VividSimon Simply Perfect

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

jessegehrig Do you know how hard it is to refinance your home? How hard it is to get a business loan? An estimated million dollars was pooled together to make this movie! What the f*ck? This movie could have become five remodeled homes, or a dentist office or a burger joint, instead it became Ghoulies. I mean, what does that mean? Is that a knock against the human race, y'know like proof that we're all a bunch of pieces of sh*t? If you had a million dollars would you spend it on Ghoulies, I mean you could buy a house and pay off your student loans and still have a fortune left to put into savings for retirement, does this movie seem like a BETTER idea? Are you sure?

callanvass Two foolish idiots move into an old mansion, where satanic rituals commence. The man of the house gets an overwhelming need to be possessed by demons. I can't be bothered to write more than that for the plot. In all honesty, if you decide to watch this movie in the first place, you're a masochist. I guess that makes me a masochist as well, considering I saw this years ago and hated it then. What made me think I'd feel differently? Anyone that enjoys this movie deserves to be ostracized immediately. I'm all for opinions, but I can't see how anyone can say with a straight face "I enjoyed this movie" The Ghoulies themselves are not a big part of the movie. When they appear, they look like puppets. I realize this was done in 85, but it comes across as horribly dated. Another thing that bothers me is the cliché of the plot. Why is it that somebody wants to conjure up a demon by doing a satanic ritual all the time? It's been done to death. Nothing much happens in this movie. It's all about boring black magic and sorcery of sorts. As people have pointed out, the box is very misleading and manipulative. There isn't much gore to speak of, unless you count a weird demon chick with a long tongue, and two midget's as gore. This movie was so boring that I was doing other things at the same time simultaneously. The only scene I enjoyed in the movie is the thanksgiving dinner scene. Everybody wears these surreal looking sun-glasses, and Ghoulie creatures start popping out of a turkey. The acting is pretty bad. Lisa Pelikan was solid in Lionheart, but was bland here. Peter Liapis shouts way too much as the lead. He tries to ham it up to no avail. Everybody was so unlikable in this movieHow on earth did this spawn 3 sequels? This was clearly trying to be like Gremlins, but it forgot to add an ingredient. ENTERTAINMENT! unless you wanna be tortured for 80 minutes or so, avoid this movie like you would a chick after a bad date. Three more sequels to go, ugh. 1/10

Michael_Elliott Ghoulies (1985) * 1/2 (out of 4) Lame rip-off of GREMLINS has a man moving into an old mansion where he eventually decides to bring out the title creatures who of course go on a killing spree. Apparently this thing started off as a higher-budget R-rated horror film but then the budget was slashed and they decided to aim at the kid market. Well, this here was obviously a mistake because what remains in the film is a semi-horror film that's too tame to go all the way yet at the same time there's really nothing here that would appeal to children. I think the producers forgot that they were trying to aim this at kids and instead us poor viewers were left to suffer. The story itself is a pretty silly one that takes way too long to get going. At just 82-minutes this film seems twice as long and this might be due to the fact that the actual ghoulies don't appear until around the forty-minute mark. Even when they do arrive they don't exactly bring any excitement with them as they're just not scary enough to have any impact. A lot of the violence is also off screen so gore fans aren't going to get any of that here. Even worse is that there are a couple sexual scenes here that have been toned down and in this condition they just really don't serve any purpose to the film. Of course, in a R-rated film they might have at least been used just to show off some cheap nudity. The performances are pretty much what you'd expect from a film like this. John Carl Buechler does a fine job with the special effects but sadly they're not used nearly enough. GHOULIES might appeal to those who enjoy bad 80s movies but the rest should just stay clear.

FlashCallahan 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..