Tell me something, Billy. How come a cute little guy like this can turn into a thousand ugly monsters?
No 310 - Gremlins Director - Joe Dante It is time to crack out some of the alternative Christmas classics. This is a brilliant Christmas film in that, like the equally brilliant Die Hard, it happens OVER Christmas but it isn't directly about Christmas. It also comes through the period when Speilberg was producing bonkers 80's comedies. The Goonies is a surprisingly dark film for a children's adventure, but it pales in comparison of the awesome darkness on show in Gremlins. This is violent messy anarchy. Surprisingly gory and full of messy explosions. It is a shame to see something so wildly madcap and dangerous made into something as anodyne as broadband repair . But that is the problem with nostalgic advertising execs. The film begins like a smokey film noir , reminiscent of Blade Runner with the voiceovers , Chinatown and shadowy figures wearing trilbys . However, that is only a brief introduction before we are introduced to the Mogwai in the form of the painfully cu...