Gremlins 2 🎥 1990 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Following the death of his owner, Mr. Wing, Gizmo the mogwai is captured by scientists of the Splice O’ Life genetic engineering laboratory at Clamp Center, a state-of-the-art skyscraper in Manhattan owned by eccentric billionaire Daniel Clamp. At the mercy of chief researcher Doctor Cushing Catheter, Gizmo is rescued by his former owner, Billy Peltzer, and his fiancée, Kate Beringer, 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 Billy’s office, where water from a broken drinking fountain spills onto his head and causes him to spawn a quartet of new mogwai.

They detain Gizmo in the air vents and later eat after midnight at the building’s food court to become gremlins. After Gizmo finds his way out of the vents, gremlin Mohawk abducts and tortures him. The other gremlins set off fire sprinklers to spawn an army of them that throws the building into turmoil. Billy attempts to lure the gremlins into the lobby, where sunlight will kill them; after briefing Clamp on gremlin knowledge, he exits through a secret route to cover the building’s entrance with a giant sheet depicting night to trick the creatures.

The gremlins drink genetic serums in the lab; one gains high intelligence, another becomes female and a third is transformed into a being of pure electricity that murders Catheter before Billy traps it in the building’s telephone system. All the while, television host “Grandpa Fred” films the incident, aided by Japanese tourist 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-like mutated gremlin immunized to sunlight by the intelligent one with a sunscreen-like formula. After petrifying it with cement, Futterman realizes that he has proved his sanity and has to help.

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