{"id":3375,"date":"2006-11-26T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2006-11-26T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T23:00:03","slug":"halloween-night-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/26\/halloween-night-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Night (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Asylum\u2019s \u201cHalloween Night\u201d is a film cashing in on a popular horror flick in the same vein, and they won\u2019t admit it. Heaven forbid we should notice the similarities. Pumpkin inter-spliced with knife in hand, and the words \u201cHalloween\u201d and \u201cNight\u201d plastered on the cover. As much as I revel in bashing Asylum for their blatant horrible rip-offs, they\u2019ve become just like every other film company. They chose to unofficially remake big budget films and they\u2019re no better in the fact that they basically remake \u201cHalloween\u201d before Rob Zombie, and say, in a press release, that this film is better than both \u201cHalloween\u201d and \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d combined. For shame. Now, let\u2019s get to the meat of the situation, I\u2019m roasting the big pig known as \u201cHalloween Night.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a blatant rip-off of \u201cHalloween,\u201d that\u2019s obvious, but what\u2019s inside is a stock slasher flick that\u2019s terrible on its own merits. After watching two men in masks that look suspiciously like Michael Myers attack and kill his mom, Christopher Vale is burned severely from a steam pipe in his living room (?!), after they shoot it with him in front of it. Why anyone puts a large steam pipe in their living room, is beyond me, but it manages to burn his skin off leaving him to resemble a poor man\u2019s haunted house actor with an obvious mask that is supposed to be the charred remains of the boy we see at the opening.<\/p>\n

Going insane, and left alive (which is weird considering the men kill his mother without a thought) he breaks out from his asylum (hardy har har) and goes on a killing spree at a Halloween party (obvious choice, eh?). Immediately the desperation from the director and writer to keep the audiences attention is shown, as they feature a lesbian sex scene not ten minutes in for no reason whatsoever. But with Asylum this is basically par for the course. Even in a \u201cserious\u201d film like \u201c9\/11 Commission Report,\u201d they featured an obligatory sex scene.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s only one problem with \u201cHalloween Night.\u201d Invariably, you\u2019ll be left with a plethora of questions that will never really be answered. Why is Christopher on a killing spree? Why did he escape and where was he going? Why would he kill if he saw his mom brutally murdered? \u201cDuh\u2026 he\u2019s insane.\u201d Nah, I don\u2019t buy it. When Christopher kills Todd and takes his car, how does he know to get to his house for the party without directions? Why does the plot progression or lack thereof cease to explain Christopher\u2019s story to add a sense of sloppy exposition? How do you kill someone standing at the doorway of a wild party without anyone noticing?<\/p>\n

Regardless, even for a D Grade movie, \u201cHalloween Night\u201d just doesn\u2019t work because the villain has no mystique. He\u2019s not creepy, he comes off like a pussy, and his costume is awful. Not to mention Gingold rips elements from previous slashers. Christopher doesn\u2019t kill a girl because she reminds him of his mom, his mask looks similar to Jason\u2019s, and the whole mental patient angle is very derivative of a certain film that drops on the same holiday. Gingold pads the film with plodding characterization, terrible dialogue, especially from the lead actor who performs the worst ad-libbing I’ve ever seen anywhere, and characters that I could give two shits about.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as hard to list the endless flaws as it was to sit through this, but in the end \u201cHalloween Night\u201d is the result of monkeys on a typewriter who finished off \u201cHalloween\u201d hours before. Boo. As a \u201cHalloween\u201d wannabe, it\u2019s horrible, but as a slasher film on its own merits it\u2019s horrible, and in spite of my best attempted enthusiasm, I just couldn\u2019t muster the excitement in watching what I can safely consider one of the worst slasher movies ever made. Only from Asylum could that be accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asylum\u2019s \u201cHalloween Night\u201d is a film cashing in on a popular horror flick in the same vein, and they won\u2019t admit it. Heaven forbid we should notice the similarities. Pumpkin inter-spliced with knife in hand, and the words \u201cHalloween\u201d and \u201cNight\u201d plastered on the cover. As much as I revel in bashing Asylum for their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[438,441,477,703,950,1013,1087],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-h","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-slasher","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}