Ghoulies

GHOULIES begins as a man with eerily glowing green eyes and wearing a long robe tries to sacrifice his own baby son before a crowd dressed in white, KKK-ish robes. The baby is saved and the action flashes forward 25 years to the grown son's arrival at the spooky house where the aborted ritual was staged. Jonathan (Peter Liapis) has no idea who his parents were but slowly the evil of the house seeps into him until he's spouting Dad's mumbo jumbo in a Hebrew-Latin mix and calling up bloodthirsty creatures from the ground and water on the property. These guys have sharp yellow teeth and drip saliva while grinning at the prospect of evil to come. Jonathan becomes obsessed with gaining the power his deceased father relinquished in death. He gets his minions to hypnotize girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) into being his accomplice. More rituals unleash creatures under the young man's control and they bloodily attack house guests. Jonathan seems to want to make love to Rebecca while creatures watch, but she says uh-uh and leaves. Two Little Persons in Viking-like costumes rein in Rebecca and get her to host an evening that leaves some friends dead and raises Jonathan's dad, Malcolm (Michael Des Barres), from his grave. Malcolm just wants his kid to kiss his dear old dad so he can drain the youth from his son's lips. Jonathan, Rebecca, and their one still-living friend escape in a car that is, unbeknownst to them, full of grinning creatures.