Retro Rewatch: Gremlins 2: The New Batch   Gremlins 2: The New
Batch Movie DetailsRetro Rewatch is an ongoing editorial that
takes a look into certain films, conventions, crazes, and
characters of the horror genre years after their heyday. It is
an effort to try and put the magnifying glass up to the horror
world with the much needed luxuries of time and perspective
applied in order to fully understand the impact and social
significance of these projects/themes/ideas (if any). So for
this installment of Retro Rewatch, I present to you a film that
holds a very special place in my heart: Gremlins 2: The New
Batch.  When I was a young boy growing up, my parents showed me
the original Gremlins on a beat up VHS tape and from that moment
on, I was completely hooked.  They bought me a Gizmo stuffed
animal (I was about 5 at this point, maybe 6) and then took me
to see Gremlins 2: The New Batch in the movie theater.  Even as
a child of only 7, I had a clear grasp on what fandom was,
before I even understood what the w