10 More Horror Movies Way Weirder Than Advertised

Joe Dante's 1984 hit Gremlins took the horror world by storm, managing to cram cute, funny and Christmas into a movie where monsters destroy buildings, vehicles and homes, and murder the good townsfolk of Kingston Falls, USA.

Suffice to say, however, when a much-anticipated sequel arrived some six years later, fans of the original movie had no idea what was coming.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch takes the little monsters to the big city, and unleashes them upon a futuristic, full-service skyscraper. They get wet, stay up till god only knows when, and eat till their little bellies burst. But this time they don't mess around with baseball bats and toy cars. No, they break into the science lab, crack open a few vials of ominous neon liquid and begin sculpting their own evolution.

The movie is a riotous bucket of weird, and so much more unhinged than its predecessor. It's got Christopher Lee, a Hulk Hogan cameo, a bespectacled and fully-articulate Brain Gremlin, a mid-movie fourth-wall break, and even a (almost certainly coercive) human-gremlin wedding. And that's not even mentioning Rambo Gizmo versus spider-mutant Stripe in the third act.

Roll on Gremlins 3, and whatever places that may take us.