 At one point in the movie, the film seems to be broken by the  gremlins, who then engage in shadow puppetry over a white screen  until Hulk Hogan (qv) appears and intimidates the gremlins into  running the rest of Gremlins 2. This sequence was inspired by  William Castles _Tingler, The (1959)_ (qv). During his DVD  commentary for this movie, Joe Dante (I) (qv) recalled that Warner  Brothers wanted the sequence cut, as they were concerned the  audience would believe the film actually had malfunctioned; test  screening ultimately proved otherwise. However, the video version  caused problems: Instead of film