No doubt Ghoulies was rushed into production in order to cash in on the success of Joe Dante's Gremlins, but there is a yawning chasm in quality between the two films: Gremlins is ingenious, anarchic, demented, loaded with terrific black humour, features excellent creature effects and stars the yummy Phoebe Cates; Ghoulies is moronic trash with dumb characters and bargain basement monsters.The film's uninspired plot sees a young couple, Jonathan and Rebecca (Peter Liapis, who is way too old for the part, and Lisa Pelikan), move into a creaky old mansion where they discover a collection of books on black magic. After reading one particular book, Jonathan becomes obsessed with conducting Satanic rituals, unaware that he is being controlled by the spirit of his dead father, who seeks to return from the grave.The 'ghoulies' of the title are diminutive demons that appear to kill the couple's friends (most of whom are so obnoxious that their deaths are more than welcome). Shonky rubber hand puppets created by John Carl Buechler, these critters have none of the mischievous charm of a gremlin (or even a Critter, for that matter) and are neither funny or scary—just embarrassingly bad. Also serving to irritate: two devilish dwarfs, Grizzell and Greedigut (Peter Risch and Tamara De Treaux), and a silly happy ending that sees all of the dead characters miraculously return to life unscathed.

GHOULIES 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 1.9This was a full moon production, and I've heard they've made worse, but I've seen them make better, so I wasn't satisfied with this boring movie. Not all of it was terrible, but much of the middle is. Which is too bad because the conclusion were the Ghoulies finally come out and do some damage has some cool effects and entertaining kills. The acting isn't great, and neither are all of the unnecessary side characters added in the second half of the film. I didn't actually find the PG-13 rating restricting, as there was still some blood and gore. I would only recommend this to hardcore full moon fans.

This movie came on late last night. ( Just came here to review and notice that it say 81 min as IN UK it cut down to 77min, not sure if they cut any good scenes but I very much doubt that they need to cut something from this movie)I knew the movie was going to be bad but well it was really bad but what Did not like it was never really about Ghoulies at all , it more about person who gets the powerWe do get these see Ghoulies , all different from one and other but there don't really attack anyone until about the Hour mark.The attack scenes were a little tame and effects were not too bad but watchable in this movieI did not like the plot of the movie went at all, I wanted more of Ghoulies but it all about the person who had the power.I expecting something bad and that what I got!2 out of 10Clad it was really short movie.

In this, the poor mans Gremlins, some eighties audience members from top of the pops inherit a house, and have a party, which includes the bloke from police academy 3, but with all parties, they go into a room where they haven't been before and find a symbol on the floor.It turns out that years ago, one of the members of Duran Durans project Power station was a devil or something worshipped, and made weird latex animals pop up from nowhere, and also made his eyes go blue.The new family start to become obsessed with the past and decide to wear even funnier clothes than they had in the eighties, and act like goths for no reason.And thrown into the mix, we get two midgets who act like Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson, and fight with the monsters.In the eighties, these films were rife and were released almost every other week. But for some reason, this really became a cult favourite, and for the life of me, I cannot begin to think why.The effects are awful, the acting is very bad, and the story, just doesn't excite or stimulate.It's trying to be Gremlins, and that movie is a bona-fide cult favourite, because it's actually brilliant and highly original.This is just bad..