{"id":8954,"date":"2005-05-09T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/09\/gremlins\/"},"modified":"2005-05-09T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T00:00:53","slug":"gremlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/09\/gremlins\/","title":{"rendered":"Gremlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0087363 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0087363.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gremlins (1984)\" \/>This old classic called &#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087363\">Gremlins<\/a>&#8221; was on TV, Maxim was sleeping, I had nothing better to do, so I watched it.  Again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Joe Dante<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Action<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Polly Holliday, Glynn Turman, Dick Miller, Keye Luke, Scott Brady, John Louie, Judge Reinhold, Jackie Joseph, Harry Carey Jr., Corey Feldman, Don Steele<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 6.8<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 7.0 [rate 7.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087363\">Gremlins<\/a>&#8221; must be one of the funniest horror movies ever made.  It stands in one row with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106308\/\">Army of Darkness<\/a>&#8220;.  It is so funny that it&#8217;s not even scary anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087363\">Gremlins<\/a>&#8221; has excellent special effects for its time &#8211; 1984 &#8211; good acting, and really weird soundtrack which adds to the fun with a good selection of disco music at most inappropriate times.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I enjoyed the movie one more time and I am sure I&#8217;ll be watching it again and again later on.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>This old classic called &#8220;Gremlins&#8221; was on TV, Maxim was sleeping, I had nothing better to do, so I watched it. Again. Directed by: Joe Dante Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Action Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Polly Holliday, Glynn Turman, Dick Miller, Keye Luke, Scott Brady, John Louie, Judge Reinhold, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/09\/gremlins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gremlins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9641,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/03\/donnie-brasco\/","url_meta":{"origin":8954,"position":0},"title":"Donnie Brasco","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Finding movies from my wishlist is getting harder and harder and I get to watch lots of crap. 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