1986 · creature · comedy · cult
Critters
Directed by Stephen Herek1h 26m1986
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
Our read: Critters (1986) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive creature · comedy · cult entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured creature / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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