Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
- spacecraft
- small town
- sheriff
- bounty hunter
- sibling relationship
- cat
- barn
- toilet
- kansas
- usa
- alien
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Nadine Van der Velde — April Brown
- Don Keith Opper — Charlie McFadden
- Lin Shaye — Sally
- Billy Zane — Steve Elliot
- Ethan Phillips — Jeff Barnes
- Terrence Mann — Johnny Steele
- Jeremy Lawrence — Preacher
- Michael Lee Gogin — Zanti
- Art Frankel — Ed
- Douglas Koth — Bowler #1
- Montrose Hagins — Organist
- Directed
- Stephen Herek
- Written
- Domonic Muir, Stephen Herek
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 1,137 ratings
- Studio
- New Line Cinema, Smart Egg Pictures, Sho Films
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1986 · You’re hereCritters
Where it starts.
Critters 2
1988
Critters Attack!
2020
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
