SAVE THE DATE ! Don’t miss the comedy and PG rated scare in Steven Spielberg’s GREMLINS at the Globe Theatre WINCHELSEA on Friday 11th September at 6.30pm. Tickets will be on sale mid-August. Presented by @Geelong Drive In and @Movies on the Move. Call 0417109019 or email; contactus@moviesonthemove.com.au
Steven Spielberg and Gremlins
While he did not direct the 1984 hit film (that was Joe Dante), Spielberg was deeply involved as the Executive Producer. Watch out for his quick, blink-or-you-miss-it cameo. He can be seen as the man riding a motorized hospital cart through the background at the inventor’s convention.
About “Gremlins”
The story follows Billy Peltzer, who receives Gizmo as a pet, who then spawns more of his kind that evolve into the titular imp-like monsters that wreak havoc on Billy’s hometown during Christmas Eve.
Billy inadvertently breaks three important rules: No water, no food after midnight and no bright light, resulting in hilarious mayhem and destruction in the town.
Struggling inventor Randall Peltzer visits a Chinatown antique store to find a Christmas present for his son, Billy. In it, Randall uncovers a small and furry creature called a mogwai (Cantonese: 魔怪, ‘devil’). The owner, Mr. Wing, refuses to sell it to him, but his grandson secretly does, warning Randall to remember three important rules concerning its care – keep the mogwai away from light, especially sunlight, which will kill it; do not let it come in contact with water; and above all, never let it eat after midnight.
In Randall’s hometown of Kingston Falls, Billy works at its local bank, but fears that his dog Barney will be put down by widowed miser Ruby Deagle. His father returns and offers him the mogwai, now named “Gizmo”, as a pet and informs him of the rules.
Gizmo is friendly and docile, but when Billy’s friend, Pete Fountaine, accidentally spills water on him, five more mogwai spawn from him – a more mischievous sort led by the aggressive Stripe, named after the mohawk-like tuft of white fur on his head.
Billy shows one of the mogwai to his former elementary school science teacher, Roy Hanson, spawning another mogwai, whom the latter experiments on. Back home, Stripe and his fellow mogwai trick Billy into feeding them after midnight by sabotaging his bedside clock. They form cocoons, as does Hanson’s mogwai, which soon hatch, emerging as destructive and reptilian imp-like monsters called “gremlins”.
You and your friends and family will love the comedy and PG rated scare in Steven Spielberg’s GREMLINS at the Globe Theatre WINCHELSEA on Friday 11th September at 6.30pm. Tickets will be on sale mid-August. Presented by @Geelong Drive In and @Movies on the Move. Call 0417109019 or email; contactus@moviesonthemove.com.au #Gremlins #Winchelsea #geelong #LovetheMovies #familymovies