Caught this on The Horror Channel here in the UK, and was expecting another film that I'd switch off after the first 20 minutes,but no, within the first 5 minutes, I was hooked.It's not particularly original, but it's done with such gusto it feels fresh,and the actors seem to be having a blast which helps.Considering this was(apparently) a made for TV movie,it was pretty gory in places,with the effects being well done.I liked it that much, I ordered a Blu Ray of it from Germany for the ridiculous price of one euro! If you see it coming on TV, give it a go, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Every Halloween, it gets really hot in this small village, and the son is always shining.There is a curse on the village, the titular beasty steals kids every year if there are any lurking about, thanks to a witch casting a spell on everyone.Gil Bellows takes his family to the said village, with little baby, to settle a deal. His daughter resents him a little, but she has her friend with her, who is very flirty on the verge of caricature.They want to settle a deal, with someone else who isn't that important to remember, but the goblin soon comes back for the night, and to be truthful, he looks more like the ghost of Christmas future from 'Scrooged' than a menacing threat.The film is silly, with awful CGI, and the cast, apart from Bellows are awful and unlikeable.There is a perfunctory twist at the end, and we also have the inclusion of the village drunk, who raises this film to two stars rather than one, because for some reason, put a big grin on may face whenever he was on screen, because he is just so ridiculous.At times watching this, I thought that the makers were trying to make another Troll 2, ans it has the same air to it.Apart from the village drunk, this is a sober affair.

I really wanted to like this film, and I did sit through all of it to give it the benefit of the doubt. But it just doesn't measure up.For a while I thought maybe it was best viewed as a horror-comedy, but it doesn't have enough comedy, and all of it seems to be actually unintentional, rather than sort of ironic.The cast is cute, so that's a plus. In particular, Brett Dier seems to be going for a young Ryan Phillippe look, which he carries off well. Unfortunately, Ryan at that age had an agent/manager who cared which films he appeared in, and Brett doesn't.For a horror-slasher type film, I think we're long past caring whether the writing makes any sense. It's the directing and special effects that torpedo this film. The monster looks and acts ridiculous, and could have been animated using 1990s technology. And if the "loud-noise-plus-sudden-close-up-repeat-twice" technique wasn't already cliché, it certainly was by the time this film was over.Why do British Columbia and Canada whore themselves out for these pathetic films? They are surely capable of quality work. Is film make-work welfare that important instead? When will people realize that if you're eager to put your name to garbage, you shouldn't expect anybody to ask you to make something worth making. Think long-term, guys.

It's a huge pet-peeve of mine when people who worked on a movie, rate it and review it on IMDb... And, I'm pretty confident whoever wrote the glowing review on this site worked on the movie because no one in their right mind would ever try to make the claim that ""Goblin" takes the material totally serious with zero camp or goofiness.".I'll bet my life that this script was written in a weekend and put into production for no other reason than because there is a TV network with standards so low, it will buy movies like this. It's a collection of horror clichés and idiotic dialogue. The plot isn't any better. There must be hundreds of intelligent, fully-developed, exciting screenplays laying around in studios throughout N. America not getting made and yet, we get Goblin.. woopity-doo! This movie may honestly be good for a laugh but not much more.