This series ain't copying Gremlins at all!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Critters 3
!!!deleted!!! (60182924) — 9 years ago(April 08, 2016 02:35 PM)
Critters is about small creatures, so automatically, one assumes it's copying a classic like Gremlins. Critters was already in production first, but was not completed and released until during 1986. Also, I found Critters (the first Critters at least) to be scarier than Gremlins.
There wasn't that many scary scenes in Gremlins to be honest, apart from maybe the hatching scenes, the doctor's death, and the kitchen attack. But only if you are like 5 years old. -
Bag_of_Cancer — 9 years ago(April 15, 2016 03:50 PM)
This is one of the biggest bandwagon myths out there. Critters didn't copy Gremlins. They were just conveniently released around the same time with a similar antagonistic creature. Critters was in production first, like you mentioned, and actually had elements removed from the script to soften the similarities between the two series, yet people still rag on it for being a rip-off. It doesn't help that Gremlins is by far the more popular of the two, while Critters has a cult following but nothing mainstream, so it's much easier to give Gremlins the leg up.
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Roddenhyzer — 9 years ago(February 05, 2017 06:56 AM)
I never really cared about this criticism since I love both series, but I will say that later installments of the Critters series had pretty clear Gremlins influences, like that Hungry Heifer restaurant scene in Critters 2 or the kitchen scene in Critters 3 where one of the critters drinks dishwashing liquid.
The first Critters movie has very little in common with Gremlins, though.