Pieces of Gremlins - Lost Media | Scribbles to Screen 

“What are Gremlins? Asked Percy. I’ve heard they’re little green men who play tricks! Replied Thomas.” - Thomas and Friends: Gordon And The Gremlin (1998)

I just finished reading the original script to Gremlins. It's darker, horrifying and gruesome than the actual movie.

I so wish this could have been an R rated horror movie, but I’m glad Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante were attached to this project. Together they created a true classic, and one of the main films that introduced the PG-13 rating.

The R rated script is out there, a bit hard to find but it’s out there. While I think it works better as it is now I do love the ending of the script. The evil gizmo is locked in a toolbox and a cleanup crew member decides to nab it not knowing the evil inside. As he is driving down the road with the sun setting with the tool box sitting beside him it begins to shake as if something is trying to break out. The driver freaks out and throws it out of the vehicle. It tumbles off the road, down a hill and then off the edge of a quarry. It splashes into the water and slowly sinks as you can hear a gremlin laugh.

I would've loved to see Gremlins as an R-Rated Christmas horror movie ngl.

What I find interesting is the draft I found, I think the 2nd, doesn’t have the mother’s head roll down the stairs but rather her pill bottle. I’ve never read the version that everyone keeps referencing w/ the decapitated head. Another detail is after the Mogwai are transformed is one, they are still referred to as Mogwai. Two, they are described as having horns that’ve replaced of their big ears, and it’s outright said what Mogwai means: “devil”. The Gremlins lack that chaotic personality and are just the typical mindless monsters that eat people.

This is my Fav movie of all time, finally glad someone made a video on the lost media.

Can't believe I missed a Gremlins ride!

Dude, an episode of “Alf” where the gang have to match wits with a group of Gremlins would be dope!

Fun fact : back to the Future and Gremlins use the same outside set

Always find the idea that the violence in gremlins was considered "too much" back then imagine those people watching DEADPOOL

0:41 😲...woah...now I kinda want to see that version, or at least the storyboards depicting it.

I have Gismo and stripie in my collection. I grew up in the eighties and this movie is part of my childhood.

I was always puzzled by the feeding after midnight thing. Given that it's always technically after midnight.

Has anyone heard about this Animated Feature-Length film from 1915 called, "Creation"? It was animated by Tack Knight, Pinto Colvig and few other cartoonists!..

We need more movies like the .5 jackass movies. A compilation of deleted scenes mixed with interviews. A Gremlins.5 would be awesome

How oddly appropriate that this video came out as a few days ago I just finish watching Gremlins and Gremlins 2, the first one has to be now one of my favorite Christmas movies.

Great Birthday present 🎁. Definitely took my mind off of recent family stuff for a few moments.

What's dark is after Mrs. Pelzer stabbed that one gremlin throwing plates at her. You can see it in the background lying on the counter still moving

THANK YOU!!! I KNEW that scene with Judge Reinhold existed!! I saw it once in a network showing of the movie but in all the videos I've seen talking about the various versions & edits of the movie, NOBODY has mentioned that scene! I was beginning to think maybe I had Mandela Effected myself into believing it had happened. So thank you for letting me know I am NOT insane!

The gremlins animatronics were SO advanced for their time. The mogwai puppets could only contain a certain amount of servos, so there were literal metal wires coming out of Gizmo's back. There were 5 puppeteers controlling a single Mogwai. The Gremlins however were just simple hand and rod puppets. The More You Know!✨

im watching this but funny thing is yesterday we got a gremlins content by dead meat yes gremlins is 40 years old

@ScribblestoScreen Just so you know, Chris Columbus's 2nd draft of Gremlins can be found online. It doesn't have the scene of Billy's mom's head rolling down the stairs (though she does get killed), but otherwise, it has most of the deleted concepts and moments that have become the stuff of fan urban legend. Actually, the very first draft of Gremlins (which Joe Dante didn't even read) had Billy and his love interest as young kids. Spielberg chose to change this in order to differentiate it from Elliott and his friends from E.T. (which Spielberg was making at this time).

Great video

Don’t feed them after midnight

I also found some toys online of gremlins that didn't make the final cut. They're actually pretty cute. The time machine and Chuck Jones Easter eggs are awesome, even though I've never seen the movie. I never knew about the ape thing. Wow. I want to see the rest of that bar footage, though. I love that scene. Also, random Yoda made me laugh. XD

1:19 Actually, no, the original script is accessible: www.horrorlair.com/movies/scripts/Gremlins(Early).pdf

The original script likely had the Gremlin mischief more violent than the original scenes in the Movie today like the road scenes being more violent. When Gizmo gets wet Gizmo would likely grow a mohawk now turning into Stripe. It’s unclear he would keep the white around his eye though. The original Tavern cut would likely have a longer Poker match and Bogart scenes. They would also have more Gremlins mischief like maybe the Gremlins would maybe get in a bar fight and the Mega Madness song would likely be played in its full track since the movie doesn’t play the whole song in the bar. Billy would likely kill Gizmo/Stripe. It’s unclear how he would kill Stripe but likely by sunlight. He would probably get to the blinds by dogging Stripe’s/Gizmo’s bullets from his gun. I didn’t cover Billy’s mom’s death or the McDonald’s scene since we already know those things. The movie would likely end with a funeral scene for Billy’s Mom and maybe Mr. Wing gets uncontrollably mad in the end.

noticing an error immediately. it wasn't a chimpanzee that they put a gremlin mask on, it was a rhesus monkey

The school gremlin was killed by Billy in the lab with a fire hydrant and a mogwai was let outside and melted in the novelization

I'm almost done with the R rated screenplay and holy shit! Never thought the Gremlins could be much more evil!

There's something horribly brutal about the stabbing scene, even though you don't see anything.

Great video! Slight correction Gremlins 2 was released as a 15 in the UK and Gremlins 1 is still sold as a 15.

7:00 just realised if he chucked the water on them instead of the floor she would have caused even more hell.

4:38 Hello Yoda

I'm glad they changed it because if it was this way I feel that it would be too generic. What we got has it's own identity but it's interesting to hear where they started

9:39 The Fifth Element is somehow PG-rated despite topless Milla Jovovich and several other super-suggestive scenes haha.

Simon LeBon cameo for absolutely no reason whatsoever at 9:49!!!

By the way love the video dude, I didn't know that the first draft was r rated and bloodier, this franchise would've been something else if they used this draft.

I love Gremlins, so this'll be fun. I know the original script was much darker. However, I find the main girl's trauma to be ridiculous. I get it, but it's just hilarious. They even made a joke about it in the sequel. This time, revolving around Abraham Lincoln's birthday. XD

I’m a huge gremlins fan! Thanks for the video. I will say I was unable to find the French trailer with that scene is it uploaded on RU-vid?

I remember the Card set had some shots of deleted scenes, same with Goonies.

There was a planned gremlins arcade video game also that was pretty far in the works in the 80s(?) and canned before release. One prototype was found with one video of the arcade game on youtube!

That Gremlins ride traumatised me as a child when I was 8 years old.

But I do remember seeing the human carolers first when I went to see it in the theater.

It's sad ghostbusters got their franchise build on but not gremlins

After Gremlins 2, a true spiritual successor would be unwatchable. The sequel artfully burned so many bridges and sacred cows, what could be left? Think: Meat Canyon meets Wonder Showzen I would love to see it!

The original script is out there, it's not hard to find

I didn’t know any of that, thank you

Love love love love love love love love

The federal laws gremlin show is basically gonna basically it’s gonna be about gremlins yeah

Wow

LoV iT

Gremlins was my childhood nightmare movie. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street and Big Trouble in Little China around the same time, which left my young mind frazzled during the day, but NOTHING haunted my dreams quite like Gremlins. From my personal experience, I say they should have gone with the darker theme and just made it an R rated film; It was already horrifying enough, so why not go all the way?

I remember the gremlins ride when I was little my family took me to movie world I didn’t know Germany had there own version

2:16 Holy moley, it's the Great Gildersleeve!

So many Easter eggs! Joe Dante was perfect for this film!! Watch the sequal and Dantes love letter to the movie gimmicks of the 1950s, titled Matinee. They make for a near perfect triple feature of Dantes best! Cheers from Canada

Yeah, in the original draft, the mother is attacked by a gremlin that stabs her to death. And her severed head is thrown down the stairs later, when Billy comes home.

Also I mentioned that movie

Bro youve forgot the unreleased atari arcade game and the unreleased ps2 game cube and xbox game

Why didn’t Stripe multiply when he was buried in the snow?

I think gremlins 2 is better then the first one

Can you talk the sequel next?

I don’t know why they don’t release this unreleased footage either in a deleted scenes section on a new blu-ray release or give us an extended cut of the film where this footage is present. I would love to see the scene where Billy pulls the final cord that kills Stripe. If nothing else, I just wanna see that scene.

Also how about a future video on the lost powers masters 80s cartoon? Had big voices from transformers and gijoe and a toyline but the cartoon not a single complete episode exists so far only parts of the first three and an intro on youtube! It's not even on wiki or imdb!

I just watched a full 2 minute video about sams seven second poop method

What clip is that from at 3:10? 👀

Time for a Prequel. American aviators in China during the war in Pacific need spare parts. They meet up with some peasants that are able to provide parts from a downed bomber. The wreckage has some peculiar scratchings inside and outside the plane. A local airfield had problems getting a single plane to fly. The ball turret gunner, an alcoholic, trades some American money and a watch for liquor and a unique item for his gal back home, if he makes it. The ancient Chinese trader warns him about the rules of owning such a unique gift. Rules, of course broken. American pilots loving their new 'mascot' They even paint her as wing art. Most of movie is about American bomber crew battling an outbreak of Gremlins that at first, invisibly sabotage weapons systems and fuselage, until its an outright battle between crew at one end of bomber and army of Gremlins at other end. Bombing runs over Japanese airbases, dogfights with Zeros. Ball gunner blasting away at Gremlins clinging to craft, eventually 'bombing' a Jap base with a mass of Gremlins.

I haven't watched this movie in ages. Did they remove the scene where Billy's mom shoves a Gremlin in the microwave, turns it on and it explodes?

What about the lost in space robot?

I want to see the r rated version

OMG where is this clip from? 3:10

Gremlins 3 thumbs up people

Cool video. However, Indiana Jones Temple of Doom was a prequel, not a sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark.

The original draft the gremlins ate barney the dog and mauled and killed Billy's mom the gremlins didn't have ears but evolved horns gizmo was stripe and water ressurected the gremlins

Does anyone think Gremlins should have rated PG-13 like the sequel?

CHUCK JONES FTW!!!!!!!!!!

R is under 17 must have adult with them to get in

"no children under 17" so they let 17 year olds into porno theaters?... disgusting!

What would be great is finally making a part 3 to this movie or reboot the whole series since they have such a wonderful CGI thing now one way another I would love to see the grimlins Back in your theaters

They should make a 3rd one with todays computer animation.

Yayyy!!!!! Family entertainment at Christmas 🎁⛄🥹🎄 Just what I need to brighten m- You sooab