It starts with a Christmas gift – a cute, cuddly little ‘mogwai’ – but the time of goodwill soon turns hellish when, splashed with water, the creature starts sprouting the titular monsters, whose sense of mischief extends to the murderous and beyond…
With a characteristic mix of narrative anarchy, cinephile references, cartoon-style slapstick and black-tinged comedy, Joe Dante gleefully sinks his teeth into the kind of fluffy, sugary, sickly small town fantasy beloved of his pal and sometime producer Steven Spielberg.
Joe Dante / USA 1984 / 1h46m / Digital / 12A – Contains moderate violence and fantasy horror.
Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Keye Luke.