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December 8, 2025 66 mins

Hello Misfits! Our lives have been a teeny bit bananas lately so we're taking the week off and bringing back an episode from this time last year. We're talking about the 1984 holiday classic "Gremlins." We've got WWII fighter pilots, inspiration from Playboy, and lots of mice and cockroaches. Who knew?

 

Episode Sources:

“Gremlin Trouble!: The Cursed Roald Dahl Film Disney Never Made” by Jim Korkis

“Creature Feature: The Oral History of ‘Gremlins’” by Alan Siegel, The Ringer, Jun 6, 2024

“Sexual Anxiety? Racism? The Vietnam War? No One Knows What ‘Gremlins’ Is a Metaphor For” by JM McNab, Cracked, May 23, 2023

“The 50 Most Racist Movies” Complex, May 9, 2012

“Roald Dahl, Author of Gremlins Book, Visits The Walt Disney Studios” by Lucas Seastrom, WaltDisney.org, Dec 9, 2021

“Why Gremlins Didn't Use Monkeys To Create The Special Effects” by Gregory Wakeman, CinemaBlend, Jun 22, 2015

“Chris Columbus on why 'Gremlins' is a Christmas movie — and the dark Santa story the studio wanted to cut out” by Kevin Polowy, Yahoo! Entertainment, Dec 18, 2020

"'Gremlins' Writer Chris Columbus on His Hard R, Darker Original Script” by Adam Chitwood, Collider, Nov 24, 2020

All the Right Movies Podcast

“21 Crazy Facts Behind The Making Of The Gremlin Movies” by Christopher Hodges, Screen Rant, Aug 24, 2018

“The True Origin of Disney’s Gremlins” by Jim Korkis, Mouse Planet, Apr 5, 2017

“Protecting the Gremlins” by Jim Korkis, Mouse Planet, Jun 27, 2018

“Gremlins Week: The Evolution Of Gizmo” by Nick De Semlyen, Empire, Jun 30, 2014

“Gremlins' Director Had A Wild Theory For The Mogwai Origin” by Murray Ferguson, Screen Rant, Dec 13, 2021

 

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