Here's Analog Jones's Christmas and New Year's episode. Enjoy us talking about one of the best little monster movies of the 80s, Gremlins!!!

Quick Facts

Directed by Joe Dante (The Howling, The Burbs)

Produced by Michael Finnell

Executive Producers Kathleen “Cartman” Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg

Written by Chris Columbus (The Goonies, Home Alone, Harry Potter)

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Released on June 8, 1984

Budget: $11 million

Box Office: $212.9 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Tomatometer / 78% Audience score

Starring

Zach Galligan as Billy Peltzer, a shy artist

Phoebe Cates as Kate Beringer, hates Christmas

Hoyt Axton as Randall "Rand" Peltzer, Billy’s father and a failed inventor

Polly Holliday as Ruby Deagle, an angry old lady who owns a lot in this small town, loves cats

Frances Lee McCain as Lynn Peltzer, a stay-at-home mom that goes Rambo on some Gremlins

Judge Reinhold as Gerald Hopkins, works at the bank with Billy. He’s only 23 and a VP

Dick Miller as Murray Futterman, a veteran that likes to have a drink every once in a while

Corey Feldman as Pete Fountaine, the neighbor kid that spills water on Gizmo

Mushroom the Dog as Barney, whom Mrs. Deagle makes multiple terroristic threats against.

Howie Mandel as Gizmo

Frank Welker as Stripe

Other vocal effects by Michael Winslow (Police Academy) and Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime).

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