The best thing to do with broken animatronics We're counting the 1984 horror-comedy Gremlins as a Christmas classic - the characters battle the Gremlins using Christmas lights, gingerbread cookies, Christmas trees, and holiday sale items... and ultimately Gizmo arrived in this small town as Billy's Christmas present. After this viewing, Jess still likes it, but Grinchy Amanda said that it does not live up. We do agree that the best scene in Gremlins is the first battle scene involving Billy's mother, Lynn Peltzer (played by ultimate 80s mom, Frances Lee McCain ). She starts the film as a smiling, put-upon, long-suffering housewife who spends most of her screentime in the kitchen. She coddles her useless husband. She makes cookies. We have low expectations for her capacity for violence. And yet! When Lynn Peltzer hears a strange noise upstairs, she grabs the biggest damn knife in that kitchen and goes head first towards the danger. She turns vicious! She grinds a Gremlin ...
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