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Gremlins is an American animated fantasy adventure horror comedy television series. [2] Serving as a prequel to the eponymous 1984 film of the same name and its 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, [3] the series is set in 1920s Shanghai, East China, and tells the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing met Gizmo, a young Mogwai. [4]
Gremlins is an American comedy horror media franchise produced and owned by Warner Bros. and Amblin Entertainment.The franchise centers on a species of creatures known as mogwai (Cantonese: 魔怪, 'devil'), which mutate into the eponymous creatures if the three rules regarding their care are violated; in particular, the franchise focuses on the conflict between the friendly Gizmo and the ...
Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday and Frances Lee McCain, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo, the main mogwai character.
MVP of Horror Zach Galligan explains the low-key brilliance of Joe Dante's unheralded sequel "Gremlins 2: The New Batch."
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Like the first film, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a live-action horror comedy film; however, Dante put effort into taking the sequel in new anarchistic directions. Dante created the film to act almost as a facsimile of the original film, [ 4 ] and it is meant to be more cartoonish and less dark than the original.
Joseph James Dante Jr. (/ ˈ d ɑː n t eɪ /; born November 28, 1946) is an American film director.His films—notably Gremlins (1984) alongside its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)—often mix the 1950s-style B movie genre with 1960s radicalism and cartoon comedy.