The secret’s out, folks! 🤫 A never-before-seen, 2-and-a-half-hour cut of Gremlins, yes, you read that right, 2.5 hours of gremlin chaos 🤪, secretly screened late last week in Los Angeles, and we’re still trying to pick our jaws up from the floor 🤯. This is not a drill, people! 🚨 The beloved 1984 horror classic has been hiding a dirty little secret, and we’re not talking about the Mogwai’s late-night snacking habits 🍿. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an exclusive group of horror filmmakers, including Final Destination: Bloodlines directors Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky, Ready or Not writer Guy Busick, and M3GAN screenwriter Akela Cooper, received a cryptic text message inviting them to a mysterious screening 📱 with the promise of watching “a movie no one has ever seen.” And, boy, did they get a show! 🎥
The text reportedly claimed, “You will never forgive yourself [for missing it],” and we’re pretty sure that’s a threat, not a promise 🤔. That movie was a version of Joe Dante’s Gremlins not seen since 1983, because, you know, it was lost in a time capsule or something ⏰. Previously believed for decades to be lost (or rumored to not exist at all), Dante admitted this year that the assembly cut he made in late 1983, which ran roughly an hour longer than the final film released in June 1984, was indeed real 🙌. We’re talking alternate takes, scrapped character arcs, and more scenes featuring Mrs. Deagle 👵. The first Gremlin doesn’t even show up until an hour in, because, you know, anticipation is key 🕰️.
The cut features extended scenes of gremlin chaos, including nearly 10 more minutes of footage of the bar scene, as well as additional footage of the department store and bank 🏦. Perhaps most notably, the infamous Christmas speech Phoebe Cates delivers as Kate, isn’t included in the assembly cut 🎄. We’re not sure what’s more surprising, the fact that this cut exists or that the filmmakers managed to keep it under wraps for so long 🤐. In an Instagram Live Q&A last week, Gremlins star Zack Galligan called the cut an “absolute mind blower” and “an assembly of all the stuff that we shot back in 1983,” including “stuff I have absolutely no memory of having shot” 🙈. He also shared that his character, Billy, comes off “more badass” in the initial cut 💪.
Gremlins 3 is currently in development at Warner Bros., with Chris Columbus set to produce and direct, and Steven Spielberg attached to executive produce 🎬. Gremlins 3 is currently scheduled for release on November 19, 2027, because, you know, we all need something to look forward to in the distant future 📆. The Best Comedy Movie Every Year of the 1990s? More like The Best Gremlin Movie Every Year of the 1980s 🎉! So, who’s ready for some gremlin action? 🤗 Let’s get this mogwai party started! 🎊
Finn McFrame, celebrated satirical mastermind and self-proclaimed “Emperor of Irony,” started his illustrious career as a cinematographer, where his expertise in capturing every single frame of a squirrel stealing a baguette earned him accolades at obscure film festivals.
Born in the glamorous town of Boring, Oregon, Finn grew up with dreams of being a Hollywood director until he realized that satire, not cinema, was his true calling—or at least the one that let him sleep until noon.
Finn McFrame: changing the world, one satirical lens flare at a time.
