Good luck *not* getting the theme song stuck in your mind

Rating: 7/10 (7 December 2015)

A small cinema nearby showed this last night, it was the first time I have watched this since I was a kid, and the first time ever in a cinema, and enjoyed it a bit more now than I did then.
Playing off the idea of gremlins wreaking havoc on unsuspecting people (like that old Bugs Bunny cartoon did, and the Terror At 40.000 Feet episode of The Twilight Zone) this shows a sickeningly cute little creature multiplying and mutating into a mischievous little grotesqueries, who, well, wreak havoc on unsuspecting people in a Wonderful Life-like suburb on Christmas Eve.
The town and its people are straight out of a Hallmark greeting card, quite a contrast to the gooey, slimy effects. As naive, childlike Billy, Zach Galligan is good, but also an odd character, old enough to work at a bank and go to a bar, yet he lives in his parents' attic and read comic books with 12 years old Corey Feldman. The mother has a great confrontation with a couple of the little freaks in her kitchen, and manages to use the moronic appliances built by her well meaning, yet dim, inventor-husband to kill them. Also, early in the film, a sign outside the bank reads something to the effect of "Plan for the future", which is most amusing because Back To The Future was partly filmed at the same locations as this, and even features that small supporting character, Frances Lee McCain .