Critters III

                    Ain't no rats, you can be sure of that.

Sometime after the events in Critters 2, Charlie MacFadden is tracking down the last of the Crites. A family of three - Annie (the main protagonist), Johnny (her little brother) and Clifford (the father) - stops at a rest stop when their car tyre goes flat. At the rest stop, Charlie warns them and Josh, (who turns out to be the families landlord's stepson), about the Crites. Of course the children all think that Charlie is a wandering madman and leave him to his searching. As this happens, a Crite lays eggs under the family's car and the family leaves, unknowingly taking the Crite eggs with them.

Soon after they arrive at their tenement, the Crites hatch and kill the maintenance man Frank. When the landlord arrives, he too is eaten by the Crites after Josh locks him in Clifford's room, unknowingly trapping his stepfather with the Crites. The whole building becomes infested with the Crites, who destroy and attempt to kill the remaining residents. It is the residents who need to work together to survive - to escape the building and, in the process, waste the Crites. Along the way dad realises how much his three children mean to him, and the residents begin to value how effective they are in working as a team. There is even the suggestion that young love emerges with Josh (Leo De Caprio) and Annie. Of course just when it looks as though the Crites will prevail enter Charlie, who despite his bungling manages to save the day!!!

As with the previous two films there is of course the usual cliffhanger, suggesting that another sequel is in the offing. On this occasion a containment pod sent from the Intergalactic Council crashing into the basement.....

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