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For decades, the old watchman (Jeffrey Culver) of a now abandoned
studiolot has kept a secret - hidden away in some underground vault:
Hobgoblins! Hobgoblins are essentially horribly looking little creatures -
from outer space, presumably - who fulfill all your wildest fantasies ...
and then they kill you.Only if the Hobgoblin who has you in his power is
killed first can you be saved. For some reason, the old watchman had the
Hobgoblins hidden away all these years, but never locked up the vault or
all the doors leading to it, so eventually his inexperienced new partner
Kevin (Tom Bartlett) sets them free by mistake. After being filled in on
the lowdown about the Hobgoblins, Kevin goes after them ... and tracks
them down to his house where his conservative no-sex girlfriend Amy (Paige
Sullivan) and their friends, promiscuous Daphne (Kelley Palmer), her
army-boyfriend Nick (Billy Frank) and phonesex obsessed Kyle (Steven
Boggs) hang out. Of course, the guys don't believe Kevin's stories about
Hobgoblins, but Kyle soon almost falls victim to one fooling him into
believing he has an actual date with his phonesex partner (Tami Bakke).
Kevin kills that Hobgoblin just in time, but in the meantime another
Hobgoblin has snatched Amy and taken her to a local club ... Kevin and
friends manage to track Amy down to the club, where the buttoned-up almost
frigid girl suddenly performs as a stripper, then seduces the bouncer (no
actual nudity in these scenes though). And while Kevin and company look
for the Hobgoblins, Nick is snatched by one as well, who arms him to the
teeth and makes him believe there's a war - an explosive situation to be
sure, but it helps in eliminating the Hobgoblins, too. Anyways, in the
end, everything ends happily ... There are no two ways about
it, Hobgoblins is a bad film. Basically it's one of the many little
creature-movies made to cash in on the success of the Gremlins-films,
but without the budget to even come close to those movies. And the lack of
budget is painfully obvious here: Now I could forgive the limited number
of rather crappy locations, the very small cast, even the less than
convincing explosions - but it's the titular Hobgoblins themselves that
really break the film: Basically they are no more than handpuppets (and
obviously so) except for in scenes where they wrestle with people, in
which they are immovable teddy baers and the actors do their best (but
invariably fail) to make these scenes convincing. However, being a bad
movie doesn't make Hobgoblins not entertaining. There is a certain charm
in director Rick Sloane's honest but failed efforts to make a Gremlins-like
film, and some of the film's humour is so moronic it's almost funny again,
plus the script is at times so in-your-face it's hilarious. So yeah, be
prepared to watch something crappy, but keep an open enough mind to be
entertained at the same time ...
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