Released back in 1984, Gremlins tells the tale of young Billy who inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. We spoke to Gremlins star Frances Lee McCain who plays Billy’s mother Lynn Peltzer about battling those pesky creatures and working with
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“It was kind of like a huge practical joke played on the audience. For 45 minutes they were lulled into thinking it was ET 2, then suddenly when everyone was relaxed it freaked them out… or rather, Joe Dante freaked them out!” Zach Galligan is talking about the ingeniously deceptive concept of Gremlins, in which