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The Krites have escaped!

"Don Keith Opper won the hearts of audiences with his recurring role as the bumbling small-town outcast who sets out to save our planet and others throughout each of the [Critters] sequels," the festival said, announcing the tribute. His role as Charlie across the first two films – as well as brief duel role – make him the heart of the overarching narrative and he gets to play a local drunk conspiracy theorist, a keen but inept bounty-hunter, and a Krite ass-kicker with relish.

Don Keith Opper will attend alongside his brother Barry.

The 2025 Oldenburg festival runs Sept. Set on an isolated space station and research facility with only two inhabitants, Dr. Daniel (Klaus Kinski) and Max 404 (Opper – though he was credited as “introducing Max 404” for fun). I can remember seeing Critters at our local drive-in, after reading about it in the pages of Fangoria and was very excited about it.

While Max wrestles with what it means to be alive, three fugitives arrive at the station and things escalate quickly. Long may such originality continue to be celebrated.

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The Oldenburg International Film Festival will honor actor and writer Don Keith Opper, best known for his role as Charlie McFadden in the Critters franchise, with a tribute program at this year's event.

Together they make a curious quartet of independent features that are each, in their own ways, irreverent takes on the genres they operate in and yet still valid entries into their respective canons.

Android is something of a forgotten gem. It’s charming and slightly cooky, but still explores many of the philosophical questions that the original screenplay promised.

The same is true of 1987’s Slam Dance for which Opper is credited as the only writer.

There are call sheets, film schedules, and premiere invites, as well as reading about some “harrowing stories of on-set mishaps and follies!”

Don Keith Opper is primarily known as an actor.

But in the independent movie business of the 1980s, things were far more complicated than that.

Harker Press, who has released an amazing array of books on some of our favorite movies, now have a brand new one! A great mixture of humor and horror, which as we all know, is not easy to do. And believe it or not, Critters 2: The Main Course was pretty entertaining too! As he explained in a Q&A at this year’s Oldenburg Film Festival, where he is being paid tribute, he was originally working in the carpentry department for Roger Corman.

Screening alongside Android is the 1987 dropout-Noir, Slam Dance, as well as the first two instalments of Opper’s most well-known work, Critters and Critters 2: The Main Course. The film adopts a clean 60’s-esque sci-fi aesthetic that wasn’t especially de rigueur at the time. A frenetic neo-Noir set in Los Angeles, it is about a cartoonist and artist, C.C.

Drood (Tom Hulce), who is inadvertently caught up in a murder investigation.