This is the sort of movie where you can sense the puppeteers poised just outside of the camera’s eye.

There are much better haunted mansion films, many also produced by Charles Band, but Ghoulies has a charm of its own. It's a fun B-movie through and through with plenty of satanism and devilish creatures.

With Charles Band serving as executive producer, the film never had much of a chance to transcend the cheesy, B-movie vibe that permeates most of his projects.

Cheesy, low-budget '80s horror film has violence, cursing.