Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere isn't just the best toy of the 80s
but a great description for this week's Bad Movie Night. This is also the return of horror movies and the beginning of the holiday movie season. It's all just too much.
Critters has a cast. I had the word great in there but had second thoughts. M. Emmet Walsh is great for sure.
A few months ago Entertainment Weekly had to run a correction stating that M. Emmet Walsh was not dead, as they asserted previously. Thing is, I would have bet anything he was dead too. Now I'm sure, and I bet this was Entertainment Weekly's problem too, that I was confusing him with J.T. Walsh.
Back to the cast. I like Lin Shaye, the old, tan lady in There's Something About Mary. Dee Wallace is cool for being the mom in E.T. and Cujo. Billy Zane allows you to watch Back to the Future and say, "Oh yeah, there's Billy Zane". Just like Elijah Wood in Part 2. Adolph Hitler is credited in Critters. I don't like Hitler. I want that on the record. I just mention it to point out the IMDB message board for Hitler with subjects like "Why did he break his non-agression pact with the Soviets?". I expected more "Gay?" and "[Post deleted]"s.
The director of Critters went on to do Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Mr. Holland's Opus and Rock Star, that movie that's always on VH1:
So we're in hands. I took out good.
Gremlins is our 5th Joe Dante joint. Returning BMN actors include Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys), Polly Holiday (The Pumpkin Competition), Jonathan Banks (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) and Dick Miller.
White Line Fever
Hollywood Boulevard
Piranha
Rock 'n' Roll High School
White Dog
Chopping Mall
Night of the Creeps
Dead Heat
Gremlins
Tying him with Linnea Quigley for second place. And since one of her movies is an "archive appearance" I decree that Dick Miller is officially in second place behind Cameron Mitchell's 12. This is the slowest race in history.
Here's what happened last week:
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