These voracious little creatures like nothing more that human teeth, hence the name! No threepenny bits under the pillow from them!
There have been other little meanies in other flicks.
One I remember is Don't Turn out the Lights or similar. There's a dreadful scene where the mother of the household is dragged down the coal chute or something into the bowels of hell. She's dragged by, yes, little humanoid critters that terroriser the family in the house.
The Gate is another. This flick will appeal to rocketry fans. The hero of the piece uses one to slay the band of ghoulies causing havoc and worse in his home. Like all of these films there's a hole, which you really should fill in!
Can you think of any more movies full of little nasty ghoulies?
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark! Little gargoyle men drag poor Kim Darby down to Hell! One of the great TV movies of the 1970s! Sorry, I don't do Hellboy or other recent horror franchises, too fake and CGI/video-gamey for me. Practical F/X 4rEver!
ReplyDeleteNot a movie, but I'm thinking John Christopher's novel The Little People. Ultra bizarre story, but highly sought after as a horror paperback, Woodsy. One I've been hunting for at the Carboot for years.
ReplyDeleteBack in '86 I was in the US and visiting as many VFX houses as I could. One was Illusion Arts and although I didn't meet Albert Whitlock the great Matte Painter, I did meet his associate Sud Dutton and saw a number of oil painted glass sheets for scenes from David Lynch's Dune. I also saw a small tent made of black velvet.
ReplyDeleteInside was a model set up for The Gate and I met Randy Cook who was just about to dive away from the daylight world and animate the big demon, which was a stop motion puppet about 18 inches tall!