3. Critters (Critters)
You can always tell a lot about a person when you bring up this movie. Usually the sheer mention of Critters gets even the most mild mannered of fanboys shouting Gremlins and but Gizmos so awesome at me, in some deluded belief Critters was a simple rip-off of a superior film. Well, it wasnt (having gone into pre-production before the Gremlins movie was released two years earlier), and Critters is easily the best-- the more ridiculous and violent of the two, the critters franchise spanned 4 chapters, each reassuringly familiar to the last and plumbing new depths of B-movie pleasure. The Critters are seemingly cute, fluffy furballsuntil they look at you with their razor sharp teeth and bloodshot eyes (imagine a drug addict Gizmo waking up in a ditch with a dirty hangover). Cue plenty of objectionable humans who find them, try to catch them, and face their well-deserved demise in a way only fitting for a low budget 80s horror movie. I would LOVE to have one of these as a pet as long as I could control it, just get a funny feeling it wouldnt quite go to plan, and Id end up as a footnote on IMDB behind