Hallow's End

Wow...where to begin...picked this up at Big Lots for only $2.99. That's three bucks I'll never see again...ever...and for what? I'll tell ya. An hour and fifteen minutes of boring, boring, boring chat and college angst that seemed more suitable for a Lifetime movie than the horror flick advertised on the box. (May the marketing droids who designed it burn in Hell for all eternity). Follow that up with a little bit of cheap gore (not even good gore mind you...) and a plot twist at the end that comes out of nowhere, and makes no sense. Awful, awful, awful...

Was there any redeeming qualities? Well, on the Joe Bob Briggs scale, there WERE six breasts involved, but that's hardly worth my long lost three bucks. Without those, this coulda been on Sci-Fi at, say, two or three in the morning...

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A group of fraternity brothers and their girlfriends are holding a Haunted House to raise some money. Local farmer `Pumpkin Jack' wants to help out, and brings a box of props for them to use. Little do they know, the goodies he brought include a book of witch's chants and a cursed jack-lantern among other items. While everyone is setting up for the haunted evening, one girl gets busy reading passages aloud from the book, which in horror movies is usually not a good thing. As the evening progresses, one by one the guys and girls dressed up in scary outfits start to become the creatures they're dressed up as. Dracula turns into an actual vampire and tries to bite people's necks. The zombie becomes a zombie and wants to eat the brains of his friends, and a bitchy girl turns into a witchy woman. Very low budget, but it's releasing the week before Halloween, so it's probably going to make money on home video.

SUcks. That's all I got to say about this sorry excuse for a film. Sucks. Sucks. Sucks. I mean, what the hell were they thinking? The idiots involved should never be allowed to make another films. The acting was so bad that it even failed to entertain on a bad level. The attempt at a "lesbian scene" was sad. I felt so bad for the ladies involved. This movie sucks! Sucks! Sucks!

I heard rumors of a sequel.

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This feature, which looks like a mediocre student production, has a very intriguing idea for a horror story, that being a Halloween night in a frat haunted house tour where the players become the horror characters they are performing. However, the production values are so weak and sometimes so inept that the whole idea is ruined. The acting is what you'd expect from college students, generally mediocre and either too weak or over-the-top. Fortunately, I only spent $1 for this DVD, so in that respect it was okay, but it's really not worth much more than that. Just can't figure out why some folks rave about it and give it a 10. Do they have a stake in it somehow?

Let this be a perfect example of how a movie description and box art can be overly misleading!

HALLOW'S END is trite, predictable, pointless and offers NOTHING to its viewers. The pace of the film is enough to put anyone to sleep! Nothing really seems to happen in the film until the last 20 minutes or so. However, even at that point what does happen is so utterly ridiculous, making absolutely no sense whatsoever. There is no real build up, no back story to support the less than paper-thin plot.

In all honesty, this movie could have been a great direct-to-video flick, unfortunately they missed by a LOOOONG shot! Another reviewer mentioned this movie reminded them of the classic horror from the 80's...I question whether or not this individual has seen 80's horror flicks, as this movie pays no homage to them in any way!

Avoid this at all costs!!!! This flick doesn't even offer avid horror fans like myself some kind of guilty pleasure. I was left very dissatisfied and wanting my rental fee back!

0 out of 10