Critters 2 (1988) KILL COUNT

thank you [Music] welcome to the kill account where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm zorin hungry hungry heifer gevoyage and today we continue following the bouncing Critter balls with critters 2 the Main Course released in 1988. critters 2 sees the return of Brad brown but without the rest of his family after the first cried attack they moved out of Grover's Bend Brad's returned two years later to visit his grandma for Easter making critters 2 one of the few and probably the best Easter set horror film much better than beaster day here comes Peter cottonhell I mean what the hell is going on here Scott Grimes reprises his role as Brad and is joined by a few other returning Critters actors including Terence Mann Lynn Shay and of course Don Keith Hopper I knew I was going to be in it and I was cheap you know what I'm saying one face that didn't return the same was Sheriff harv since M Emmett Walsh declined to do another Critters movie nobody I ever gave us Flack about that it always bothered me a little bit well maybe he was too busy being stuffed on a couch somewhere [Music] most of the crew also returned including producer Barry opper but one man who didn't was director Stephen Herrick since he was off working on Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure taking his place was Mick Garris in his directorial debut and surprisingly critters 2 is also the first Mick Garris film on the kill count the prog rock looking Garris is a genre Mainstay who's written and or directed a whole bunch of horror films his work includes a ton of adaptations of Stephen King works and he also wrote the script for Gateway horror drug Hocus Pocus his Anthology shows masters of horror and fear itself have seen him collaborate with dozens of legendary directors and his podcast postmortem provides countless in-depth interviews with horror icons past and present plus James interviewed him once for meetup and vouches that Mick is just as lovely as his hair Garris wanted a simple movie for his directorial debut but critters 2 was definitely not that it was everything that's difficult about filmmaking locations nights makeup effects all these puppets children animals everything that's tough about making a movie was in this little movie Garris also punched up the script written by David Tui best known for writing and directing the Riddick film series thanks to garris's input the film is a lot more comedic than the first one embracing its similarities to that other franchise it was always a sequel to a low budget ripoff of Gremlins but I think there was a little of that Warner Brothers sense of humor brought to it Garris may have also added this movie's anti-meet message since he himself is a long time vegan you've been eating red meat no no no no not me ah it's the worst thing you could do to that body love meat bad habit but even if you don't eat meat this movie still got plenty of kills how many people-shaped Easter eggs will be cracked open by the critters let's find out and get to The Kills [Music] the movie begins with a tasty looking title card oh leave some room for dessert there Critters a couple of bounty hunters complete a seasonal bounty board Milestone when they add this hexapod worm to their Paolo puppets decapitated I am the bounty hunters are revealed to be Ugg and Charlie and Lee's here too flying them away from a planet of slime are you kidding me he still hasn't picked a face yet least days are nothing face finds the right cell can't live in the wrong cell wow actually very gender Progressive for the 80s well done they receive a transmission from warden's Auntie looking completely different from the first film because now he's played by Mick garris's wife Cynthia he wanted to be in that movie in the worst way and he made sure it was the worst way possible for her this claustrophobic woman had to spend over eight hours completely covered in Prosthetics with her arms tied behind her I mean she couldn't even see through the eyes and they didn't even create air holes for her to breathe through her nose in or mouth which are both covered up and had to create slits oh come on Mick I'd never forced my wife to wear an uncomfortable mask uh zorin what about Predator Michael Myers Babyface for they talk okay well that didn't count we were just engaged okay they counted and I'm sorry I love your hair my wife's a redhead they find out they fail to exterminate the Crites so in order to get fully paid they have to head back to Grover's Bend Kansas and they aren't the only ones since Bradley Brown the Lone Wolf pyro 11 teenager is on his way to visit his never before mentioned Nana for Easter wow this family really does send him to do everything on his own since it's Easter they're gonna need some eggs so good thing we have the ones from the end of the first film oh actually we've got a whole lot more of them Josh make a note of how many eggs 48 eggs noted the eggs are found by a non-dread pirate Wesley next to the old budget-friendly brown farm mailbox no need to see the house just to pretend it's there besides who needs to see a farm when we get to see more of Grover's bend the fictional town was built from scratch by production designer Philip Dean foreman and his team they took old warehouses used for police target practice and added facades in addition to fully building a church it was all done in Valencia California which was experiencing the coldest winter are on record supposed to be spring and warm and the grass kept dying and so they'd go out and spray the grass green it was so cold in fact that their end of filming gift was a pair of wool socks embroidered Critters too happy Christmas the returning Lynn Shay as Sal is now a reporter for the local newspaper and she thinks she's got a big story when she sees Brad Brown coming round to the bend the head of the paper Mr Morgan says for her to leave the boy alone that boy's story is nearly tore this town apart and I guess his parents and sisters accounts were ignored too cool uh maybe just go back to printing stories about Fonzie Wesley that Eric Christian almost guy heads down under to Quigley's antique shop he's there to unload some eggs and for payment not Buck flowers here gives him some generic beer and a couple of playboys wait is that October 74 nope guess we'll never know since he loses one of them on the way out good job Wesley he celebrates his job well done at the hungry heifer a local restaurant with a super catchy jingle created by Cynthia Garris it's here singer songwriter and space Warden what can't your wife do Mick aside from you know breathing that costume why did you do that to her Wesley hits on a girl named Megan like you do but his advances are unwanted so Brad intervenes with an interesting fighting stance Palms up with all the weights on the balls of his feet unsurprisingly it doesn't work and he winds up getting his stunt double thrown out of the restaurant and a fun one take that then has Scott Grimes pop up into Megan's truck while giving him a ride Megan reminds Brad that they knew each other as kids she tells him she's now a reporter for her dad's newspaper kind of like a Jimmy Olsen with breasts man I love the interactions between Brad and Megan even if actor Leanne Curtis didn't think the relationship was realistic serious journalists don't have crushes on ginger boys I'm sorry is that rude she takes him to his Nana's daycare slash home but Grandma's out she's back over the river and through the woods buying some of those eggs for the church's Easter egg hunt she haggles for half and awards her little helper Cindy with a bunny but it's neither milk nor dark chocolate oh it's better than chocolate honey it's carob carob no not the animal why'd you cut that in there Bree it's not as common nowadays but carob was a chocolate substitute used during the Natural Foods movement in the 70s the other eggs remain a Quigley shop where they're slowly roasted by an open fire until they hatch later Quigley discovers they've eaten all his dog's food and his dog why do I keep doing movies with dog deaths he tries to get off the damn ground but the Critter babies chew through his foot and the stool it sends him to the floor and onto the count when he's eaten by these chestnuts the baby Critters were very small rod puppets with limited movement when it came to killing Quigley they strung monofilament through his shirt and attached it to these bitey baby balls and On Cue we pull the string and they all went that night Brad looks through promotional materials from the first movie while Cindy who happens to be Megan's little sister stores her Easter egg and carob bunny by the heater they usually taste better a little melty that is if they weren't made of fucking carob wow Satan's raisin the egg hatches giving birth to a widow baby camera operator who playfully tries to eat faux Barrymore's hands and feet but Dad's foot is the one you should be worried about as it turns this Critter into Nickelodeon Gak well there is to can he's a real mess yeah the next day is Easter and these 30 Helens agree to hide some of those crit Easter eggs all around the churchyard but the hunt can't begin until after the whole holiday sermon which should give those eggs plenty of time to hatch yep there we go joining the festivities is Grover's Ben's new sheriff dressed as the Easter Bunny well mostly dressed oh this is great the Easter Bunny with his Tehachapi hanging out he's played by David urson previously seen on the kill count in Halloween 5. Sheriff Corwin hops along casually till he finds a hatched egg in a very fun shot but the fun doesn't last when the critters exceed his suit to ball occupancy limit he tries to get them out but ends up somehow launching himself through the church window and then succumbing to his bite wounds hilariously tragic but you know could have been worse at least he got his fly-up I have no idea where the critters went since the townsfolk chalk this death up to some kind of farm accident I'm sorry what some kind of farm accident what kind of farming machine rips out a man's stomach seals him back in his clothes and then tosses him through a window I'm sorry do you people spend your holidays with John Kramer oh shit there he is Megan convinces Brown had to see the retired and recast Sheriff harv now played by Barry Corbin even though harv saw the Crites in the first film this new actor is less than eager to help this town can kiss my ass he then just drives off into an empty field and moments later the bounty hunters land in a miniature version of that field Charlie finds chekhov's Playboy but before he can read it for the Articles the non-anawana counselors again Lee arrive and Lee's told to transform they used the nearest material for inspiration in a much less melty and much more booby transformation which leads to a super silly joke I love when Lee replicates the Staple in the centerfold kill Crites this transformation effect was done by returning special effects artist R Christopher Biggs the bladder used to inflate the boobs broke on the day so Biggs had to improvise attaching a boom Pole to a faux fun bag and manually pushing it out everybody loves that gag and it's like I always cringe because it's not the way it was supposed to have worked Lee's centerfold form was played by Roxanne kernahan who wasn't officially a Playboy model but she had done a photo shoot for Playboy that was never used so that's what you see in the movie also she had to film that nude scene in literally the coldest day in a hundred years hey just wanted to pop in to say that she's also in the decline of Western Civilization part two she's one of the chicks laying around in a bed next to Paul Stanley that woman was awesome yes she was and actually it was very tragic to learn that she passed away from a car accident in 1993 when she was only 32 years old rest in peace Roxanne Brad and Megan head back to town where he gives more dumbass explanations for what happened to the sheriff what could have been a Fred you idiot you know damn well it wasn't a dog it was thank you Lynn Shay dressed like say on scam Lucy and it looks like Critters make her so mad like furry flames on the side of her face that it's up to Brad to once again go It Alone dude just learn to call for help oh who are we gonna call Critter Busters good point I mean if they're related to the pin Busters they ain't gonna do shit he does a half-assed job by knocking once and then giving up nobody's home let's get out of here how is that man standing up and opening doors whoop looks like he heard me as he collapses onto Brad the critters then attack sounding like Sonic the Hedgehog getting a boner they fend off the ballsy Blitzkrieg with Sal challenging one to a duel while another inflates itself like a Peter Frampton Pig on the tire that doesn't go well when they drive off as it's squished under the tire leaving behind a critter cake with extra green syrup to make it back to Grandma's house where the octogenarian's been fighting off a fridge Raider of her own Hannah the critters are here no shit God damn I love Nana but not in like that way I'm married Brad finds the Bounty remote from the first movie and when he pushes the Deus Ex button uh the door and Critter explode all over the wall the bounty hunters are back these guys yes yes they are the reunion continues when Brad sees a clean and sober Charlie who loves his new job as a bounty hunter guess that means he won't be staying long I gotta go where the cosmic winds blow me Cosmic wins isn't that the name of a space stripper the bounty hunters somehow walk to town faster than Brad and Megan can drive there and come across the hungry heifer Burger Joint overrun by Critters and Eddie diesens season's career consisted of playing the nerdiest of nerds most notably in Greece and as the voice of Mandark in Dexter's Lab decent's then Iggy Catalpa pulled it away giving his time for another fun Gremlin Z comedy scene Critter style but that fun doesn't last long since ugg's dick gun gets aroused by the thought of killing and Lee here definitely doesn't suffer from penis envy oh is right as the humanized Daleks start to extaminate exterminate and going off the 14 total I see in this wide shot and the one on the garbage can here I count 11 Critters killed in the scene six Crites are blown up by the Bounty Hunter's weighing guns on screen and another is knocked into a fryer after getting a new haircut four are able to valmorphicize into a larger ball and Escape leaving four to be killed off screen from these ridiculous blasts how do you feel about that number Critter this movie is a goddamn cartoon and I love it this Kansas chain restaurant Massacre took days to film the meat and ketchup and other food smells got old really quick luckily the kyotas could take out their aggression by exploding some Critters and those exploding ones had to be made differently from the normal puppets we made them out of urethane foam yeah yeah so they were more rigid so you would actually see pieces explode and break apart oh and what about all those pieces we would get condoms and we'd put green slime in it and blood and stuff and we'd load them up well good to know they were practicing safe FX I'm bovine owner of the hungry heifer and I'm here to remind all you little critters that this weekend are Easter feaster deals are back this weekend only you can grab yourself a musaya shank abonado beef or a basket of beefster eggs with all the crucifixins and unlike our Lord Jesus Christ after three days these deals won't be resurrected so come on down to the hungry heifer unless of course you're one of them prison breaking space porcupines then stay the hell away my insurance won't cover that shit no more [Music] the Escape ball chases folks in critter Vision which honestly makes me wonder why they aren't just vomiting all the time the ball then busts these pinheads before 710 splitting up to continue terrorizing the town let's just take a moment to point out the unsung heroes of this scene the extras who absolutely gave it their all running from these furry bowling balls friend Megan find her dad who gets hit by an awkward insert shot of a critter quill the quill Peters him out and they drag him away dropping him off at the church before very casually just walking back through town to meet up with the bounty hunters who are currently trying to figure out how straws work the hungry heifer Hefe whines about the damage to his franchise location when Lee decides to Quantum Leap their face into the dieses Gilmore crate okay they try to do just that for a couple of scenes but they miss all their shots until night falls well hey maybe it's because this new face isn't working out for Lee perhaps the face of a burned up child molester would be a better fit Charlie quickly vetoes that idea since it would break this movie's budget to get Robert England in the height of Freddy fever but that's okay because Lee reverts back to their previous form and catchphrase kill Crites they track one of the critters into a totally real Alleyway but find themselves in an ambush situation must be a couple of dozen of these things these screams bring Charlie and Ugg running where they find Lee's arm chewed to the Bone own like a pie to death security guard damn actually this death makes me a little sad and I'm not the only one as a distron Ugg screams their face away putting some validity to my thought that these two are more than just work friends everyone is holed up in the church since they can't leave town or call for help thanks to a little critter sabotage the critters are nowhere to be seen but they are heard by this shotgun toting fella who goes to investigate only to be pulled off screen and eaten wait is he really dead I guess so once again Brad is on his own so it's up to him to save Cindy as she jigsaws and zags her way across a field red bats some Critter balls away and then throws away his only weapon in order to hug Cindy oh God damn it Brad and just as it looks like they're Critter crudite a mysterious gunman shoots down five Critters but who in the name of Harry Crumb would have done such a thing I'm back well the character is you're still a different actor the critters all attend critcon 88 and Megan tries to help us with our count well that's not specific enough Josh whoa that's way more than the 48 eggs from before must be a critical orgy or something that's one horny Critter and two horny Critters the townsfolk blame Brad for the critters returning but Clay Johnson is the closer of that conversation if we shut around here on our duffs bitching we're going to end up tomorrow's leftovers now I don't too much relish that idea oh oh that was a delicious pun more please Fred comes up with a goddamn plan and suggests they lure the critters into the nearby Hamburger Factory then they'll lock them in and blow them up sounds good but where are you gonna get the explosives the hardware store they're not gonna have NHL what the fuck what store is this they set up a boom Faye of meat and dynamite that's sure to raise the critters nitroglyceride levels with a single fan they walk the smell over a mile and somehow it works the critters come and rolling even slow Jeremy uh I guess they can talk now that's just ridiculous unfortunately the winds change causing them to go after the live meet looks like Charlie it's time to prove yourself and you ran away and that's which okay cool our franchise hero ladies and gentlemen a larger crater stops them and tells his non-manscape militia they'd be better off with cheese bucket cheeseburger cheeseburgers and since the crepe's social hierarchy is based on survival of the biggest they make like Autobots and roll out this Caravan of Critters consisted of a grid of lightweight aluminum with wires connecting the critters who are on Yokes so they would roll when dragged across the terrain well most of them the larger Critter ball that leads them was on its own yoke and dragged by an ATV off screen they get to the Polar Ice Burger Factory and Chow Down on some meat man do they love to eat look at that little guy he just couldn't be happier unfortunately the kyotos weren't too happy that production used real raw meat that would get rancid after a couple days of shooting they weren't sealed they would come down and be all over your hand oh putting those puppets on your hand they just stinky little Bass and when everyone else went home for the day we would have to take the puppets and actually spend all night cleaning them oh it's not so bad after some awkward stairs it's revealed that the big Critter is actually Ugg in Disguise he then transforms and escapes just in time for the door to crush another Critter oh he looks like a fuzzy little Tatum the town's folk Wiley Coyote the plunger blowing up the factory and melting the polar ice burgers this effect was originally supposed to be three giant explosions so that it would top the ending from the first film the first explosion burned up all the wires that were going to detonate the explosions to follow you can't do take two once you've already exploded take one oh well it still makes for a very happy ending Brad and Megan celebrate with a kiss as I start counting absolutely nothing cause those Critters ain't dead they formed one of the greatest things to ever be filmed a giant Critter ball the Critter ball was originally scripted to be 30 feet in diameter when that proved too difficult it was scaled down to 10 feet which was still huge the ball was built on a geodesic dome structure then covered with Critter heads and fur some of them you've seen their butts and their bodies they're like 300 faces oh did you hear that Josh 130 wait what oh I lost cow the Critter heads had remote controlled mouths to add movement but the real movement that mattered was moving this giant thing around they first tried mounting a bar into a center axle and rolling it on the off-camera side but that was unreliable when going over rough terrain and also crushed the Whittle Critter faces Mr Kyoto how would you say the test worked out I think it sucks the balls special effects supervisor Martin Breslin fixed the issue by mounting the ball on a trailer so it could be towed for some wide shots they used a full-size ball that was actually a weather balloon covered in critter pelts it would either be rolled by a crew member one time it got away from us and rolled down into the canyon we had to go get it or pulled by an ATV which Charlie Kyoto loved to watch seeing a crowd of people running and this giant furry ball is being pulled and it's chasing them along it was a hoot the Critter ball runs over one slow ass motherfucking extra who leaves behind a cartoony shaking skeleton just you know sitting on top of his old clothes yeah best way to go out is pants and that effect was a happy accident during one of the takes somebody bumped the foot and the whole skeleton kind of went pickled and Mick was like oh do more of that the gym class pushball of death chases the Grovers back to town with Megan and Brad in tow the chase that follows involved the truck mounted Critter ball trying to Ram them off the road it was difficult and nerve-wracking to film having it pound against without ruining anything very expensive device for what we were doing that goes for the actors as well it's very distracting to work with a giant Critter ball to the left of you the ball and Edward Kyoto arrive in town you see my legs behind it where it heads straight towards the church to consume midnight mass quantities Brad and Megan are able to cut it off but then send their car over a hay bale and that doesn't do much since they're still able to get to the church on time the Critter ball turns back on course for the church when oh my God is that Charlie flying the spaceship yay Charlie's going on an adventure and that's apparently The Greatest Adventure death as he flies into the Critter ball blowing it up and adding uh yeah how many Critters do we add to the count Josh I started to go cross-eyed from Counting so I'm gonna use man assuming the center is hollow like an enthiran ball I estimated a 16 Critter diameter giving us an eight Critter radius so our surface area would be four times pi times eight squared which is around 804 Critters damn very impressive let's add 804 Critters to the bounty board that died in this goodness gracious great ball of fire what Charlie presumed dead the town Mourns and Ugg honors him by taking his face but the next day as Brad is saying his goodbyes and almost kissing Megan again they learned that Charlie survived by ejecting himself from the spaceship before it blew up totally did not see anything fly out of that ship but hey gotta keep him around for the third film with Luck's Grand facial gesture made moot he returns to a random spaceship leaving Charlie behind Charlie has then declared the new sheriff by The ex-sheriff Who definitely has no authority to do such a thing Brad and Megan finally kiss and the movie ends with the filmmakers thinking the fictional folks of Grover's Bend how many people became the main course in this Easter Sunday meal of a movie let's find out and get to the Nook oh God Critters Bounty Hunter save me save me life signs not detected Show Must Go On ah count more Crites keep on Counting four humans and one alien Bounty Hunter died in Critters too they were all men except for my friend Lee giving us a chart as blue as the frozen meat from the hungry heifer hahaha joke with a run time of 94 minutes that gave us a kill on average every 18.8 minutes as for the bounty board we can add 824 dead Crites seven for the townsfolk and 817 for the bounty hunters we win that leaves us with a critter kill on average every seven-ish seconds this form is pleasing yet goofy now if I could just get the voice right look at the golden Chainsaw for coolest kill to the guy run over by the Critter ball it's the most memorable Kill from the movie and so cartoony and fun it's just I I fucking love it film City for lamest kill goes to this Rando shotgun gun guy pulled off screen the most horrifying thing about that was the Damage Done to my eardrums by Brad and the Bounty booty Award for best Critter kill goes to the Critter ball is how the hell could I not and that's it critters 2 came out in 1988 and due to its poor box office performance was the final Critters film to be released theatrically it performed well enough on home video to prompt two back-to-back film sequels that I'll be starting next week but until then I'm a man who also loves a girl named Megan and this has been the kill count there we go we have made it through Critters to the main course last theatrical Critters and probably my favorite one to be honest uh I am in a full bounty hunter outfit made by oh who could have been made by could it be Gina devivo yes the woman that makes all of the things for me and uh probably stayed up way too late thank you Gina it's perfect I love it I'm very happy she also made this gun here that uh seems a lot more dick-like than the ones in the movie I'm pretty sure it's a gatorade bottle on the top here it works when you're just kind of holding it like this and just moving it around I hope you enjoyed this one I'm enjoying uh hosting these and just being sillier and sillier with every single one of them I know some of you have been saying you still want me to cover Critter's a new binge and I say no way is that gonna happen and thank you as always Jordan good for doing another wonderful parody that I told you to do last minute thanks for watching and always remember be good people

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Length: 27min 42sec (1662 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 02 2023