Product Details

• Actors: Dave R. Watkins, Kevin L. Powers, Tracy Yarkoni, Justice Leak, Brian Avenet-Bradley
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A6T1PY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,416 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Jack O'Lantern" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/22/2007

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What's really scary, is that Amazon actually has "more of this movie on the way!, February 23, 2006

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L. Baker "lmb" (Great Lakes area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jack O'Lantern (DVD)

The clear winner, absolutely the worst horror movie I have ever seen. So that makes the fact that Amazon is ordering more REALLY scary, and look at the other link. . you can add this to a wedding registry. (gee guys, I'd sure love that "Jack O Lantern" movie for my own collection, forget the bottles of wine or the trip to Cancun)

The cover art and trailer looked promising.. . the tag line .
"One year after a deadly car accident, Jack returns home and tries to get past the recurring nightmares that haunt him. As his deadly visions become a reality, Jack soon realizes that each new nightmare is uncovering details of the accident that he had forgotten and someone is using him to
exact a deadly vengeance"

This is a HOME MOVIE! Seriously, it looks to be shot on a Best Buy camcorder with actors rounded up from the nearest McDonalds.

It opens with the words "Halloween" on the screen while the three boys running out of gas in the boonies are clearly being filmed in what was the middle of summer, as far as vegetation, lighting and the chorus of cicadas as the sun went down.

The first part of the movie had absolutely no semblance to the plot tag. These three young people, the sterotypical good guy, black guy, and overweight fun guy, break down after leaving the main roadway onto dirt roads in search of a gas station. It morphs into a deliverance type plot with a slow witted inbred with an "ax to grind", his face hidden by a hat (run for your lives it's Wilson from Home Improvement!)

The next scene where some blond on the run from the monster runs into the boys is such a monument to bad acting, it is almost worth the rental just to watch that scene alone. "Wilson" is soon done in by the real movie monster. . which after seeing, all I can say is bwah ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaa. The Petco dog sock puppet would have been scarier.

The film itself has no semblance of a cohesive plot, with
completely unexplainable and random threads tossed in with wild abandon. After the seemingly unrelated opening we get to a bit about a car accident and another sterotype is added, this time the religious figure who has to be the worst actor ever fill the screen.

The movie ends abruptly, never pulling any of the plot pieces together, and ending seemingly only for the reason that the sun came up, but not before they could throw in a lame brained "maybe there will be a sequel" scene that defies credulity.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars PUTRID PUMPKIN, August 16, 2006

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jack O'Lantern (DVD)

JACK O'LANTERN may be one of the worst horror movies made in the past twenty years. The film opens with three good old boys in a pickup truck on Halloween evening in Mississippi. They encounter a couple of rednecks who are obviously cannibals, and also a screaming blonde who says these guys killed a bunch of her friends, and of course, the three good old boys get it too, but so do the killers by some unseen force.
Flash forward to a year and lo and behold, this whole setup has nothing to do with the rest of this lamely made fiasco. A teenage boy who looks all of 27 is mute as a result of an auto accident which killed his father. Soon some jackolanterned killer starts wiping out his friends, and is it this lamebrained kid named Jack or what? Forcing a totally unconvincing reason for these revenge killings does little to validate the plot. The acting in this movie is awful; they even have one scene where they switched victims because one of the actresses (used loosely) wasn't available to finish the movie, so they just switched who got killed...but they don't show the audience who gets killed. This is just a waste of time, folks.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ok supernatural slasher...but not for the price..., September 20, 2005

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Daniel W. Kelly (NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jack O'Lantern (DVD)

this movie will keep you somewhat entertained, but it goes from one extreme to the other. There is some excellent editing for the horror genre, but then there is general editing that is just awful. There is some gore and some well-crafted chilling visuals, but you will never jump out of your seat. Acting is mostly not very good.

As for the plot, it's basically I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Jack-O (anyone remember that film?). The "killer" is a somewhat creepier looking version of Jack-O. The real problem lies in the lack of explanation for anything that is happening. The reasons for the killings is explained at the end--but not who Jack O Lantern is or why he manifests himself. You're sort of left to draw your own conclusions. And the way he is destroyed at the end is really anti-climactic. Also, there's an intro to the movie that is really detached from the rest of the film, and doesn't connect at all.

Honestly, there's no predicting whether you will like this movie or not. At this price, I definitely suggest you rent it first to decide if it's worthy of your horror collection.