Product Details

• Actors: Lisa Pelikan, Damon Martin, Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro, J. Downing
• Directors: Albert Band, Luca Bercovici
• Writers: Luca Bercovici, Charlie Dolan, Dennis Paoli, Jefery Levy
• Producers: Albert Band, Charles Band
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003
• Run Time: 171 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009PY4C
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,413 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Ghoulies/Ghoulies 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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GHOULIES GHOULIES 2

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars They'll get you in the end, and into your DVD player., September 16, 2003

By	G.Newman (Milwaukee, WI United States, Satellite of Love) - See all my reviews

An MGM double feature, featuring the first two of four movies in the Ghoulies franchise. Ghoulies involves Johnathan Graves (Peter Liapis), a college student who inherits a family estate. When he finds black magic paraphenalia, he winds up conjruing up the title characters, as well as his long dead dad. Can he stop them? Ghoulies II involoves the operators of Satan's Den, a haunted house for a fair. When the ghoulies hitch a ride by hiding in Satan's Den, they bring big bucks to the fair, until Uncle Ned (Royal Dano) finds out they have killed a couple of the workers. Can he, his nephew Larry, and short actor Sir Nigel Pennywight (Phil Fondacaro) stop them? This also has a scene that delivers on the original's advertising campaign. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bathroom....

Both movies are low budget films by Charles Band, pre-dating Full Moon Pictures. The cats in both films do great jobs for what they are given. The direction is what you would expect for low budget films. Both films are shown in widescreen anamorphic formats, and look like they have been taken fresh from the lab. the sound on both is great sounding Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. They are standard releases from MGM, with only trailers, but the low price warrants purchase for fans of the horror genre or MST3K.

GHOULIES
(1985, PG-13)

Johnathan Graves: Peter Liapis
Rebecca: Lisa Pelikan
Malcom Graves: Michael Des Barres
Wolfgang: Jack Nance
Grizzel: Peter Risch
Greedigut: Tamara De Treaux

Director: Luca Bercovici
Writers: Luca Bercovici, Jefery Levy

MOVIE: 3
VIDEO: 5
AUDIO: 5
EXTRAS: 2
MENUS: 3
OVERALL: 4

GHOULIES II
(1987, PG-13)

Larry: Damon Martin
Uncle Ned: Royal Dano
Sir Nigel Pennywight: Phil Fondacaro
P. Hardin: J. Downing
Nicole: Kerry Remsen
Dixie: Dale Wyatt

Director: Albert Band
Writers: Charlie Dolan, Dennis Paoli

MOVIE: 4
VIDEO: 5
AUDIO: 5
EXTRAS: 2
MENUS: 3
OVERALL: 4
DISC OVERALL: 4

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally Released on DVD, January 8, 2005

By	Shane C. Hage (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I give this movie a 5-star rating not because it was scary but because it is one of those cheesy-1980's films that you just have to watch.

To summarize the plot: Evil Satanic Sorcerer fails to sacrifice his own son to Lucifer so kills the mother instead by ripping her heart out and banishing the child. The Sorcerer dies a "horrible death" and somehow the son, Jonathan, learns that he has inherited the house.

Jonathan and his girlfriend, Rebecca, are both still in college. Jonathan drops out for a semester to fix up the house. In truth, he gets really obsessed with the black magick ritual books that he finds and decides to try them out. His eyes turn green, he calls up the ghoulies, a few subservient dwarfs, and even gets Rebecca to come back after she left him because of the black magick rituals.

Jonathan gets power hungry and performs a master ritual which accidentally raises his dad back to life. Incidentally, the evil sorcerer was buried in the yard.

Evil Sorcerer Dad kills all of Jonathan's friends and takes control of the ghoulies.

The Evil Sorcerer vows to take Jonathan's life but then the big twist!

You'll just have to buy this one to see the ending now, right?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dave Dayan Rocks!, January 19, 2004

By A Customer

This movie would suck if it wasn't for the outstanding performance by David Dayan as Eddie. He is truly underestimated as an actor and it is a shame that he hasn't done more movies.