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Gremlins 2 (1990) KILL COUNT is the three hundred and sixty-first video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
The film opens with a Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cameo. At an undisclosed date in December close to Christmas. After his owner Mr. Wing dies, the mogwai Gizmo becomes the guinea pig of scientists at a lab in the Clamp Center, a state-of-the-art highrise building in Manhattan, owned by eccentric billionaire Daniel Clamp. At the mercy of the chief researcher Dr. Catheter, Gizmo is rescued by his former owner Billy Peltzer and his fiancée Kate, both of whom work elsewhere in the building. Clamp befriends Billy upon being impressed by his skills in concept design, sparking the interest of Billy's superior Marla Bloodstone. Gizmo is left in the office, where water spills on his head from a broken drinking fountain and spawns four new mogwai, one of them being Mohawk. They cage Gizmo in the air vents and later eat at the building's food court after midnight, becoming gremlins.
After Gizmo escapes from the vent, Mohawk captures and tortures him. The other gremlins set off the fire sprinklers and spawn a gremlin army that throws the building into chaos. Billy attempts to lure the gremlins into the lobby, where sunlight will kill them; after Billy briefs Clamp on gremlin knowledge, Clamp exits through a secret tunnel to cover the front of the building in a giant sheet to trick the creatures. The gremlins drink genetic serums in the lab; one becomes the intelligent Brain Gremlin, another gremlin becomes female, and a third becomes a being of pure electricity and kills Dr. Catheter before Billy traps it in the building's telephone system. All the while, television host "Grandpa Fred" films the chaos, aided by a Japanese tourist named Mr. Katsuji.
Murray Futterman, Billy's neighbor from Kingston Falls who is visiting New York City with his wife Sheila, is attacked by a bat-gremlin hybrid immunized to sunlight by the Brain Gremlin with "genetic sunblock". After fending it off, Murray realizes that he is not crazy and has to help; when Clamp escapes the building using his secret route, Murray uses it to sneak inside to aid Billy. Billy and chief of security Forster team up, but the enamored female gremlin chases Forster off. Mohawk drinks a spider serum and transforms into a monstrous gremlin-spider hybrid. He attacks Kate and Marla, but Gizmo saves them by killing Mohawk with an ignited bottle of white-out.
Billy's plan to kill the gremlins by flooding the lobby with sunlight fails when rain clouds block the sun. He instead directs Murray to spray the gremlins with a fire hose, then releases the electric one from the telephone to electrocute and melt them all. Clamp charges in with the police and press, but sees the conflict is resolved; thrilled by the result, he promotes Billy, Kate, Fred, and Marla and hires Mr. Katsuji as a cameraman. Billy and Kate then return home with Gizmo. Forster calls Clamp to notify him that he is trapped at the highest floor of the building. The female gremlin, the sole survivor of the horde, corners him and entices him to marry her.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths:[]
Humans:[]
- Mr. Wing - Coughed too hard offscreen (Ambiguous old age) - 6 mins in
- Leonard Maltin - Attacked by Gremlins - 58 mins in
- Random Background Screamer - Wilhelmed over the banister - 1 hr 4 mins in
- Dr. Catheter - Electrocuted by Electric Gremlin - 1 hr 12 mins in
Gremlins:[]
- Secretary Gremlin - Force fed through paper shredder - 54 mins in
- 28 Elevator Gremlins - Squashed by falling elevator - 57 mins in
- Bat Gremlin - Covered in cement, dried into gargoyle - 1 hr 6 mins in
- Propeller Hat Gremlin - Executed on Live Television by Brain Gremlin - 1 hr 22 mins in
- Spider Gremlin (FKA Mohawk) - Burned alive with flaming pencil arrow by Gizmo - 1 hr 27 mins in
- Gremlin - Vaporized by flash photography - 1 hr 30 mins in
- Spitting Gremlin - Hurled down elevator shaft by Murray Futterman - 1 hr 32 mins in
- Electric Gremlin, Brain Gremlin, Daffy, George, Lenny, and 441 Other Gremlins (Including Witch Gremlin) - Electrocuted mid-musical number, melted into goop - 1 hr 34 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- Peggy - Possibly killed by the mouse trap offscreen
- Molten Gremlin - Shot by a police officer
Trivia[]
- This is the final Kill Count of 2022.
- This is the first Kill Count where 4 writers were involved in the writing of this script, as the movie was just too insane for 1 person alone.
- This is the 6th highest Kill Count when sorted by kills.
- This is the second Kill Count where the movie's subtitle isn't included in the title, the other one being Social Mediasochist II.
- The Gremlins is the fourteenth fictional character to be featured in a Numbers Gag.
- Even though James confirmed that it will be the only kill count to have 1 human kill before, this movie has 4 human kills.
- This movie now has the most Golden Chainsaw Recipients, with 446 kills given, surpassing The Invisible Man.
- This marks the first appearance for Christopher Lee on the Kill Count.
- On January 3rd, 2023, the Kill Count was copyright struck by Warner Bros.
- It was later appealed the same day.
- This is the sixth New Year's Kill Count. The others being New Year's Evil, Terror Train, Society, Bloody New Year, and The Forever Purge.