If you love a good horror anthology flick - and who doesn’t? - look elsewhere...please.
4 Halloween opens with a ten minute sequence of a masked psycho, wearing nothing but a slaughterhouse apron, cutting away a dead man’s nose, lips and eyes. Then with no transition whatsoever, he stabs a young woman in her bathroom about 50 times. The gore is all shot in voyeuristic close-up, which I suppose is fine if that’s your sort of thing.
But that’s the entire plot of this dialogue-free segment, which is indicative of the rest of them, prompting one to wonder if the film had an actual written screenplay. While the ‘stories’ sort of intersect, none of them are all that coherent and mostly appear to exist for the sake of a gross-out scene…save for the last story, which so blatantly rips-off of Killer Klowns from Outer Space that the Chiodo Brothers should consider suing.
In addition to being nearly nonsensical, 4 Halloween is amateurish and cheap looking, with godawful performances and, aside from some of the gore, visual effects that look like something cooked up by a public access TV station…from the 90s. Not only is this garbage a complete waste of time, it’s a waste of the disc it’s burned on. Dust off your old copy of Creepshow instead.
EXTRA KIBBLES
ALTERNATE SCENES, BEHIND-THE-SCENES & BLOOPERS - All rolled up into one featurette. more entertaining than the movie.
TRAILERS - For this and other Darkside releases.
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