51 Reasons Why Gremlins Just Might Be The Greatest Film Of All Time...
41. Michael Winslowplays a Gremlin: although he is only one of a frankly startling number of small or cameo appearances by utter geniuses: not only does uber-composer Jerry Goldsmith get a blink and you'll miss it screen-second, but Spielberg appears in a wheelchair, and improbably even Robby The Robot from Forbidden Planet pops up. Fact is, Winslow is a talent machine: I dont know about you but, if I could make the noise of a helicopter, and had rubberised lips I'd never make it away from a mirror, let alone out of the house, yet Winslow managed to appear in both Police Academy and Gremlins in 1984. Noise-making, silly-faced God-like Genius that he is. 40. The Merchandise: Feast your eyes on this gorgeous bit of movie merch, and tell me the Gremlins as characters dont lend themselves to the most awesome affiliated junk!
Kate: The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible. It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire. That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father. He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.