A remake brought to you by (insert fast food chain here) for Christmas.

Rating: 6/10 (7 December 2019)

Now I'm usually a fan of the whole "4K restoration thing" - it has brought "The Elephant Man" and "Notorious" back to the cinemas recently. Why, though, alight on "Gremlins"? Surely this isn't just a cynical exploitation of the Christmas spirit? Nor can it be purely to spawn a new sales boom in cuddly toys and midnight-snack meal kits? The film was fine in 1984, original and quirky. Now, it is just a badly dated piece of comic cinema that was successfully throttled by it's own sequels never mind by the passing of time. Nope, sorry - "Gizmo" ought to have been left in the toy box in the attic.