In No Way Related To The Gremlins

My masochistic side seems to have gotten the better of me; first I endured Manos now it's Hobgoblins. I guess I just got sick of good movies, but I'm sure I'm cured now after this mess.

The original monsters featured here kill by creating the victim's wildest fantasy and somehow die in the midst of it. It's never clever how they die, they just do. The first kill has a punk security guard envisioning himself as a singer groping and tossing around a mic stand while an invisible audience cheers him on. Next shot he's lying dead with some blood around his nose for no conceivable reason why.

So what happens when these buggers escape from an unlocked (?) movie vault after 30 years of captivity? Well since they're attracted to light they find a happening party where three kids dance convincingly to some rocking 80's music. Geesh. Anyway, that group of kids decide take all of those hobgoblins out, seeing as how one of them opened the unlocked (?) vault. Really that's all that needs to be said about the plot. Yes more happens but it gets so ridiculous that explaining it would be a waste of my time and yours. There's a couple of grenades going off, a female model trying to push a pervert in a car over a cliff, and waitress with the biggest bee hive hairdo ever captured on film.

If there was anything good about this movie it'd be the excellently choreographed fight scene where a jock fresh from army training and a loser in comparison battle using garden tools for a whole two minutes. Actually, that kinda sucked too.

Well enjoy a clip from the MST3K episode. Let that keep you over until Hobgoblins 2 comes out later this year. I only wish I was kidding.