{"id":39758,"date":"2023-10-31T03:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T07:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39758"},"modified":"2023-09-06T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:08:10","slug":"10-31-part-iii-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/10-31-part-iii-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/31: Part III (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director and writer Michael Ballif\u2019s anthology series \u201c10\/31<\/a>\u201d has been a mixed bag of mostly treats that\u2019s done well in celebrating the Halloween season. It\u2019s been way too overlooked in a barrage of indie horror films out on the market, and that\u2019s a shame. \u201c10\/31\u201d as a whole is a movie series that deserves a bigger audience, in spite of \u201cPart III\u201d never quite sticking the landing. I\u2019d say it has a lot of good ideas, but never manages to be as good as the first two films, when all is said and done.<\/p>\n

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The best of the four horror tales is \u201cHouse of the Mummy\u201d by Michael Ballif who pulls off his own version of \u201cThe Crate\u201d from \u201cCreepshow<\/a>.\u201d Centered on an owner of an old mansion who is getting off of a bad divorce, he decides to raise money by staging a haunted house. When he comes across an old mummy at a party shop, things take a turn for the terrifying. This segment definitely has its influences in \u201cThe Crate\u201d and the mummy is just a darn good horror villain.<\/p>\n

The weakest of the foursome is \u201cThe Locksmith\u201d a segment with literally no narrative. It has one line of exposition about a disfigured man left behind by his family in an old house, and he spends the majority of the segment just killing people and nothing else. It\u2019s a shame since the Jacob Perrett is a strong visual director. \u201cOld Man Gross\u201d from Brad Twigg is rough around the edges, but has a neat concept of about four trick or treaters that break in to the house of an old man known for weird goings on in his house. The effects are gnarly, and the humor is twisted, even if the acting leaves much to be desired.<\/p>\n

Finally, the short but sweet \u201cHack-in-the-Box\u201d by Zane Herschberger involves a group of girls trying to slay a monster that resides in a box. Things obviously don\u2019t go as they planned. The segment is only about five minutes, but it sports a neat monster and a spooky final scene. \u201c10\/31: Part III\u201d is by no means as good as the previous two films, but its heart is definitely in the right place, as its festive spirit.<\/p>\n

Plus I never tire of seeing Malvolia: The Queen of Screams.<\/p>\n

You can grab a copy of this or the previous \u201c10\/31\u201d movies at Scream Team Releasing.com in their \u201c10\/31\u201d merch store.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director and writer Michael Ballif\u2019s anthology series \u201c10\/31\u201d has been a mixed bag of mostly treats that\u2019s done well in celebrating the Halloween season. It\u2019s been way too overlooked in a barrage of indie horror films out on the market, and that\u2019s a shame. \u201c10\/31\u201d as a whole is a movie series that deserves a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[103,441,477,501,2794,703,922,950,1087],"class_list":["post-39758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mummies","tag-mystery","tag-sequel","tag-slasher","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758","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=39758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39760,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758\/revisions\/39760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}