The Goblin

The acting is non-existent. The story-line is stoopid times 12.

The good reviews here are clearly phony as is this trivia bit:

The cellar used in the film was actually part of the house that was in the film. Since it was in the South and uninhabited, it was filled with giant spiders. During the filming of many sequences, enormous spiders would propel down from the ceilings and crawl across the floors. Robert Levey II, the film's lead actor, has terrible arachnophobia and each time a tarantula dangled down towards him, the director would grab it by the web and run out so that he would not know about it. Robert did not see one spider during filming, but the crew saw dozens.

Tarantulas do not come down off the ceiling. No bif spiders to. What garbage.

This sucks.

Love the visuals of this film. Very creepy. Cinematography is nicely done. Actors were convincing. Music is good. The goblin character is really cool. Love the practical effects. Plot was weird and suspenseful. My kind of film. I would definitely recommend especially to fans of fantasy/suspense.

If you're looking for the next The Exorcist or The Omen, this isn't it, but it is a fine enjoyable fun low budget horror movie. It has its share of spooky moments and a marionette that may remind the viewer of Chucky. The main character is played by Robert Levey II who plays an adorable Oliver-like urchin. Highly recommended!

This film is low budget, but it's great! The mood is creepy and makes you nervous. The sound design and production design are really compelling. It really left me and my film viewing partners wanting to finish the film, which is a compliment for low budget. Nowadays, even normal budget films aren't as good as this. The dialogue was strange and poetic, the imagery was interesting from a design standpoint. It was also very unique to see a song within the film as it was executed.

This film came off as strange with a nod to Jim Henson's Creature Shop in a good way. I am a sucker for live action puppets in film and this one was a lot of fun to watch. I do recommend this film to aspiring filmmakers, as myself, as an inspiration to make very good quality films with no money.

10 stars for me, for this type of film. Weird and fun for sure. I was left thinking about what just happened for a while afterwards and the mysteries that were hinted throughout.

Although this was an Ultra-Low Budget indie film, the Director did an amazing job with this. As another reviewer has already stated, it is very creepy and suspenseful which is something done masterfully by the Director. I have seen major budget films with A-list actors that did not have the draw in the plot nearly as much as this little Thriller gem holds and the accompanying soundtrack was also a precious bonus. I actually HAD TO KNOW what was going to happen next. With its odd sounds and eerie synth score, I was taken back to the glory days of 1980s late night cinema. Indie first time directors rarely achieve this caliber of film making out of the gate with pretty much no money at all, but Wyatt Michael surprises me with his debut, The Goblin. The boy actor, Robert Levey II gives a regularly stunning performance throughout the film in both singing talent and dramatic portrayal as the suspense eventually comes to a place where it can be sliced with a knife because of his torment. The female lead, Nicole Hargrove, makes the audience loathe her in a good way as she continuously bounces back and forth from caring mother to raving lunatic - a performance that seems to be made for her natural cold unsympathetic glare. I loved every minute of this film in that the Director gives us another rare glimpse into an art form nearly extinct now by using a real puppeteered creature in his film rather than another CGI trick. Being a fan of Jim Henson growing up as well as the original Star Wars films, you cannot beat a real puppet to play the bad guy. I thoroughly enjoyed The Goblin as it has all the earmarks of a great unique film created by true artists with storytelling at its finest. A fun spiral into madness that I highly recommend to even big budget filmmakers nowadays...they could learn a few things about what makes a film really memorable.