THE CRITTERS COLLECTION 4-Disc Set Coming Soon from Scream Factory
Don’t call it a Gremlins rip-off! The Critters franchise may not have achieved the iconic levels reached by Joe Dante’s Mogwai, but it produced twice the number of movies and a cult following that expands every year. Not bad for a series regarded as near the bottom of the barrel back in the 1980s!
Expect the Crites’ cache to grow ever larger when Scream Factory delivers their 4-disc Critters Collection in late November! Here’s the full scoop from yesterday’s press release, including all the special features included in the set.
They’re back and ready to devour your Blu-ray player! Scream Factory proudly presents The Critters Collection in a 4-Blu-ray set on November 27, 2018. The terrifying and tiny menaces are out in full force with this four-film collection packed with enough special features to make any fan’s mouth water! The hit creature franchise finally comes packaged together and on Blu-ray for the first time with this release. Fans can now pre-order on shoutfactory.com and receive two exclusive lithographs featuring the brand-new artwork and its alternative.
In Critters, the terrified Brown family are trapped in a deadly nightmare and must fight for their lives against a litter of extraterrestrial, bloodthirsty monsters. But it’s a losing battle until two intergalactic bounty hunters arrive, determined to blow the creatures off the planet! In Critters 2: The Main Course, some eggs have survived and are popping open, bringing another horde of the little creatures! Brad Brown (Scott Grimes) returns to fight them along with three bounty hunters. Critters 3 stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Josh, a beleaguered Angelino who must lead the fight against the little monsters as they invade an L.A. apartment building. In the final film, Critters 4, a super strain of genetically engineered monsters are designed to take over the universe. This time, Brad Dourif and Angela Bassett must battle the little bloodthirsty hairballs.
Critters
It’s no picnic for the Brown family when a lethal litter of carnivorous aliens arrives unannounced at their Kansas farm. Trapped in a deadly nightmare, the terrified Browns fight for their lives against the attacking bloodthirsty monsters. But it’s a losing battle until two intergalactic bounty hunters arrive, determined to blow the hellish creatures off the planet! It’s an alien adventure, full of action and just crawling with Critters!
Critters 2: The Main Course
Is it human? Is it a beast? Whatever it is, IT LIVES AGAIN in this second film in the Critters quadrilogy!
It’s been two years since the fiendish Critters first terrorized the town of Grovers Bend and sent the Brown family packing. But the “boy who called Critter,” Brad Brown (Scott Grimes), is back … and just in time. Critter eggs have been hatching lethal litters, and the bloodthirsty hairballs are eager to partake in their favorite pastime – eating. In no time, the eggs are popping open everywhere – a field full of livestock becomes a gigantic feeding ground, and local residents are disappearing by the mouthful. Fortunately, three bounty hunters from space, Ug, Lee and Charlie, are flying back to eradicate the problem. But can they wipe out the Critters before Grovers Bend is erased from the map? With outstanding special effects, Critters 2 – The Main Course delivers a fine repast of morbid mayhem!
Critters 3
First, they destroyed a farm. Then they destroyed a town. Now they’re ready to do some REAL damage!
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the third and most outrageous installment of the classic cult tale of the infamous Critters. As the fanged, furious furballs viciously invade an L.A. apartment building and sink their teeth into the low-rent tenants, Josh (DiCaprio) leads the battle to beat back the conniving critters and save the planet. It won’t be an easy job, but he’s the one person the human race must depend on to destroy these terrifying alien hedgehogs once and for all!
Critters 4
They’ve returned home …. to outer space!
The Critters are back in this supercharged sci-fi space adventure! But these are no ordinary Critters – they’re a super strain of genetically engineered mutants designed to take over the universe! This time, they’re hungry to conquer the galaxy, with an appetite for mankind that’s out of this world. Joined by Angela Bassett (Black Panther) and Brad Dourif (Child’s Play), Don Keith Opper and Terrence Mann reprise their popular roles as they battle for survival against the Critters, a nuclear meltdown and the fate of the universe!
Special Features:
CRITTERS
- NEW 2K scan from the original film elements
- NEW Audio Commentary with producer Barry Opper and star Don Opper
- NEW Audio Commentary with Critter designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo
- NEWThey Bite!: The Making of CRITTERSfeaturing interviews with actors Dee Wallace, Don Opper, Terrence Mann and Lin Shaye, producer Barry Opper, writer Brian Muir, Critters designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo, make-up artist R. Christopher Biggs, special prop supervisor Anthony Doublin, composer David Newman and second unit director Mark Helfrich, Critter Voice actor Corey Burton and Miniature Effects Supervisor Gene Warren Jr.
- NEW For Brian: A Tribute to Screenwriter Brian Domonic Muir
- Behind-the-Scenes Footage
- Alternate Ending
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spots
- Still Gallery
CRITTERS 2: THE MAIN COURSE
- NEW2K scan from the original film elements
- NEW Audio Commentary with director Mick Garris
- NEWAudio Commentary with Critters designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo
- NEW The Main Course: The Making of CRITTERS 2 featuring interviews with director Mick Garris, actors Liane Curtis, Don Opper, Terrence Mann and Lin Shaye, producer Barry Opper, Critter designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo and make-up artist R. Christopher Biggs
- Behind the Scenes Footage
- Additional TV Scenes
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spots
- Still Gallery
CRITTERS 3
- NEW Audio Commentary with producer Barry Opper and star Don Opper
- NEW You Are What They Eat: The Making of CRITTERS 3 featuring interviews with producer Barry Opper, screenwriter David J. Schow, stars Don Opper and Terrence Mann, director of photography Thomas J. Callaway and Critters designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo
- Trailer
- Still Gallery
CRITTERS 4
- NEW Audio Commentary with producer/director Rupert Harvey
- NEW Space Madness:The Making of CRITTERS 3 featuring interviews with producer Barry Opper, screenwriter David J. Schow, stars Don Opper and Terrence Mann, director of photography Thomas J. Callaway, Critters designers Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo and Stephen Chiodo
- Trailer
- Still Gallery
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Check out the trailers for all 4 Critters movies below.
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