Spoilers here… beware….
Questions here… beware of those, too….
Story is… I was cruising Wal-Mart at the recommendation of many Chewers, looking for low-priced horror offerings in the spirit of Halloween. Don’t know what I was thinking when I grabbed the Ghoulies and Ghoulies II double-shot for nine and change. I knew I’d never seen them before, but at $4.50 a film, I felt okay buying them.
Watched Ghoulies last night. What an amazing piece of cinematic befuddlement!
1/ Is there a classic horror film I’ve never heard of where the main character finds a black alb, four candles and a book on pentagram graffiti?
2/ Has this concept ever worked?
3/ Ever?
The way so many crap films follow this formula, you’d think they were trying to re-create something successful! So Ghoulies ends up following a moron of a lead character who spends his time scribbling pentagrams all over his house and calling up freaky-looking puppets. He then tells those puppets that they “have to do his bidding!”--but then he never tells them to do anything! Later, just when we assume he’s gotten to the “Advanced” chapters in his little graffiti book, he stands in his cellar screaming about how he wants power! Power! POWER! And it starts to rain. Um...
4/ What the hell kind of power is it to be able to flood your own cellar?
5/ I could see if maybe you’re besieged by arsonists, but how often does that happen?
6/ Don’t even get me started on the wacky Time Bandits rejects!
Then this moron’s Daddy shows up, risen from the grave, and he’s got even more "POWER!" than his son because he can turn himself into a woman of questionable morality, stretch his tongue further than Freddy Kreuger, and make cheap-ass carnival electricity spray uncontrolled from his fingertips. Oh, and also he looks like a paled down version of one of the guys from Blue Man Group, but in a bad wig. So that brings me to my last inquisitive trifecta:
7/ How in God’s name did this thing ever get made?
8/ Who would watch that film and say to themselves: “Gee, I enjoyed that so much I’ll fork over a wad of cash so there’ll be a sequel!”?
9/ Weren’t there even more sequels to this than Kubrick had films?
Despite all that, I will be watching Ghoulies II in the near future. (Waddaya want, I’m a glutton for punishment.) More questions are bound to arise. They’re also bound to be posted here.
Beware.
Questions here… beware of those, too….
Story is… I was cruising Wal-Mart at the recommendation of many Chewers, looking for low-priced horror offerings in the spirit of Halloween. Don’t know what I was thinking when I grabbed the Ghoulies and Ghoulies II double-shot for nine and change. I knew I’d never seen them before, but at $4.50 a film, I felt okay buying them.
Watched Ghoulies last night. What an amazing piece of cinematic befuddlement!
1/ Is there a classic horror film I’ve never heard of where the main character finds a black alb, four candles and a book on pentagram graffiti?
2/ Has this concept ever worked?
3/ Ever?
The way so many crap films follow this formula, you’d think they were trying to re-create something successful! So Ghoulies ends up following a moron of a lead character who spends his time scribbling pentagrams all over his house and calling up freaky-looking puppets. He then tells those puppets that they “have to do his bidding!”--but then he never tells them to do anything! Later, just when we assume he’s gotten to the “Advanced” chapters in his little graffiti book, he stands in his cellar screaming about how he wants power! Power! POWER! And it starts to rain. Um...
4/ What the hell kind of power is it to be able to flood your own cellar?
5/ I could see if maybe you’re besieged by arsonists, but how often does that happen?
6/ Don’t even get me started on the wacky Time Bandits rejects!
Then this moron’s Daddy shows up, risen from the grave, and he’s got even more "POWER!" than his son because he can turn himself into a woman of questionable morality, stretch his tongue further than Freddy Kreuger, and make cheap-ass carnival electricity spray uncontrolled from his fingertips. Oh, and also he looks like a paled down version of one of the guys from Blue Man Group, but in a bad wig. So that brings me to my last inquisitive trifecta:
7/ How in God’s name did this thing ever get made?
8/ Who would watch that film and say to themselves: “Gee, I enjoyed that so much I’ll fork over a wad of cash so there’ll be a sequel!”?
9/ Weren’t there even more sequels to this than Kubrick had films?
Despite all that, I will be watching Ghoulies II in the near future. (Waddaya want, I’m a glutton for punishment.) More questions are bound to arise. They’re also bound to be posted here.
Beware.
