11.2.09

Mogwai starts to sing, humming in that unearthly falsetto. BILLY: Sounds kind of creepy.




Gremlins is a comedy horror film released in 1984. It is about a young man who receives a creature called a mogwai named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive monsters.

†The film's script went through a few drafts before a shooting script was finalized. The first version was much darker. Scenes were cut portraying Billy's mother dying in her struggle with the gremlins, with her head thrown down the stairs when Billy arrives. Dante later explained the scene made the film darker than what the filmmakers wanted. There was a scene where the gremlins ate Billy's dog, and a scene where the gremlins attacked a McDonald's, eating the customers but not the burgers. Also, instead of Stripe being a mogwai who becomes a gremlin, there was no Stripe mogwai and Gizmo was supposed to turn into Stripe the gremlin. Spielberg overruled this plot element because he felt Gizmo was cute and audiences would want him to be present at all stages of the film.†

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