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- Spoilers (5)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- Some mild sexual innuendo is included.
Violence & Gore
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- Tons of Gremlins are killed and maimed in violent and gruesome ways. The blood is green, but it still might be too much for the squeamish or easily nauseous.
- Billy's mother stabs a gremlin with a butcher knife multiple times.
- The gremlin leader shoots one of his subordinates in the head for cheating at poker.
- it is important to note that while multiple gremlins die on screen in a bloody (albeit greenish blood) fashion, no humans that die are shown losing body parts or bleeding majorly.
- Two police officers meant to help the town's citizens instead flee in their squad car. The gremlins, however; cut their break-line, causing the car to crash and overturn with another vehicle. We hear an off-screen explosion, implying their deaths.
- The main plot of the film is the evil Gremlins leader, to cause chaos in town at night. There's slapstick violence involve Gremlins at night time.
- Billy's mom turns a blender on while a gremlin is eating out of it, causing green slime to splatter everywhere.
- Another gremlin is thrown in the microwave and blows up, splattering slime all over the microwave.
- A gremlin, hiding in a Christmas tree, attacks Billy's mom and scratches her face and head.
- Billy decapitates a gremlin with a sword and we see the head burning in the fireplace, but only for a few seconds.
- A couple is attacked in their home by a bulldozer (they survive).
- A woman is killed when her elevating chair malfunctions and catapults her out a window, we see her legs sticking out of the ground after she is flattened on the street. However, she is seen to be a horrible and nasty person, so her death is morbidly satisfying.
- Gremlins are burned in when a movie theater explodes.
- A gremlin breaks a radio, causing it to explode and making Billy's head bleed.
- Billy is shot with a small crossbow and is attacked by a gremlin with a chainsaw.
- Billy reaches for a phone, but a gremlin scratches his hand.
- A man's hand is bitten by a gremlin, which he is trying to lure out of hiding. The audience can hear biting noises and the man's screams. Then, Billy comes in and sees the man lying on the floor, motionless with a needle in his buttocks. It is not clear if he is dead or simply unconscious.
Profanity
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- The 80's movie contains infrequent mild and moderate profanities such as "crap", "hell", "goddamn", "asshole", "shit", and "damn".
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A man is shown to be a chain smoker.
- A man is seen drunk. He considers driving home despite being intoxicated. He gets talked out of it though.
- Gremlins smoke. A character gets drunk; Gremlins also get drunk.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- There's talk of suicide early in the film
- Other than a couple of suspenseful scenes, the movie isn't too scary as it's mostly mischevious creatures being mischevious.
- At first the mogwai are cute, but once they "morph" into the more dangerous gremlins, they seem creepy and scary.
- A lot of the violence may be scary, but all of it is meant to be so over the top.
- The film's comedy is often-times dark and cynical, satirizing small-town America and traditional Christmas cheer. Humor is continually derived from death, violence and mayhem.
- Barney the dog gets tangled up in Christmas lights by the gremlins. Even though he is later shown to be completely fine, the thought that Barney was injured or killed may be disturbing for dog lovers.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- 158 kills (155 gremlins, and 3 Humans)
- Billy is severely injured in the ending scene and is seen wearing a cast at the end.
- The gremlin leader melts by sunlight, it's flesh is shown melting off and it screams in pain, it is eventually reduced to skeleton.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Kate tells the story in detail of how she lost her father, how he was missing for a long time and she then witnessed his corpse being pulled out of a chimney while he was in a Santa outfit. It also ends with Kate telling that this is how she found out Santa Claus doesn't exist.
- The lead gremlin Stripe dies in a very over the top way with his skull being visible as he melts.
