It's 'bots vs. puppets! Announcing "Hobgoblins"!

It's been many months since the last Meetup, but due to major construction at the loft, the delay was unavoidable. And when I say "major construction," I mean that we had no walls or doors.

Well, the place is still a mess, with cables dangling from the ceiling and giant slabs of metal littering the floor, but the projector and speakers are set up, and that's all we require!

To understand how a movie like "Hobgoblins" could possibly come to exist, it's necessary to take a little trip back to 1987, the year that "Gremlins" came out. Suddenly horror-comedies starring vicious little creatures were all the rage, and a rip-off called "Critters" soon followed. "Critters" didn't make nearly as much money as "Gremlins," but that didn't stop the producers of "Ghoulies," a cut-rate "Gremlins" rip-off featuring creatures coming out of a toilet. Not long after, "Gremlins" rip-off "Munchies" was filmed, on an even lower budget.

The parade of increasingly cheap "Gremlins" rip-offs continued for a while (don't get me started on "Kamillions" and "Beasties"), culminating in "Hobgoblins": one of the cheapest, most aggressively stupid films ever made. Even Mike and the 'bots have a hard time with this one, going so far as to set up a hotline for viewers traumatized by the film.

Needless to say, only MSTies prepared to endure deep hurting should attend this screening. You have been warned.

Map to the location is below; call me at [masked] if you have any questions.
Subway map to 135 Plymouth St.