Product Details

• Actors: Kristin Renton, James DeBello
• Directors: Gary Jones
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
• DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001957A2Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,894 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Ghouls" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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GHOULS - DVD Movie

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly useless., August 20, 2008

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghouls (DVD)

Ghouls (Gary Jones, 2008)

Oh, William Atherton. Long ago was the time when your name on a production meant quality. Nowadays, it seems to do exactly the opposite. (Hmm, maybe The Last Samurai WASN'T Tom Cruise's fault?

...naah.) So when your name popped up in the opening credits of Ghouls, I pretty much knew what I was in for. I just didn't expect it to be this awful.

In any case, the painfully thin synopsis is that Atherton plays Stefan. Stefan's mom dies in the old country, and he rounds up his college-aged daughter Jen (the eye-popping Kristen Renton) and girlfriend Liz (Erin Gray-- yes, that Erin Gray) and they all head for some small, nameless country in Eastern Europe where the entire country shuns the village, and the entire village shuns them. Except, of course, for the family members-- and they're none too friendly, either. Things get a bit less dull when Jen runs into Thomas (James DeBello), a druid who's fighting the ghouls that haunt the town. (No, this isn't a spoiler, we find this out in the film's opening minutes, long before Jen does-- which was probably a bad idea on the part of the scriptwriter.)

Let me start by saying that the only possible reasons to watch this are to stare at Kristen Renton and if you're using it as the basis for a drinking game. Otherwise, give it the widest berth possible. Painful plot holes, inconsistent (and incompetent) characters, truly awful dialogue, the works. And, if I may be allowed a moment of sheer geekery, one should not call one's wraiths "ghouls", though these particular CGI monstrosities seem to be able to take either form at will. DeBello, who I thoroughly enjoyed in Cabin Fever, comes off here as a sort of low-rent Ray Liotta or Liev Schreiber (both of whom, I'm sure, turned this down and ran screaming, if it was offered to them), while Renton seesaws between disbelief and amusement (not at the events onscreen, at the script and the direction).

While in the annals of Sci-Fi Channel Original Films, this will not go down in history as the worst movie they've ever bankrolled (you'd have to sink a lot lower than this to get to the level of The Bone Eater), but it's in the bottom ten somewhere. Entirely awful. (half)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not great but I honestly didn't expect it to be either., November 10, 2010

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babygurl "book maven" (Nunya) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ghouls (DVD)

I bought this movie for 2 reasons: 1) I like the actress Kristen Renton and 2) I like cheesy, low-budget D-horror flicks. It definitely fit the bill. It was laughably bad but at the same time, enjoyable and I ended up liking Kristen's character Jenn and thanks to this movie, James DeBello has a new stalker - I mean, FAN lol It was one of those movies that's so bad its almost good. And I only paid $4.99 for it (which is a rental fee at Blockbuster these days) so I can't complain too much lol

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'd rather watch paint dry., September 6, 2008

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romanticynic (just east of San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghouls (DVD)

I've been watching this steaming pile of feces on tv for 85 minutes and I just can't take it any longer. Well, that's not entirely true. I've mostly been watching a cricket on the outside of my window. It has moved so little that I'm not sure it's alive, but it's way more interesting than Ghouls. Better plot and dialog, much more realistic special effects. I could tell you what's wrong with this flick, but I value my sanity too much to think about it. Besides, it's so easy to tell you what's right about it: nothing. Not a thing. Nada. Zip. It's not that I don't like z grade horror movies. I've cheerfully rented and then bought many horror flicks so bad that I would be ashamed to name them. But even I have some standards. Excuse me now, I have to go whack myself on the head with a big hammer until I forget all about this horrible flick.