Creatures from outer space are contained in a vault on a Hollywood movie lot, or something similar. One night they escape and begin to wreak havoc in the town. They make your dream come true, but at a price!
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| Some familiar silhouettes with some hobgoblins on screen. |
The only reason this one came up was 1) because it sort of became a cult classic when it was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and 2) because one of the taglines said, "The movie lampooned by Mystery Science Theater 3000, this is Gremlins as seen through the campy eyes of John Waters." How could I resist? I should have resisted. For B-horror movies, it is expected that it would be kind of a stinker. But maybe would be a kind of funny and entertaining stinker. Or become a cult classic kind of stinker. A Troll 2 kind of stinker. Nope, just bad. The best part of the film was when the main characters went to a club and there was a punk band playing. The scene was literally the whole song. Maybe a good 4 minutes of one song while our characters are sitting at a table glancing around awkwardly. The band was actually decent, the Fontanelles (not to be mistaken with the band from the UK) and turns out they have an interesting story of how they became a band. But the scene was pretty pointless.
The creatures were sort of designed well, but unlike Gremlins, they were not puppets. Or at least not the kind that actually moved, no eye blinks, no mouth moving, no head turning, nothing. I don't really know if I can say much more. I actually fell asleep during most of this movie. Sometimes that is just because I am really tired, not so in this case. It bored me to sleep. Half way through I had just wished that we had found and watched the MST3K version. It would have been more enjoyable that way. But honestly the soundtrack is pretty good with some other Fontanelles songs.
Joey's rating:
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| He actually said he gave it "a dollar". So I quickly made this hobgoblin dollar for his rating. |
My rating:
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