History Trivia / Gremlins

* DuelingDubs: There's three Japanese dubs: one for home video, one for Fuji TV and another one for TV Asahi. Curiously enough, the TV dubs shares most of the same cast, with some exceptions. As an additional note, there's three voice actors that voice their characters in all the three dubs: Creator/ToshihikoSeki as Billy, Kousei Tomita as Billy's father Rand and Kumiko Takizawa as Gizmo.

** The first movie was going to be DarkerAndEdgier. Gizmo was going to become a gremlin (specifically, the Gremlin leader Stripe), in the second act, but this was deemed too confusing to audiences. Billy's mother was also going to be decapitated by the gremlins, with her head rolling down the stairs. Additionally, Billy would have been your typical 80's HollywoodNerd and not only traveled around the town with two companions during the madness (a love interest and a bully-turned-emergency-ally), but wielded a sword. He still wields a sword in the final film but it's limited to only one scene. As to his companions, presumably they morphed into Kate and Gerald. Also, Billy's dog would have been eaten.

** ''WebVideo/GloveAndBoots'' has a blog dedicated to the movie, in which Fafa gives Mario a Mogwai as a Christmas present to Mario's annoyance and Mario breaks all the rules of caring for it thinking they're dumb.

* ReferencedBy: The gremlins are a recurring monster in the video game, ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'', resembling more like the creatures from this movie instead of the classical depiction of gremlins. They even share the same weakness of [[ImMelting melting after being exposed to light]].

** In a bizarre example, Kate is played by Creator/PhoebeCates.

* UnderageCasting: Keye Luke had remarkably young-looking skin, and had to be made up to look older than his real age. At the time of filming, he was in his mid seventies.

* UnderageCasting: Keye Luke had remarkably young-looking skin, and had to be made up to look older than his real age. At the time of filming, he was in his mid eighties.

** A scene would've occurred where the heroes found the aftermath of a Gremlin attack on a [=McDonalds=] - all of the patrons have been devoured, including a baby, and the [=McDonald's=] food would've been untouched. It was cut for being too dark and sad.

** Mr. and Mrs. Futterman were killed in the original script following their encounter with the gremlins. The filmmakers thought that their deaths were too cruel and removed any references to it, and they even returned for the sequel.

** Gizmo was originally going to die and turn into a butterfly.

** Creator/TimBurton was considered to direct the movie before Creator/JoeDante was hired, but was turned down as he didn't direct a full-length film at the time.

* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: Inverted. In the commentary, Creator/JoeDante calls Mushroom (the dog playing Barney) "the all-purpose cutaway," because if Barney is in the scene and Joe doesn't know what to cut to, Mushroom has a priceless facial expression that'll sell it. Highlights include: Looking worried and offended when Mrs. Deagle is threatening to kill him, looking curious when Gizmo first appears, looking frightened when Gizmo first multiplies. He even moves in synch with the Gizmo puppet in several shots.

* StarMakingRole: for Creator/CoreyFeldman.

** The entire concept of these movies was brought about from Spielberg's unproduced script loosely based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly–Hopkinsville_encounter the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter]]. The idea was eventually separated into three movies: this one, ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', and ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.

* CameoProp: The time machine prop from ''Film/TheTimeMachine1960'' can be seen behind Randall Peltzer when he's on the phone with his wife, while attending the convention. A moment later, the machine has disappeared (into the future or the past), to the astonishment of several on-lookers.

** In a bizarre example, Kate is played by Phoebe Cates.

* ThrowItIn: Gerrold orders "vodka martini, shake don't stir," from Kate at Dorry's in an attempted ShoutOut to Film/JamesBond. However, Judge Reinhold kept fumbling the line, seemingly unable to get out the correct "shaken, not stirred." Eventually they decided to just let the line stand, since it made Gerrold seem even more pretentious and clueless.

* {{Blooper}}: In the credits, voice actor Creator/BobBergen is credited as Bob Berger.