You won't be disappointed!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The basic premise of the film is pretty good; it's just the delivery that fails. As with other ultra-low budget horror films, you can spot where the money's been spent and where it's been saved. This film is only around 80 minutes long yet it often drags. This is due to the fact that there just isn't enough of a narrative to sustain the length and this means sections feel like padding before the budget kicks in towards the end with the gore and effects. Shots linger unnecessarily and many conversations and subplots are simply redundant. Many things crop up that do not serve to propel the story forward or to delve into the films themes. Character interaction is unconvincing and as ever with these films the dialogue is wooden. The budget could surely have been spread around a bit, meaning they could have hired hired a few extras for the bar scenes and set-up a better office for the news channel 'mogul' who looks like Michael Madsen's fat older brother. The underground scenes at the end are commendable for a film like this and the guy who's been skinned alive is reasonably convincing in his agony until he starts to sound more like he's got bad cramp rather than had all of skin removed and been hung up on a hook. This makes me think the Ghouls have a little more intelligence and civilisation than they let on as where they had previously torn apart their victims and eaten them on the spot, they seem to be preparing beardy's friend for consumption in a different way. Perhaps they are curing/smoking him like ham. Speaking of smoking, there was perhaps some kind of poorly-conceived comment on the tobacco industry implied through the chain-smoking in this film. People who make a living off of other people's misery/misfortune. This film dragged on too much to keep my interest and the dodgy sound once again made it hard to follow - dialogue is at times inaudible but then at the same time sound effects are excessively loud, meaning I had to keep adjusting the volume. This is the third modern ultra-low budget film I have seen and it is certainly better then the others: 'Zombie Chronicles' & 'Zombies vs Vampires'.

Cannibal dead,yes it sounds a interesting title for a horror fan until you sit down and watch this movie,it was not good at any point in this film,time should of been taken out to re-think the plot and action.as we all know making a movie isn't about how much money you have to start,i'e evil dead was a low budget movie and look how that turned out,that was a classic,this pales and falls so short.yes the movie has some gore,but blood and guts on a film doesn't always make it good.i would like to say something good about this movie but i would be fooling you all if i did so.horror fans don't waste your money on this film.

Who in the world was able to view this horrid mess and walk away from the TV satisfied? This movie sickened me. i didn't think it possible to make a movie worse than the Death Tunnel, but i was wrong. I want my 5 bucks back. I knew it wasn't going to be Oscar worthy (it's shot on digital camera) but i didn't expect it to be the most atrocious thing ever to assault my eyeballs! This film has no likable characters, a paper thin plot and s***ty effects. The director (who should be jailed for making this train wreck) had to sell his car in order to get the 25 bucks it took to make the film. i'm not making that up. a 0 out of 10. and i thought Ulli Lommells Green River Killer was bad

I first caught The Ghouls on the UK horror channel. Knowing nothing about the film prior to this screening, I found myself in the happy position of discovering for myself a truly brilliant and original horror film that had me engrossed from the opening sequence of a stringer's true crime footage to the powerful, downbeat ending. Chad Ferrin constantly confounds viewer expectations, teasing out of the bleakness of his character's lives a surprising amount of sympathy for the monsters, human and otherwise, who populate his tale. In a noteworthy cast particular praise must go to Timothy Muskatell, who reminds me more and more of an exploitation movie De Niro every time I see him at work. I was impressed enough by The Ghouls to seek out more of Chad Ferrin's work. Unspeakable also comes highly recommended. The Ghouls is one of the very best horror films of the new millennium, with more to say about the human condition than anything currently emerging from the Hollywood mill. An important film by an important film-maker. Chad Ferrin is one to watch.