Halloween Friends

Well, I wasn't exactly harboring much of any high hopes for this 2022 comedy titled "Halloween Friends", but I figured that it might be worth checking out nonetheless. Why? Well, because of it apparently appearing to be a spoof on the "Halloween Ends" movie, given this movie's title.

Now, I had never heard about "Halloween Friends" from director Mark Mos prior to sitting down here in 2023 to watch it.

I managed to endure 60 minute out of the 84 minute runtime that "Halloween Friends" ran for. Then I just couldn't take anymore of the suffering. This movie was a swing and a miss, and a massive one at that. The storyline in the movie was not entertaining, enjoyable or even funny. So passing this 2022 movie as a comedy is somewhat of a stretch.

The acting performances in the movie were amateurish, but at least that was in tune with the overall feel of the movie; amateurish. But I do think they had fun making the movie at least.

As for the wardrobe and costumes in the movie, yeah, this was just cheap Halloween dress-up costumes, and cheap ones at that. They didn't even have a proper hockey mask similar to the one Jason Voorhees wears in the "Friday the 13th" movies.

"Halloween Friends" was utterly failed to entertain me, and this is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this ordeal in lesser or greater extend so you don't have to.

My rating of "Halloween Friends" lands on a one out ten stars.

Honestly, i think this was great, especially because of the budget they had. A lot of the mini short films were nice especially the one with dracula and his 'friends'. When i started to really begin to watch it, i thought this was pretty lame and even said "they're trying so hard to make people laugh" and i wont lie, it's true lol; but other than that, i like it. What i don't get about other people's reviews is how they used 'cheap' masks for the characters. Like DUH they used cheap masks, it's a parody! It's not supposed to be like the actual movies! Although it may not be your cup of tea, it definitely might be someone else's. I think other reviews are going way too harsh on this parody film, especially based on the quality. It's pretty obvious the director didn't have a high budget and did what they could to make the best out of it, and it's not bad at all. Though it may seem like this is an ultimately good and positive review, i do have some cons; one of them being that this probably shouldn't have been a movie.. reminds me more of those 2016 youtube parodies you'd see ever now and then at that time. I think it's very cool to go ahead and just make a movie, but definitely cannot be called a "movie", even so being 84 minutes long. I'm sure if this was made back in i'd say 2014-2017, it really would've popped off, but definitely not this time of age.

I hav no idea who Mark Mos, the director of this travesty is, but according to IMDB he's been making about 15 movies a year for the past few years.

Quantity, not quality shows. This movie is a mess.

At first I thought it was a home movie made by some middle school kid who got a video camera for his birthday. Unfortunately, it's not.

The budget is so low the "actors" if you can call them that, are wearing cheap masks you can purchase at pop up stores just prior to Halloween. And if your idea of Orson Welles filmmaking is characters like Freddie Kreuger saying "you go girl." then this movie will be right up your alley.

It's a bomb in my book.