Ghoulies (1985)

★ 4.9 1h 21m 291 votes IMDb

Comedy Horror

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.

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Cast

Peter Liapis as Jonathan Graves Age 76 · Standardville, Utah, USA Peter Liapis was born on July 23, 1949 in Standardville, Utah, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Alone with a Stranger (2000), Ghoulies (1985) and Ghoulies IV (1994)..

Lisa Pelikan as Rebecca Age 71 · San Francisco, California, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lisa Pelikan (born July 12, 1954) is an American stage, film and television actress. She was born in Berkley, California, the daughter of American parents H...

Michael Des Barres as Malcolm Graves Age 78 · London, England, UK Michael Des Barres is a European Marquis, raised in England and living in Los Angeles. As the host of Little Steven's Underground Garage on SiriusXM Radio Channel 21, he is heard by more than six mill...

Jack Nance as Wolfgang Died 1996 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA Marvin John Nance (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996), known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an American actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in...

Scott Thomson as Mike Age 68 · California, USA Scott Thomson is an American actor..

Ralph Seymour as Mark (Toad Boy) Age 69 Ralph Seymour is an American actor known for his roles in various films and TV shows. He's appeared in movies like "Fletch," "Weird Science," and "My Cousin Vinny." Seymour often played character role...

Director Luca Bercovici

Cast Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance, Peter Risch, Tamara De Treaux, Scott Thomson, Ralph Seymour, Mariska Hargitay, Victoria Catlin

Datapotomus 3/10 Mar 03, 2016

Not enough Ghoulies!!

If the cover of your movie has a creature popping out of toilet. I your movie, you better have a creature popping out of a toilet. It’s Chekhov's gun. There was no ghoulie that ever popped out of a toilet. I was waiting the entire movie for a puppet to pop out of a toilet, and never got it!

Aside from that this movie is still pretty bad. The main actor has some weird green eyes that glow when he “invokes” them (I guess). I don’t really know, because they don’t explain it, and they show up when he is “more” menacing than he normally is. I also didn’t understand why they had to wear sunglasses towards the end. He could turn his weird green eyes off when he wanted. He didn’t need the sun glasses.
I also didn’t get why the main character decided he had to quit school to clean up a house. Why wouldn’t you just clean up the house after school??? It didn’t make any sense.

The movie is filled with pretty subpar acting. For some reason a female costar that seems like she was already in her fifties, but her actual age hadn’t caught up to her yet.

The ghoulies were the best part, but you only see them for maybe, maybe, 10 minutes out of the whole movie.

There were also these two dwarves that showed up for no real reason except to drink some liquid, and fight against their original master (maybe?)

Gimly 3/10 Dec 18, 2019

Almost seems like someone had an idea for a bland cultist horror flick script, but was told "Gremlins are big, you gotta put some little dudes in this!", so they wrote in a couple of midgets, were subsequently told that didn't count, so wrote in some slimy puppets, but forgot to get rid of the bit they'd written about the midgets, and somehow made their bland idea straight-up bad. This came out the same years as _Gremlins_ though, so I have no idea how it was allowed to happen.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._

生气的猫 8/10 Aug 08, 2024

The ghoulies get a few kills in, but this is mostly focused on Jonathan becoming obsessed with acquiring power and knowledge in occult fashion. It's a good, silly B-movie with plenty of Satanic nonsense, just don't expect the ghoulie puppets to be front and center.