{"id":22057,"date":"2014-09-24T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22057"},"modified":"2016-08-21T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T17:15:15","slug":"ghoulies-iii-ghoulies-go-to-college-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/24\/ghoulies-iii-ghoulies-go-to-college-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ghouliesiii\"<\/a>This is about as low as sequels go. At least for third rate horror franchises. \u201cGhoulies\u201d was never sure what the hell it ever wanted to be, and \u201cGoes to College\u201d shows. The third part in the series shows them as nothing more than annoying little monsters that wreak havoc by inflicting pain, though never really murdering anyone. In fact they\u2019re really nothing but third wheels in what feels like a stale campus comedy about prank wars with the Ghoulies attached for a wider audience. Before the ghoulies actually pop out to terrorize people, \u201cGhoulies Goes to College\u201d watches like a fourth rate \u201cRevenge of the Nerds\u201d wannabe, about two warring frats and their ever lasting prank war.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also poor Kevin McCarthy, who plays the professor of the college angered by the students. In order to get back at them, his accidental seizing of the comic that controls the Ghoulies, turns him in to a power hungry sorcerer who really wants these college students to die a painful death. And who can blame him? The entire cast is filled with forgettable broad comedy stereotypes, all of whom seem more invested in prank wars than getting an education. But hey, at least the ghoulies speak this time. And they love to drink beer and wreck stuff, so they\u2019re perfectly comfortable lurking around college. They also manage to own some college clothing, which they don in a few scenes. Who knew colleges sold their clothing for three foot tall people? There\u2019s never an indication if these creatures are evil or just anti-heroes, but they are used for nefarious purposes by McCarthy\u2019s character with their comic.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re unearthed once again when a spell book that looks like a comic book is left behind in the college bathroom\u2019s wall. One of the frat\u2019s pranksters is writing on the wall when he chips the wall and discovers the comic. Of course, as with all ancient texts, he begins reading aloud the incantations (has anyone ever heard of reading to yourself?) and the ghoulies are back from the bowels of the toilet bowls. Truly, if you wan to see the Ghoulies finally being creepy little hell raisers, \u201cGhoulies III\u201d is the sequel you\u2019ll want to go to. The former films in the series have all been leading in to this third entry, where they\u2019re really just demonic frat boys with nastier personalities. Most fans of the movie will try to pass this off as a spoof of some kind, but really this is eighties horror in through the out door. It\u2019s definitely trash, but its still fun trash with an eighties pop. I highly suggest chasing this with \u201cSorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is about as low as sequels go. At least for third rate horror franchises. \u201cGhoulies\u201d was never sure what the hell it ever wanted to be, and \u201cGoes to College\u201d shows. The third part in the series shows them as nothing more than annoying little monsters that wreak havoc by inflicting pain, though never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,349,385,477,678,922,1087],"class_list":["post-22057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-g","tag-horror","tag-monsters","tag-sequel","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22059,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22057\/revisions\/22059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}