Critters

Critters (and its sequel Critters 2: The Main Course) had great VHS box art back in the day, which is almost certainly what attracted me to them when I was a kid. Luckily the movies, at least the first two in the series, weren't total suck fests. The first Critters movie is more or less a mash-up of Gremlins and The Blob, wherein these killer hedgehogs from outer space crash-land near a family farm in Kansas. They soon go about killing and eating as many people as they can before they're stopped by some kid and the town drunk. The Critter puppets and practical effects were done by the Chiodo Brothers, the team behind Killer Klowns from Outer Space, and they hold up a lot better than the effects from some of those other Gremlins rip-offs. I'm looking at you, Munchies.

Rating: Same director as The Mighty Ducks%

(Image from moviegoods.com)