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Ghoulies II

1988, Movie, PG-13, 90 mins

Ghoulies II: Review

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In this straight-to-home-video sequel to GHOULIES, the badly articulated title puppets--supposed denizens of hell--are kidnaped from a group of satanists by a priest. Though the priest tries to destroy the little demons, he fails, and they hide out in Satan's Den, a haunted house in a carnival. Satan's Den is run by a raving alcoholic, Dano, and his nephew, Martin. Down on their luck and running their exhibit at a loss because kids today are used to graphic gore and not the more genteel scares offered by a simple haunted house, uncle and nephew find their livelihood threatened by yuppie accountant Downing, who represents the conglomerate that owns the carnival. If the show doesn't make a profit soon, Satan's Den will be replaced by female mud wrestlers. Things look grim until the ghoulies begin showing themselves to patrons, who mistake the vile little creatures for spectacular special effects. Patrons soon come flocking to Satan's Den to see them, until the ghoulies begin killing off their public. Certainly no improvement over the original, GHOULIES II instead offers the same dull chills, bad special effects, and juvenile humor that made its predecessor so boring. The low-budget special effects by John Buechler and his team have not improved, and just like last time the little critters simply aren't up to carrying an entire movie by themselves. The ghoulies are still quite obviously hand puppets intermingled with some very brief scenes of stop-motion animation done by David Allen Productions. Despite their limited technical ability, the ghoulies do have a sort of shabby charm that might endear them to small children. Unfortunately, the vicious bloodletting and crude sexual innuendo here should preclude viewing of this movie by kids. If watching scenes of teenagers taunting a dwarf, of heavy-metal kids making out in a haunted house, and of a ghoulie chewing off the private parts of a yuppie accountant while he sits on a toilet is your idea of a good time, by all means rent GHOULIES II. leave a comment
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