Critter 2023

Annie, Zoé Leder and her little brother Johnny, Léonard Giovenazzo and their father Clifford, are on their way home from vacation when a tire blows out, forcing them to stop at a quiet rest area. While Clifford works on the tire, Johnny and Annie strike up a conversation with Josh, Victoria-Jeanne Pelletier, the stepson of their corrupt landlord Briggs. While wandering into the forest to retrieve their frisbee, they encounter Charlie McFadden, the bounty hunter who’s after the Critters. Before they leave, Charlie gives Johnny a crystal, telling him it will glow bright green when it’s >time to watch out for yourself and your family<. Meanwhile, an unseen Critter lays eggs beneath the family’s van and, unaware, they hit the road with the eggs still aboard.

Soon after they arrive at their tenement, the Critters hatch and sneak into the basement, where they kill the sleazy maintenance man, Frank, Mathieu Dufort. When Rosalie, Joëlle Boily goes down to the basement, she is attacked by the Critters before being rescued by Annie. Meanwhile, Briggs arrives at the tenement to evict the residents, with Josh reluctantly accompanying him. When Briggs enters a room with Critters inside, Josh, having grown distasteful of his stepfather, shuts the door, unintentionally trapping him with the Critters, who then attack and kill him.

Next, one of the residents is attacked and wounded. Annie, her family and five others (including Josh) try to get to safety in one piece by getting to the roof of the building. Charlie arrives and destroys the remaining Critters, saving the remaining tenants. The film ends in a cliffhanger as Charlie is about to destroy the last two Critter eggs, but is ordered not to and a containment pod sent from the Intergalactic Council crashes into the basement.