Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

hyped garbage

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I know for a fact that if this movie wasn't named Hallows Eve I would've never even gave it a second glance.I LOVE Halloween & will really watch just about any movie based around the holiday.I wouldn't say Hallows Eve is a great movie but it was OK.It's worth watching once but ONLY once.After watching it, I don't think it's a movie you'll watch ever again.For the budget it was made on, I think they did a pretty good job.The special effects were just gross.If you're into that sort of thing then you might like this movie.The thing that stood out the most for me in Hallows Eve was Stephen Medvidick.He was GREAT as the (I can't use the words I really want to here) stoner Rudy.His character was the type of guy you wonder why you're friends with him in the 1st place.I want to check out other movies he's been in now..Hallows Eve was a pretty decent movie but like I said before, I don't think it's a movie you'll watch more than once

Let's start out with the acting which is truly, truly horrendous. I'm guessing the little girl was supposed to have a stutter for some oddball reason, but people don't stutter like that. "M-m-matthew" isn't something you're liable to hear in speech therapy and about the third time she did it was plenty. Then we'll move on to her running in front of a tractor which plows her under. If you've ever been around farm equipment, you'll know that tractors aren't Formula One cars. In order to get run over by a tractor you'd have to have your feet in concrete. And hilariously, she looks up at the driver who just can't seem to stop in time--and the next time we see her, she's not only lying in a pool of chocolate syrup, she's under the trailer the tractor is pulling. So at 3MPH, he ran completely over her and didn't put on the brake until he'd squashed her with both the front and rear tires which is pretty much impossible since tractor tires don't line up front and rear. Best line ever, though, after the girl is squashed: "What have we done?" Second best line, "S-uhm-body g-het a dha-hah-ctor." That's supposed to be a combination of sobbing and talking in case the spelling threw you. Walk away--very quickly--and don't look back.

Director Sean McGarry, working from a script by screen writer Raymond Manrak, has managed to make a riveting horror film with true style. McGarry uses his camera like a scalpel as he sculpts his vision into one of the most suspenseful motion pictures of the last half-decade. With a uniformly excellent cast and terrific dialog, the characters come across as very real and are beautifully realized. Once again, Danielle Harris gives a stunning performance and set the screen ablaze with her talent. She is a truly gifted actress and is simply superb in this film. One element of the motion picture that sets it apart is McGarry's ability to create atmosphere and an environment of true dread and fear. Some of the imagery is intensely haunting and will leave a lasting impression in any audience. With incredible suspense, sensitively realized characters, and a razor sharp screenplay, no one who sees this overwhelming film will forget the unrelenting horror that is Hallows' Eve.

The story is badly done. The acting is community playhouse caliber. The only reason I watched this was for Danielle Harris. I'm sure the filmmaker knows her value, but she's really only one of an ensemble cast. It would seem more reasonable to have her as the big star of the movie.I think the story is the killer seeking revenge for a girl who was bullied to death years earlier. I say I think because the characters are poorly defined. I didn't care about any of them. The actors read their lines like amateurs, and the characters are all douchy idiots. The only reason I like the kills is to shut them up. The bloody effects are also pretty amateurish. Some of it is laughable.I guess everybody has to start somewhere. This Sean McGarry is starting at the bottom here. There isn't much interesting to grasp onto. Killing people in one of those Halloween scare-arama has some promise. It just needs somebody better to figure out how to do it right.