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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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04.12.05
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This over-rated horror movie is short on the monsters and long on the preachiness. Videographer Eric is an 'ambulance chaser', shooting such things as kids dying in burning buildings and a man stabbing a woman to death. One night he videotapes what he at first thinks is a woman being raped by a gang-but it turns out that they are actually EATING her. One of them turns around to show its face and it looks like a monster. This spooks him and he runs-and takes his footage to this guy he sells the footage to. But he forgot to put a tape in the camera so there's nothing to show. He's kicked out of the office.Eric has also just broken up with his girlfriend, the only person he gives a darn about. She doesn't want anything to do with him after she found out what he does-making a living on others' suffering and death. He eventually goes to investigate the murder he had witnessed and questions a homeless guy who says that the ghouls have 'always been here'. Accompanying him is another videographer who gets attacked and dragged down into the ghouls' den. When Eric finds him he's barely alive, with most of the skin eaten off of his face. It's a gruesome, painful scene-and the best in the movie.Eric also deals with the ghouls-it's as if in destroying them he's destroying the part of himself that's like these creatures, living off of the dead. So the title not only refers to the monsters but to him.THE GHOULS isn't a bad movie at all, just that it's incredibly difficult to relate to the main characters and I found it a bit disappointing that the ghouls aren't in it enough. However, it is a gritty, hard-edged horror movie, which you hardly see anymore.
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Rating: 7.8 out of 10.0 - 10 votes cast total
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