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Released
1986 · FILM

Critters

When ravenous alien critters crash onto a quiet Kansas farm, a desperate mother must protect her children while two intergalactic bounty hunters race to eliminate the monsters before they devour the entire town.

“The battle began in another galaxy. It's about to end in the Brown's backyard.”

Directed by
Stephen Herek
Written by
Domonic Muir, Stephen Herek
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
86 min
ComedyHorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm, and two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to eliminate them from the planet.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Larry BockShot by Tim SuhrstedtScored by David NewmanDesigned by Gregg Fonseca

Box Office

1986 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$13.2M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$13.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.6M — 12% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.4M — 18% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 540 theaters

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