Confirmed: Dee Wallace plays Helen Brown in Critters Attack!

July 16th 2019, 6:30pm

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing CRITTERS ATTACK! in a Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Combo Pack on July 23rd. We already knew that original CRITTERS star Dee Wallace is also in the cast as the mysterious "Aunt Dee." But today Wallace confirms that she is playing the same character, Helen Brown, from the original movie.

Wallace says:

She’s supposed to be the same character [from the first Critters], even though they call her ‘Aunt Dee’ now—how original! All my family’s gone; they’ve killed all my family, and I’ve become this bad-ass bounty hunter.

She continues to say:

When I asked Bobby Miller, the director, that’s what he told me: ‘This is the backstory…’ I said, ‘Well, I’m glad I asked because none of that happened in the original film.’ It’s just an assumption. I also think they had some kind of legal problems using the same name or the same character—I’m not sure. But anyway, I’m Aunt Dee now, and I’m one tough broad, baby!

"Inspired by the film series from the '80s and '90s", this is the first CRITTERS flick to receive an R rating for "bloody creature violence." 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?

CRITTERS ATTACK! was directed by Bobby Miller from a screenplay by Scott Lobdell. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing CRITTERS ATTACK! in a Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Combo Pack on July 23, 2019. A Syfy premiere will follow in October.