# The original Gremlins movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-gremlins-movie/566650 "2011-01-06T20:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-gremlins-movie/566650/41 "2011-01-07T16:06:35Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > I remember that from the book as well. Gizmo wouldn’t tell the other Mogwai the rules, knowing that they’d, well, end up doing what they did. There was even a bit of dialogue between the Mogwai about it: as I recall, Stripe grinningly told Gizmo that “Clorr is dead,” pleased that he’d figured out that sunlight was deadly. I remember that as well. I read it way back then but it stuck with me. It was actually a well written book considering it was a movie novelization. To this day I also remember that there was chapter that was just two words long, “Pete Forgot” (IIRC, he forgot to tell their science teacher not to feed the Mogwai he was testing after midnight). ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-gremlins-movie/566650/42 "2011-01-07T23:58:54Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > What _was_ it doing? Being deliberately silly and signalling that the story is not supposed to make sense. The scariness of the gremlins was always [mixed with humour](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zReX7OpfZXY). ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-gremlins-movie/566650/43 "2011-01-08T03:20:25Z")
You know, Gizmo’s cute and cuddly bit is [just an act.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDMNrsHmUM) The sequel addresses some of the questions brought up in this thread. One scene has a guy questioning the dietary restrictions - how long after midnight, what happens if it’s on a plane and crosses the international dateline, what if a gremlin ate before midnight but had food lodged in its teeth. Unfortunately we never hear the answers to these questions because a gremlin pops out of the wall and eats him. (I love the [outtakes!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWzW3IFQgyI)) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-gremlins-movie/566650/44 "2011-01-08T03:35:24Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > Being deliberately silly and signalling that the story is not supposed to make sense. The scariness of the gremlins was always [mixed with humour](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zReX7OpfZXY). Heh. Good point. **Marlitharn** , an act?! NO! Gizmo LOVES us all! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-gremlins-movie/566650/45 "2011-01-08T03:54:15Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > Being deliberately silly and signalling that the story is not supposed to make sense. The scariness of the gremlins was always [mixed with humour](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zReX7OpfZXY). I’ll agree with that. Even thirty years later, Joe Dante managed to hit the perfect humor: horror ratio. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-gremlins-movie/566650.md?page=2)