Gremlins [30th Anniversary Diamond Luxe Edition] (Blu-ray) (1984) - Warner Home Video

Don't get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight.

Gremlins [30th Anniversary Diamond Luxe Edition]

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

Number of Discs: 2
Rated: PG
Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
Video: Color
Released: December 9, 2014
Originally Released: 1984
Label: Warner Home Video
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Note: Cute, clever, mischevious, intelligent and dangerous: making Gremlins - don't get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight! Discover the incredible story behind Gizmo's amazing journey from an antique store in Chinatown to the big screen

From Gizmo to Gremlins: creating the creatures - discover the incredible artistry involved in bringing life to Gizmo, Stripe and the Gremlins, from working (or not working) puppets to Howie Mandel voicing our favorite Mogwai
2 motion comics from the 1984 Gremlins books
And more!

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:

Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, French, Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
Dolby True HD 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Zach Galligan & Phoebe Cates
Performer:		Hoyt Axton, Judge Reinhold, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman, Polly Holliday, Dick Miller & Keye Luke
Directed by		Joe Dante
Edited by		Tina Hirsch
Screenwriting by		Chris Columbus
Composition by		Jerry Goldsmith
Produced by		Michael Finnell
Director of Photography:		John Hora
Executive Production by		Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall

Entertainment Reviews:

New York Times - 06/08/1984
"...A wiseacre mixture of movie-buff jokes, movie genres and movie sensibilities....An orgy of special effects..."

Variety - 05/23/1984
"...Director Joe Dante is in full control of his extraordinarily realistic mechanical creatures..."

Sight and Sound - 01/01/2006
"Dante scored his biggest hit with the slyly subversive GREMLINS..."

Total Film - 01/01/2013
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a treat for movie buffs, Dante peppering it with filmmaker cameos, cartoonish slapstick and satirical swipes at Hollywood classics from yesteryear."

Empire - 12/05/2014
5 stars out of 5 -- "Dante's critters-run-amok-in-snowbound-Spielberg-suburbia satire takes the Christmas milieu of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and splatters it with cartoony carnage, anarchic comedy and a stripe of gleeful subversion a mile wide. "

Product Description:

Joe Dante's hilariously funny, wickedly scary film is about a loveable, furry little Christmas gift that multiplies into many little Christmas gifts, with savage consequences. Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) is an inventor who hasn't successfully invented anything. But this Christmas he's bringing his family something special--a small, cuddly creature known as a mogwai. The little fella comes with three crucial instructions. He's not to be fed after midnight, he's not to get any direct light and he should never be given so much as a drop of water. If Rand and his son Billy (Zach Galligan) can adhere to these rules they can avoid the otherwise tragic consequences. Unfortunately, the rules are harder to stick to than it seems, and suddenly Billy finds himself with far too many "pets," all with big appetites. It's up to Billy and his girlfriend (Phoebe Cates) to stop the mischievous gremlins before they ruin Christmas for the residents of rural Kingston Falls. GREMLINS features a delightful combination of horror and humor that introduced Gizmo and his wild relatives to an entire generation of young fans.

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Production Notes:

Gremlins created by Chris Walas and creature consultant Jon Berg.
In the first scene of the film, Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) walks in front of a broken down American Motors Company "Gremlin", parked in front of the China town shop.
The Kingston Falls theatre marquee is showing a double bill, A BOY'S LIFE (working title for producer Steven Spielberg's E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL) and WATCH THE SKIES (working title for Spielberg's CLOSE ENCOUNTER'S OF THE THIRD KIND.)
An evil Gremlin says "phone home" when he disconnects the Peltzer's phone line, this is a reference to the famous line from Spielberg's E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL.
Cameo appearance by Steven Spielberg as the man at the inventor's in the electric wheelchair with a t.v. monitor.
Cameo appearance by composer Jerry Goldsmith at the inventor's convention.
Cameo appearance by Buggs Bunny cartoonist Chuck Jones, he is the man who looks at Billy's cartoon in the bar. There is a Warner Bros. cartoon playing on the television.