This movie was made by Charles Band, before he retreated into bad direct to video and then straight to DVD movies, he did theatrical releases.

This film means to capitalize on the popularity of "Gremlins" by showing small, mischievous puppets doing terrible things to people. Only two problems. Not as much money for the animatronics, so they really looked more like cheap puppets, and a plot that made not a lick of sense.

A baby is saved from a Satanic cult, and grows up to inherit the house of the cult leader. He then proceeds to repeat Dad's ritual magic, summoning small demons to do his bidding.

Look for a young Mariska Hargitay of "Law and Order:SVU Fame", playing one of the Interchangeable Big-Haired Bimbos the monsters proceed to pick off. I'm sure she's really proud to have that on her resume.

Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) inherits his Satanist father's mansion. He throws a party and starts conjuring up Ghoulies, which are sort of demonic goblin things. This is a garbage Gremlins knock-off with no humor, charm, or entertainment value. The best thing about it is that it has one of the coolest movie posters of the 1980's, with the Ghoulie coming up out of the toilet. It's just not a fun movie at all. It's nasty and cheap. Avoid this mess. See Gremlins instead. Or you can just skip this one and watch the better Ghoulies part 2. But yeah, Gremlins is better than that too. So just watch Gremlins or even Critters over this dreck.

Throughout my life I have seen dozens of bad movies, and Ghoulies certainly ranks up there with the worst of them. From beginning to end you will be wondering where this film will go, and it never truly tells you what it's doing or why it is doing it. Besides the plot making no sense, and truly having a lack of a clear story whatsoever, the film also suffers on a script level with all of its characters being nothing but over exaggerated stereotypes- that are truly so forced, you have to see them to believe it. The special effects are god awful, as to be expected, and the ghoulies themselves are hardly on screen enough to make a presence, and when they are you will simply ask why they are there at all to begin with. The film, simply put, is a disaster on all levels. I have not watched a film with so many WTF moments since I first witnesses the miracle of bad movies Troll 2 quite a few years ago. Ghoulies tries so hard at being nothing, and it honestly hurt my brain to watch this film. My Rating: 1/10