About this episode
We're taking a break from our regular season on the awesome movie year of 1984 to feature a special Christmas bonus, Joe Dante’s holiday horror-comedy Gremlins . Directed by Joe Dante from a screenplay by Chris Columbus and starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton and Frances Lee McClain, Gremlins was a commercial success and has since become a holiday favorite. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert ( https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gremlins-1984 ), Richard Corliss in Time Magazine ( http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,951161-1,00.html ), and Vincent Canby in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/08/movies/screen-gremlins-kiddie-gore.html ). Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1984 installment featuring our foreign film pick, Sammo Hung’s martial arts comedy Wheels on Meals .