10 Greatest Unspoken Movie Plot Points

10. Time Travel Exists In The Gremlins Universe - Gremlins

Gremlins is hardly a massively grounded movie, but did you know that it secretly confirms the existence of time travel within its own universe?

Time travel is a theoretical possibility in every universe of course, but in Joe Dante's classic creature feature we actually see it subtly carried out.

Half-way through the film, eccentric inventor Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) calls home from an inventors' convention, where in the background eagle-eyed viewers might notice the iconic prop time machine from the 1960s film adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine.

That's all well and good, but when we cut back to Randall after cutting to his wife Lynn (Frances Lee McCain), the machine has miraculously disappeared, leaving behind scorch marks, smoke, and an audience of shocked observers.

This is easily missed no matter how many times you've seen Gremlins over the last near-40 years, and nods to Dante's penchant for ridiculous, wink-wink humour which he amped up considerably in the wonderfully wacky sequel.