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‘Critters Attack!” On Home Video This July

After thirty years, the Critters franchise has brand new installment headed your way on Blu-ray and DVD this summer. Directed by Bobby Miller (The Cleanse) and written by Scott Lobdell (Happy Death Day), the movie is inspired by the franchise that was released in the 80s and 90s, Critters Attack! follows Drea (Tashiana Washington) who reluctantly takes a babysitting job for a professor at the college she wants to attend. Struggling to keep the kids, Trissy (Ava Preston) and Jake (Jack Fulton), and her little brother Phillip (Jaedon Noel) entertained, she takes them on a hike, unaware that mysterious alien critters have crash-landed and started eating every living creature they come across. Scream Queen Dee Wallace (Cujo), who starred in the original Critters as Helen Brown, is back, this time as the mysterious Aunt Dee. While being hunted by the ravenous critters, Drea and the kids encounter an adorable, seemingly harmless critter named Bianca, an exiled royal fleeing her own

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2019
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New Critters Movie’s Title Announced

Fans of the Critters franchise are getting a double dose of the fuzz balls in 2019. Not only is Shudder’s series “Critters: A New Binge” now streaming, a new movie is headed your way! The title for the movie has just been announced as Critters Attack! Filming in South Africa, the film is from Syfy. Last we heard, Bobby Miller (The Cleanse) is directing and the guys behind several of the Tremors sequels, Adam Friedlander and Armand Leo, are producing. Exhibitor Relations has now announced via Twitter that Critters Attack! has been rated R for “bloody creature violence.” The original 1986 film, directed by Stephen Herek, starred Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, and Scott Grimes. In the movie, a group of small, furry aliens makes lunch out of the locals in a small town. Critters went on to spawn three sequels, with the last being released in 1992. We’ll keep you posted!

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 17, 2019
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Shudder Announces New Series ‘Critters: A New Binge’

Shudder has just announced their new series “Critters: A New Binge!” The eight-episode series from Warner Bros. Television and Blue Ribbon Content marks the return of everyone’s favorite hairy, insatiable aliens from the horror franchise that began in 1986. In the series, pursued by intergalactic bounty hunters, the Critters return to Earth on a secret mission and encounter lovelorn high-schooler Christopher (Joey Morgan, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), his crush Dana (Stephi Chin-Salvo, iZOMBIE), his best friend Charlie (Bzhaun Rhoden, Van Helsing), and his mom Veronica (Kirsten Robek, The Edge of Seventeen), whose past will come back to bite them—literally. The series also features Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin, Justice League Action) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich). Jordan Rubin directs the series, which is produced by Front Street Pictures Inc. and Abominable Pictures in association with Blue Ribbon Content. Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan, and Al Kaplan, the creative team behind Zombeavers and The Drone, wrote the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 28, 2019

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Horror Fuel

‘Critters Attack!” On Home Video This July

After thirty years, the Critters franchise has brand new installment headed your way on Blu-ray and DVD this summer. Directed by Bobby Miller (The Cleanse) and written by Scott Lobdell (Happy Death Day), the movie is inspired by the franchise that was released in the 80s and 90s, Critters Attack! follows Drea (Tashiana Washington) who reluctantly takes a babysitting job for a professor at the college she wants to attend. Struggling to keep the kids, Trissy (Ava Preston) and Jake (Jack Fulton), and her little brother Phillip (Jaedon Noel) entertained, she takes them on a hike, unaware that mysterious alien critters have crash-landed and started eating every living creature they come across. Scream Queen Dee Wallace (Cujo), who starred in the original Critters as Helen Brown, is back, this time as the mysterious Aunt Dee. While being hunted by the ravenous critters, Drea and the kids encounter an adorable, seemingly harmless critter named Bianca, an exiled royal fleeing her own

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 28, 2019
Horror Fuel

New Critters Movie’s Title Announced

Fans of the Critters franchise are getting a double dose of the fuzz balls in 2019. Not only is Shudder’s series “Critters: A New Binge” now streaming, a new movie is headed your way! The title for the movie has just been announced as Critters Attack! Filming in South Africa, the film is from Syfy. Last we heard, Bobby Miller (The Cleanse) is directing and the guys behind several of the Tremors sequels, Adam Friedlander and Armand Leo, are producing. Exhibitor Relations has now announced via Twitter that Critters Attack! has been rated R for “bloody creature violence.” The original 1986 film, directed by Stephen Herek, starred Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, and Scott Grimes. In the movie, a group of small, furry aliens makes lunch out of the locals in a small town. Critters went on to spawn three sequels, with the last being released in 1992. We’ll keep you posted!

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 17, 2019
Horror Fuel

Shudder Announces New Series ‘Critters: A New Binge’

Shudder has just announced their new series “Critters: A New Binge!” The eight-episode series from Warner Bros. Television and Blue Ribbon Content marks the return of everyone’s favorite hairy, insatiable aliens from the horror franchise that began in 1986. In the series, pursued by intergalactic bounty hunters, the Critters return to Earth on a secret mission and encounter lovelorn high-schooler Christopher (Joey Morgan, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), his crush Dana (Stephi Chin-Salvo, iZOMBIE), his best friend Charlie (Bzhaun Rhoden, Van Helsing), and his mom Veronica (Kirsten Robek, The Edge of Seventeen), whose past will come back to bite them—literally. The series also features Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin, Justice League Action) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich). Jordan Rubin directs the series, which is produced by Front Street Pictures Inc. and Abominable Pictures in association with Blue Ribbon Content. Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan, and Al Kaplan, the creative team behind Zombeavers and The Drone, wrote the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 28, 2019