The Gremlins Essay

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Gremlins The movie, Gremlins, is a 1984 comedy/horror film and features great stars like Zach Gilligan who plays Billy Peltzer, Phoebe Cates as Kate Beringer, Hoyt Axton as Randall Peltzer, and of course Gizmo, whose voice is done by Howie Mandel. This film is set in Kingston Falls, New York, in the 1980’s around Christmas. The film starts off with Randall Peltzer on the road trying to sell his outrageous inventions to storekeepers. While he was on the road he stopped in Chinatown seeking people to buy his inventions. The next thing you know he stumbles upon a weird antique shop. While he was in the shop he started to hear strange noises. Randall was curious to know what was making those noises. He quickly found out that is was a Mogwai, which is a small, cute and fuzzy creature. After falling in love with the mysterious creature and thinking it was going to be the perfect Christmas gift for his son, Billy, Randall was told by the owner of the shop, Mr. Wing, that the Mogwai wasn't for sale. Randall …show more content…

Gremlins did a fantastic job of pushing the boundaries of visual effect considering CGI was not being widely used in 1984. The visual effects team accomplished this mainly through the use of elaborate, hand­made puppets and marionettes. They relied on their skills to create some of the movie’s main characters such as Gizmo, as well as Stripe and the other gremlins...the very creatures for which the movie was named. The gremlins had to be impressive and the visual effects team did not disappoint. Stripe and the others were extremely well detailed. They had beady little eyes, a mouthful of razor sharp teeth, and were covered in what looked like slimy green scales. For the time they were really quite scary looking. On the opposite end, they also created the furry and adorable, wide­eyed Gizmo. Audiences fell in love with him instantly, and everyone wished that they had a Gizmo of their

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