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I thought it was the original Hobgoblins riffed AGAIN until I looked it up on the Rifftrax site. I couldn’t sit through that again, again, again.
It finally happened! They are finally riffing it!
At first, I was pessimistic because all post-MST3K movie sequels are self-aware and just plain stupid. Then I read that the script was written shortly after the original movie was made (before the MST3K episode), so I had hope. Now that I’ve watched it, I wish they hadn’t done it. The movie is just plain stupid with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Trivia about “Hobgoblins 2” from IMDB.
Director Rick Sloane wanted the same look and feel as the original Hobgoblins (1988). Hobgoblins 2 was shot on 35mm film, using only 1-minute-long ends of film stock, which saved about $5,000. No CGI was used, all the effects were done on-camera or with composite shots.
The first camera crew was fired halfway through shooting, due to their poor lighting and slowness in setting up shots. Most of the footage had to be re-shot, but some made the final cut.
Rick Sloane initially planned on making a Hobgoblins 2 in 1990 and had written a screenplay for it at the time.
I thought they all got blowed up?
“Somehow, the hobgoblins have returned…”
This is a really weird sequel. It supposedly follows the events of the first movie, with the old security guard now in a mental hospital for blowing up the studio. Yet all of the other characters act like they weren’t in the first movie and know nothing about hobgoblins, even though they’re supposed to be same group from the first movie. And they’re all played by different actors this time. It would have made far more sense just to have them be new characters. Also, the hobgoblins in this movie are no longer granting people’s wishes. At first they’re simply attacking people. In the second half of the movie there’s some incoherent nonsense crammed in about them bringing people’s fears to life.
It doesn’t seem possible but somehow the story, dialogue, pacing, camera work, sound, and acting are all far worse than the first movie.
This felt like watching a high school play remake of hobgoblins. I didn’t think Sloane could make a worse film then hobgoblins but he did.