First Christmas film on the list.
Rebecca and I just got through watching Gremlins, she
had never seen it before but her heart was quickly stolen by Gizmo
and I think she was invested from that point on.
The opening section where the
characters walk through a tiny snow covered American town just
screams Christmas. It's the perfect postcard image for the holidays
and an incredible setting for tiny green things to wreck havoc.
First time I saw this film I was a
little young for it, Dad and I caught it on TV while we were channel
surfing around Christmas, we only caught the last 15 minutes or so,
but I wanted to see more of whatever it was I was watching. Dad
bought the DVD home sometime later, and it's become a great
alternative Christmas film we whack every other year or so. The TV
edit cut out a lot of gorier bits, but now that I'm waaaay older, I
probably enjoy those bits the most. You can't not love the bit where
a Gremlin's head explodes in the microwave.
What shines through the violence though
is a cute little film about a boy and his pet. It doesn't go in too
hard with the classic Christmas message (the film was originally
released in June) and it's horror elements are at a very good level,
as in it's not too frightening for scaredy cat old me. It's a great
'warm-up' Christmas film, one to watch early December before the urge
to watch a real Christmas film takes hold.
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