Good start, but then it gets ruined

Expected more

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Perhaps the lamest horror anthology movie ever.The blonde that's watching the "VHS tape" makes a comment how important it is to have a VHS player because "Texas Chainsaw Massacre looks so fake on Bluray". But then she proceeds to watch this "VHS tape" with Bluray quality. Duh. Not a great sign of things to follow, this lame intro.Story 1 is pointless. A boy and his babysitter eat pumpkin seeds and it kills them and that's pretty much it. Really stupid, overly simplistic even for a horror story.Story 2 at least has some kind of an end-twist, lame as it is. Though we don't quite understand what's the deal with the first two houses where the kids go trick-or-treating.Story 3 is like a tiny excerpt out of a lame horror feature. It explains nothing about what's going on. And that's why we don't give a hoot about the characters, because we have no idea whom they're giving the sacrifice to, for what purpose, nor why the old geezer forgot to bring the meat because he "got nervous" (duh) considering they do this thing annually. This appeasing-the-woods-monster shtick isn't worth four pages in a pulp fiction comic-book, let alone a story on the big screen, not even in this lame anthology.Story 4 is very dumb. It does have a plot-twist i.e. has a beginning and a conclusion, but it's a dumb conclusion.Story 5 is only 2-3 minutes long and is marred by horrible amateur acting.Story 6 is perhaps the longest, and the most tedious one, with a particularly lame ending. The sort of Z-grade crappola you get on the worst episodes of a lame horror-story TV show. You mustn't exceed an elementary school education to write something this corny.Story 7 is another simplistic, dumb tale that has no beginning or conclusion, just drivel.Story 8 is somewhat eerie, which is more than can be said for the others, but it's standard predictable stuff yet again.And then the connecting story ends in the lamest possible way. They even have the balls to use the same shtick - that they ripped off from "Ringu" anyway - that they used in the first anthology, which was better. Did I say "lame" a lot? You'd too if you reviewed this dross, but you won't because I warned you not to watch it.

'All Hallows' Eve' has been on my watchlist for a few years now, but it wasn't until seeing 'Terrifier' recently that I knew I had to go back and watch it. It was pretty apparent that the character of 'Art the Clown' is something very special and I will lap up every bit of him that I can find. I would call 'All Hallows' Eve' a bit of an appetiser for the main event that was still to come. The film is broken up into three segments, with a central segment tying them all together. I didn't realise until after seeing the film that the segments were actually the short films writer/director Damien Leone had made a few years prior.The first segment is okay without being anything really special. 'Art the Clown' isn't really a huge feature in this one and while some of the other characters were certainly well designed, they definitely didn't pull off the same level of malice. The second segment is easily the weakest element to the film. It really drags everything down for a good half an hour there and was quite disappointing. 'Art the Clown' makes an appearance of sorts in this segment but it's hardly worth mentioning. The third segment though is where the film truly comes into its own. This was the original 'Terrifier' short film from 2011 and it is nothing short of brilliant. Genuine horror is so hard to find these days but this is certainly it.The segment that ties everything together is mildly well done. It serves its purpose and provides a way for the film to go out on a high. As I said though things weren't quite polished yet. There's some pretty terrible acting at times (especially the phone calls) and the second segment really drags it down. If the film doesn't sound like you, but you'd like to see the third segment I spoke of you could simply try and track down the short film 'Terrifier' from 2011. And if you haven't already please see the 2017 feature length version of 'Terrifier'. It truly is a horror masterpiece. I give 'All Hallows' Eve' a 6/10.

Writer/director Damien Leone links three of his earlier horror shorts with a wraparound story wherein babysitter Sarah (Katie Maguire) watches a mysterious VHS tape found in a Halloween treat bag. As she watches the stories on the tape, Art, the killer clown that features in them, somehow makes his way into reality.Video short number one sees a young woman in a railway station waiting room encountering the killer clown, who drugs her and drags her to a dark tunnel where she meets a meat-cleaver wielding mutant and a Satanic sect. The second story involves creepy alien invaders who menace a wife alone in the house. The final short on the cassette features the return of Art, who terrorises a woman who is driving through the night.I watched this having just seen Terrifier (the feature length film based on All Hallows' Eve's third story) hoping for more of the same: creepy clown antics and outrageous gore. While not on the same level as Terrifier, I got what I wanted, Art (Mike Giannelli) proving just as unsettling, and the splatter nice and juicy.The film boasts solid performances from all involved, assured direction from Leone, and those all important well-executed gore effects, which include a severed arm, the very messy decapitation of a gas station attendant, the unforgettable sight of a still alive victim's naked limbless torso (with profanities carved into the skin), and a very nasty surprise for Sarah.7/10.

I put this on expecting a low budget laugh. I actually said to my husband "I fancy something not too serious". Well I laughed a little and although its not 'too serious' its certainly not light-hearted.It starts like a typical horror film. Cue an annoying young boy and some shocking acting from the fist video clip. You find yourself sucked in but not sure why. The second video clip (which generally has been received badly) is entertaining but when the third video clip starts..sh*t gets real.Its terrifying. The clown is horrific. The final ending is unexpected.This film left me scared to walk around the house for the rest of the night. It left me feeling incredibly uneasy. But your left wanting more.It has its flaws and has lots of frustrating victim moments where your screaming at the screen for them to do the sensible thing.All Hallows Eve is a must see for fans of horror. Just go for clown if anything.