In 1984, at the tender age of nine, I just couldn’t convince the cinema staff I was old enough to see Gremlins, so I had to be content with whatever merchandise I could lay my hands on—and that was a lot. I had the Marvel Comics adaptation, the official read-along book and cassette, the unofficial read-along book and cassette, the full set of miniature plastic figures, Gizmo and Stripe ‘candy’ dispensers and yes, even a pair of pyjamas. Suffice to say, I was a Gremlins fanatic, without actually having seen the picture. Thanks to home video and some questionable parenting I finally got to see the film around age ten, and went on to rent the thing every weekend for weeks just to get my fill or the furry little Mogwai and his scaly progeny.

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