Ghoulies

January. 18,1985      PG-13
Rating:
4.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.

Peter Liapis as  Jonathan Graves
Lisa Pelikan as  Rebecca
Michael Des Barres as  Malcolm Graves
Jack Nance as  Wolfgang
Scott Thomson as  Mike
Ralph Seymour as  Mark (Toad Boy)
Mariska Hargitay as  Donna
Victoria Catlin as  Anastasia
Keith Joe Dick as  Dick
Brian Connolly as  Ghoulie (Voice)

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Reviews

Karry
1985/01/18

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Scanialara
1985/01/19

You won't be disappointed!

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Lovesusti
1985/01/20

The Worst Film Ever

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Marva-nova
1985/01/21

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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jerjerbinks987678
1985/01/22

Let me start by saying why I saw this movie. my 17 year old half brother is in a phase right now where he's been watching a lot of older 70's and 80s films. He had seen gremlins recently and like most people, enjoyed it. Thinking that this piece of S*** would be just as good, he recorded it on our dvr, I think showtime had it on or something. He asked me and my mom to watch it with him. This movie is beyond bad, I put it in my top 3 of worst movies I have ever sat through. The plot- the acting- I don't even know where to start its all just a huge train wreck. There are parts that are supposed to be scary but instead are so lame and pathetic that me and my brother just gave each other this confused"what in the hell are we watching?" look. Go for a jog, find a book, do anything besides wasting your time watching this.

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jacobjohntaylor1
1985/01/23

This is not a very good movie. Gholies 2 is a great movie. Gholies go to collage is a great movie. Gholies IV is a great movie. But this is not very good. It is not very scary. The story line is awful. The ending is awful. Do not see this awful movie. It had great sequels that have nothing to do which this movie. Do not waste your time. And do not waste your money do not see this movie. It is awful. It is not scary. I need more lines and I am running out of things to say. This movie is awful. Do not see it. It is awful. It not scary. It is just pooh pooh. Do not see it.

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Foreverisacastironmess
1985/01/24

This picture has the rank of being not just one of the earliest, but also one of the most whacked-out flicks that Full Moon ever produced, and it was one of their biggest ever hits. I do like it but not all that much. It's very cute but it's definitely nothing great. In fact, it's a wee bit of an endurance test! My first and primary annoyance: It isn't really about the ghoulies! They're mere window dressing for a strange and complicated story, and the ones that do appear are laughable! They look like s****y old diseased sock puppets, and that's not easy for me to say because the sequel is one of my all-time favourite horror movies, I'd strongly urge you to check out that one it you wanna see a Ghoulies movie done right. It's so horribly in-your-face and dead to-the-max 80s! From the wardrobe to the attitudes and practically everything, particularly when it comes to some of the more cartoony and obnoxious smaller characters, like that old guy who's constantly wearing shades.. What the hell was that asshole on at the time!? Break dancing scene, what the f**k!?! I really can't stand the red-headed Lisa Pelican as "Rebecca", she's so embarrassingly melodramatic with all of her lines and whenever the camera's focusing on her face she's always off in a fog and terribly posing as if like Sophia Loren! Awful actress. I also didn't like the two dwarf characters. Now I've nothing against those kinds of people, in fact to me their performances were actually very good, but they weren't monsters, and in my opinion to jerk around with the audience that they are when there's already supposed to be little monsters running around is just bogus. It's the same cheap gag that they would later base the entire rotten fourth 'Ghoulies' movie around. I positively adored the spirited performance of Michael Des Barnes as the delightfully fiendish "Malcolm Graves". He really gives it his all and even though he goes ridiculously grandiose with it, it sure works. I can't recall ever seeing another horror movie villain quite like him. I love all of his charmingly bizarre inflections, how he goes from softly-spoken to roaring in a second! And it's so awesomely wrong when he demands to kiss his son to steal his soul!! I thought he was far more charismatic than the guy who played his son, I just found iy plain cringe-worthy whenever he was trying to be commanding. They also should've ditched the silly and unnecessary narrating. It was like I was watching Troll 2 all over again.. I think that I may have liked this better if they'd have just done away with any pretence of it being about little monsters and made it a straight-up story of resurrected sorcerous evil battling against its estranged offspring it could've stood on its own merit surely! I mean they certainly should have kept the ghoulies in it, just not made it out as if the entire movie was about them.. And you know, I'm wrong in a way because the marketing did pay off big time for the studio, and if I don't quite get it then I'm still very glad because it allowed them to create some later gems that I do wholeheartedly love and regard as classics. It's such a weird little mish-mash of a flick. By degrees it's a crazy party horror movie, then a domestic drama, then it's an epic magical fight of good vs evil - it's everything except a solid horror that knows what it wants to be, and that's a bit of a shame. I'm not saying it isn't fun, but it's a mess. It's a fun mess! Everything about it is extremely tacky and rough but that could perhaps only add to the appeal for some fans. It's certainly not lacking in creativity. It's a fun and entertaining piece of horror trash if you're in the right frame of mind and is worthy of a watch every now and then. "Shut up, goddammit!"

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utgard14
1985/01/25

Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) inherits his Satanist father's mansion. He throws a party and starts conjuring up Ghoulies, which are sort of demonic goblin things. This is a garbage Gremlins knock-off with no humor, charm, or entertainment value. The best thing about it is that it has one of the coolest movie posters of the 1980's, with the Ghoulie coming up out of the toilet. It's just not a fun movie at all. It's nasty and cheap. Avoid this mess. See Gremlins instead. Or you can just skip this one and watch the better Ghoulies part 2. But yeah, Gremlins is better than that too. So just watch Gremlins or even Critters over this dreck.

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