Critters (1986)
The battle began in another galaxy. It's about to end in the Brown's backyard.
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Critters rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.1/10· 42K votes
Rotten Tomatoes52%
Metacritic52%
TMDb6.487/10· 1K votesWith 52% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.1/10 on IMDb and 52/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Critters
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
Cast of Critters
Dee Wallace
as Helen Brown
M. Emmet Walsh
as Harv
Billy Green Bush
as Jay Brown
Scott Grimes
as Brad Brown
Nadine Van der Velde
as April Brown
Don Keith Opper
as Charlie McFadden
Lin Shaye
as Sally
Billy Zane
as Steve Elliot
Ethan Phillips
as Jeff Barnes
Terrence Mann
as Johnny Steele
Jeremy Lawrence
as Preacher
Michael Lee Gogin
as Zanti
Critters facts
- Budget
- $2M
- Box office
- $13.2M
- Collection
- Critters Collection
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Comedy-horror hybrid balances creature action with genre-aware humor
- •Alien invasion premise delivers fun practical effects and creative carnage
- •B-movie sensibility embraces camp without apology or pretension
What the audience disliked
- •Modest ratings suggest inconsistent tonal balance between horror-comedy
- •Low-budget constraints occasionally undermine visual spectacle and scope
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