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Halloween Night (Unrated Director's Cut)

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I went into my viewing of Halloween Night cautiously, not expecting much. I was dead wrong! This horror flick will produce some gruesome and horrifying scenes that will make you want to watch it over & over again. The acting is classic & will make you want more! If you're a true horror and gore fan, you have to have this in your collection.

Ok, they tried and thats why they deserved a review: The plot overall is a little old,you know,the mother gets raped and murdered in front of her kid, the kid gets nutts,goes to a hospital,grows older, escapes, and seeks for revenge. Two things in the movie that made me laugh was when one of the girls gets handcuffed to a bed (lift that side of the bed and your free!) and the other one, another girl blocks a door by putting a chair to hold the door closed by the knob(but,the door opens the other way, but nobody noticed during the film!!! o my god) ok, i still enjoy a little watching B horror films.

This has to be the worst movie I have ever seen in any genre! The acting is so bad that these people can't even pull off a McDonald's commercial! Even worse, is that the story is not even based on actual events. The actors can't even die well, meaning if you enjoy gore this thing will just put you to sleep. The obligitory lesbian scenes are overused to the point of being boring as well. I spent almost $5.00 at Blockbuster for this DVD rental, while it should be $3.00 to own, if you really want to waste the 1.20 mins. to watch it. If the makers took their time just a bit,it may have been a decent story, as it does show some promise with the Halloween party prank(which is the subplot),but it falls short as being a direct to video, and tries to borrow too much fromm other worthy classics.

This story has been told a thousand times, but few movies present a completely novel concept. But in this case, the repeated story is nearly intricately woven into our collective horror consciousness - an unfortunate kid witnesses his mother's murder, randomly suffers catastrophic burns, grows up in an insane asylum-type place, escapes, then gets the benefit of a kid with a Halloween costume in a public bathroom. He finds a party...That said, there are some good and some negative aspects to the film. On the good side, the production values are surprisingly decent for an obviously non-mainstream film. Decent camera work, good lighting, ok costumes/makeup, etc. The production qualities certainly don't distract, and, to some surprising degree, may be the only redeeming quality. The story is plainly uncreative, and good bits of the dialogue do detract from the film. I can't quite articulate why, but I found the lead male character far more annoying than his character was intended to be, partly due to his overuse of gratuitous cursing. I have absolutely no problem with swearing (I was probably a sailor in one of my myriad previous lives), but the swearing here, at least insofar as used by the lead male, incessant and without purpose. Just got old. All in all, its probably worth a rental, but only if you've exhausted far other good ones in your netflix queue.

In the old days even shlock cinema had some connection to the movie business. A first timer had to go out a buy film and lights and other equipment and try to do their best. Then came the 1980's and a glut of handheld vhs movies made by a guy who loved horror movies or someone wanting some money. This is above those barely as it's about at that skill level , but it's what you'd expect from a movie made with so little money. But at least it's not as bad as they old 80's-90's hand held video cam movies. It's below grade b; it's down to grade d level which means the gore scenes are not too bad actually, and that's a kudos to the crew on this one. The story isn't true and the killer has on what looks like a eddie from "iron maiden" mask on. Or at least that's how it looks. Still I have seen so many of these very bottom of the budget made outside of any filming experience by first timers; that I knew what to expect. It's a bad movie but it has it's moments. And that's better than alot of those other no budget efforts out there but is for fans of no budget horror films only.

Gee could this be Asylum's version of Halloween? Wow, guestar57 liked another Asylum production. Read the reviews and after watching any single Asylum movie you will know they make Troma look like Paramount!

HALLOWEEN NIGHT theasylum.cc
Written By Michael Gingold, Directed by Mark Atkins.
Starring Derek Osedach, Rebekah Kochan and Scot Nery.
So,There are tributes to Psycho,Halloween and Friday the 13th...The Badguy very much resembles JASON© as original boyish self from the lake.I really liked this film from theasylum,It has a look and flavor that will make rentals happen.The make-up is good and use of blades more than guns look fresher.Derek Osedach(see interview) does a different acting style,That we wonder if rest could keep up with.Rebekah Kochan reminded me of REGINA CARROL (Al Adamson's wife who co-starred in most of his films),That Scream Queen who is too well liked to get killed.Scot Nery does a wonderful job as monster,Was hoping it was Eric Spudic inside,Size was right.Erica Roby STEALS the film as The Strong Lesbian,She did a great fight scene with Scot Nery and Saved wardrobe, So Much money .The downside would be all the red herring points and cops that didn't ring true, in character.So,What have we learned ...This is a Theasylum flick of a different color,Based On David Michael Latt memories.

We, Sid the Elf, have seen a ton of crappy movies in our time. It's our lifeblood. There's nothing we enjoy more than a movie trying to be legitamately good and falling on its face, causing us to fall on the floor laughing. We consider Death Ring the best movie we've ever seen--seriously. We once reviewed a film called Wicked Games. Here's a line from our review, "We are 100% convinced that this mess was filmed in one day with a home video camera, and a very cheap one at that." We gave Wicked Games 4 stars so obviously we don't have a problem with low-budget bad movies. But this one was truly awful in every way imaginable. We decided to pick this one up because the cover passed the movie off as kind of a based on a true story version of Halloween which could not be more up our alley. Not so much. Excellent marketing idea, though by the losers who made this film, take something successful and ride its coattails by leading people to believe your product is similar. Then add the "based on a true story twist" and you've snookered enough people in to keep yourself in lattes and hybrids for at least a few years. Check out Derek Osedach on IMDB and you'll see this is a patern.

The film starts out with a kid watching his mother being raped and killed by guys in white masks. One of the killer's bullets hits a steam pipe the kid is hiding behind, burning him and badly disfiguring him. So the kid gets sent off to a sanitarium. That's the true story part of the film, not that interesting. Then we have some complete yambags years later who utter "dude" every two seconds. These winners are having a halloween party. The disfigured guy escapes from the sanitarium and makes his way back to his old house--you guessed it, the same house where the halloween party is taking place. And, if Sid was a betting man, the producer's house as well. While we're on this subject, there is absolutely no way that this film cost more than $2000 to make. Anyway, the disfigured guy is wearing a copper mask and black getup, this is aparently the same costume as one of the party-planners. Not that this matters mind you, because the disfigured guy just obliterates the idiot at the door letting people in. So once he's inside, the killer just takes people out in some really gory ways, appealing to people who like that sort of thing. So it had that going for it as well as some truly lukewarm girl-girl makeout scenes. A decent ammount of gore and chicks kissing chicks, and a few nude shots. Those are the highlights. I'd love to see the people who enjoyed this flick.

At the end, the killer gets away from the party house after killing mostly everybody because all the partygoers and even the cops believe the whole scene to be an elaborate hoax by the hosts of the party. The last thing we see is the killer wearing a paper plate and magic marker mask--seriously--getting picked up while hitchhiking by a guy in a '93 Chevy Cavalier. What does this mean? Well, for one, that our hypothesized $2000 budget for the film is probably grossly over estimated, and that there is room for a sequel. For the sake of horror fans, let's hope the stars, director, and producer stay on at their landscaping/cashier/Starbucks barrista jobs instead of making a sequel to this crap.

Sid believes it is needless to say that we are recomend staying away from this garbage. If you're a huge Halloween fan, like us, you will be temped to pick this one up. Resist the urge, this film is nothing like Halloween. Not even remotely in the same league. And yes, this is the worst film we have ever seen. And yes we were pretty steamed that we wasted time watching the crap. We only reserve this barb for films we truly hate with a passion: If you do decide to rent this movie, when you return it to your local video store, scream "He's gone! The Evil is gone from here!"

The movie is definitely entertaining on a cheesy level, the bad acting, boobs, and cheap gore scenes make this movie a definite low-budget B movie. Only reason I kind of enjoyed it is that my bands songs were used through out the movie and all through the credits. If you are into all of the above, you'll love it!