The Critters series has provided a few skeletons in the cupboard for now famous stars. Part three offered an early role for Leonardo DiCaprio, and this one - actually shot back to back with number three - features Angela Bassett, who found fame and acclaim a year later in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do with It. It's set in outer space, allowing for some gags at the expense of slightly bigger budget sci-fi fare. Otherwise, it's as cheap and cheerful as ever.

A super strain of genetically engineered mutants are designed to take over the universe, hungry to conquer the galaxy, with an appetite for mankind.