lukem-52760 Ghoulies 2 is one of those fun movies i first discovered when i was a kid on old Ex-rental video from a boot sale & fell in love with this crazy fun Horror Comedy!!! It's a blast of fun filled mayhem lol those slimey little Ghoulies find their way to an old colourful Carnival & what a fantastic & beautiful setting it is!!! The carnival is the perfect place for these creatures to hide put out & pick people off one by one & oh my it's such great fun.The comedy is perfect & wacky & the Horror is actually gruesome & violent so it has this perfect blend & tone with Amazing musical score that makes me long for the wonder & fun of the 80s,Ghoulies 2 really is a special little film to me & one i hold dear to my heart as i loved it growing up like i did the Critters films!!! Those fun 80s comedy Horrors can't be bettered & remains that beautiful decade for Horror & creatures. The best GHOULIES movie ever made & one of my favourite movies of all time pure late night entertainment

Foreverisacastironmess I used to watch this tons as a kid, and for me it's this and Puppet Master 2 that tie as my favourite 'killer little creatures' flicks. It's still hugely enjoyable and charming to me and I love it a whole lot to this day. It doesn't take itself too seriously, the deaths range from ridiculous to downright chilling, it's scary and funny when it's trying to be, and even poignant once or twice. I love the music score which somehow brings a little added depth all on its own, surprising that it wasn't done by Richard Band. I enjoy all the classic grotesquerie of a good old-fashioned spookhouse that's rendered deadly for real in some way, that's always a very welcome theme to me. And when the little terrors finally do escape into the carnival at large and briefly cause some real havoc it's just the grisly icing on the cake! When the tilt-a-whirl goes flying off its axis into fiery destruction, that's such a childhood amusement park nightmare come to life! Some of the characters are interesting enough, I like the little drama of alcoholic old Uncle Ned, very well played by the late Royal Dano as a burned-out old fool who mistakingly believes to his cost that it was he who summoned up the Ghoulies. And I absolutely love Phil Fondacaro, it may be an old line, but he had such a big presence for such a small person, and he more than held his own despite putting up with indignities like being picked up and made to wear a stupid gorilla costume. And while I'm sure a lot of films like this back in the day arguably took their basic elements of the idea from Gremlins, so what? I think as far as this sequel goes at least, the Ghoulies are way more frightening than the Gremlins, their particular brand of hijinx are downright vicious! All I'm saying is, if you're gonna take your inspiration from somewhere, at least take it from somewhere worthwhile, and I think there's more than enough different stuff in this movie for it to respectfully distance itself and be much more than just a worthless copy. This does get such an undue amount of criticism dumped on it, it is far from ideal but it's no flaming garbage can like Troll 2 either - good bad picture though that is! And I personally don't think the creature models are bad either. The faces of at least two of them are amazingly expressive. I have a theory that at least some of the people that hate this movie have only ever seen the inferior MGM DVD cut, which until very recently, had been the only version widely available, so I decided to include this list of everything that's included on the UK VHS.. 1: The scene of Patty's death is a bit of a complicated one as both the VHS and DVD have seconds that the other doesn't, but they always leave out when she has a bite taken out of her face and when the cat Ghoulie slashes her. 2: Now this is an odd one. Apparently at the time in Britain, all film scenes involving ninja paraphernalia no matter how mild, had to be removed completely by the thrice-cursed BBFC!! Thus, although it's present on the DVD, Ghoulies 2's rather strange shuriken scene is sadly absent from the VHS cut. 3: During Merle's death it shows slightly more of the buildup to his pendulum slicing, but it still omits the juiciest part. I love the character of Merle because it was like the adorable William Butler purposefully played the guy to be a lot more campy and goofy than everyone else in the movie! Everything about him just screams out monsters, get me and kill me slowly and horribly! 4: When Ned gets electrocuted it shows him fall to the ground and there's a closeup of the pentagram that he scrawled out in his own blood. 5: In the largest scene to be cut out, Kerry Remsen's character gives this really long- winded and embarrassingly melodramatic speech about how her brother died in a high-wire act. I guess it explains how she so deftly climbs the big wheel at the end, but it adds nothing and is a terrible scene all around. 6: In the DVD when the poor clown falls into the dunk tank and has his arm bitten off it cuts to this really s****y model of the aquatic Ghoulie that looks completely out of place, but in the true version it shows the little devil with its mouth full of blood and the mangled arm close by - damn scary scene! 7: And finally when P.Hardin takes his faithful trip to the can, before it cuts to his echoing scream, we get to hear a few more choice ripping sounds as the last remaining Ghoulie chomps down on god knows what! Those cuts are mostly mere seconds long, but the absence of the much needed bloodshed really does take the edge off and makes the movie a lot more weaker than it was originally meant to be. Regardless, to me this was always a very "Magic moon" indeed. Cheers. To Merle! x

GL84 Working at their friends' carnival, two friends Spookhouse Show act is found to be successful when diminutive, rat-like creatures invade the carnival forcing them to use the only weapon at their disposal to combat the creatures.There's a lot to like about this as it turned out to be a superior sequel. What really works well in this one is the increase of screen- time here for the creatures, which is a fixed problem from the first one. Starting with the chase through the forest and arriving at the auto-yard stalking in here, there's plenty to like here as other action scenes here make this one so much fun. There's an incredibly fun introductory scene of the creatures here at the carnival where they appear in the attraction to the bewilderment of the guests on the ride causing all sorts of havoc with the true ride which is quite cheesy fun throughout here which follows up the scenes around the carnival. Seeing the creatures going around the different booths, attractions and meeting up with the patrons here while staying incognito is a lot of fun seeing how this one manages to interject the goofy fun of the creatures against the atmosphere of the carnival which is a healthy contrast. This is carried over into the film's highlight scenes where the massive version of the creature runs wild at the carnival and begins attacking both the concession stands as well as other patrons and forcing the group to fight off the beast using a variety of impressive and enjoyable tactics, generating a lot of action and a nice bit of cheese here with how the finale plays out. Along with the overall impressive look of the creatures, the fact that there's a rather healthy body count here that does lead into the film's few small problems here. This is the fact that there's not a great deal of blood or gore here in the kills, as despite the large body count there's a severely lacking amount here beyond a few scratches which would've helped this one quite a bit. As well, there's also the thread here about how good the business at the carnival is suddenly doing is confusingly dropped here, as the financial problems were so strongly hinted at in the first half that to drop it out of the film when that very problem is finally fixed makes no sense, nor does not following through on what is causing that specific incident despite how word-of-mouth is telling the authorities in charge. While the cheese might be something that turns off a few aren't into it, what really lowers this one is the rather bland and lifeless scenes here of this one really doing nothing while having fun at the carnival, as these are just boring, drawn-out and really not all that interesting showing the group not really doing anything in this section. All it does is make the film last longer than the original, and it's not that interesting due to that. Otherwise, this one was quite enjoyable.Rated R: Violence and Language.

Mileskolehmainen This really is better than the first Ghoulies. Here's why: 1. None of the annoying side characters from the first film are in this one. 2. The plot flows a little better(but not great, still very disjointed) And 3. The Ghoulies them selves look much better than in the first film. they move better, have better design, and this time around stop-motion was used in a few scenes. Plus the ending with the giant Ghoulie monster is hilarious. The Ghoulies get more screen time in this one, and all together the film feels shorter which is an improvement from the first's bloated plot. The humor in Ghoulies II is also entertaining (unintentional and otherwise) and it helps keep some of the more boring plot stuff. In all Ghoulies II is a disjointed but entertaining film. recommended to fans of the first or Gremlins.