Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing CRITTERS ATTACK! in a Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Combo Pack on July 23rd (you can pick up a copy at THIS LINK), and fans of the franchise will be seeing a familiar face in this one.
Dee Wallace played farmer's wife Helen Brown in the first CRITTERS thirty-three years ago. She didn't come back for any of the three sequels that followed or for the web series Critters: A New Binge, but now she's returning for a rematch with the ravenous little alien creatures known as Critters in CRITTERS ATTACK!
It doesn't seem like Wallace will be playing Helen Brown here; press and promotional materials refer to her mysterious character as "Aunt Dee". Whoever Aunt Dee is, she's obviously aware of the Critters before the story of the film gets set in motion, as a clip has been released online that reveals she has been on the lookout for a new batch of Critters to show up on Earth. That clip is embedded below.
Directed by Bobby Miller (THE CLEANSE) from a screenplay by Scott Lobdell (HAPPY DEATH DAY), CRITTERS ATTACK! centers on
20-year-old Drea (Tashiana Washington), who reluctantly takes a job babysitting for a professor of a college she hopes to attend. Struggling to entertain the professor's children Trissy (Ava Preston) and Jake (Jack Fulton), along with her own little brother Phillip (Jaeden Noel), Drea takes them on a hike, unaware that mysterious alien critters have crash-landed and started devouring every living thing they encounter.
While being tracked by the ravenous critters, Drea and the kids encounter an adorable, seemingly harmless female critter named Bianca, an exiled royal fleeing the critter race. As the critters converge on the college campus, Drea and the kids, who are now inextricably linked to Bianca, rush to head them off. Will Drea discover her inner badass, and will it be enough to stop the critter onslaught? And is the critter princess as innocent as she seems?
Special features on this release will include:
– Engineering Gore; Designing Critters (featurette)
– Critters: An Out-of-this-World Experience (featurette)
– The Critter Ball (featurette)
– Scene Specific Commentary with Director Bobby Miller and a Critter
Produced by Rupert Harvey and Barry Opper, with Blue Ice Pictures providing production services, CRITTERS ATTACK! is the first movie in the franchise to receive an R rating. It earned that rating with "bloody creature violence".
If you want to see CRITTERS ATTACK! but don't want to pick up the home video release right away, the movie will also be airing on Syfy in October.