Did the author even watch the movie?
The fluffy lovable creatures are mogwai, and they transform into the not-at-all furry or loveable gremlins if fed after midnight. They arent gremlins until they transform.
This inaccuracy invalidates the entire “Hollywood gremlin” discrepancy that is being made for much of the article.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUI891ejeYc
The magnitude of the Gremlins bait-and-switch still baffles me. They marketed it as a family/kids' film; it was a horror/comedy for adults. How did the studio think that was going to play out?
Anyway, unless you've seen the film or heard people like us rant about it, it's a pretty easy mistake to make.
Well, it was the 80s. Studios got away with that kind of stuff all the time.
On the author's defense, the GP seem to have overlooked the remaining of the paragraph. But if he actually insisted on that, widely citing a movie without even watching it wouldn't deserve that excuse.
I'm hoping they thought it was going to be a big hit earning a couple hundred millions of dollars and with a very profitable toy line otherwise they would have been sorely disappointed.