Read the Empire Movie review of Gremlins. Dante’s critters-run-amok-in-snowbound-Spielberg-suburbia satire takes the Christmas milieu of It’s...

In what story there is, amiable Hoyt Axton comes across a mysterious creature in Chinatown and takes it home as a Christmas present for his likable teenage son, Zach Galligan. With the gift, he passes along a warning from the inscrutable Chinese that the creature must never get wet, be allowed into the sunshine or fed after midnight.

Like some evil twin of its producer’s earlier film ET, this sharp and wacky 1984 kids’ horror movie makes fun of American materialism and Christmastime commercialism

Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante make Gremlins a scary summer hit The parade of celluloid soldiers begins marshaling just before Memorial Day and swells to battalion proportions by the Fourth of July....

While most children of the ‘80s vividly remember Gremlins’ signature moments – the three crucial rules regarding the care of a Mogwai, the microwaving incident that helped usher in the MPAA’s PG-13 rating, the Scrooge-ish wicked witch Mrs. Deagle (Polly...

In Hollywood, the forces of truth, justice, family and America have always battled with the viewing public’s unquenchable lust for mayhem. Few movies have walke

PG • 1 hour 46 min • 1984

The perfect hangover cure for anyone who has overdosed on the Christmas spirit.

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"Gremlins" is a confrontation between Norman Rockwell's vision of Christmas and Hollywood's vision of the blood-sucking monkeys of voodoo island. It's fun. On