Movie Details
| Title: | Ghoulies Go to College | |
| Director: | John Carle Buechler | |
| Year: | 1990 | |
| Genre: | College | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.01.25 |
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| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.01.25 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: Virtual All Night Horror Movie Marathon 6 Jesus. I saw the first Ghoulies at a sleep-over when I was a kid. It was the era of Gremlins knock offs; I think Ghoulies was one of the first and as such absolutely conjured out of twenty bucks out of Charles Band's wallet and two weekends to make a terrible movie that was 90% poster. Even as a kid who loved Gremlins and Critters and The Gate (I don't think I saw Munchies), I remember not thinking much of Ghoulies. So let's watch the third one where they go to college! This is some bullshit. I watched this movie feeling the same shame that Kevin McCarthy must've felt being in it. But you know what... once past the immense disappointment of realizing one of these four mystery movies is fucking Ghoulies Go to College, you could try to embrace it and enjoy the zany college silliness that the stupid puppets reverse-flush into. I tried. I don't think it worked, but I tried. I did recognize one kid from Pump Up the Volume... which is weird. I looked it up and that movie came out a month before this movie. That makes me feel weird because I think of Pump Up the Volume as a total 90s movie but this feels like the dying breath of 80s-ness eschewing in the next decade. I guess they're both right on the edge. I usually think of the 90s arriving fully formed in 91... perhaps as a rejection of everything this movie seems to celebrate. I guess I should summarize the plot. A Ghoulish Tales comic winds up in the wall of a frat bathroom and I guess reading the comic aloud summons them from the ceremonial toilet but the frat is like the prank frat that pulls a lot of pranks so when the wise-cracking slimy foam-latex ghoulies (who talk? I didn't remember that) trash both frat houses it escalates a rivalry between the prank frat and the preppy frat. And that's kinda it. The main prankster guy wants to get his girl back because she broke up with him and started dating a preppy loser asshole, and Kevin McCarthy goes completely off the deep end and controls the Ghoulies to destroy the pranking frat, and there's a bumbling security guy and the fat guy tries to eat eight pieces of pizza at once but that's kinda it. The cartoonish score really didn't help. So, I know the ghoulies kill people in this movie, but this is more of a T&A college movie than a horror movie. It reminded me more of Ski Patrol or Police Academy 6 than Gremlins 2 or Bride of Chucky. I mean the movie ends with the main guy yelling "Let's party!" It's a college movie I didn't ask for or particularly want, but it's a college movie I stayed up late to watch. It's 4am which is really 5am. I probably could power through this last movie but I hate going to bed after it's light out so I'll have to get to the last one tomorrow night. Maybe next year I'll be able to follow along with everyone else. |
