gremlins the song "Mega Madness" is sung by none other than Michael Sembello, the same person who sang "Maniac" in the movie "Flashdance".
3:24 Not only did Frank Welker (voice of Megatron) do the voices, but so did Peter Cullen (voice of Optimus) And ironically this movie came out the same year as Transformers did
That's not ironic
Love both Films. The only thing that saddened me was that poor Dog in the first film that fell victim to Gremlins. Other than that scene - both Films were and still are pure Gold. Thanks for making me want to rewatch them this instant.
In the original script, he actually gets eaten by them. It was messed up.
@@batman369ableOne of the better changes.
That movie scared the shit out of me as a kid just by looking at the movie cover.
I watched that movie as a little kid and my cousins noticed I was scraed and teased me about it. I had nightmares for weeks! My mu m said she coulda killed em. They still give me the willies. I hope they make a sequel
Years before Gremlins, Disney planned on making a fun gremlin cartoon of their own, but it never caught any ground. Perhaps the charming theatre scene is a subtle nod to what could have been.
Snoopyshotgun101 Warner bros actually did make one
I really wish to see Robocop, Memento, Nightmare Before Christmas or Monsters Inc. in one of these episodes.
Xaero188 Iggh
Robocop would be pretty cool
Dick Miller (Murray Futterman) was also the gun shop owner in The Terminator, released the same year.
Batman symbol in "Gremlins 2" was a great touch. Joe Dante, by the way, voices a few of the gremlins himself.
I miss this series.
Charles Dewitt so do I
Me 2
Matthew Etherington. You're absolutely correct
Charles Dewitt yea it was a great one maybe one day he will bring it back
Critic, you should do a Adam Sandler month, reviewing his worst movies!
Do you want him to go insane?
Ooooh yes.
allan R.T. He's already reviewed "Eight Crazy Nights" what more do you need!
Michael Ybarra ...Pixels.
Jack & Jill
Here's more fun facts:
Does Kingston Falls look a little familiar? It should. It's the same set as Hill Valley in "Back to the Future".
The first movie originally featured an entire subplot about Ms. Deagle working under the table with the bank to try and take over the town. This plot thread was eventually edited out but, as a result, Judge Reinhold's character was almost completely left on the editing room floor, almost to where he himself was just a glorified cameo. Deleted scenes reveal he managed to survive the gremlin attack by locking himself in the bank vault, but was driven insane by the carnage. (I think it would have made more sense to leave that in and Kate's out-of-nowhere monologue about the worst day of her life being Christmas out...)
The crew hated working with the problematic Gizmo puppet in the first movie, especially since the script was reworked during shooting to make him a "nice" Mogwai and, therefore, needed to be present through the entire film and longer than they expected to use it. They kept a list of things they wanted to do to the puppet to vent their anger, and one of them was to tie him to a dartboard and fling darts at him. They ended up putting that in the first movie.
Grandpa Fred laments at one point that Daniel Clamp won't show old classic black-and-white horror films because he only likes color films. This is another nod to Ted Turner and his infamous push to colorize all the old classic black and white movies.
I'll NEVER understand why Looney Tunes: Back In Action didn't do better. It was funny, clever, had lots of neat in-jokes, and overall showed WAYYYY more respect for the characters than Space Jam did.
Back in Action is highly underrated. It's what Space Jam should've been in a writing perspective.
Jennifer Schillig 2 words Michael Jordan. Back then he was one of if not THE most popular athlete in the world at that time. Probably still is. Anything with his name on it was a success no matter how ridiculous it was.
Jennifer Schillig the marketing wasnt up to par for the time and i believe bad timing. For a release.
I just don't think anyone had any interest in it. If they had done like a sequel to Space Jam or something with a different athlete, then maybe.
Jennifer Schillig
Oh my God, I watched that one 100 times when I was a kid
It became tradition whenever this one friend came over to watch it.
Gremlins films are so underrated, the original is a classic but the sequel is majorly underrated.
8:12 I love how there's also an "Invasion of the body snatchers" reference in the director's other film "Looney tunes, back in action".
Regarding #11, alcohol actually does more to dehydrate whereas water hydrates. So the Gremlins being able to drink beer may have something to do with that.
I remember Gremlins 2 coming out to a largely confused audience because it was so different from the first movie. It doesn't seem to come outright and say it was a satire of the first movie. I liked it better out of the two movies because it was so ridiculous that it felt like watching a cartoon acted out by humans and puppets.
The Critic mentioned Frank Welker did Stripe and Megatron. Well, Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimius Prime, voiced some of the other Gremlins as well.
One of the cops also happens be Mike from Breaking Bad
As soon as I got past the part where he talked about actors and he didn't mention Johnathan Banks, I scrolled down to find this comment.
4:20 E.t came out 2 years before the first gremlins, so how could they still be working out the title
Ikr!
The video says they snuck an early E.T. toy cameo into Gremlins, implying that Gremlins came out before E.T. What we're saying is that that's just not true, since it was a reference to a film that had come out two years before Gremlins.
By the way, your comment says nothing that we don't already know, and it misspells three words ("itself", "your", and "will"), so maybe proofread before calling someone else stupid.
+Ian Vincent Thank you!!!
A "working title" is just an early draft of the final title. Even if ET had already come out, they still could have put the first draft of the title in as an inside joke. It's not like they wouldn't have remembered it.
In addition we have to consider when Gremlins was filmed.
I love the What You Never Knew About series. Some movies I have or have not seen, or heard about have things I've never paid attention to. Even sometimes when I look up trivia on IMB or other sites, there's smaller info.
Fun fact: the company that made the original furbys also made a friend of furby E.T. and Gizmo
Damn so many cameos
IBroLLyI ISephirothI The director was a huge movie/cartoon buff
"Watch the Skies" was the working title for "Close Encounters"
Well, NC makes mistakes sometimes. He's only human.
wratched Looks like an entry for a new "Top 11 F*ck-ups"! Now, if only we could find ten more...
seanmyster6 this, lol
seanmyster6 I've got two! 1. Indominus Rex doesn't look like a raptor. 2. The Secret of NIMH is based on a book.
TheSUPERPOTATO2000 Sharing genetic data with a Raptor does not mean you will look like a raptor. They clearly gave the Indominus the T-Rexes physical characteristics (imporoved the arms) only a couple of the raptors physical characteristics, but more importantly intelligent, and then a slew of other genes from other animals.
In Gremlins 2, after Kate pulls the Clamp building fire alarm and people are evacuating, it looks like one of the office name tags says "R. Corman".
If I'm right, this is a nod to legendary B-movie director Roger Corman, who Dante has worked with and has a deep respect for.
Also: Corman produced the 1987 Gremlins-inspired "Munchies".
8:11 Yeah, Robbie the Robot was in Looney Toons Back in Action as well
While NC (Nostalgic Critic) found the giant pod in Invasion of the Body Snatchers in Gremlins 2, the movie showed up on Billy's TV in Gremlins part 1.
Isn't it always after midnight?
EXACT-sort of.
+Bobbi Blue The Magician Its wibbly wobbly timey wimey
well yea tecnecly..... •_•
+Oisin Love the Doctor Who reference.
No, until quarter to nine, because it's bath time then.
4:20 does anybody else think Gizmo looks like hes about to have a panic attack
Indeed. Now go kick Savitar's ass.
I literally just got done watching the first one, and it was interesting. Sometimes I was grossed out, sometimes I actually got a little nervous, and sometimes I felt a little bored. But as soon as the gremlins broke out on that snowplow, I laughed and thought "Okay, this is going to be fun."
I remember seeing the background gag of the Time Machine disappearing and cracking up. I was watching the movie with my family and they couldn't figure out why I was laughing because the foreground dialogue wasn't particularly funny. 🤣
In the first film I always wondered why she was serving beer to the Gremlins in the bar. When they first showed up why did she even start serving them? Did she ID them first (remember most of these things are under a day old, so not old enough to drink). Why did she continue to serve them when they didn't pay? Why didn't she leave or fight back when they started tearing the place up? I love the scene it's a lot of fun and I still enjoy watching. It's just really really weird that it happened at all.
If you were making tea in your kitchen and a bunch of Critters rolled in would offer them some?
Yet, whenever I say "Critters vs Gremlins," people look at me like I'm insane.
I think critters should get a lot more respect than just another monster film,especially critters 1and2
cause the design of the ceitters is actually pretty good,like remember when a giant critter came into the house was a good cliffhanger or what about when critters always say something in every film,isn't it just really good,it's such a pity that so little people know about this film
Shawnee Longbow i guess its because in the end, some see them as Gremlins rip offs. I mean, its like how people think Ghostbusters or Indiana Jones or Star Wars are original and others ripped them off with lower budgeted films and similar titles. If Critters is a rip off, at least it goes all the way with horror and they're aliens and they aren't about dangerously mischievous behavior, they're just little killers with big appetites and the first critters movie is barely like Gremlins in so many ways.
pablolara125 Right.
Shawnee Longbow That's Like Saying Star Trek was a Star Wars Ripoff
It's also worth mentioning that the town the first Gremlins movie takes place in is actually the same setup that was used as Hill Valley in Back to the Future. Also 7:53 that's not an AMC Gremlin, an AMC Gremlin is a hatchback.
i never noticed the time machine thing before but now that you pointed it out, its bloody amazing..... i hope should it ever get remade, the guys who do it, put the same kind of heart into it
Actually, that robot, Robbie is his name, is one of Sci-fi's biggest Easter eggs. After Forbidden Planet, Robbie has appeared in numerous other material including Columbo, The Addams Family, Lost in Space, The Twilight Zone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E and even Mork and Mindy. Truly one if history's most famous robots.
That little voice in the intro kills me every time! "I Never Knew That!" Every. Time.
3:53 Howie Mandel played Skeeter's voice on Muppet Babies!? o_O
CrystalMoonStar
Yep!
Weird is’nt it?
Yeah, He has parts in his early comedy routines where he's telling the audiences how he "came across" the Voice when he accidentally started choking on a piece of birthday cake at a friend's birthday party once, when he was a lot younger. And then not long after that he got the gig for doing Bobby's world, and then went on to voice Both SKEETER AND SCOOTER from Muppet Babies, AND Gizmo. He then makes the revelation to his audiences that "have you ever listened to them all AT THE SAME TIME?? IT'S THE EXACT SAME VOICE !!!! LOL :) :) I Love that man! He's so Freaking Hilarious!!!-- His early career comedy routines are on You Tube.
In terms of feeding the a mogwai, when does feeding after midnight technically end?
I'd assume daybreak.
yeah the rule would be easier to reconcile if it was just "don't feed them after sundown"
I'd say it's probably from midnight to 1 am or something but just best not to feed them till morning to be sure.
Jake Henley it’s gotta do with the sun’s position, so time zones do in fact take effect
I'd assume between 12pm, morning, and 12am, midnight, is when they are safe to eat something.
The original script for gremlins was actually supposed to be more darker and violent than the final product
One of my favorite touches that goes sadly unnoticed here is the Flashdance reference during the bar scene. Without the knowledge that Michael Sembello sings it, it doesn't make much sense, but knowing that, it's pretty funny rather than being a random reference that doesn't go anywhere.
Joe Dante's other Movie "Explorers" makes mention of the events in "gremlins" in a newspaper article….making the two movies take place in the same cinematic universe.
What’s the reference say ?
I was so proud and surprised when my mom pointed out Chuck Jones to me while we were watching it.
Man, I felt that the theatre gag in Gremlins 2 would've been funnier in theatres than on DVD... why did i not know about the VHS variant? that's cool!
Heh, this actually happened to my theater! When I was a kid, we watched the Gremlins 2 during a bad storm. Right around the time the Gremlins did their film gag, our theater's power actually went off and the emergency lights came on! OAO The theater's staff soon appeared and told us all to leave, but no one in the audience moved. We all thought it was a prank related to the movie. XD Eventually, we all did leave and I kept asking my parents on our way home if the Gremlins did that. :P
dantespimp Now that's comedy!
What a coincidence!
For that matter, I was always confused as to why the DVD version included the theater gag rather than the TV one - the TV gag makes no less sense for a DVD player than it does for a VCR, whereas the theater one only works for home viewing on the off-chance that you're watching it on a projector setup. I say make the VCR gag the one that plays during the movie, and make the theater one viewable as a DVD extra.
3:05 The injection wasn't what killed him, getting dragged under the desk to have his jugular knawed open or his neck snapped did. The needle in his ass was the just gremlin that killed him indulging in petty vengeance for having his blood drawn earlier.
When I saw the marquee sign, I could only think of one thing:
"Watch the skies, traveler."
Thank you for pointing out the VHS gag. I haven't found a clip of it online and hadn't seen it in so long I started to think I dreamt it up
I loved when the old lady flew out the window
It was my favorite part in the first movie
This lamb thinks all evil real estate agents should die that way.
Someone commented on another video, saying it's possible that the "Gremlins", just like the "real" ones, don't actually exist, so the whole movie is a cover story for Billy's killing spree. The creature is purchased, many people die, then the creature is given back. The start and end of the movie is the father telling an adventure/story, yet he is barely in the movie. I'd love to see a video of you entertaining how this could be possible for the first Gremlins movie. You must consider that the details within the movie (like witnesses/cops) were not actually around during the murders.
man the scene in the 2nd movie where phoebe gates starts telling the abe lincoln guy story actually is really messed up if you think about it. a story that starts like that almost always ends with the realization that something really not-good happened
In gremlins 1, when the theatre is on fire, one of the gremlins can be seen wearing a smoky the bear hat. Irony.
I haven't seen these since i was very, very small. I must watch them again.
I would have laughed a lot
if they added a small scene at the end with TNC being trapped in his review room with the Female Gremlin, as a nod to the funny scene at the end of the second film.
watch the skies was also the tag line for strange encounters of the third kind which was a reference to the final line of the original "the thing" from 1951, also the robot from the forbidden planet is named Robbie.
There is a commentary track on Grimlins with the dude who plays Billy and he is FUCKING hiliarious!! Seriously! He has a great sense of humor about the whole thing.
I would love to see NC's opinion on gremlins 2. Personally I love it, I think most of the criticism people bring up can basically be applied to the original, but they don't seem to care because of course the first is regarded as a classic meaning it apparently can't have any faults.
Here's a few things. The movie theatre does not have much luck in both Gremlins and Back to the Future. In Gremlins, it gets blown up and in Back to the Future, the Delorean crashes through the boarded up doors when Marty goes back to 1985. I wonder if it was closed down because it was blown up the year before.
In Billy's bedroom, he has an obscure poster on the wall of The Twilight Zone Movie which I'm sure Joe Dante worked on as well.
Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2 plays a doomsday tape that is based on an actual tape that was made to be used in the final hour when the end of the world comes.
Holy Great Scott! The time machine part was so fu king awesome! How did I miss it?
I thought E.T. came out before gremlins?
Wicket Ewok It sure did!
Wicket Ewok It did as well but that reference was just something Steven Spielberg wanted to put in
There's two scenes in the second movie that insinuate 911 happening also the movie takes place in New York in a tower. The first scene is where two news reporters stand next to each other with there broadcast microphones and one has 9 the other 11 almost touching. And then later in the film where you here a jet go by the tower but literally for no reason. I think there are others just can't remember off the top of my head. Good video!
They are glorious classics great video
Did you all know that Kingston Falls is actually Hill Valley from Back To The Future basically the same set
5:29-5:36 The three men working in the control center are The Juicy Fruits from Phantom of the Paradise.
4:30 and when the movie is shown on cable TV, the gremlins mess with your TV guide and go into movies like Batman, Batman Returns, Exorcist, and Raiders of The Lost Ark
Great video
John: I've smiled wide, cause I'm happy to see that nostalgia critic knew and talked about chuck jones, I was 9 years old when I was inspired and influenced by chuck Jones while I watched the chuck jones show.
7:53 that is a Chrysler K-car not a Gremlin. :)
good eye my man!! an amc gremlin is a small 1970s hatchback car. that car in the shot looks like an 80s Aires K. 😉
silicon212 I was just about to say something about that but I decided I'd look to see if someone else found that.
There is a an AMC Gremlin in the first film. It is the first car we see in Chinatown at the beginning of the film.
In the first Gremlins movie Billy's dad is played by Singer Songwriter Hoyt Axton he wrote a lot of songs for Three Dog Night. His works include Joy To the World, and Never Been To Spain.fun fact.
Ah yes quality video i expect nothing less from you doug walker
The downtown set of "Gremlins" is the same downtown set of "Back to the Future".
So Kingston Falls became Hill Valley about a year later.
I kinda think the mimes in Gremlins 2 were a reference to that scene in Batman where the Joker kills that guy with a pen, while his henchmen are disguised as mimes. Both movies are from the same studio, afterall.
WOW. I have seen Gremlins so many times and never did I catch the time machine in the background and then disappearing! LOL
The music used during the scene with the bat gremlin in the sequel is the same score used in The Burbs.
I NEVER KNEW THAT!
I love the bit about the time machine; that's hilarious!!!
The song that plays when the spider gremlin comes out is Angel of Death by Slayer
Although their voices sound very similar, Billy's boss, played by Haviland Morris, is not the same woman who voiced Korben's mother in The Fifth Element, who was Jill Mullan
Does anyone else hear wired background noise when the guy says "ohhh" to Billy's boss
The twin scientists played by Dan and Don Stanton also played the Warner Brothers in Looney Tunes: Back in Action; and again in Erie, Indiana both directed by Joe Dante!!
Here's one you missed. In the first movie's projection room scene, there's a poster on the wall that says MIRACLE PICTURES. IF IT'S A GOOD PICTURE, IT'S A MIRACLE. That poster's from Joe Dante's first movie, HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.
There's a small rumor that the original actors, and Speilberg, and Howie Mandel are working on a 3rd installment.
Another Fun fact: Joe Dante mentioned that Gremlins takes place in the same continuity as The Howling movies.
Can't wait for 3! And omg I can't put my finger on the song played in the video it's bugging the hell out of me!
12 was pretty cool. I want to watch these movies again.