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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Retromedia
Salesrank: 49580
Released: October 11, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The hobgoblins are centuries-old creatures that kill their victims while simultaneously allowing them to live out their wildest dreams. When they escape from their film vault prison, security guard Kevin and his friends must do all they can to send the c
Hobgoblins Reviews:
Cult Classic, Ugly DVD Transfer 
2008-04-20 - A great shlock masterpiece that is over ridiculded and too easily tossed aside. Well worth the $7 price tag, this ugly, grainy DVD transfer will have you howling all night long.
The sets are impressive (abandonned movie lot) and the monsters are farily amusing. The bouncer halfway through is none other than Maynard from Pulp Fiction. You won't be dissapointed, don't be fooled by the trashy cover art, this is indeed the 1988 classic. A great six-pack pizza party watch.
Get your copies now, because Hobgoblins part 2 is set to be released sometime in mid-2008...
Killer hand-puppets? Smells like delicious B to us!
2007-06-25 - Where to begin? Hobgoblins is the prototypical B movie. The killers were litteraly hand puppets who growled and apparently bit people but who's mouths never moved. Beautiful! And it was an 80's B, so the characters were so nerdy and annoying, we were rooting for them to fall victim to the terrifying hand puppets. Awful acting doesn't scratch the surface for these losers. But it takes special people to enjoy this kind of humor. And Sid the Elf and all our fans are those kind of people. Granted trying to follow the plot for this one would be about as easy as finding the Bermuda Triangle, but thats what B is all about. If it makes sense then it makes it to the big screen, which we have no interest in. If you want to see a real movie please don't go near this one! But if you are a real man then pick this one up and subject yourself to 88 minutes of hand puppets doing nothing more then violent shaking. This one gets a true recomendation from Sid himself. Please don't pay too much attention to the negative reviews for this one. Obviously B is way over their head.
Kindergarten Revisited 
2006-08-16 - When I first saw The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, I thought there was no way anyone could make a movie that was worse. This is worse.
We start off with an old security guard training an idiotic teen. Already the movie isn't good; but it's just starting, so maybe it can be salvaged. The idiot teen gets killed in a hobgoblin-type accident, so at least his on-screen presence can't disturb us anymore.
Then we meet Kevin. There's not much to Kevin. Kevin invites his friends over and does little else. When we meet Kevin's friends, the movie is officially toast. It degenerates into complete farce and idiocy, highlighted by a rake fight.
The movie drags on like this for quite some time, expecting the audience to put up with horrible sexual innuendo and plotless non-acting for at least 30 minutes more. What could be worse?
Oh, I know what would be worse. The movie could leave out any kind of special effects whatsoever when it finally shows us what the hobgoblins look like. True to its goal, the movie follows this axiom of lackluster production precisely - and the bounds that the hobgoblins alternate between involve being as motionless as stuffed animals to being as realistic as hand-puppets. So if you want to make a movie, use a stuffed animal for the distant shots, and a hand-puppet for the close-ups, and you're good to go. There are truly no words to emphasize how fake the hobgoblins look. Really. Kindergarten revisted is the best I can do.
If you couldn't tell already, Hobgoblins has no budget. Producer/Director Rick Sloane obviously tries his best to imitate Ed Wood's style. Just as Ed Wood made some sleazy pictures back in his day, Sloane feels the need to include plenty of sleaze in Hobgoblins. Remember - the movie dies when we see Kevin's friends, and it sinks even lower when we see how cheap the hobgoblins look. But it actually goes down a few notches further when one of Kevin's friends dials a sleazy 900 number for you-know-what. The lady on the other line says all kinds of horrible stuff including, "Help me hide this iguana on my body." That line right there cemented this movie's place in cinematic abomination history.
Wait! There's more! One of the hobgoblins possesses Kevin's girlfriend Amy, and gives her the desire to go to Club Scum! Not to be left out, Kevin and his friends go to Club Scum too! When Club Scum is infested by stuffed animals...oh, I mean hobgoblins...a wannabe army sergeant stops by to solve the problem. Pathetic.
For some reason all the hobgoblins leave Club Scum and hide in the movie studio where the old security guard from the beginning of the film is employed at. The old fart tells Kevin he worked with explosives in the army, and blows all the Hobgoblins to smithereens. So all of the puppets die, and the audience is just glad that it's over.
A guy named Road Rash works at Club Scum. Sounds appropriate.
Somewhere during the movie, we learn that the hobgoblins are really aliens from another planet. We see a flashback of them landing on earth in a spaceship, and the spaceship is so cheap that the top is just barely able to open. Ha ha.
I highly recommend seeing this movie once if you can find it, just so you can see how bad it is. It might be a better idea to get the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version to watch, to help you get through the pain.
Regardless of what version you choose to see, you will cringe at the filthy dialogue and laugh at the lack of special effects. This movie is truly unbelievable.
A Hilarious Movie on Its Own; The Fontanelles Rule!!!! 
2005-01-12 - KISS KICKER! This movie is ripoff of "Critters" which was a ripoff of "Gremlins," but you know what? It ain't that bad. All the other reviews that heap loads of criticism on this movie's much-maligned producer/ writer/ director/ photographer/ editor (I'm not making this up) Rick Sloane are only getting his name from the MST3K lampooning of Hobgoblins, in which they repeat his name about 100 times. Not too original. But, in the spirit of this third generation rip-off of "Gremlins," I guess it just comes with the territory.
The story centers around five friends, one of whom is a rent-a-cop at a local warehouse. While on "duty" (heh-heh.."doodie") the rent-a-cop accidentally releases (heh-heh "releases"...ok, I'll stop) space aliens that are obviously poorly constructed muppet-type sock puppets. And by "poorly constructed" I mean FREAKIN' HILARIOUS! I love the scene where they steal the rent-a-cop's go cart....I digress. Anyway, these bad little aliens have the ability to make anyone's innermost desires come true, BUT in doing so they drain the life-force from the person, eventually killing them. Oh yeah, and they have sharp claws and kill people that way, too. With the hobgoblins on the loose, the five goofy friends, especially the dumb kid in the red shorts, are forced to save the ugly little corner of suburbia in which they dwell. Oh, and they are all horny and irritating, but in a good way.
This is actually an enjoyably stupid movie that really stands on its own and can give the viewer laugh after laugh, most of them unintentional. I love the scenes at CLUB SCUM with the hilarious Master of Ceremonies performed by the massively talented DALAN NORRIS. Whatever happened to him? Oh, yeah and the amazing music (and Live Performance!!!) provided by the above mentioned FONTANELLES (with lead singer Spit Spignolla) is soooo bad that's it's actually quite good. The song "Kiss Kicker" should have been a top 40 hit. So, move your kiss kicker over to the buy button and grab one of those new copies of this hidden gem before someone else does.
Rick Sloane is Satan incarnate....
2004-11-17 - This.... this.... I can't even find the words for this piece of crap. The director, Rick Sloane must have a passionate hate for all mankind. In fact, he should have been killed by now. Anyway, Hobgoblins was one of the best and funniest MST3K episodes. The film itself is one of the worst films ever made, however.
The plot is virtually non-existent. The "hobgoblins" are just cheap puppet-dolls that apparently kill you by granting "your deepest desire." The characters inflicted by these creatures are just as stupid as the puppets. The main character is a little pussbag of a wimp, WHO CAN'T EVEN USE A RAKE CORRECTLY!! The other characters sicken me as well. We have a frigid girlfriend, an incredibly thin and ugly nympho, her boyfriend who is a sex-straved military man, and a nerd who is obsessed with phone sex. In short, I didn't care about any of them and I was hoping that they would all be killed. The whole film is entirely sleazy (especially "Club Scum") and will make you want to shower for a week straight.
In short, the lack of plot, horrid acting, writing, and the fact that Rick Sloabe is evil incarnate make this a great MST3K episode. But don't EVER watch the original version. UGH!
