# Critters (1986)

> Voracious alien furballs overrun a Kansas town, forcing one family, a sheriff, and bizarre intergalactic hunters into a scrappy comic-horror defense.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/2362

## Facts

- Runtime: 86 min
- Genres: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
- Director: Stephen Herek
- Cast: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van der Velde, Don Keith Opper, Lin Shaye, Billy Zane
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090887/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: moderate
- Mood: screwball, mischievous, energetic, late night genre marathon, 1980s movie night

## Movies like Critters

- [Aliens in the Attic (2009)](https://ember.film/movie/12566)
- [Critters 3 (1991)](https://ember.film/movie/7318)
- [Critters 2 (1988)](https://ember.film/movie/5240)
- [It Came from Outer Space II (1995)](https://ember.film/movie/123055)
- [Critters Attack! (2020)](https://ember.film/movie/419031)
- [Slither (2006)](https://ember.film/movie/4391)
- [Evolution (2001)](https://ember.film/movie/4587)
- [Invaders from Mars (1986)](https://ember.film/movie/20006)
- [Arachnophobia (1990)](https://ember.film/movie/3564)
- [Gremlins (1984)](https://ember.film/movie/770)

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