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Be careful what you wish for... you just might get it!
A group of hobgoblins, who allow you to live out your fantasies but kill you in the process, escape from a studio vault, and a security guard and his friends must stop them before dawn.
Hobgoblins
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Hobgoblins - La Stirpe da Estirpare, A koboldok éjszakája, 淘气鬼
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Theatrical
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15 Dec 1988
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Germany16
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15 Dec 1988
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France16
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France
15 Dec 1988
- Physical16
Germany
15 Dec 1988
- Theatrical16
USA
14 Jul 1988
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So you want to know if you’d like Hobgoblins. Are you scared of puppets with no range of motion attacking people holding said puppets? Awed by poorly choreographed rake fights? Would you believe that six or seven grenades could go off in a bar without destroying anything? Recently suffered a head injury?
You still wouldn’t like it.
I produce a horror movie podcast called Watch No Evil.
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I remember this making for a pretty good MST3K episode. I always loved when they would watch (at the time) recent stuff. That seemed to be a Mike thing, whereas Joel was more of a classic B-movie guy. Not a hard and fast rule by any means but just a trend I noticed as a kid. Personally, I started watching in the mid/late 90s and so I'm always gonna be a Mike guy. Huge respect to Joel, and I love a lot of his episodes, but at the end of the day Mike's my guy. I hope the internet's cooled down about this in the 23 years since I first logged on. I was, like, 10 and the second website I…
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My last review gave this a 2.5. How wrong was I?? This is definitely a solid 3.0! 🤣 Overuse of neon lighting, epic front lawn yard tool battles, sweet dance parties, entertaining band scene, atrocious acting and dry dialogue, and those cheap ass looking Hobgoblins!
Still mad that they don't actually fly their spaceship. Should have just attached it to a piece of string and flung it around a bit. That would suffice. And earned them an extra 0.5 stars.
Still need to see the sequel...
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Halloween Watchathon 2019 - Film #136
Hooptober requirement: The lowest rated film from the 80s that you can access. - 1/1 ✓
I'm not sure y'all... This wasn't very good but the lowest rated horror film of the 1980s? I'm gonna call bullshit on that lmao.
Anyways, instead of putting any serious thought into reviewing this let me just say that hobgoblins can be added to the List of my monstrous children (along with Gremlins, Ghoulies, Critters, and Sam from Trick 'r Treat of course) for when I live in a scary ass abandoned house by myself. Said list is getting pretty unruly so I guess I'll need a lot of space.
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That shot of the hobgoblins driving a golf cart, completely motionless sitting in the seats, almost like they are inanimate stuffed animals is so brilliant.
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Spooky Scary Horrorthons 6 - Film #10
It pains me to give this a low score, because the hobgoblins were adorable and Daphne was hilarious with all her weird little dances and random quirks. But sadly, this is a pretty bad film.
The story is of course a horid mess. An aging security guard who has been tasked with guarding an old film studio turns out to be guarding something far more sinister, that'd be the titular hobgoblins. I like to think of this abandoned studio housing the goblins as the most horribly underfunded containment facility that the SCP Foundation has available, because it brings some much needed lore to this poor film. Eventually the Hobgoblins break loose and now…
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
You know, I've never actually read any...oh, wait. No. Great Expectations. I read that in college. I've been to college. Ummmmm
I really want to shoutout an I'm sorry/I'm wrong to MST3K...not like, because I like the show any more than I did last week because to be perfectly honest, I have the entire internet to give me trash movie suggestions. Sorry if that offends 'older people' or whatever but there's only so many times millennials can apologize for being born.
(Sorry the apology to MST3K is coming.) Because although I have the entire internet, what I thought was a simple search 'Hobgoblins movie band' (because I forgot…
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HOOPTOBER 6.0 MOVIE #2 OF 45 or 46, I don't know.
This was my pick (and it seems the pick of quite a few others) for the lowest rated 80's Horror film readily available.
It's a low budget Gremlins ripoff that is not very good but certainly not deserving of being the lowest rated Horror movie of the '80s on here or anywhere else.
It's actually kinda fun and it's never boring, we even get a great garden tool fight scene that they must have spent seconds choreographing.
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There's a moment in this where one of the leads puts on a never-ending instrumental record and everyone dances as if Hey Ya had just been released, and then the Hobgoblins attack, and the three actors have to clutch these Hobgoblin stuffed animals to their chests and jerk around spastically to pretend like they're being attacked by them, and then a meathead dude walks up the driveway and sees them all in the window and is excited by this "new dance," because it's kinda "kinky."
Anyway that's why cinema was invented.
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