Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 American comedy horror film that serves as the sequel to 1984's Gremlins. Joe Dante directed it from a script by Charles S. Haas, with Rick Baker handling the creature designs. Returning from the first movie are Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates, while new cast members include John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, and Christopher Lee. The plot picks up with Billy Peltzer and the mogwai Gizmo; when Gizmo gets wet, he spawns more of his kind that turn into the imp-like gremlins, who then cause chaos inside a Manhattan skyscraper.

The movie is a heavy parody of its predecessor, leaning into cartoonish humor rather than horror. It also spoofs various pop culture touchstones, such as the Rambo films, The Wizard of Oz, Marathon Man, and The Phantom of the Opera. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 15, 1990, it earned generally positive reviews and grossed $42 million against a budget of $30–50 million. Over time, it has gained a cult following. A third film is scheduled for release on November 19, 2027.

After Sam Wing dies, Gizmo is captured by scientists at the Splice O' Life genetic engineering lab inside Clamp Center, a high-tech skyscraper owned by eccentric billionaire Daniel Clamp. Chief researcher Doctor Cushing Catheter has Gizmo at his mercy, but Billy Peltzer and his fiancée Kate Beringer—both working elsewhere in the building—rescue him. Clamp is impressed by Billy's concept design skills and befriends him, which catches the attention of Billy's superior, Marla Bloodstone. Billy leaves Gizmo in his office, where water from a broken drinking fountain spills onto the mogwai's head, causing him to spawn four new mogwai. They trap Gizmo in the air vents and later eat after midnight at the building's food court, transforming into gremlins.

Gizmo escapes the vents but is abducted and tortured by a gremlin named Mohawk. The other gremlins set off fire sprinklers to spawn an army, throwing the building into chaos. Billy plans to lure them into the lobby, where sunlight will kill them. After briefing Clamp on gremlin lore, Billy exits through a secret route and covers the building's entrance with a giant sheet depicting night to trick the creatures. Meanwhile, the gremlins drink genetic serums in the lab: one becomes highly intelligent, another turns female, and a third transforms into a being of pure electricity t