Evil alien krites escape from a maximum security colony on a planet in deep space. They steal a spaceship and make their escape heading towards earth. Trigger happy shapeshifting space bounty hunters are hired to track them down before there's trouble. The Critters land on an earth farm and instantly cause chaos, first attacking livestock, before turning on the farmer's family, The Brown's (Dee Wallace, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes and Nadine Van der Velde and technically Billy Zane who is courting the Brown daughter). The bounty hunters land and begin causing their own mayhem by destroying most of the local small town. One way or another somebody has to stop the critters before they manage to grow into a bigger menace than they already are. It should be the bounty hunters but the best lead they have is by listening to local drunk/ nutjob Charlie (Don Keith Opper). Who's going to stop them, can they be stopped, and what will be left?
This is cheesy 80's horror at its finest, mixing creature feature with sci-fi with some random effects thrown into the mix. The film is the result of a one-night stand between "Gremlins" and "The Leprechaun". This film doesn't try to be something it's not and doesn't take itself too seriously either. It has plenty of tongue in cheek moments as well as plenty of blood spilling horror. I enjoyed them when I watched it in the 80's and I didn't enjoy it any less when I forces my girlfriend to watch it some 30+ years later. 7 out of 10.
This is cheesy 80's horror at its finest, mixing creature feature with sci-fi with some random effects thrown into the mix. The film is the result of a one-night stand between "Gremlins" and "The Leprechaun". This film doesn't try to be something it's not and doesn't take itself too seriously either. It has plenty of tongue in cheek moments as well as plenty of blood spilling horror. I enjoyed them when I watched it in the 80's and I didn't enjoy it any less when I forces my girlfriend to watch it some 30+ years later. 7 out of 10.