Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Jonathan Graves inherits his late father's mansion. His father led a cult for Lucifer and tried to kill him as a baby. He was rescued by the caretaker Wolfgang before his father completed the ritual. His girlfriend Rebecca discovers a demonic book in the library. Jonathan discovers the ritual site in the dungeon and his father's notes. Rebecca throws a party with their friends. After the party, Jonathan uses the notes to call up demons and gain demonic powers.The acting is mostly amateurish. This is notable for a young Mariska Hargitay in a supporting role as one of the friends. Michael Des Barres and Jack Nance are a couple of veteran actors. Nobody is doing great work here. The special effects are somewhat cheesy and not shot that well. The creepy sharp-teethed demons are slimy puppets that are almost funny in their cheesy appearances. Everything screams weak 80s B-horror. All the comedy comes from its cheese.

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.

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

This must be the worst 80s movie ever. Because the acting is bad, the Ghoulies don't do much and its another Gremlins rip off. Let me give you a quick summary of the movie. Its about a young man who moves into his fathers house. Who somehow died, {we don't really know}. As he lives with his girlfriend. Later in the movie he goes down to his basement to clean up as he finds something strange in the basement. As he has a look into the box he finds some cloths I don't know. Then he takes it out of the basement he puts it on he starts to turn evil as he later on summons the Ghoulies, then turns into a bad guy summons his dad back to life as Wolfgang safes him. In the end everyone lives happily ever after. so I give this movie * out of ***** and also please no more gremlin rip offs.