Goblin
(2011/Lionsgate DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: C+ Extras: D Feature: B+
Long ago
in the village of Hollow Glen, the villagers threw their diseased items into
the fire to 'purify' the evil, but when a witch's baby is thrown into the fire
the witch placed a terrible curse on the people of Hollow Glen, that no child
will be safe on Halloween there. Out of
the ashes a Goblin appears, immortal and unkillable, once a day out of the year
on Halloween eve he appears to take the lives of any child... and of anyone who
gets in his way in Goblin.
Nikki is just on another boring family vacation with her family, her
father, mother, and her little brother, but little do they know of the curse on
Hollow Glen until it's too late. What
they thought was only a story to scare people turns out to be real, and what
was thought to be a prank turns suddenly deadly serious as the Goblin begins
to hunts them down one by one, but it turns out the Sheriff of the town
lost his own boy to the Goblin, and has now kidnapped Nikki's brother in
attempt to make a 'deal' with the goblin. Their only hopes lies in the town drunk, who
says he know how to break the goblin curse.
What I thought was going to be another horror flick, the story wasn't as bad as
usual as usually, a bunch of ignorant or clueless teenagers find
themselves suddenly being tortured and killed by some gruesome being, this film
was a bit different. It set up the
characters first and then the true horror began, they had all the
chances to escape or run away, but by the time they realize it
wasn't just a story it was too late. Now their only hope lies in
finding some way to kill the un-killable creature. The Goblin's CGI animation
itself was well done, it stalks the characters, suddenly appearing and disappearing, standing
in the dark, waiting... for the kill.
Now you can see for yourself.
- Ricky Chiang
