Now Available as a Streaming Subscription: 1980s Cult Sci-Fi Horror Featuring Nasty Beasts & One of the Greatest Movies of All Time

When it comes to the 1980s, we also talk about sinister figures who gave us one or two sleepless nights: Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, the Gremlins or Chucky. The hairy furry beasts from outer space should not be missing in this series – the critters. They made their debut in the now cult sci-fi horror film Critters – Sie sind da!.

Do you have “beast” Haven’t seen it yet, but want to finally close that education gap from the 80’s? No problem! The fun sci-fi horror is now available as a subscription to WOW (formerly Sky Ticket).

That’s what “Critters” is about

The inhabitants of the small town of Grovers Bend, located in the American Midwest, have no idea that they are threatened by a major threat from space. There, the nasty Critters have found their way to Earth after escaping the prison created on an asteroid. The prison’s alien operators send a duo of bounty hunters after them, but the critters are faster at first.

Near Grover’s Bend, they attack a farm where Jay Brown (Billy Green Bush) lives with his wife Helen (Dee Wallace-Stone) and children Brad (Scott Grimes) and April (Nadine Van der Velde). While the Browns fend off the beastly attackers, the local police force, led by Chief Harvey (M. Emmet Walsh), has also gotten wind of the Critters. And then the aforementioned bounty hunters appear…

Also new at WOW

If you already know “Critters” but still want to catch up on a real milestone in movie history, get your money’s worth with another movie on WOW: “dog days” by Sydney Lumet. The true event based bank robbery drama is one of the best movies of all time for us: in the official FILMSTARTS review, “Dog Days” got the absolute best rating of 5 out of 5 possible stars.

And that’s the point: On a hot summer day in 1972, Sonny (Al Pacino) and Sal (John Cazale) set out to rob a bank to help a close friend fund a sex reassignment surgery. Too bad there isn’t really much to get, as most of the money has already been paid out that day. And not only that: the police got wind of it and surrounded the bank. How do the damn beginners find their way out of this predicament?