Ghoulies starts off with a satanic cult in the midst of some kind of ceremony, the leader of the cult wants to sacrifice a young baby so that he may obtain greater power. Well the mother of the baby does'nt think to highly of that and intervenes to stop the mad occultist. The baby is taken from the cult by one of it's more good hearted fellows. Twenty five years down the road Jonathan Graves moves into the old mansion where all the satanic mumbo jumbo was going on. His girlfriend doesn't think much of the place but he's strangely attracted to it. After finding a book of magical rites he starts to fall into the spell of the dark powers to the point where he starts to lose himself. With the help of of his little demon helpers Jonathan will stop at nothing to attain more power. Can his girlfriend save him before he's totally lost?

Ghoulies is another movie that came from the Charles Band stable put out through the Empire label back in the mid 80's. It's a little bit of a cult classic and it spawned 3 sequels, though arguably none of those were as good as the original. How does this old dog still fare in the year 2011?

It was never really the scariest of movies, Ghoulies played as much for laughs as it did for real scares and it's just as well because today it really isn't scary. Granted there is some creepiness in the flicks atmosphere and some of it's characters but there's nothing that'll have you squinting your eyes or hiding behind the sofa.

It's an 80's B-movie and that means only one thing... Animatronics. There's no fancy fangled CGI here, everything is done live using what looks like either puppet and animatronic means. The Ghoulies don't look real but they're OK. There's some mild animated special effects going on here but nothing substantial. As far as visual are concerned Ghoulies is OK but it does look somewhat dated.

There's no nudity, there's little gore and it's not very scary it doesn't sound like a movie worth recommending but oddly it has a charm that makes it a very pleasant view. Maybe i'm just bias cause i grew up watching this movie or maybe the dark humour aspects are what help it out. Whatever it is i'm going to recommend it, though take into account what i said... This movie won't blow your mind with violence or scares, it's just not that type of movie.

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