At The Movies! - Hobgoblins (NR) 1988

The film opens with a security guard named Dennis investigating
an old film vault at a closed down movie studio. While inside, a
creature that allows his greatest dream to come true bring to
life his fantasy of being a rock star but the wish turns bad and
he dies falling a brutal height from the stage, allowing the
small creature to escape.





A young man named Kevin (Tom Bartlett) takes the now-vacant job
so that he can impress his girlfriend, Amy (Paige Sullivan). Upon
arriving home after his first shift, he finds that his two
friends, the sex-crazed Daphne (Kelley Palmer) and the dorky Kyle
(Steven Boggs), are waiting for him along with his girlfriend
Amy. Daphne's Army boyfriend Nick (Billy Frank) also arrives.
Nick and Kevin spar in heated combat with a rake and a garden hoe
in a riveting scene over several rounds to a bristling military
drum soundtrack. After Kevin loses, Amy berates him for his
weakness.





While in pursuit of a burglar the next evening, Kevin stumbles
across the vault, which is revealed to contain a small group of
hairy, demonic little aliens — the hobgoblins, who subsequently
escape, leaving Kevin stunned. His boss, the elderly Mr.
McCreedy, explains that the hobgoblins crash-landed on the studio
lot decades earlier, and he has been closely guarding them ever
since. The hobgoblins have the hypnotic power to make a person's
wildest fantasies come true; however, they also kill their
victims in the process when people's fantasies turn against them.


The hobgoblins go straight to Kevin's house, where his friends
are partying, as they are attracted by the bright lights. The
hobgoblins quickly make their fantasies come true, but with dire
consequences. The quiet, prudish Amy's fantasy leads her to the
sleazy nightclub, Club Scum, where it turns out that Amy's
deepest fantasy is to lose her sexual inhibitions and be a
stripper. Kevin and the others follow her there.


The nightclub erupts into chaos while Kevin and his friends try
to kill the rampaging hobgoblins. Nick is given a fantasy in
which he leads a commando raid. In the melee, Nick is set on fire
by a hand grenade thrown by his commanding officer and is
apparently killed (again, his fantasy goes to extremes and turns
against him), though he returns later in the movie, bandaged and
on crutches, but otherwise unharmed. Kevin kills the hobgoblin in
control of Amy before she can have sex with the scruffy bouncer,
Roadrash (Duane Whitaker). Although Amy is restored to her
original personality, her experience leaves her less sexually
repressed than she was before.


Thinking that all the hobgoblins are dead, Kevin, Amy, Kyle, and
Daphne return to the studio lot to report back to Mr. McCreedy.
Kevin is confronted by the burglar from earlier that night, and
beats him in a fight, finally proving his bravery to Amy. Kevin's
victory, however, is short-lived, as the burglar is revealed as
yet another phantom created by the hobgoblins. As he pulls a gun
from an ankle holster and aims it at Kevin, Mr. McCreedy shoots
the controlling hobgoblin, thus saving Kevin's life. The
remaining hobgoblins run back into the vault, which McCreedy has
filled with explosives. The hobgoblins are then blown to pieces.
Amy promises to have sex with Kevin, Nick returns to have sex
with Daphne, and Kyle, the odd man out, asks to use McCreedy's
phone, presumably for more phone