Gremlins: Vicious Fun for All the Family
A celebration of Joe Dante’s horror comedy, plus how mollycoddling UK censors prevented nine-year-old me seeing this in the cinema
Warning: Contains spoilers.
My desire to see Gremlins during the original run in the UK was thwarted by the British Board of Film Classification. It did not receive the expected PG certificate, and instead was passed at 15 (there was no 12A certificate in use in 1984). For my American cousins, that roughly translates to me expectin…
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