The Messed Up Part Of Gremlins Everyone Just Ignores
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Released in 1984, Gremlins quickly became a classic, blending horror with the holiday season perfectly. The horror-comedy made viewers wary about cute little creatures for the rest of their lives, but there is one thing about the story that a lot of people thought was a bit messed up. While ignoring warnings is a common trope in horror movies, some found the concept of a father simply buying his son a creature he’s never heard of before without any research a bit far-fetched. It’s time to take a look at the messed-up part of Gremlins that a lot of people just ignore.
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How about when Phoebe Cates says, "While everyone is opening their presents, some people are opening their wrists." Darkest line in the movie!
She is one messed up girl.
Us Gen x'ers were fine with it. life was tough.
@@talariswatts-el6174 yeah, finding your dead father dressed as santa in your chimney will do that to you
@@doctorfeinstone6524 I saw this as a really little kid and i have never, ever forgotten that scene and being creeped tf out
@@ashleylandman1163 It's great how it's sent up in the second movie though.
The most messed up part is someone making a video about a 30 year old movie because they learnt that mogwy translates as monster. This is awful.
Well said
Actually you skipped a rather important plot point in the deleted scenes. In the original draft of the film there was a subplot of Mrs. Deagle and the Bank effectively working to buy up all the houses in Kingston Falls to build a toxic waste dump, and went as far as to close the towns factory so people couldn't make house payments.
Had Mrs. Deagle not been brutally killed by the Gremlins then Billy along with many other residents of Kingston would've lost their homes just so this bitch could make more money. So yeah the Gremlins actually did the town a favor.
Every time I see a commercial for those automated chair lifts I can't help but laugh out loud thinking of Mrs. Deagle
Not to mention that in the original script, the Gremlins kill the dog, and there was a scene where they bounced the mother's decapitated head down a flight of stairs.
Joe Dante talks about this in the horror industry documentary called Nightmares in Red, White&Blue, which is about - duh - the horror film industry and its evolution over the past century or so.
I highly recommend this documentary. It's well put together, highly informative, and they spend a lot of time devoted to the renaissance era of horror films.
You can watch it for free if you have Amazon Prime. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be anywhere else, though it was on Netflix for a time, and may reappear some day.
Andii Way Reznor I love the movie how it is but I'd love to see the darker version too
EWW. Thank god they killed her then
Dam Skippy, Oh my heart! my heart! Lol unforgettable classic movie moments! And yes as a semi-villain she deserved it.
4 minutes to tell me mogwai means monster. Thanks youtube
This video was pointless. Shouldve talked about how the gremlins know what time zone they're in.
Tyler Hulan If we get a sequel that needs to be an aspect.
Liam Jacobs we have a sequel
They even mention it in the video there was a sequel with a WWE Star
And they do bring it up before sh** went wild someone asking billy about how the time zone stuff works because it’s midnight always somewhere so how does the feeding rule work then everything went batsh** crazy
So everyone just ignored the word for monster in an Oriental language that they couldn't speak? Wow, that really is messed up...
Even as a child watching this movie, it was pretty clear that the Gremlins were monsters waiting to strike and the tragedy of the humans' carelessness in ushering in their own destruction. Major elements of the movie that nobody just ignores. Somebody fire a writer please.
I always thought the most ridiculous aspect to the movie was the fact that unless it is exactly 12:00 a.m., it is ALWAYS after midnight.
dang! this is what I get.. I made a similar post, w/o reading all of them !
RIGHT?! OMG!!!
After midnight----WHERE??? The concept is utter nonsense, typical "Hollywood!"
And what about spring and autumn time changes? Did mogwai exist before clocks were invented?
You ever see Gremlins 2? They parody a conversation on this whole topic. This is the most ridiculous thing to you? In a silly 80's movie about little green monsters? Gag me with a spoon!
I love how in Gremlins 2 she starts talking about another traumatizing moment in her life (I can’t remember exactly what day? Presidents’ Day?) and then Billy interrupts her like yeah yeah we’ve already done this
Zach Galligan actually began to crack up while filming that scene, and if you slow down the movie you can see him in the background trying now to laugh as he's leading Phoebe Cates away.
it implied something happening to her with a guy that looked just like lincoln. I loved it. Gremlins 2 was a great sequel
The old Chinese guy never sold billy's dad Gizmo. The boy did.
*_Gremlins_** is a clear Metaphor for the consumer-driven twisted-version of Christmas we all know.* Mr. Peltzer gives his son a truly unique, very special gift to signify his love; a gift that is later mass produced into clones which look just like the original but lack the adorable personality. As a result of this mass production there is mass consumption (eating after midnight) which leads to the townspeople’s lives being thrown into chaos; sorta’ like the chaos of mass production and mass consumption we know as Christmas. Indeed the movie literally spells this out for us when Mrs. Peltzer is attacked by a Gremlin hiding in a Christmas tree. Watch the scene and it’s almost as if Billy’s Mom is being assaulted by the Christmas Tree itself! You see where I’m going with this?
And the "gremlins in the machine" metaphor that keeps popping up. Most of the time, the gremlins kill or maim by messing with the electronics people rely on. The dad is a kooky inventor with malfunctioning devices everywhere. There's an underlying theme about technology for sure.
Not every movie is meant to tell you technology is evil and buying things is wrong. Some movies are just entertaining
I think Gremlins a represantation of Billy's father as a failure in his profession as an engineer/inventor.Everything he makes breaksdown,overly complicated or dangerously malfunctions.The Gremlins is a physical manifestation of what deep down he perceives his father to be.Gizmo represants his fathers outward appearance and intentional goodwill.The Gremlins as the reality of the petformance of his fathers works.
Technically.... it wasn't the kid's fault. First of all, it was his friend who accidentally got water on gizmo, causing him to reproduce. And when they wanted food billy (is that his name?) checked his clock to make sure it wasn't past midnight. When he gave them the food, gizmo didn't want any, cuz he knows the rules. Now it turns out that the baby mogwais broke the clock so it wouldn't look like it's past midnight, therefore it's not the kid's fault. It's the friend's fault for spilling the water on gizmo
dont waste 4 minutes watching this vid!
So the messed up part of Gremlins that everyone just ignores is that Mogwai means
monster" in Cantonese?
I was just thinking that while growing up my nephew was trash when it came to taking care of pets. Gizmo would not have had a chance to screw stuff up because he would have starved to death in a fish tank. That movie could have been so different.
*"When it comes to messed up movies classic from the 80's, nothing beats 1984's Gremlins."*
Let me tell you 'bout a wonderful little indie film called The Evil Dead.
The messed up part is when the guy who sold the Gremlin comes back and lectures the dad about responsibility. What a joke. The Chinese guy is 100% responsible for everything that happened. He knew it would happen. He let it happen. He then had the nerve to come back and act like some self-righteous "wise man" and tell these people it was their fault.
I could die laughing watching Gremlins. Got to be one of the funniest Movies of all time. Love the scene when the Gremlins are playing poker and disco dancing. The Gremlins sure knew how to have fun.
The question I had from the very first time I saw it as a kid was " Isn`t it ALWAYS after midnight ?"
Yeah!...and where was cutoff time? or Breakfast time etc,
then someone would tell me to shut up, and "stop being smart"(a major crime in 80's Ireland!)
still love Gremlins though, still have a few copies on every format from VHS and Beta up to Bluray scattered aroubnd the Family so my Nephews and Nieces can get traumatised like I did :)
By the same token, it's always before midnight too.
Exactly. What about daylight savings and the time zones? Lol
I always assumed it was the point when the sun was on the farthest side away from the gremilin, to dawn. 12 AM to 6 AM, for some weird astrological reason like the monster's ascendant.
I didn't put TOO much thought into it: It was a hack and slash fiction after all. :)
What are you talking about? The entire point of the movie is that they haven't listened and pay the price. I've literally no idea what you are talking about. I thought you were going to say that it says "don't feed it after midnight," but this instruction is meaningless. The entire day comes after midnight until you get another midnight and then everything is after thart one. It would have to be after midnight and before 6am or something top mean anything.
Actually billy was responsible. When the baby mogwais wanted food he checked his clock to make sure. Unfortunately they broke the clock to make it look like it's before midnight. So it's not that he didn't "listen" the mogwais were just sneaky
I literally haven't seen it since it came out and couldn't remember how it got started but actually, that means they pay even more attention to the instructions.
My point was that they are not ignored in the plot as this video seems to suggest, they are an integral part of it.
Yeah, and what about time zones?
What about when we put the clocks back at the end of daylight savings? Do the mogwai take this into account? Would they turn into Gremlins at 11 instead?
Michael Cook yeah like what If I was in eastern time and it's 12:30, then I go to central time zone and it's 10:30. Does that mean I still can't feed my mogwai?
By today’s standards in movie violence-Gremlins is a Saturday morning cartoon.
Best scene in the movie
Old lady in the chair going up the stairs way too fast because of a gremlin of course lol. And straight out the second floor window 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Larry Scott and that weird painting was smiling at her XD
Its funny because she deserved it.
Larry Scott and I just love how it's never mentioned again. No ones like "oh yay our dog is safe now and she won't make everyone's life a hell!"
the owner of the shop told Mr peltzer that gizmo was not for sale, the shop owner's grandson went behind his back and sold gizmo to Mr peltzer. so really gizmo was stolen merchandise.
Thank you!!!! I was going to reply that.. goofy video on a goofy movie .
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking and what I was hoping to see in the comments.
"He was dressed in a Santa Claus 🎅 suit, his right arm was carrying presents, 🎁 he was supposed to surprise us, instead he slipped and broke his neck and died instantly."
I saw Gremlins in the theater when I was around six years old and I wasn't disturbed by it. It wasn't any more violent than some of the Saturday morning cartoons that were on at the time.
"Who's a good little self-replicating cannibal hell-beast? I bet you want blood of the innocent."
Me talking to my Self-Replicating Cannibal Hell-Beast after the best Christmas ever.
Strange I have been watching Gremlins by my self since I was around five or six and the only thing that ever traumatized me was when one of them jumped out of the Christmas Tree while the song, Do you hear what I hear? was playing in the background. I still don't like that song.
Such a creepy scene wasn't it. I was like 6 years old when Gremlins came out and that scene along with the teacher at school stands out till this day.
Pause it just before the tree tips over, and you'll see the puppeteer, sporting a beard and wearing a red tshirt, on the other side of the tree - kind of hugging it to move the gremlin-puppet fighting Mrs Peltzer.
= Scene not that scary anymore. :-)
1. that sounds hilarious
2. I watch it on VHS
Tatyana Rodriguez I COMPLETELY associate that song with Gremlins whenever I hear it.
Dude. My parents showed me this when I was like 5. Never been more scared of a movie since then...
I never understood why the hell Phoebe Cates character was still serving drinks to the Gremlins in that bar? She should have been got the hell out of there!
kingovharts they would have ganged up.on her! She was trying to keep them calm untill she had a chance
1:13 "...and that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus. Oh, yeah - and my father being dead an' all. I guess that was a pretty important development too."
I always thought the boy didn't tell him the consequences of ignoring the rules because if he did then Billy's father might not have bought Gizmo, and he said they needed the money he offered for him and Billy's fathers only noticed Gizmo based on him looking cute. He probably didn't expect him to be able turn into something dangerous.
I actually watched this movie during my childhood, and it never traumatized me. Maybe because I was desensitized by the face melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The worst part is seeing the gremlins in the toilets that scared me for life. Now I KNOW that Cobras go there
Dude. if there was a puppy named, "Self-replicating cannibal hell-beast who only thirsts for the blood of the innocent." I'd so adopt that dog.
What's the messed up part tho
nothing was... just another filler video pretending to have substance.
mogwai translates to monster from Cantonese :o shocking...
Steven Exactly. What is the logical point of this video?
Yeahs. Steven. I am the boss and thee colors fucken Man 👞♂️
Hmm...I know this movie almost my whole life, saw it the first time almost 30 years ago and now I'm 34, and it didn't traumatize me. Even my son who is 6 thinks it's just a fun ride to watch. I always explain my kids that it's just a movie with a bunch of people and actors who worked on it and how certain effects were made. It helps a lot when you talk with your kids about the things they're watching. They learn that it's pure entertainment and like an illusion. That's how my mom did it and that's how I do it. And never be too busy to answer!
But the point that mogwai means monster is very interesting and I never thought about what it actually means. But now I'll always remember that.
Wow!
That sure was a whole lot of epic movies to see on the same night!
president camacho if you have a sense of childlike wonder and imagination, and a decent level of intelligence, you should get scared of this movie as a kid. It actually is better for you to get scared from a movie like this as a child than not, because it means you have a high level of imagination. If you didn't get scared I'm sorry to say it just means you're probably stupid
So the part that everyone supposedly ignores is basically the main plot of the movie? Makes sense.
In the sequel, they have a bit where Kate tells Billy about how President's was ruined. Billy has to push her along to get tbr scene over with because they were running out of time.
I always wondered what the "my dad died and I know there's no Santa Clause" scene was intended for.
Filler
@@Lars1996 I honestly doubt it.
The gremlins scared kids? I watched this when I was 8 or 9 and loved it. So do my kids.. I guess I could understand how it would scare some kids.
The Miles I was more traumatized by IT than Gremlins.
Bear in mind desensitization levels are much higher these days than they were back when this came out.
Jakk Frost I saw it with my mom when it came out. I was a fearful and very easily traumatized young girl. I wasn't bothered one bit by the movie. The only impact was that I loved Gizmo.
StrangeViolette ~ Well yeah, I didn't say all children were terrified by it or anything like that, I only implied that young children in those days were _more likely_ to get scared by it. I was 10 when it came out, and I enjoyed it, but the effects weren't at all scary to me, they were closer to cheesy. Mind you, I'd watched 'The Exorcist' 4 years earlier, when I was 6, so since then no horror movie has ever scared me.
I watched it recently and thought "Did I really watch this in the theater when I was 7?"
Truth is the scenes in the this Film and in Indy and the Temple of Doom did not Traumatize the children watching them , they Traumatized the Adults watching them........
"Self replicating cannibal hellbeast who only thrists for the blood of the innocent".....im naming my cat this. I can't stop laughing at it
Phoebe Cates is fuckin hot, I'm so glad she did that scene in Fast Times
Carter Crawford
watch the movie
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Irina Volkoeva
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We don't ignore it, though. It's an intrinsic part of our enjoyment of those films.
Wait, he didn’t buy it…he stole it...!!! It wasn’t the Chinese guys fault that Billy’s dad was a thief. They got what they deserved.
Forgot how stunning phoebe cates was, wonder what happened to her.
she got older ... and married Kevin Kline
MickeyKnox a travesty.
She is now MILF status. Look her up!
Holy shit Andy Jones, you might want to see someone about that.
Um last time I checked male and female humans are the SAME species, also before baby formula came around breast milk was the ONLY way to feed infants unlike sperm which is used to conceive children (do you even understand the human reproductive cycle). On top of that I'm not talking about drinking her breast milk, I hate to tell you but us heterosexual males enjoy womens breasts for aesthetic value and to play with during coitus.
Gremlins is a great movie, I saw it soon after it was released as a kid and I remember finding it pretty funny, there's nothing awful about it at all.
No kids from that generation was traumatized. Todays kids live in fantasy till the age of 30, spoiled and depressed.
To be fair, it would've been harder to find information in the eighties. You couldn't just whip your phone out of your pocket, google "Mogwai" & find a translation in seconds. You would have had to go to a library & invest time in to finding the right book, then find the information in that book. You might not even know the language is Cantonese.
That crazy girlfriend in Gremlins that practically "cherishes" her traumas was messed up.
I'm going to name my next dog "Self-Replicating-Cannibal-Hell-Beast".
You literally just told me what the gremlins movies were about, I’m not sure what I was supposed to have learned here
That movie told me Santa wasn't real when I was a kid back in the 80s, absolute most favorite movie ever, ty Gremlins for teaching me that at a young age.
And no mention of the guy that screwed that gremlin in the sequel(implied off screen).
thegodlessvulcan
A *transgendered* gremlin at that...
She made the first move, though.
Gremlins are one of the most favorite movies in childhood, good times
That movie was f'd up. I'm glad someone finally pointed out how disturbing the Santa Claus story was
The most messed up part is that "You don't feed them after midnight." It's always after midnight!
'Don't feed them after midnight.'
Yea, ok, after midnight till when? Sunrise? Noon? Never at all because technically every minute after exactly 00:00 is after midnight? Kind of an important detail to add since if you screw this one up the whole multiplying monster thing happens. So you know... some clarification on when exactly after midnight you can start feeding them again might be helpful...
The height of Hulk Hogan's cinematic career was the "What's that smell?" scene from "No Holds Barred."
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so are the gremlins not affected by different time zones? haha it's always after midnight somewhere in the world. Goes from Asia to America and it's body just converts to a new time schedule? The one thing that always bothered me about that movie was that rule.
yeah...I saw Gremlins 2 as well🙄
Tbf, I was hella young when Gremlins came out and it scared the fuck out of me. But I couldn't stop watching it.
It's shuffle "OFF" this mortal coil, not "loose." You must have gotten your misquotation from Kevin Smith who deliberated misquoted Shakespeare.
What about the fact that water is bad, yet the gremlins are walking around in snow the whole time!
-Innkeeper Vase Odin
What's really funny is, I saw the second one in theaters and the night we went the film actually DID break. So when we came back the next night and the film fake broke in the movie everyone thought it happened again and let out a really big moan. Until we realized it was part of the movie. :)
Chris McWilliams I hope that’s true. If so it’s awesome. 😂
It's true and it was funny as hell.
A Chinese friend told me it translates to "small monster"
Gremlins was the best Christmas movie ever. Even better than Die Hard as far as Christmas movies go.
you just made me love gremlins even more lol
gremlins, christmas vacation, and die hard are the best xmas movies of the 80's
Another plot-hole.... The "Don't-feed-them-after-midnight" thing. Technically, any time of the day is after midnight of the previous day...
The messed up part is when
Mrs. Deagle tells Billy what she's wants to do, to his dog, Barny.
It was pretty messed up that Phoebe Cates actually served the Gremlins at her bar. It's not as if they were paying for the drinks, and they were far from 21 years old.
2:49 "....that thirsts for the blood of the innocent."
Phew, I thought I was in danger for a second.
The real thing people never talk about when it come to the movie Gremlins is... it’s always after midnight.
Whew! For a moment, I thought it was gonna be, "Joe Dante's deleted scene of Gizmo becoming a Gremlin."
I forgot hulk Hogan had a cameo in this movie. Hilarious!!
actually, hulk hogan was in the sequel!
@@PizzaHutAsuka the Hulkster is as big as both movies.
How does Billy not know about Kate’s Dad? They live the small town; where they grew up together; and went to the same schools.
Good point, i never thought of that.
Maybe most of the townsfolk were led to believe he had died of natural causes because it was just easier that way.
You know what the problem is with the rule of “never feed him after midnight.”? The problem is that it’s to vague. They never specified a feeding time except that. But technically according to that rule you can never feed him. Because technically it’s always after midnight........
How is Ghostbusters a franchise hit? It wasn't a franchise until years later.
I saw an unfinished cut of the film a couple of months before it came out in the theaters. It had no credits, only a temp soundtrack, unfinished special effects, including some illustrations that simply said what the final scene may look like, and, of course, a few violent goodies that were cut out of the final theatrical release. I've not looked at this film since that year, so I don't know if the DVD or Blu-ray shows these scenes, but I remember well that afterwards, there was a lot of talk among the people who saw it wondering why it was looking like they were making it an R-rated summer picture. When I saw the theatrical release, finally, I was actually relieved to see the cuts. And, of course, Jerry Goldsmith score lightened things up beautifully. The temp track have been somewhat dark and dramatic, almost as if it was a serious film. Goldsmith's score brought the black comedy out of the film effectively. And it probably helped save it from an R rating.
1:27- I didn't remember that syringe in that shot. I was so disturbed by that as a child, as I'd thought he'd gotten his head eaten off!
Billy's mom was gonna get eaten alive. That sounds so good, they need a reboot that goes full on horror and have gruesome effects.
I wouldn't say that everyone just ignores it: the vast majority of people who saw this film, when it came out, did not know this. You couldn't go on the internet and look something up so easily in those days, so it was only if a film-goer happens to speak Cantonese that they would have known.
when I was young I cried watching gremlins... was still like my favourite movie
But what if you was on a plane and it's midnight in NY, you then begin to travel west towards Cali? So does this midnight thing really apply or what?
The way I remember it, in the beginning the old Chinese man refused to sale Gizmo. The dad grabbed him when his back was turned, and left the money.
Gremlins and Die Hard are the best Christmas movies. Fight me.
Christmas Vacation. Because families are really that fucked up xD
Irina Volkoeva you're welcome
pnut166 I agree that one's good too
Shared universe BTW
Blessing's for Phoebe Ivanka trump Christmas Eve Marie eve.
I think the bigger questions are 1) How do you bathe or quench a thirsty Mogwi if you can't get them wet? 2) Midnight of what timezone is it unsafe feed them (since its always midnight somewhere on the planet)? and 3) When does it become safe to feed them again (since any time can technically come after midnight if you think about it)?
Gizmo can't help what he is, but he's a nice gremlin. Its just his "offspring" that end up being bastards. Does that mean Gizmo is a crappy parent?
Past Die Hard?! No no no.
And btw, Randall is not the smartest person. Even IF he was told it was a monster, he would've bought it anyway because he was a fan of the unusual.
The part that everyone ignores is that "midnight" is arbitrary, and can have no actual bearing on an animal's biological functions.
This needs a reboot.
I watched Gremlins with my six year old last year, and had forgotten all about the Santa Clause thing. I quickly yelled out "what's that?!?" and pointed at the window. Due to the nature of the film, it freaked out my kid and she didn't hear the Santa reveal. What kind of jerk puts that in a kid's movie, Spielberg?
dave p it was never intended to be a “kids” movie, but ended being marketed that way. It was quite common for that to happen.
Kids were traumatized by gremlins? I watched it as a kid myself... Laughed the whole time... Wasn't scary at all... Thought it was a comedy not a horror.
Anybody else also catch that out of place dark story she told in Gremlins 2: The New Batch about possibly being molested by a man dressed as Abraham Lincoln?
Gremlins is literally my all time favorite movie, its just so amazing all the dedication that went into it.. and both of the movies are hilarious and well-written... I just hope they dont screw everything up with the 3rd moving coming out, but there has been talk that they're gonna kill Gizmo off, so if they do, thats enough right there to ruin it all 😂
"self replicating cannibal hell beast who only thirsts for the blood of the innocent"
Oh. Samael from 'Hellboy'.
So wait I'm confused. What exactly is the messed up part that everyone just ignores did I miss it?
DAVID MOVRIN The my dad died dressed as Santa story. Is The central messed up part but also the ultra violent kitchen scene. Was controversial at the time due to marketing showing it as family friendly. Today's times has become a lot more desensitized to such things. A real shame really is my personal opinion where we arnt as shocked about violence in society as we once were.
I fell in love with Phoebe Cates after seeing Gremlins
Massive Branflake Wait till you see Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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Definitely! She looks yummy!
I remember the Mother in the row behind me, flipping out when one of the Gremlins cut through a string of Christmas lights with a pair of scissors. Telling her child, "Don't you ever do anything like that, that is so incredibly dangerous. Don't even think about it. It'll kill you if you do that."
My sister showed me this movie when i was 3 years old, i still have sleeping problems to this day. Im a grown ass man and i know that gremlins are not real, and im not scared by them anymore but the sleep patterns i developed as a kid never went away and so i still to this day have trouble staying asleep and im a stupidly light sleeper. seriously, i get woken up by the sound of my own breath sometimes.