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Hack-O-Lantern

A steaming pile of a movie that you won't want to miss! Truly stupid, confused, and painful to watch. Grandpa is a satanist. His grandson, Tommy is the apple of his eye. He trains little Tommy in the Black Arts. They do nasty stuff. There are other characters, and they are also doing things. Oh, and there's a fantastic heavy metal video (Tommy is in a hair metal band) for a song called, "Satan's Son". There is so much I want to tell you but I don't want to ruin the surprise, y'know? Let's just say I laughed, I cried, I furrowed my brow, I stopped paying attention, I tuned back in and there was a sequence with a really bad comedian. It made no sense continuity wise, but so what??? This movie just blows, and that is the highest recommendation I can give it. See it today!!

This is the best cheezy 80's horror film ever made. Jag mundrah is a directing prodigy, HY Pyke is a hollywood A-lister, and gregory scott cummins has a creepy, unusaully thick mid-section. tommy drindle has one line in this movie that is very oscar worthy, when he grabs veras boyfriend, Brian and says "NEXT TIME YOU'RE DEAD!!!" And you cant forget about Roger Drindle and his ridiculous comic relief that is not even funny.My favorite line from Grandpa is "Tommy was never yaws, he belongs to sumthin' greater than you could ever imagine." And what about D.C. lacroix, that stupid cliche' metal band with the hit single "Devil's Son." Also Tommys fat pig disgusting girlfriend, Norah Bennington, I loved it when she got the pitchfork in her fat, new-wave hairdo.Does anyone remember the party comedian that looks just like Howie Mandel, man I bet that scene jump-started his Hollywood career. I have a question for anyone, is there really a pop-punk-new-wave band called the Mercanaries?

More writing & cinematography. So-so acting. 1 song album. But oh my: no ending, and the ending falls apart, and the family members kill each other. And borderline-incestual scenes, that ruin the film.

This 1988 horror film tells about a family that's sort of dysfunctional and the grandfather leads a satanic cult in which a member starts committing murder on Halloween. This is a dull yet amusing 80's horror/slasher flick with shoddy dialogue and cheesy acting, but I like the score, the bloody effects and the eerie atmosphere. If you like Halloween or horror, give this a try.

Halloween Night is one of those movies that can be very confusing. Some parts are understandable, others leave you thinking. I think that is why I like it. I LOVE low budget 80's style horror movies. Even if you don't like horror, rent it just to see Tommy! He is HOT:) He is also a good actor. I recommend this movie to all.

I watched this film under the name Hack-O-Lantern, which not only attracted me to the film, but it set me up with what to expect in terms of cheesiness. It was a very cheesy 80s horror film, but I was here for it. There's an 80s rock band in there, over acting from some of the actors, especially the satanic grandfather, and most of the women end up * at some point. Which obviously means there end is near with the typical trope. Also some situations were so absurd that they made you laugh. It was glorious. I love bad horror films, so this trickled that, and that horror film nostalgia for me. The twist at the end of the film was pretty good too, and not one I actually saw coming.

There are a few positives to this film when the budget is taken into account. However budget doesn't have to effect writing and that is generally terrible, both in the dialogue and the twists that make things unnecessarily complicated. Don't get me wrong, a good twist can make a movie, but these were clearly all done just for the sake of it and make little to no sense. When they come they go against a lot of pre-established character traits and defy human logical actions. Overall there is more depth to this low budget horror than most, but the twists throw a lot of that good will out the window. On the plus side you could say at a reach that this movie may have inspired Hereditary, although that's pretty unlikely.

The particular copy of this movie that I saw was under the moniker "Hack-O-Lantern". In terms of pure gore, the movie didn't exactly live up to the name. It was, however, charming in a typically 80's horror fashion, i.e., just about every chick in the movie gets naked. The plot is nothing new, but it is rendered fairly well. In one particular scene, the movieturns into a music video by the heavy metal band D.C. La Croix. If you like old-school metal like Wasp and Venom you will like the song they have in the movie. Bottom line, the movie needs more gore and a higher body count.