Brand new factory sealed rare tape version is full frame and perfect for old school square TVs as the image will fill your frame. The audio is also more robust than it's digital counterpart. That's a Warner Bros. watermark on the lower left corner (see photo). In the small town of Kingston Falls one Christmas, inventor Hoyt Axton gives his son Zach Galligan a mogwai, a strange creature which he has picked up in a Chinese curios shop. Mogwai's aren't supposed to get wet, be fed after midnight or come into contact with sunlight, and after Galligan's mogwai, which he calls Gizmo, is accidently dampened, it produces a number of less friendly creatures who proceed to go on the rampage. Like the 'It's a Good Life' episode of 'Twilight Zone' (1983), also directed by Joe Dante, GREMLINS is a wild, uproarious picture of unrestrained irresponsibilty and childish malice triumphant. Gizmo may be particularly cute in the 'E.T.' mould but Dante's essentially anarchic vision has refused to be subdued by execuctive producer Steven Spielberg's more sugary one. There is no doubt that it is the evil Stripe and his pals, and not the cuddly Gizmo, who are the narratives driving force while the references to Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life' are as much in irony as homage. Dante's wholesale trashing of the Capra-esque small-town setting includes, as usual, a number of swipes at various media-saturated icons, including the YMCA, Walt Disney, 'Phil Spector's Christmas Album', Smokey the Bear and Santa Claus. The destruction of the town is paralleled by that of the narrative, as the film resolves itself in a disconnected series of anarchic, violent, and blackly comic anti-Christmas sketches. And that means your whole family is in for a rollercoaster ride of fun and fright.