I have no idea why any film company would greenlight a sequel to one of least scary, most boring films of all time, but they did. And this was a major improvement, which isn't saying much. In this outing, the ghoulies take over a carnival run by clichéd characters Larry and Uncle Ned. They kill guests and the carnival audience thinks it's fake, while the real audience thinks it's stupid. A couple things made this better than the first Ghoulies. The first is the atmosphere. The carnival setting was more interesting and funner to watch than the dull gray mansion of the first film. The second is the ghoulies. They seemed to have a more intricate part in the plot, where in the first they played second to the midgets and the red eyed fellow. The hardest thing to believe about this film was that these little creatures could do any damage. The people are unbelievably stupid to fall into the traps of creatures no larger than a small cat. The people sit still long enough for the creatures to bite through an electrical chord, or find a switch blade and open it, and this really falls under comedy instead of horror. The only other positive is actor Phil Fondacaro (From Troll, Bordello of Blood, Land of the Dead, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside). Though his acting wasn't great, he has a screen presence that makes him great. Overall this was a silly, stupid movie, but it was a great improvement over the first.
My rating: * out of ****.
My rating: * out of ****.