Gremlins / Gremlins 2: The New Batch [DVD]

Both of Joe Dante's Gremlins films. Billy Peltzer gets an adorable mogwai named Gizmo for Christmas and breaks all three rules, unleashing a horde of anarchic monsters on his small town. In The New Batch, Billy and Kate are working in a high-tech New York skyscraper when Gizmo gets wet again, and Dante goes all out with a wilder, self-mocking sequel.

Details: Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), USA. Directed by Joe Dante. With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Glover, Christopher Lee. Rated PG / PG-13. DVD. Warner Bros.