Hobgoblins - Rick Sloane 1988

Another depthpoint in cinematic history that you have to see too believe! once again this is a well ment attempt to produce a horrorfilm, that fails SO miserabely in doing so, it TRULY belongs in this section!



this picture shows some similarities to "Troll 2", not so much the story, but the badness of it!!!... infact, I think Hobgoblins is the actual movie that inspired Joe D'Amato to do even a worse job on Troll II!!!

the actors (hahahaaaa) in Hobgoblins outdo theirselves in bad acting! I think the cast is selected on having the least actingskills possible! It is great fun to see each and every actor in this utter piece of crap fail in every way possible!

the story is rediculous, the whole does NOT make much sense, the special effects are hilarious, the hobgoblins are rediculous looking Gremlins...

oh, and this waste of time has a fighting scene, wich for me allways will be THE fighting scene... You'll know what I mean when you see the film!

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The film opens with a man named Dennis investigating an old vault at an old movie studio. While inside, his fantasy of being a rock star comes to life, but he dies while performing on stage. His boss, Mr. McCreedy, closes the door upon discovering the body.

A young man named Kevin takes the vacant job so that he can impress his girlfriend Amy. After his first shift, he drives home to Amy, finding that his two friends, the sex-crazed Daphne and the dorky Kyle, waiting for him, and Daphne's army boyfriend Nick arrives. In one of the film's most commonly mocked scenes, Nick and Kevin fight with rakes in a long, protracted scene. After Kevin loses horribly, Amy berates him for his weaknesses while Daphne and Nick have sex in Nick's van in the background of the scene.

While in pursuit of a burglar the next evening, Kevin stumbles across the vault, which contains a small group of hairy, demonic little aliens — the hobgoblins. They escape, leaving Kevin stunned. His boss, the elderly Mr. McCreedy, explains that the hobgoblins crash landed on the studio lot decades earlier, and he has been closely guarding them ever since. The hobgoblins have the hypnotic power to make a person's wildest fantasies come true; however, they also kill their victims in the process when people's fantasies turn against them. Precisely why the hobgoblins never affected McCreedy himself in this way is unclear.

Conveniently for the plot, the hobgoblins go straight to Kevin's house, where his friends are partying. The hobgoblins quickly make their fantasies come true, but with dire consequences. Daphne is lured out of the house thinking that she's about to have sex with Nick. She is instead attacked by a Hobgoblin but manages to kill it with a rake. Kyle, while listening to phone sex, is also lured outside with the promise of sex; he drives a prostitute (really a phantom created by the hobgoblins) to the local make-out spot, but the prostitute wants to kill him instead, and Kevin rescues him before his car is pushed over a cliff.

The quiet, prudish Amy's fantasy leads her to the sleazy nightclub Club Scum. Kevin and the others follow her there, and the film is interrupted for an unintelligible musical number by the Fontanelle's ("Kiss Kicker '99".[2]) It turns out that Amy's deepest fantasy is to lose her sexual inhibitions and be a stripper. While on stage, she launches into a speech about how she wants to be objectified by men, arguably a case of the hobgoblins corrupting her fantasy by taking it too far.

The nightclub erupts into chaos while Kevin and his friends try to kill the rampaging hobgoblins. Nick is given a fantasy in which he leads a commando raid. In the melee, Nick is set on fire by a hand grenade thrown by his commanding officer and is apparently killed (again, his fantasy goes to extremes and turns against him), though he returns later in the movie, bandaged and on crutches, but otherwise unharmed. Kevin kills the hobgoblin in control of Amy before she can have sex with the scruffy bouncer Roadrash (Duane Whitaker). Although Amy is restored to her original personality, her experience leaves her less sexually repressed than she was before.

Thinking that all the hobgoblins are dead, Kevin, Amy, Kyle, and Daphne return to the lot to report back to Mr. McCreedy. Kevin is confronted by the burglar from earlier that night and beats him in a fight, finally proving his bravery to Amy. Kevin's victory is short lived as the burglar (yet another phantom created by the hobgoblins) pulls a gun from an ankle holster and aims it at Kevin. Just as the burglar is about to fire, McCreedy shoots the alien, thus saving Kevin's life. The remaining hobgoblins run back into the vault, which McCreedy has filled with explosives. The hobgoblins are blown up, though the question of why McCreedy did not simply do that to begin with goes unanswered. Amy promises to have sex with Kevin, Nick returns to have sex with Daphne, and Kyle, odd man out, asks to use McCreedy's phone, presumably for more phone sex.

this movie is so bad, it either makes you vomit violently in disgust... or makes you laugh so hard that your jaws hurt for weeks!!!

1.5/10 for the movie, 8/10 because it almost made me laugh as hard as Troll II!

labrat wrote:

oh, and this waste of time has a fighting scene, wich for me allways will be THE fighting scene... You'll know what I mean when you see the film!

Check out the worst fighting scene ever thread in the Whatever section of the forum...

labrat wrote:

this movie is so bad, it either makes you vomit violently in disgust... or makes you laugh so hard that your jaws hurt for weeks!!!

Why not both? I've laughed so hard that I vomited violently before, you know, leaving my jaws in a state of utter pain for weeks