All Hallows' Eve 2

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I was disappointed. None of the vignettes were very scary, and I think it was because they were too short to build up any real suspense or sense of dread that was so well used in the first film. The pumpkin head guy wasn't scary or menacing at all, unfortunately. And the ending was a cheap rip-off from the first film. It just fell totally flat, so I am surprised that it got good reviews.

ALL HALLOWS' EVE: THE REAPING is a sequel to the first movie and another horror anthology made on a tiny indie budget. This one looks a bit slicker than some and was obviously made as a homage to the classic cinema of the 1980s. There are some decent physical props and imagery, but the cliched plotting lets this down and it's fair to say that not a single story stands out.

Anthology films are few and far between recently. This project uses the structure as a way of showcasing nine often very short vignettes independently created by a different team and shown as a collection of unsavoury tales collected on a videotape. The tape falls into the hands, or rather is left at the door, of a young woman (Andrea Monia). The purpose of the videotape forms the enveloping story-line. I won't go into details about the instalments, because their originality is very satisfying and it would be a shame to spoil that. Sometimes, instead of any detailed story, they are simply moments, like in a dream, of surreal occurrences which are nevertheless detailed and grounded enough to satisfy on their own merits. There are moments that had me turning away due to the graphic special effects, but this is far from drenched in gore. Rather, each weird tale builds up an ambience that is deliberately uneven and unpredictable. This is a sequel to the original 'All Hallows' Eve' (2013), which was directed and produced by a different team. According to some reviews, the original was superior to this. This excites me, because I haven't seen it, and for the most part, I found this refreshingly original and generally well made.

I first saw the most recent film in this series, "Terrifier", and liked that. I saw the first "All Hallows' Eve" and found it decent, but not as good as "Terrifier". I thought that this film was far inferior to both. It felt almost like the material that wasn't good enough to put in the first one. There are eight short films (some very short) that make up the film all together. The wrap-around sequence is similar to that from the first film in that a young woman all alone is left a VHS tape, but there is no babysitting this time. So little of the film is dedicated to the wrap-around that it is hardly worth including. The ending is absolutely pathetic, especially after the first film had such a shocking ending. Of the eight films, the best ones are "Descent" and "Alexia". These two justified the three stars. "Mr. Tricker's Treat" seemed to be doing well, but it ended so soon that it didn't feel very satisfying. I felt bored during "The Offering". "M is for Masochist" was so short that it was pointless to include. One last point is that there is a lot less gore in this film than in either the first "All Hallows' Eve" or in "Terrifier". It still has an 18 certificate here in Britain, but I can imagine that some people might have found the other two too gorey to stomach. I can stomach a lot of gore, but I thought that I'd mention it for those who are not so keen.

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 stupid. 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 cajones 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.

A PG-13 Rated Sequel to the Original!!! Save yourself some time & Just Watch The Terrifier

Ok. So griffin Gluck is in this movie and he has to be about 8 years old. At the time he should've been 15 and it came out just a year before why him. So why is he so small. So when was it filmed who knows guys I'm confused.

Whatever happened to the art of the horror anthology? In the good old days, they would consist of a handful of terrifying tales topped off with a suitably ghoulish resolution; nowadays, anthologies seem to comprise of numerous brief creepy vignettes with no story arc, no character development, and no satisfactory conclusion. All Hallow's Eve 2: The Reaping is a prime example, not one of its many chapters making the slightest bit of sense. In the opening part of the wraparound story, a young woman finds a VHS cassette outside her apartment and pops it into her player (as if anyone has a video machine these days); on the tape are several spooky tales... In the first, a babysitter carves a pumpkin in record time for the boy she is looking after. She cooks the seeds in the oven for a snack, but when eaten, pumpkins rapidly grow inside their bodies. This one is fairly gory, but logic plays no part, and the result is confusion. In the second, a group of young trick or treaters menace the residents of what appears to be a post-apocalyptic town. It's a real head-scratcher, as the kids turn into horrific versions of their costumes (a ghost, a demon, a witch, and the grim reaper), with no adequate explanation for what is happening. The third story sees two men making an offering to an unseen creature, but forgetting the vital ingredient. This tale left me totally non-plussed. Next up is the story of a woman who witnesses the murder of her friend, and, six months later, finds herself trapped in a lift with the killer. This episode had potential, but blows it with another weak finish. Part five is hardly worth mentioning: a carnival sideshow allows people to take their aggression out on masochists. It's so short and inconclusive it barely qualifies as a story. Tale number six sees a young boy (who wears huge glasses) afraid of a monster that he swears prowls his bedroom at night. His mother does her best to convince the lad that his room is free of nasty creatures, but in the film's extremely predictable ending, she realises how wrong she is. The penultimate story sees a man decorate his lawn on Halloween, using real corpses as props. Had this been a decent anthology story, the bodies would have come back from the dead to turn the killer into one of his own decorations. The actual ending just leaves the viewer hanging. The last story is entirely in Spanish. I didn't have a clue what was going on. The film closes with the girl watching the video being killed by a creepy figure in a pumpkin mask who emerges from the TV. 2/10. A huge disappointment, especially considering that I really like Art the clown and I was hoping that All Hallow's Eve 2 would give me the fix I needed until Terrifier 2. But he's not there! Not even a brief glimpse.