We are Gen X. We watched R -Rated movies like the The Thing and Conan the Barbarian when we were SEVEN and we were NOT scarred for life. So Gremlins was nothing but a great time.
I think people have lost the meaning of a cult classic. This isn't a cult classic. It's just a straight classic. A Cult classic is an obscure movie or one that didn't initially do well but has developed a loyal fanbase. I love watching people react to old movies and I constantly hear them refer to a movie as a cult classic even if it was a super famous blockbuster when it came out.
It's funny that a lot of reactors act like the 80's were in the dark ages in terms of production. The practical effects in this and other movies of the era look so much better than most of the CGI in today's movies.
Yeah it's pretty annoying the way they cary on. No appreciation for the craft that goes into making these movies with practical effects. Just whiny snowflakes.
@@LarryBonson, it's like they were sheltered from anything that wasn't specifically marked as kids content when they were kids. Then they got older and only paid attention to modern stuff that was crass like video games, Adult Swim, Dave Chappelle, and internet humor.
I don't think it's because anybody here is sheltered or whiny. It was before they were born. I'm sure I had a similar view about anything from the 40's or 50's when I was younger.
You guys got a little confused. Water made new ones appear immediately. It was the food after midnight that caused them to go into a cocoon and turn into gremlins. Since it was a gremlin that jumped into the pool, he produced a lot of new gremlins is a short amount of time.
11:15 - 11:24 The original script was suppose to be MUCH darker. Initially, Billy's Mom was decapitated by the Gremlins, Barney (the dog) was going to be eaten by them, and Gizmo would turn evil and become Stripe. Thank god they didn't go ahead with those changes as it would've been an entirely different movie....😱
Having Gizmo stay as is was a great decision. It enhances his uniqueness: this cute cuddly singing ball of fur can reproduce infinitely with some water, but maybe one in a million turns out like Gizmo? Even rarer? All the others are evil monsters.
Gizmo into Stripe woulda killed the kids movie vibe for sure. How crazy older cartoon reruns were with that slap stick over the top exploding cigar type humor fits in with the bar scene and such. Mom was OP too.
Oh you HAVE to check out Gremlins 2 second batch, it's insane. Literally, Joe Dante was told you can do whatever you want and he does. Yet it sort of works. It's bonkers though.
As an 80s kid this was just good family entertainment and not scary at all. Problem these days is everyone is so soft and offended at everything, its really pathetic.
Gremlins, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the like were partly responsible for the development of a PG-13 rating. When there was PG or R, PG had a wide range.
Actually, it was more Temple of Doom and Ghostbusters. It wasn't until these 3 films came out around the same time where they really made the decision to create the PG-13 rating. It probably should have been created after Poltergeist.
Please react to the sequel : *Gremlins 2: The New Batch* (1990) Also i reocmmend you react to : ★ *The 'Burbs* (1989) _/starring _*_Tom Hanks_*_ , _*_Corey Feldman_*_ & _*_Carrie Fisher_* ★ *Small Soldiers* (1998) _/starring _*_Kirsten Dunst_*_ & _*_Tommy Lee Jones_*_ (voice)_ Both movies Directed by *Joe Dante* (Gremlins Saga) BONUS TRACK 🔥 *The Frighteners* (1996) _/starring _*_Michael J. Fox*/ Directed by *Peter Jackson_*
When I was a little kid, I would wake up extra early on Saturday mornings in hopes of catching an episode of Star Blazers. In my preteen years, seeing the on screen violence in a movie like Gremlins was comical. This is one of the movies that led to the PG13 rating.
Contrary to Twitter and other agenda driven platforms, their actually were tons of good female protagonists in movies for decades before 2015. Now, they were realistic and didn't do stupud stuff like beat up guys twice their size, but they were well written and competent.
Why do people go out of their way to complicate things? It’s a horror movie. It’s literally monsters attacking a town and killing people. At night. With moody lighting.
When this movie came out, I was 2 years old but I didn't see it till I was 6 years old. Still stands up to this day. Still love it and Gizmo was still as cute as I Remember him
You have to watch Gremlins 2 now! While being a sequel, it is also being a spoof of the first movie with tounge in cheek humour, self reference, and everything dialed up to 11!
I'm always amazed that people think this is a kids' movie. I saw this in the theater in 84, and it was shocking even then. But wow, did it become famous fast.
I didn't find it shocking as a kid watching it but kids are different and that's why it had the parental guidance so that parents who know their kids best could decide if it was ok for them to see it
I remember seeing this when I was 10. It was me, my cousin, and my godmother's two daughters. We all loved it. But little did we know, that are moms that were sitting a couple rows back from us, spent the entire movie with their heads in their purses. They were scared shitless. Lol
I was 10 when this came out and my favorite scene was the chair lift death. Some cameras had a flash you had to buy and replace (usually a square cube that would rotate so you had 4 flashes before needing to replace).
I was 14 years old when that movie came out and I was watching movies like Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, so I had no problem with Gremlins.😂
Fun fact : in the very early yrs of Bug's Buuny , he meets a Gremlin hamering away at a bomb. And the Gremlin says that he's gonna blow up the planet. These Bug's Bunny cartoons came out during WW2. That's why Gremlins is mentioned during WW2. Another thing is the script was more of a horror movie. It was never intended to be a family movie. The mothers head gets chopped off , many town folk die etc.
Gremlins was pretty mainstream popular back in the day. It had toys, a cartoon, an NES game, and two sequels. Not what I would consider a "cult classic."
i watched this film for the first time 10years ago when i was 12 with my brother and niece. My brother used to bring movies in his laptop for me everytime he returned to home during his semester break
For the record a lot of the films you mentioned including this one came out with a 15 cert in the UK. Nowadays those same films would probably be a 12A in the UK .
I saw this in the theater. It was marketed as a cute movie. I remember my mother sitting in the lobby with a bunch of freaked out little kids. There were a bunch of mad moms. This movie was one that got PG13 created as a rating.
*i dont know that enough people realize what a cinematic marvel this movie truly is!!! I love that you appreciated all the movie magic that made this one of a kind masterpiece come to life, Jaby!!! Its such an enigmatic feat, and it will always hold a special place in my heart!!* 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Corey Feldman also starred in Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter in 1984. Both Judge Reinhold and Jonathan Banks starred in Beverly Hills Cop also in 1984.
What's interesting is I remember a time maybe around the mid 90's to early 2000's there was talk about kids being desensitized to violence because a lot of us grew up on movies like these, but it looks like things shifted because the new generation is honestly a bunch of wussies, look at all the reactions to movies we grew up on and they are always so shocked. Movies like this didn't traumatize us, sure there were a handful that couldn't take it, but the majority of us were just fine, I watched everything from G to R, I watched RoboCop when I was in kindergarten for example and I'm perfectly fine no mental issues whatsoever because even back then I knew the difference between reality and fantasy, they were stories I enjoyed watching even if I didn't totally understand what was going on I knew enough to not take it too seriously.
31:58 omg dude... It's a movie about magical little monsters from the 80s... It's to just go with it laugh and enjoy... Not anguish yourself with "RCA cars don't have pedals, how do they know snow-white, why they cocoon so fast, what if it's 1159 and they eat and the digestion, how strong are they" next you're gonna worry they don't pay taxes. Jesus... If you watch gremlins 2 you're gonna frak out with the meta and complete nonsense but it's so much fun.
If you overthink the rules you’ll realize it doesn’t make sense. Example being if water makes them multiply then how can they walk or be out in the snow? It would melt on their bodies or under their feet. So best thing to do is just watch, don’t question anything and enjoy the ride lol 😂
I don't know why people call this a "kids" movie? First, we were a lot tougher back then. And PG stands for :Parental Guidance". We didn't have PG-13 yet. G was for kids.
Yeah, many PG films in the 70s and early 80s were more for adults than for kids. The movie Tourist Trap (1979) is one of the creepiest films ever and it's rated PG. Hardly any film gets rated G anymore. I think because kids films are all PG now, it creates that misconception of the rating with films in the past.
PG was still for kids. If it had cute creatures, it was marketed to kids no matter what happened. There wasn't so much the sense of "kids movies" and "adult movies." The knock-offs like "Ghoulies" or whatever were what got more pigeon-holed into the horror category. Spielberg's clout and production sense was what really turned this into a mainstream studio film.
@@thorguff No, I'm saying that there were many PG rated movies that came out in that time were for adults, not kids based on the genre and content. Tourist Trap, rated PG, was definitely not a kids movie. The China Syndrome, rated PG, was definitely for adults. Some movies could be enjoyed by both, obviously, but the rating of movies in the 70s and early 80s had nothing to do with a movie being for kids or adults.
About the flash on the camera. No it wouldn't keep flashing. It had nothing to do with how much film was in the camera. Those old things used cartridges with five or six magnesium flash bulbs. you got one flash per bulb and when they were all burned out you needed a new cartridge.
Makes me laugh that. What it should say is no one cared & didn't keep getting "offended" by everything,kept singling people out constantly & was taught sticks & stones when we were called names. Not like wrapping people up constantly & ramming the virtue signalling 24/7 like now.
I saw this in the theater when it was released. It did have a horror element to it, but nothing like a typical Jason slasher flick. If you didn't take it too seriously, it became a dark humor type movie. I wasn't traumatized by it, I thought it was fun movie. We had it so good back in the 70's and 80's. Best music and the best movies.
We Gen X were built different, we weren't easily offended or scared ;-) You should see some of the animated movies we watched as small kids, they were just as dark (Watership Down, Secret of Nimh, Dot and the Kangaroo, The Black Cauldron, Fire & Ice, The Last Unicorn and more)
The style of Director Joe Dante was more influenced by cartoons than it was by film. So I kind of laughed when you said that gong at the beginning was cheesy and I thought, 'They don't know Joe Dante very well.' A film of his I always enjoyed more than this, which has only had two reactors react to it on the whole of UA-cam, is Innerspace (1987). A film that flopped because it was badly marketed, not because it was a bad film. It stars Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. From the writer of The Lost Boys and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and exec produced by Steven Spielberg (just like this film). Do I need to plug it further? Okay, Ashleigh Burton's reaction to it brought in 69k views. Her reaction to Avengers: Endgame only brought in 45k views, over a longer period. You do the math.
When we first watched this movie, my brother and I loved it. My brother even had my mom make him a Mogwai costume for Halloween, the mask drove my dog nuts he would bark and bark constantly when my brother would put it on.
Yeah, I've seen a few other instances of dogs (and cats) freaking out when one of their humans wears a mask. I guess they do recognize our faces, since they are not bothered or confused by us changing our clothes.
Darn, I enjoyed your reaction to Wonka but this one not so much...Too critical of everything and comparing everything to some other cheesy pop culture that didn't even exist then
That’s called “Presentism”. When people sh*t on the past because it wasn’t the same as today. Those sorts of people have no common sense. Also called, “virtue signalers”.
Great reaction, you guys I’m sorry that you were so traumatised. When this movie came out, it wasn’t a kids movie. It was just a movie. I guess we were just made a little bit tougher back in the day. 😁❤️
$200 in 1984 is equal to $600 now. Also, the "town" they used is in fact, the Universal backlot, and it's the same town square they used for Back To The Future. Howie Mandel is also the voice of Gizmo.
"Why focus so much energy into this, we get it, they're making a mess..." lol Bro. There is also another aspect of movies...entertainment. Its an entertaining scene. lol Also "That kid's got a mouth on him!" Was that Goonies reference on purpose? I loved Corey Feldman when he was a kid. His role in Goonies as "Mouth" was probably my favorite though, next to his role as one of the Frog brothers in "The Lost Boys". Y'all are right though, society has been sensitized too much. At 46, I am baffled at what shocks and scares people nowadays.
The thing is in the 80s they didn't treat kids like kids. They left it up to the parents to actually parent. I wish we would go back to the way things were in the 80's. Most of the kids growing up today are way too soft. Which is dumb because they have access to the internet. Most are bombarded with sexual content on a daily but we're trying to shield them from violence. It's so ass backwards.
It's funny that you mentioned the kid in the Christmas tree suit had a mouth on him as he plays a character called mouth in another fantastic movie the goonies.
i remember seeing this movie on tv when i was very young, like maybe 4 or 5, & the part with the mom fighting the gremlins terrified me & was really the only part of the movie i remembered until i got around to finally rewatching it in my late teens.
I have to tell everyone that Mushroom (the dog) thought Gizmo was a real, living animal because of its animatronics, so he took a liking to Gizmo and wouldn’t leave his side. That becomes cute when you see the dog lying next to Gizmo in the scene when Billy shows his father the new ones after they multiplied.
This came out when I was 6.I had a couple Gremlins shirts, one even had a pic on the back of a backpack with Gizmos head poking out. Also had a set of books and records that Hardees (or it could've been Burger King) gave out with their kids meals when this came out. 80's were a great time for movies
Back then, parents like mine didn't look at or care about movie ratings, like PG or R. Cable boxes didn't even have parental controls. My parents would actually take us kids to R-rated movies that they wanted to watch. So to me, as a young child, this movie was just pure fun and is nastlagic on rewatches today. Plus, these parental ratings are like, "Do as I say, not as I do," hypocritical. Like, why are parents watching stuff that they don't think their kids should be watching? If you really think something is so bad, maybe you shouldn't be watching it either.
And a lot of parents back then didn't bother themselves with looking at ratings or content. I'll never forget when my two older sisters got our parents to let us watch Heavy Metal on their bedroom TV. All my sisters had to do was say "hey, can we watch this new cartoon on your tv?" Mom and dad never asked what it was about or rated.
@@LarryBonson mate people used to be offended when Hitchock showed a toilet flushing in Psycho,. people being offended over dumb shit isn't new, if anything people nowadays are far less sensitive
@LarryBonson again, people got triggered over a toilet being flushed. Nowadays you can show a man being pegged by his prostitute girlfriend in the cinema and people being blown to pieces without much fuss🤷🏻♀️.
18:19 - *_Yup! And if you want another "Horror Film for Kids" from the 80's, I highly recommend: The Gate (1987). Lower budget (Indy film) but still GREAT practical affects!_*
Y'all should DEFINITELY watch the sequel!! It is more of a comedy/satire, but still good! And 'Ravenous', 1999 b6 Antonia Bird!! That's a horror comedy too that I'm sure you will love! Its woefully underrated and under watched!
this movie was actually the reason for creation of PG-13. Spielberg kept pushing the line with Jaws, Indiana Jones and Gremlins until it was too much 😅
@@valashar5313 Yeah, the language and sexual innuendos or comments, particularly the parts when Dana is possessed and Ray gets gratification from a ghost. The creepy gargoyle dogs and Gozer's appearance at the end definitely creeped out a lot of kids.
@@Justin0807 The ghost BJ scene was director's cut only. And 'creeping out kids' has nothing to do with a film's rating, which is what I was remarking on.
@@valashar5313 No, it's in the original version. I had the movie on VHS and saw it several times. And the creepy scenes can increase the intensity of the film. With that logic, Halloween (1978) could have been PG because just about all the violence was off screen and there wasn't much foul language. Many adults found some scenes in Ghostbusters to be more intense for a PG film, such as when Dana gets pulled in by the gargoyle. Besides all that, the language alone was definitely enough to make it PG-13. No way it would have PG if it was released in the 90s or later.
When I first saw this as a little kidI was fascinated by Gizmo and the Gremlins and had fun seeing them get crazy. I guess getting introduced to fantasy and sci-fi at an early age will do that to you. But I also took it as a caution tale because I thought they were real too.
Dude! Keys Luke doesn't have a 'crazy exaggerated Asian accent' because that's his NATURAL accent. The reason that kids could watch movies like Gremlins was that it was made at a time when we didn't burst into tears as soon as someone spoke too loud, like 'ADULTS' do today.
There is no resisting the allure of 80s Phoebe Cates. I saw this when it came out (near enough), and I'm pretty sure the Gremlins films (and The Breakfast Club) heavily informed my taste in women. Ironically, I did not see her saucier films until I was much more age-appropriate, lol.
I love this movie so much that I named my dog Gizmo! Between the practical effects, the quirky humor, and the genuinely chaotic horror sequences, this is one of the best holiday horror films of all time.
You guys need to watch the sequel now for sure. It's my favorite. There is so much going on in that movie. It's pure insanity.. But in a good way..lol.
Gremlins, The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Young Sherlock Holmes. Spielberg defined my childhood 😊 Only Temple of Doom gave me nightmares.
They really tried to cut pheopes christmas speech the director and Billy fought hard to keep it in cause with out it her character means nothing she's just a rd side kick but her speech did so much for pheobes career
I was already 12 when this movie came out, so I was kind of too old by then to feel traumatized by Gremlins. War of the Gargantuas, on the other hand, I saw when I was four; and I still have nightmares about it to this day.
Notice the mom and Gizmo are taken out of most of the movie? That's because the mom was supposed to die around that kitchen part. And Gizmo was supposed to be the real villain. But they felt Gizmo was too cute so they tried to find another use for him. This and TEMPLE OF DOOM were the two main movies that started the discussion of a PG-13 rating. And I think the first PG-13 movie was RED DAWN later that year.
Fun fact the city set they use in this movie is the same city set for Hill Valley in Back to the Future. The theater that Billy bows up in this movie is the same theater Marty crashes into in Back to the Future. This movie was inspired by a Twilight Zone episode where William Shatner sees a monster on a wing of a plane that only he sees. It makes the plane crash.
I watched this movie as a kid and I did find some scenes scary. Overall I did enjoy the movie and I think it is incredible what the puppeteers were able to do. I would absolutely love it if Cinepals do a reaction to Small Soldiers at some point in the future.
We are Gen X. We watched R -Rated movies like the The Thing and Conan the Barbarian when we were SEVEN and we were NOT scarred for life. So Gremlins was nothing but a great time.
dont forget Aliens, Jaws, Friday 13th, Nightmare on elm st, Hellraiser, etc etc..... kids today are pu$$!3$. LOL
I dunno, I’m X and I wonder if how apathetic and cross we can be stems from some of it.
dont forget Bachelor Party, and Porkys and Revenge of the Nerds...
1984 was a great year for movies 😊
As a mid generational millennial, I was raised exactly the same way
I think people have lost the meaning of a cult classic. This isn't a cult classic. It's just a straight classic. A Cult classic is an obscure movie or one that didn't initially do well but has developed a loyal fanbase. I love watching people react to old movies and I constantly hear them refer to a movie as a cult classic even if it was a super famous blockbuster when it came out.
Exactly.
Like this anime show Evangelion 🎉🎉🎉
Seriously this movie is referenced in everything everybody knows this movie
It's just not Christmas if you're not watching Gremlins and Die Hard, guys.
it's a wonderful life
miracle on 34th street
gremlins
die hard
EXACTLY!
It's funny that a lot of reactors act like the 80's were in the dark ages in terms of production. The practical effects in this and other movies of the era look so much better than most of the CGI in today's movies.
A lot of these reactors were raised sheltered.
Yeah it's pretty annoying the way they cary on. No appreciation for the craft that goes into making these movies with practical effects. Just whiny snowflakes.
@@jasongoodacre So true. Also many see practical effects and says out loud "pretty good graphics from back then" UGH !
@@LarryBonson, it's like they were sheltered from anything that wasn't specifically marked as kids content when they were kids. Then they got older and only paid attention to modern stuff that was crass like video games, Adult Swim, Dave Chappelle, and internet humor.
I don't think it's because anybody here is sheltered or whiny. It was before they were born. I'm sure I had a similar view about anything from the 40's or 50's when I was younger.
You guys got a little confused. Water made new ones appear immediately. It was the food after midnight that caused them to go into a cocoon and turn into gremlins. Since it was a gremlin that jumped into the pool, he produced a lot of new gremlins is a short amount of time.
"Kid's got a mouth on him." Well his nickname was "Mouth" in the Goonies...
was just about to say that
Yeah this movie is Corey Feldman’s first movie.
Just think, that story about the dad dying in the chimney is also how many of us found out there is no Santa. 😂
11:15 - 11:24 The original script was suppose to be MUCH darker. Initially, Billy's Mom was decapitated by the Gremlins, Barney (the dog) was going to be eaten by them, and Gizmo would turn evil and become Stripe. Thank god they didn't go ahead with those changes as it would've been an entirely different movie....😱
Having Gizmo stay as is was a great decision. It enhances his uniqueness: this cute cuddly singing ball of fur can reproduce infinitely with some water, but maybe one in a million turns out like Gizmo? Even rarer? All the others are evil monsters.
Gizmo into Stripe woulda killed the kids movie vibe for sure. How crazy older cartoon reruns were with that slap stick over the top exploding cigar type humor fits in with the bar scene and such. Mom was OP too.
Remember:
Technically, it's always past midnight.
hah yeah I remember as kids we had some pretty interesting discussion about this rule and also the one about water, because they do drink stuff, lol
Oh you HAVE to check out Gremlins 2 second batch, it's insane. Literally, Joe Dante was told you can do whatever you want and he does. Yet it sort of works. It's bonkers though.
It’s actually called The New Batch.
A sequel crazy enough to inspire a Key and Peele skit. Bonkers movie, absolutely love it.
I do adore that film's willingness to parody its own previous installment.
As an 80s kid this was just good family entertainment and not scary at all. Problem these days is everyone is so soft and offended at everything, its really pathetic.
Couldnt said any better !
Yeah this was on TV early in the evening usually when on TV, we watched much worse R-Rated films as kids, lol
Absolutely agree 💯
Gremlins, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the like were partly responsible for the development of a PG-13 rating.
When there was PG or R, PG had a wide range.
Actually, it was more Temple of Doom and Ghostbusters. It wasn't until these 3 films came out around the same time where they really made the decision to create the PG-13 rating. It probably should have been created after Poltergeist.
@@Justin0807, "Sixteen Candles" was also one that sparked some controversy earlier in 1984 with its PG rating.
@@Justin0807Yup... I remember at the time reading/ hearing that it was TOD and Gremlins in particular that finally led to the PG-13 rating.
The budget was $11 million, and box office was $213 million. "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" (1990) is a very fun film, too.🏆
Please react to the sequel :
*Gremlins 2: The New Batch* (1990)
Also i reocmmend you react to :
★ *The 'Burbs* (1989) _/starring _*_Tom Hanks_*_ , _*_Corey Feldman_*_ & _*_Carrie Fisher_*
★ *Small Soldiers* (1998) _/starring _*_Kirsten Dunst_*_ & _*_Tommy Lee Jones_*_ (voice)_
Both movies Directed by *Joe Dante* (Gremlins Saga)
BONUS TRACK
🔥 *The Frighteners* (1996)
_/starring _*_Michael J. Fox*/ Directed by *Peter Jackson_*
I second ‘The Frighteners’
Great Choices!
i agreed
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Yes! Absolutely love the burbs ❤❤
@@vishalnimkar8246 yes! Directed by Peter Jackson ''Lord of the Rings''
@@emilykeegan4345 Absolutely, Underrated Horror Comedy!
When I was a little kid, I would wake up extra early on Saturday mornings in hopes of catching an episode of Star Blazers. In my preteen years, seeing the on screen violence in a movie like Gremlins was comical. This is one of the movies that led to the PG13 rating.
I LOVED Star Blazers, but it was on weekdays where I lived.
I think every kid my age was in love with Phoebe Cates back then. After Fast Times at Ridgemont High, she was a household name.
She did a Blue Lagoon ripoff movie called Paradise whim was ok. She did a few other movies. Yes I had a crush on her.
Contrary to Twitter and other agenda driven platforms, their actually were tons of good female protagonists in movies for decades before 2015. Now, they were realistic and didn't do stupud stuff like beat up guys twice their size, but they were well written and competent.
Mrs. Peltzer seems like the generic 80s mom and housewife - right up until she massacres multiple Gremlins in hardcore close combat.
Thank you! All those idiots never saw alien, terminator or star wars?
if any of those movies came out today people would be calling them woke feminist propaganda
It's described more often as a Christmas movie than horror or kids movie
Why do people go out of their way to complicate things? It’s a horror movie. It’s literally monsters attacking a town and killing people. At night. With moody lighting.
When this movie came out, I was 2 years old but I didn't see it till I was 6 years old. Still stands up to this day. Still love it and Gizmo was still as cute as I Remember him
I watched this so much as a child. I noticed you could see someone push the tree on the mother.
You have to watch Gremlins 2 now! While being a sequel, it is also being a spoof of the first movie with tounge in cheek humour, self reference, and everything dialed up to 11!
I'm always amazed that people think this is a kids' movie. I saw this in the theater in 84, and it was shocking even then. But wow, did it become famous fast.
I saw it in the theater with my step dad. It was awesome.
I didn't find it shocking as a kid watching it but kids are different and that's why it had the parental guidance so that parents who know their kids best could decide if it was ok for them to see it
The healing power of laughter, it makes us able to get through the darkest times.
I remember seeing this when I was 10. It was me, my cousin, and my godmother's two daughters. We all loved it. But little did we know, that are moms that were sitting a couple rows back from us, spent the entire movie with their heads in their purses. They were scared shitless. Lol
Proud Gen X here, this was our Sunday afternoon movietime.
Phoebe Cates was the heartthrob of the 80s.
I was 10 when this came out and my favorite scene was the chair lift death.
Some cameras had a flash you had to buy and replace (usually a square cube that would rotate so you had 4 flashes before needing to replace).
As I remember, when I was a kid Gremlins was in the horror section alongside Critters.
Critters and Ghoulies.
@@jjkcharlie Nice ones. Got them both and lot more. Good camp movies from the 80's
I was 14 years old when that movie came out and I was watching movies like Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, so I had no problem with Gremlins.😂
Who knew Howie Mandel could be so cute 😍 - He voices Gizmo to perfection 🥰
Fun fact : in the very early yrs of Bug's Buuny , he meets a Gremlin hamering away at a bomb. And the Gremlin says that he's gonna blow up the planet. These Bug's Bunny cartoons came out during WW2. That's why Gremlins is mentioned during WW2. Another thing is the script was more of a horror movie. It was never intended to be a family movie. The mothers head gets chopped off , many town folk die etc.
Gremlins was pretty mainstream popular back in the day. It had toys, a cartoon, an NES game, and two sequels. Not what I would consider a "cult classic."
i watched this film for the first time 10years ago when i was 12 with my brother and niece.
My brother used to bring movies in his laptop for me everytime he returned to home during his semester break
For the record a lot of the films you mentioned including this one came out with a 15 cert in the UK. Nowadays those same films would probably be a 12A in the UK .
I saw this in the theater. It was marketed as a cute movie. I remember my mother sitting in the lobby with a bunch of freaked out little kids. There were a bunch of mad moms. This movie was one that got PG13 created as a rating.
Fun fact:
Jackie Joseph (Mrs. Gutterman) was the voice actress who played Melody, the blond dumb group member of Josie & The Pussycats.
*i dont know that enough people realize what a cinematic marvel this movie truly is!!! I love that you appreciated all the movie magic that made this one of a kind masterpiece come to life, Jaby!!! Its such an enigmatic feat, and it will always hold a special place in my heart!!* 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Corey Feldman also starred in Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter in 1984.
Both Judge Reinhold and Jonathan Banks starred in Beverly Hills Cop also in 1984.
What's interesting is I remember a time maybe around the mid 90's to early 2000's there was talk about kids being desensitized to violence because a lot of us grew up on movies like these, but it looks like things shifted because the new generation is honestly a bunch of wussies, look at all the reactions to movies we grew up on and they are always so shocked. Movies like this didn't traumatize us, sure there were a handful that couldn't take it, but the majority of us were just fine, I watched everything from G to R, I watched RoboCop when I was in kindergarten for example and I'm perfectly fine no mental issues whatsoever because even back then I knew the difference between reality and fantasy, they were stories I enjoyed watching even if I didn't totally understand what was going on I knew enough to not take it too seriously.
Call me a conspiracy theorists I believe the agenda was to turn us into wussies and they succeeded.
Billy's mom was also Lorraine's 50s mom in BTTF.
The city set in this movie is the same set in back to the future.
Give Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai a watch. It's actually getting its second season soon too and I think it deserves it.
31:58 omg dude... It's a movie about magical little monsters from the 80s... It's to just go with it laugh and enjoy... Not anguish yourself with "RCA cars don't have pedals, how do they know snow-white, why they cocoon so fast, what if it's 1159 and they eat and the digestion, how strong are they" next you're gonna worry they don't pay taxes. Jesus... If you watch gremlins 2 you're gonna frak out with the meta and complete nonsense but it's so much fun.
I feel your pain.
If you overthink the rules you’ll realize it doesn’t make sense. Example being if water makes them multiply then how can they walk or be out in the snow? It would melt on their bodies or under their feet. So best thing to do is just watch, don’t question anything and enjoy the ride lol 😂
19:30 No, he was mourning all his boys being dead.
gremlins was one of the first pg13 movies
(one of my favorite movies)
The mom has the best kills not just this movie just the best kills
I don't know why people call this a "kids" movie? First, we were a lot tougher back then. And PG stands for :Parental Guidance". We didn't have PG-13 yet. G was for kids.
Yeah, many PG films in the 70s and early 80s were more for adults than for kids. The movie Tourist Trap (1979) is one of the creepiest films ever and it's rated PG.
Hardly any film gets rated G anymore. I think because kids films are all PG now, it creates that misconception of the rating with films in the past.
PG was still for kids. If it had cute creatures, it was marketed to kids no matter what happened. There wasn't so much the sense of "kids movies" and "adult movies." The knock-offs like "Ghoulies" or whatever were what got more pigeon-holed into the horror category. Spielberg's clout and production sense was what really turned this into a mainstream studio film.
@@thorguff No, I'm saying that there were many PG rated movies that came out in that time were for adults, not kids based on the genre and content. Tourist Trap, rated PG, was definitely not a kids movie. The China Syndrome, rated PG, was definitely for adults. Some movies could be enjoyed by both, obviously, but the rating of movies in the 70s and early 80s had nothing to do with a movie being for kids or adults.
About the flash on the camera. No it wouldn't keep flashing. It had nothing to do with how much film was in the camera. Those old things used cartridges with five or six magnesium flash bulbs. you got one flash per bulb and when they were all burned out you needed a new cartridge.
"It was a different time"
Before people who looked for racism in everything came along.
The 80's were way more 'progressive' than now.
Makes me laugh that. What it should say is no one cared & didn't keep getting "offended" by everything,kept singling people out constantly & was taught sticks & stones when we were called names. Not like wrapping people up constantly & ramming the virtue signalling 24/7 like now.
I saw this in the theater when it was released.
It did have a horror element to it, but nothing like a typical Jason slasher flick.
If you didn't take it too seriously, it became a dark humor type movie.
I wasn't traumatized by it, I thought it was fun movie.
We had it so good back in the 70's and 80's.
Best music and the best movies.
We Gen X were built different, we weren't easily offended or scared ;-) You should see some of the animated movies we watched as small kids, they were just as dark (Watership Down, Secret of Nimh, Dot and the Kangaroo, The Black Cauldron, Fire & Ice, The Last Unicorn and more)
The style of Director Joe Dante was more influenced by cartoons than it was by film. So I kind of laughed when you said that gong at the beginning was cheesy and I thought, 'They don't know Joe Dante very well.' A film of his I always enjoyed more than this, which has only had two reactors react to it on the whole of UA-cam, is Innerspace (1987). A film that flopped because it was badly marketed, not because it was a bad film.
It stars Martin Short, Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. From the writer of The Lost Boys and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and exec produced by Steven Spielberg (just like this film). Do I need to plug it further? Okay, Ashleigh Burton's reaction to it brought in 69k views. Her reaction to Avengers: Endgame only brought in 45k views, over a longer period. You do the math.
When we first watched this movie, my brother and I loved it. My brother even had my mom make him a Mogwai costume for Halloween, the mask drove my dog nuts he would bark and bark constantly when my brother would put it on.
Yeah, I've seen a few other instances of dogs (and cats) freaking out when one of their humans wears a mask. I guess they do recognize our faces, since they are not bothered or confused by us changing our clothes.
Darn, I enjoyed your reaction to Wonka but this one not so much...Too critical of everything and comparing everything to some other cheesy pop culture that didn't even exist then
That’s called “Presentism”. When people sh*t on the past because it wasn’t the same as today. Those sorts of people have no common sense. Also called, “virtue signalers”.
Great reaction, you guys I’m sorry that you were so traumatised. When this movie came out, it wasn’t a kids movie. It was just a movie. I guess we were just made a little bit tougher back in the day. 😁❤️
Mike from breaking bad as cop #2 is great
$200 in 1984 is equal to $600 now. Also, the "town" they used is in fact, the Universal backlot, and it's the same town square they used for Back To The Future. Howie Mandel is also the voice of Gizmo.
6:40
Its funny that you say Furby
Because the Mogwai is what furby was inspired by
They also made Furby Gizmo
Jaby, don't question the powers of the Barbie Corvette!!😂
The mom is a BADASS, she has the highest gremlin bodycount in both movies.
"Why focus so much energy into this, we get it, they're making a mess..." lol Bro. There is also another aspect of movies...entertainment. Its an entertaining scene. lol Also "That kid's got a mouth on him!" Was that Goonies reference on purpose? I loved Corey Feldman when he was a kid. His role in Goonies as "Mouth" was probably my favorite though, next to his role as one of the Frog brothers in "The Lost Boys". Y'all are right though, society has been sensitized too much. At 46, I am baffled at what shocks and scares people nowadays.
We've also been desensitized in a lot of ways.
The thing is in the 80s they didn't treat kids like kids. They left it up to the parents to actually parent. I wish we would go back to the way things were in the 80's. Most of the kids growing up today are way too soft. Which is dumb because they have access to the internet. Most are bombarded with sexual content on a daily but we're trying to shield them from violence. It's so ass backwards.
It's neither a kids movie nor a Christmas movie. It's a PHOEBE CATES movie..... 😍
No, that would be Fast Time at Ridgemont High. Here, she has the saddest and most terrifying backstory.
It's funny that you mentioned the kid in the Christmas tree suit had a mouth on him as he plays a character called mouth in another fantastic movie the goonies.
i remember seeing this movie on tv when i was very young, like maybe 4 or 5, & the part with the mom fighting the gremlins terrified me & was really the only part of the movie i remembered until i got around to finally rewatching it in my late teens.
I have to tell everyone that Mushroom (the dog) thought Gizmo was a real, living animal because of its animatronics, so he took a liking to Gizmo and wouldn’t leave his side. That becomes cute when you see the dog lying next to Gizmo in the scene when Billy shows his father the new ones after they multiplied.
This came out when I was 6.I had a couple Gremlins shirts, one even had a pic on the back of a backpack with Gizmos head poking out. Also had a set of books and records that Hardees (or it could've been Burger King) gave out with their kids meals when this came out. 80's were a great time for movies
Yes, the sequels are all worth the watch and you will get a lot more back story on many characters and how they are all connected
If an 80s child was traumatized by this.... they are the weak.
"Compliments to the director for not giving that Asian guy a crazy thick Asian accent."
It worked for Pat Morita. It depends on what you're going for.
Back then, parents like mine didn't look at or care about movie ratings, like PG or R. Cable boxes didn't even have parental controls. My parents would actually take us kids to R-rated movies that they wanted to watch. So to me, as a young child, this movie was just pure fun and is nastlagic on rewatches today.
Plus, these parental ratings are like, "Do as I say, not as I do," hypocritical. Like, why are parents watching stuff that they don't think their kids should be watching? If you really think something is so bad, maybe you shouldn't be watching it either.
Ratings became a big thing in the early mid 90's creating the sensitivity we see now.
And a lot of parents back then didn't bother themselves with looking at ratings or content. I'll never forget when my two older sisters got our parents to let us watch Heavy Metal on their bedroom TV. All my sisters had to do was say "hey, can we watch this new cartoon on your tv?" Mom and dad never asked what it was about or rated.
@@LarryBonson mate people used to be offended when Hitchock showed a toilet flushing in Psycho,. people being offended over dumb shit isn't new, if anything people nowadays are far less sensitive
@@666FallenShadow People far more sensitive now and will scream and cry like children so it's a lie to say they are far less sensitive.
@LarryBonson again, people got triggered over a toilet being flushed. Nowadays you can show a man being pegged by his prostitute girlfriend in the cinema and people being blown to pieces without much fuss🤷🏻♀️.
It's kind of funny that you said that kid has a mouth on him, because he plays the part of Mouth in The Goonies.😂
watch the mouth ! 🤣
18:19 - *_Yup! And if you want another "Horror Film for Kids" from the 80's, I highly recommend: The Gate (1987). Lower budget (Indy film) but still GREAT practical affects!_*
Y'all should DEFINITELY watch the sequel!! It is more of a comedy/satire, but still good!
And 'Ravenous', 1999 b6 Antonia Bird!! That's a horror comedy too that I'm sure you will love! Its woefully underrated and under watched!
This movie shocked everyone in 1984 and in fact caused an uproar among parents. Also I heard “mogwai” means “little demon” in Chinese.
this movie was actually the reason for creation of PG-13. Spielberg kept pushing the line with Jaws, Indiana Jones and Gremlins until it was too much 😅
Born in '74, can confirm THIS IS A KIDS MOVIE! :) Mom is the real MVP. Loved the reaction. We were all feral back then :)
This and Temple of Doom are why we have the PG13 rating.
Yep, Ghostbusters as well. It came out in June of 1984.
@@Justin0807 Nothing about Ghostbusters pushes the edges of the old PG rating.
@@valashar5313 Yeah, the language and sexual innuendos or comments, particularly the parts when Dana is possessed and Ray gets gratification from a ghost. The creepy gargoyle dogs and Gozer's appearance at the end definitely creeped out a lot of kids.
@@Justin0807 The ghost BJ scene was director's cut only. And 'creeping out kids' has nothing to do with a film's rating, which is what I was remarking on.
@@valashar5313 No, it's in the original version. I had the movie on VHS and saw it several times. And the creepy scenes can increase the intensity of the film. With that logic, Halloween (1978) could have been PG because just about all the violence was off screen and there wasn't much foul language. Many adults found some scenes in Ghostbusters to be more intense for a PG film, such as when Dana gets pulled in by the gargoyle.
Besides all that, the language alone was definitely enough to make it PG-13. No way it would have PG if it was released in the 90s or later.
**Disclaimer....I saw this when I was 8 in theaters.... the same year I saw Purple Rain.💁🏾♀️ We're built different.😂😂
Produced on an $11 million budget, grossed $148,168,459 domestically
You absolutely have to see Gremlins 2!!! Also, this is one of the movies that helped usher in PG-13, if I remember correctly.
When I first saw this as a little kidI was fascinated by Gizmo and the Gremlins and had fun seeing them get crazy. I guess getting introduced to fantasy and sci-fi at an early age will do that to you. But I also took it as a caution tale because I thought they were real too.
Dude! Keys Luke doesn't have a 'crazy exaggerated Asian accent' because that's his NATURAL accent.
The reason that kids could watch movies like Gremlins was that it was made at a time when we didn't burst into tears as soon as someone spoke too loud, like 'ADULTS' do today.
There is no resisting the allure of 80s Phoebe Cates. I saw this when it came out (near enough), and I'm pretty sure the Gremlins films (and The Breakfast Club) heavily informed my taste in women. Ironically, I did not see her saucier films until I was much more age-appropriate, lol.
I love this movie so much that I named my dog Gizmo! Between the practical effects, the quirky humor, and the genuinely chaotic horror sequences, this is one of the best holiday horror films of all time.
You guys need to watch the sequel now for sure. It's my favorite. There is so much going on in that movie. It's pure insanity.. But in a good way..lol.
The first movie to have the PG-13 rating was Red Dawn (August 1984), which came out a couple months after Gremlins (June 1984)
So back in the 40s when something broke or let say your car wouldn't start gremlins were blame for it.. anything went wrong Gremlins did it
This is not a kids movie. It was for all ages. Like Ghostbusters was and is supposed to be.
Gremlins, The Goonies, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Young Sherlock Holmes. Spielberg defined my childhood 😊 Only Temple of Doom gave me nightmares.
It was very scary as a kid. But....Gizmo was cute enough to stay calm
I need a movie with Gizmo and Grogu together loool
This WAS! a “kids” movie in the 80’s 😂
I always loved seeing people react to my favorite movies for the first time it feels like I’m showing them the movie :)
They really tried to cut pheopes christmas speech the director and Billy fought hard to keep it in cause with out it her character means nothing she's just a rd side kick but her speech did so much for pheobes career
Also, the guy that plays Mr. Wing, Keye Luke, is a founding member of the Screen Actor Guild.
I watch this every Christmas and my mom thinks I'm insane LOL
I was already 12 when this movie came out, so I was kind of too old by then to feel traumatized by Gremlins. War of the Gargantuas, on the other hand, I saw when I was four; and I still have nightmares about it to this day.
Notice the mom and Gizmo are taken out of most of the movie? That's because the mom was supposed to die around that kitchen part. And Gizmo was supposed to be the real villain. But they felt Gizmo was too cute so they tried to find another use for him. This and TEMPLE OF DOOM were the two main movies that started the discussion of a PG-13 rating. And I think the first PG-13 movie was RED DAWN later that year.
Fun fact the city set they use in this movie is the same city set for Hill Valley in Back to the Future. The theater that Billy bows up in this movie is the same theater Marty crashes into in Back to the Future. This movie was inspired by a Twilight Zone episode where William Shatner sees a monster on a wing of a plane that only he sees. It makes the plane crash.
"There's, someone on the wing! Some... THING!!"
I watched this movie as a kid and I did find some scenes scary. Overall I did enjoy the movie and I think it is incredible what the puppeteers were able to do.
I would absolutely love it if Cinepals do a reaction to Small Soldiers at some point in the future.