trashgang This is just a mediocre horror that has a CGI monster in it. Some parts did deliver the goods for horror buffs but the action was left out and there's no suspense to see anywhere.I won't go into any details about the story because that you have see a thousand times before. I was rather surprised about the use of low gore here and there. But it didn't work because there were some faults to see. When one's head is smashed by the monster or goblin you see indeed in a gory way that his face is crushed but the next shot when falling down his face is in tact. It's one of those movies that you will love or hate. you don't watch it for the acting you just watch it for the horror. I have see flicks about creatures that couldn't stand up against this one but still it's mediocre and just offers here and there a nice 'gory' shot. It's just sad that the goblin was full CGI all the time which shows a few times even as the CGI wasn't that bad after all. It will make teenagers frightened but buffs will have a big laughter with this one, you know what I mean.Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

Nuno Madeira Rodrigues A script that would have been original and worked, I dare say, 60 years ago maybe. Poor directing. "Overly creative" editing (if that's even a thing) that just... fails too many times. At the beginning this film fails every other scene until it starts failing in every scene and it just turns into a comedy. But let's focus on the best part......the acting.I felt sorry for the performances from almost every single actor. I really did. It's like "awwwww... she can't act" and then "awwww... he can't act either" and finally "awww... this is such a big mess" (note: that's when the master shot comes up and you have both of them in frame hehehe ;). Seriously. It really is that bad. But it's so much fun at the same time. That's actually what kept me watching this. If the acting was slightly better it would have killed the film for me because then it would have become unbearable. But it didn't so I give it a solid 10/10 because I had such a wonderful time and actually bothered to write this.

ctomvelu1 I remember seeing this SyFy flick when it first aired, and caught it again today. It hasn't gotten any better with time. The title of the film is a bit misleading, because until the last 10 minutes, the title creature is actually a wraith, a hooded figure that can swoop down from the sky and is impervious to bullets. Someone here said the creature more closely resembled one of the wraiths from "Lord of the Rings," and I concur. Having said that, I acknowledge in the closing minutes, the creature is in fact revealed to be a goblin, although it is about about three times the size of any previous movie goblin. It's more like the Incredible Hulk size-wise. Periodically, this creature comes looking for babies to eat, in a small backwoods community. The acting is par for the course for this type of no-budget production and the CGI is typical SyFy level. In fact, this goblin ends up looking a lot like something from "Gremlins," only on a much larger scale. Nothing much going on here that we haven't seen before, and totally devoid of any scares.

Neil Welch This is a SyFy Channel horror movie. Therefore, by definition, it is going to be low budget schlock - if you have seen any SyFy movies then you will know this going in and, if you haven't, I'm telling you now.It isn't awful. It is well photographed and, in general, well put together technically - there are plenty of horror films which are badly lit, out of focus, muddy sound, hand-held when a tripod should be used etc. etc. and it is pleasing when those problems aren't there to make a poor film worse. Also, it is tolerably well acted, and has an unusual monster. There is some fairly explicit gore for gore watchers (low in volume, maybe, but moderately chunky, so to speak).What Goblin doesn't have is any surprises, but the horror movie which does is a rare beast indeed.There are loads of films around which are much worse than this, which is a decent attempt by SyFy to make a small budget stretch further than you would expect.