My advice would be to watch this movie in full before you judge it. Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in its path. I refuse to totally dismiss this, because I find it quite engaging, in a guilty pleasure sense. The cinematography is stark and bare, with only the soundtrack adding some effect. Other than that, it was an okay film, and I would recommend that people watch it. My girlfriends and I were so excited to see this movie, thinking it was going to be a fun movie. It gets a final good rating of 7 out of 10 from me.

A script that would have been original and worked, I dare say, 60 years ago maybe. Poor directing. "Overly creative" editing (if that's even a thing) that just... fails too many times. At the beginning this film fails every other scene until it starts failing in every scene and it just turns into a comedy. But let's focus on the best part......the acting.I felt sorry for the performances from almost every single actor. I really did. It's like "awwwww... she can't act" and then "awwww... he can't act either" and finally "awww... this is such a big mess" (note: that's when the master shot comes up and you have both of them in frame hehehe ;). Seriously. It really is that bad. But it's so much fun at the same time. That's actually what kept me watching this. If the acting was slightly better it would have killed the film for me because then it would have become unbearable. But it didn't so I give it a solid 10/10 because I had such a wonderful time and actually bothered to write this.

To be honest, I was expecting Goblin to be complete rubbish, which is the standard I have to put with with a vast majority of SyFy's resume. But I was surprised that while not brilliant by any stretch of the imagination it was not bad either.True, there are a lot of pacing issues with the movie moving a little too slowly for my liking. Goblin also starts off rather dull and the ending is a let-down and takes a while to set up. The dialogue is better than I thought it would be, but some of it was still rather idiotic.However, the story is intriguing. While the pacing disallowed the story to do more than it had potential of doing, the idea was great and there are some scenes that have a genuine atmosphere to them. The production values are surprisingly not cheap with decent make-up and effects and atmospheric lighting and camera work. The music is also very creepy. The acting is also much better than anticipated, Gil Bellows especially manages to do something quite special with his role.Overall, a better film than I thought it would be, but part of me thought it could've been better too. 6/10 Bethany Cox

This is a SyFy Channel horror movie. Therefore, by definition, it is going to be low budget schlock - if you have seen any SyFy movies then you will know this going in and, if you haven't, I'm telling you now.It isn't awful. It is well photographed and, in general, well put together technically - there are plenty of horror films which are badly lit, out of focus, muddy sound, hand-held when a tripod should be used etc. etc. and it is pleasing when those problems aren't there to make a poor film worse. Also, it is tolerably well acted, and has an unusual monster. There is some fairly explicit gore for gore watchers (low in volume, maybe, but moderately chunky, so to speak).What Goblin doesn't have is any surprises, but the horror movie which does is a rare beast indeed.There are loads of films around which are much worse than this, which is a decent attempt by SyFy to make a small budget stretch further than you would expect.