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'Tales of Halloween' is a 2015 American comedy horror anthology film consisting of ten interlocking segments, each revolving around the titular holiday. Segments were directed by Neil Marshall, Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Lucky McKee, Andrew Kasch, Paul Solet, John Skipp, Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson, Mike Mendez, Ryan Schifrin, Dave Parker and, in his film debut, Jack Dylan Grazer.
The film premiered on July 24, 2015, at the Fantasia International Film Festival, before receiving a limited theatrical release and through video on demand on October 16, 2015, by Epic Pictures.
Synopsis
The ten stories take place in a suburban American town whose denizens are terrorized by ghouls, aliens, and killers one Halloween night as a DJ (Adrienne Barbeau) adds her commentary to a few of them.
Sweet Tooth
:'Written and directed by Dave Parker'.Mikey (Daniel DiMaggio) has just finished trick-or-treating, having come home with a bag full of candy. His parents (Greg Grunberg and Clare Kramer, reprising their characters from 'Big Ass Spider!') have left him in the care of his babysitter Lizzy (Madison Iseman), who has invited her boyfriend Kyle over to watch 'Night of the Living Dead'. As Mikey begins to enjoy the candy he's collected, Lizzy and Kyle advise him to leave some candy for "Sweet Tooth". Not knowing who Sweet Tooth is, the teens offer to share the urban legend of the mysterious figure: 15 years ago, a boy around Mikey's age named Timothy Blake was always allowed to trick-or-treat on Halloween, but was never allowed to eat his candy by his parents, who claimed it would make him fat and lazy. On one particular Halloween, Timothy snuck downstairs after his bedtime to discover his parents making love while eating his confiscated candy. Flying into a rage, Timothy killed his parents with a meat cleaver and then ate his first piece of candy, which instantly had him hooked. After eating every piece that was left, Timothy, still craving more sweets, cut his parents' bodies open and ate the candy already in their stomachs. Every Halloween since, his murderous spirit, dubbed "Sweet Tooth", roams the neighborhood looking for candy. The story concludes with a warning to children that they have to leave some candy behind to share with Sweet Tooth, or he will rip open their stomachs for the candy already eaten. Rattled by the story, Mikey decides to go to sleep early. Despite Lizzy telling him Sweet Tooth is only a story, Mikey still leaves a candy bar by his door as a precaution. Lizzy and Kyle decide to make out and eat Mikey's candy, but upon eating all of it, are attacked by Sweet Tooth himself, which Mikey overhears. Sweet Tooth approaches Mikey's bedroom, but spares him after taking the candy bar he left by the door. Later, Mikey's parents come home to find Lizzy and Kyle's grotesque, mutilated corpses. They also find Mikey standing nearby, claiming that the duo ate all his Halloween candy. It is revealed in "Bad Seed" that Mikey is believed to have murdered Lizzy and Kyle himself and was arrested for it.
The Night Billy Raised Hell
:'Written by Clint Sears, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.'Billy Thompson (Marcus Eckert), dressed as a devil and accompanied by his older sister Britney (Natalis Castillo) and her boyfriend Todd (Ben Stillwell), attempts to trick-or-treat in the early afternoon. The two teenagers trick Billy into playing a prank that, according to them, has been going on for years. They prepare an egg for Billy to throw at the house of Mr. Abbadon (Barry Bostwick), an infamously stingy resident of the neighborhood who has never given out any candy over the years. Before Billy can throw the egg, he is caught red-handed by Mr. Abbadon, who takes the egg and throws it at Todd, hitting him as he and Britney flee. Billy is ushered into Mr. Abbadon's house, which is decorated with occult paraphernalia, and where Mr. Abbadon is revealed to be the Devil himself. Sick and tired of children pranking him and vandalizing his house year after year, Abbadon tells the terrified Billy that he is going to teach him what a real Halloween prank is. To this end, Mr. Abbadon and Billy go around the neighborhood and play various twisted "pranks" on the townsfolk, ranging from spray-painting walls to stabbing a dentist who gives Billy a toothbrush instead of candy, then later tricking the same dentist into stepping onto a bear trap. The duo even hijack Adrianne Curry's car along the way, using it to run down trick-or-treaters and rob a convenience store. After all the murderous mischief, Mr. Abbadon returns to his house and greets Billy, who is revealed to have actually been tied up the entire time. The person wearing Billy's devil costume is a diminutive demon known as Mordecai. Satisfied with the night's events, Mr. Abbadon decides to let Billy go. Right as Billy steps outside, he is surrounded by police officers waiting to arrest him for the reign of terror Mordecai caused disguised as him. A terrified Billy puts his hands in the air and pees his pants, the disgusted police officers mocking Billy for it just before they shoot him dead.
Trick
:'Written by Greg Commons, directed by Adam Gierasch.'On a seemingly peaceful Halloween night, close friends Nelson (Trent Haaga), Maria (Tiffany Shepis), James (John F. Beach) and Caitlyn (Casey Ruggieri) are lounging in Nelson's living room, smoking pot, giving out candy, and watching 'Night of the Living Dead'. As Nelson goes to greet a female trick-or-treater dressed as a witch, the girl suddenly stabs him multiple times in the abdomen, gravely injuring him. As the remaining friends panic, Maria goes to her car to drive Nelson to the hospital, only to be grievously attacked by four more kids in costumes. Maria attempts to flee, but she quickly succumbs to her injuries and drops dead in Nelson's pool, just as Nelson succumbs to his injuries as well. James tries to find help, only to have his face burned by yet another trick-or-treater, who kills him by stuffing his mouth with rat poison. Caitlyn, the only remaining adult, flees to the backyard and hides in the pool house. Looking through pictures on her phone, it is revealed that Caitlyn, Nelson, Maria, and James are actually a group of psychopaths who have been kidnapping the neighborhood's children and torturing them for their twisted amusement. The vigilante children find the pool house, which turns out to be the place the quartet tortured their victims and houses an assortment of blood-stained surgical tools. The kids free the group's most recent victim: a girl whose eye has already been gouged by the adults, then proceed to corner Caitlyn. The freed girl darkly wishes Caitlyn a happy Halloween before planting an axe into her head.
The Weak and the Wicked
:'Written by Molly Millions, directed by Paul Solet.'Alice (Grace Phipps), a sociopathic, pyromaniac delinquent, accompanied by her lackeys Isaac (Booboo Stewart) and Bart (Noah Segan), corner and apprehend a trick-or-treater lost in an alleyway. Before Alice can extinguish her cigar on the kid's bare foot, she and her goons are interrupted by a teenager dressed as some sort of creature (Keir Gilchrist). The teenager hands Alice a drawing of the creature, referred to as "The Demon of All Hallows Eve". The stranger warns Alice that the Demon is known to "spill the blood of the wicked where the wicked have harmed the weak". Alice drops the drawing as the teenager makes a run for it, ordering Isaac and Bart to join her in pursuing him. The trio chase the teenager to the other side of the neighborhood, where the latter stops by a burnt-down trailer car. In a flashback to when Alice, Bart, and Isaac were children, it is revealed that Alice intentionally set the trailer (which the teenager used live in) on fire with his parents inside it, burning them alive in front of him. When the bullies show up, they recognize the teen as Jimmy Henson, who tearfully tells Alice that his parents never did anything to her. After her lackeys beat him up, Alice douses Jimmy in high-proof vodka and prepares to light him on fire. Suddenly, Bart and Isaac are pulled into the shadows by an unseen force. When Alice turns around, she finds the real Demon of All Hallow's Eve standing behind her, looking exactly like Jimmy's costume (a flashback reveals that the drawing Alice dropped also contained instructions on how to summon it). The Demon proceeds to slaughter Alice as her blood violently splashes on Jimmy's face, who smiles in satisfaction.
Grim Grinning Ghost
:'Written and directed by Axelle Carolyn.'Lynn (Alex Essoe) attends her mother's (Lin Shaye) Halloween party, eagerly listening to ghost stories. Lynn listens as her mother recalls the story of Mary Bailey, a girl who was mocked all her life for having a physically deformed appearance and died unloved. Every Halloween since, Mary's ghost allegedly rises from her grave to laugh at people behind their backs, and take the eyes of anyone who turns around to look at her. On her way home, Lynn's old car breaks down in the middle of the street. In attempting to fix the engine herself, Lynn absent-mindedly slams the car's hood on her phone, leaving her unable to call for help. Forced to finish her trip home on foot, Lynn soon hears sinister laughter in the distance. It is gradually revealed that a shadowy figure, possibly Mary Bailey's ghost, has started following her. Terrified, but also remembering her mother's story, Lynn makes a run for it to evade the spirit, and forces herself not to turn around to see who might possibly be following her. Fortunately for Lynn, she manages to reach the safety of her house. When she finally turns around and sees nothing, Lynn believes that the specter was all in her imagination. As Lynn brushes her teeth, she hears her bathroom door creak open, only to find that her dog is the culprit. She then settles onto her couch to watch a movie, just as her dog suddenly gets nervous and leaves the room. Not minding her dog's behavior, Lynn smiles and leans back into the couch in satisfaction, only to find Mary Bailey's ghost sitting beside her, a wicked smile on her face. A report of "hysterical blindness" mentioned in "Bad Seed" implies that Mary was successful in taking away Lynn's eyes.
Ding Dong
:'Written and directed by Lucky McKee.'One year ago, Bobbie (Pollyanna McIntosh) watches as children trick-or-treat on Halloween night. Bobbie is distraught by the fact she has no children of her own, which prompts her husband Jack (Marc Senter) to try and cheer her up by dressing up their dog as Gretel. Suddenly angered at the gesture, Bobbie transforms into her true form: a red-skinned demonic witch with multiple arms, who proceeds to claw at Jack's face with her razor-sharp fingers. In the present day, an enthusiastic Bobbie and a submissive Jack, dressed as Hansel and the witch from 'Hansel and Gretel' respectively, perform a routine to captivate and/or terrify trick-or-treaters who come to the door. Although everything appears normal, with Bobbie repeatedly performing the skit for the children (including children from the other stories of the film), a sense of uneasiness between the couple is established every time children arrive on their front porch. When a young boy also dressed as Hansel visits the couple's house by himself, Bobbie prepares to lead him inside. After trying and failing to talk Bobbie out of her plans, Jack alerts the boy's mother, who has been looking for him, just as she comes to retrieve him. Jack informs a tearful Bobbie that she can't let her obsession with children rule her life. He also reveals that he secretly underwent a vasectomy to prevent pregnancy, believing that his wife is far too abusive and unstable to properly care for a child. Upon hearing this, Bobbie snaps and transforms back into her witch form. She grabs Jack and throws him into the house's oven, which resembles a cavernous inferno. As her husband burns alive, Bobbie ends up melting and dying herself.
This Means War
:'Written and directed by Andrew Kasch and John Skipp.'Boris (Dana Gould) proudly decorates his house for Halloween, setting up a large display reminiscent of a graveyard, complete with a talking animatronic skeleton. As children gather to observe his decorations and collect candy, they are scared away from Boris' house by blaring rock music. The music is revealed to come from the house of Boris' new neighbor Dante (James Duval), a rock enthusiast who has set up a far more gruesome and gore-oriented display of decorations around his own house. Boris walks over to Dante's yard to ask him to lower the volume and get his scantily-clad girlfriend to put on some more clothes. In response, Dante and his colleagues just tell him to "chill" and tell him that his decorations look "cute". Taking the rocker's words as criticism and mockery, an angered Boris retaliates by wrecking Dante's sound system, putting a halt to the music. As an act of revenge, Dante uses a baseball bat to knock the head off of Boris' talking skeleton. As Dante prepares to throw a huge bucket of fake blood onto the rest of Boris' Halloween decorations, Boris runs up to stop him, causing the latter to splash the blood on him instead. Spectators (including characters from the other stories in the film) begin to crowd as the two neighbors engage in a violent fistfight, placing bets and egging the neighbors on as the police arrive. Eventually, Boris shoves Dante towards a sharp piece of standing wood left over from a wrecked standee. In the end, both Boris and Dante are impaled on the piece of wood, killing both of them instantly and horrifying the crowd. The police officers called to the scene double over and vomit before slowly approaching the duo's bodies.
Friday the 31st
:'Written by Mike Mendez and Dave Parker, directed by Mike Mendez.'Deep in the nearby woods, a deformed serial killer (Nick Principe) who resembles Jason Voorhees hunts down a teenage girl dressed as Dorothy (Amanda Moyer). The girl runs to a nearby barn, where she discovers several of the killer's dismembered victims, among them her friend Casey. The killer tracks her down to the barn, and when she manages to escape his grasp and flee, he kills her by throwing a spear through her chest. As the killer celebrates his most recent victim and moves in to collect the body, a UFO suddenly appears in the sky overhead. The ship beams down a tiny alien wearing a costume and holding a bag, repeatedly saying "trick-or-treat" to the nervous killer. Unable to persuade the alien that he has no candy to give and getting annoyed by his repetition, the killer stomps on the alien, seemingly crushing him. As the killer walks back to his barn, the alien's remains slither into the girl's mouth, possessing her body. The reanimated girl proceeds to levitate to the killer, chasing him into his barn. From there, the possessed girl and the killer proceed to attack each other with a meat cleaver and a chainsaw, each losing an arm in the resulting duel. The killer briefly emerges victorious when he severs the girl's head, but her body manages to decapitate him just before it collapses. The alien, back in his original form, crawls out of the girl's mouth and teleports back onto the UFO, taking the killer's head with him as his "treat".
The Ransom of Rusty Rex
:'Written and directed by Ryan Schifrin.'Lounging in their van, bank robbers Hank (Sam Witwer) and Dutch (Jose Pablo Cantillo) watch as millionaire Jebediah Rex (John Landis) lets his son Rusty (Ben Woolf) go out to trick-or-treat. The two then hatch an idea, planning to kidnap the millionaire's son and hold him for ransom. After capturing Rusty and bringing him to their warehouse hideout, the kidnappers tie him into a chair and call his father. However, Jebediah seems not to express any fear about the fact that his son has been kidnapped, tells the kidnappers that they have made a terrible mistake, and promptly hangs up on them. Hank calls Jebediah again in an attempt to discuss the ransom, but Jebediah coldly tells them that he doesn't want Rusty back. Exasperated, the kidnappers eventually find out that Rusty is actually a malicious and mischievous imp who clings to people near him. The criminals engage in a vicious fight with Rusty, who has very quickly managed to escape his bonds. Eventually, the criminals capture Rusty and prepare to throw him into a nearby swamp. Dutch is briefly fooled when Rusty begins emitting the cries of a child, only for the imp to spew bile at his face when he checks up on him, whereupon the pair throw him into the water. After returning to their lair, Hank and Dutch discover that Rusty has followed them back. As Rusty attacks Dutch, Hank calls Jebediah once more, who informs them that Rusty is not actually his son. He came to Jebediah's doorstep five years ago disguised as a trick-or-treater, and has been holding him and his wife hostage ever since. After thanking the kidnappers for freeing him from the imp, Jebediah gives them a warning to feed Rusty, otherwise "he 'will' eat". Hank and Dutch once again tie up Rusty, this time delivering him to Jebediah's doorstep and setting him on fire. Sometime later, as Hank comes back from buying snacks from a convenience store (the same one featured earlier), he finds Rusty in the backseat, feasting on Dutch's severed head, causing him to scream.
Bad Seed
:'Written and directed by Neil Marshall.'Ray (Greg McLean) is seen carving a large collection of pumpkins in his kitchen as his wife Ellen (Cerina Vincent) checks up on him, the latter appreciating her husband's work. When Ellen leaves the room to change into her cat costume, she returns to the kitchen to find that the latest pumpkin her husband carved has suddenly come to life. After savagely attacking Ray and biting his head off, the pumpkin sprouts spider-like roots for legs and scurries out the back door. Detective McNally (Kristina Klebe) is called in to investigate the scene of the crime (as the majority of the police department are busy dealing with the emergencies from earlier in the film). At first, she refuses to believe Ray's killer was a pumpkin, but is proven wrong after forensic analyst Bob (Pat Healy) confirms that such was the case by presenting a 3D model of its jaws. Meanwhile, the pumpkin proceeds to disguise itself among the numerous jack o' lanterns on a nearby porch. It fills its mouth with chocolate coins as a means to tempt trick-or-treaters into sticking their hands inside. The pumpkin manages to pull off this trick on an unfortunate child named Kevin, the monstrous gourd devouring him whole as his horrified mother watches. At the police station, McNally is ordered to meet her superior Captain J.G. Zimmerman (John Savage), to discuss the situation. Zimmerman tells McNally that the town goes crazy every Halloween (showcasing reports that describe incidents from the earlier stories in the film), and after deciding that the killer pumpkin is the last straw, Zimmerman assigns McNally to track it down before it can do anymore damage. While driving her squad car down the street, McNally finally discovers the pumpkin as it terrorizes the neighborhood and sending several residents and trick-or-treaters running in terror. McNally manages to track the pumpkin down to a backyard, where it disguises itself among several other pumpkins. When it discovers McNally, the pumpkin attempts to close in for the kill. When McNally's gun runs out of bullets, Bob comes to her rescue and tosses McNally a shotgun, allowing her to destroy it. McNally then finds a sticker on a broken piece of the pumpkin, revealing that it was produced by a company known as Clover Corp, which advertised it as a "100% organic super-pumpkin." McNally and Bob then visit the Clover Corp. headquarters and meet professor Milo Gottlieb (Joe Dante), informing him that they have a search warrant. Gottlieb takes them to the company's warehouse, where they discover thousands upon thousands of genetically-modified pumpkins; all of them waiting to be sold and waiting to spring to life at a moment's notice.
Cast
Wraparound
* Adrienne Barbeau as D.J.
'Sweet Tooth':
* Hunter Smith as "Sweet Tooth"
* Cameron Easton as Timothy Blake
* Caroline Williams as Mrs. Blake
* Robert Rusler as Mr. Blake
* Clare Kramer as Lieutenant Brandt-Mathis
* Greg Grunberg as Alex Mathis
* Austin Falk as Kyle
* Madison Iseman as Lizzy
* Daniel DiMaggio as Mikey
'The Night Billy Raised Hell':
* Barry Bostwick as Mr. Abbadon
* Marcus Eckert as Billy
* Christophe Zajac-Denek as Mordecai / Little Devil
* Ben Stillwell as Todd
* Natalis Castillo as Britney
* Adam Pascal as The Dentist
* Adrianne Curry as Herself
* Rafael Jordan as Alien
'Trick':
* John F. Beach as James
* Tiffany Shepis as Maria
* Casey Ruggieri as Catilyn
* Trent Haaga as Nelson
* Marnie McKendry as Princess
* Rebekah McKendry as Mother
* Mia Page as Girl / Witch
* Clayton Keller as Alien
* Sage Stewart as Devil Girl
'The Weak and the Wicked':
* Keir Gilchrist as Jimmy Henson
* Grace Phipps as Alice
* Booboo Stewart as Isaac
* Noah Segan as Bart
* Jack Dylan Grazer as Younger Jimmy Henson
* Katie Silverman as Younger Alice
* Matt Merchant as Demon
'Grin Grimming Ghosts':
* Alex Essoe as Lynn / Victorian Woman
* Lin Shaye as Lynn's Mother / Pirate
* Liesel Hanson as Mary Bailey
* Barbara Crampton as Witch
* Lisa Marie as Victorian Widow
* Mick Garris as Erik, The Phantom of The Opera
* Stuart Gordon as Sherlock Holmes
* Anubis as Baby
'Ding Dong':
* Marc Senter as Jack
* Pollyanna McIntosh as Bobbie
* Lily Von Woodenshoe as Gretel
* Vanessa Menendez as Lone Child's Mother
* Lucas Armandaris as Lone Child
* Daniel DiMaggio as Mikey
* Mia Page as Girl / Witch
* Sage Stewart as Devil Girl
* Ben Woolf as Rex "Rusty Rex"
* Aidan Gail as Child Fireman
* Mo Meinhart as Witch
* Gavin Keathley as Child Jake Gyllenhaal
* Felissa Rose as Parent
'This Means War':
* Dana Gould as Boris
* James Duval as Dante
* Elissa Dowling as Velma
* Graham Denman as "Ziggy"
* Thomas Blake Jr. as Axl
* Sean Clark as Tytan
* Buz Wallick as Danzy
* Joshua Lou Friedman as Butch
* Jennifer Wenger as Vicki
* Michael Monterastelli as Goober
* Graham Skipper as Officer Hellman
* Adam Green as Officer Carlo
* Lombardo Boyar as Gambling Neighbor
* Cody Goodfellow as Drunken Neighbor
* Frank Blocker as Judge Moustache
* Andy Merrill as Neighbor
* Frank Dietz as Neighbor
* Noel Jason Scott as Nosferatu
* Shaked Berenson as Detective / Masked Wrestler
'Friday the 31st':
* Amanda Moyer as Dorothy
* Jennifer Wenger as Possessed Dorothy
* Nick Principe as The Killer
'The Ransom of Rusty Rex':
* John Landis as Jebediah Rex
* Ben Woolf as Rex "Rusty Rex"
* Jose Pablo Cantillo as "Dutch"
* Sam Witwer as Hank
'Bad Seed':
* Kristina Klebe as Detective McNally
* Pat Healy as Bob "Forensic Bob"
* Greg McLean as Ray Bishop
* Cerina Vincent as Ellen Bishop
* John Savage as Captain J.G. Zimmerman
* Dana Renee Ashmore as Coroner #1
* Dylan Struzan as Coroner #2
* Drew Struzan as "Rembrandt"
* Nicole Laino as Cheryl
* Aidan Gail as Kevin
* Graham Skipper as Officer Hellman
* Adam Green as Officer Carlo
* Monette Moio as Cheerleader Girl
* Noah Nevins as Cheerleader's Boyfriend
* Joe Dante as Professor Milo Gottleib
* Alexandra Fritz as Pirate
Production
'Tales of Halloween' was conceived by filmmaker Axelle Carolyn, who garnered a slew of directors to make a Halloween-centric film taking place in the "same town on the same night". Carolyn was at a birthday party when she pitched the film to Adam Gierasch and Andrew Kasch. Kasch would then bring along his collaborator John Skipp to work with him on 'This Means War'. Mike Mendez, director of 'The Convent', signed onto the film a month later and helped secure a deal with Epic Pictures Group. Joe Begos was brought onto the project and wrote a script, but would drop out to direct 'The Mind's Eye'. Begos was replaced by Lucky McKee, who was flown out to Los Angeles to direct his segment. Mendez's short, 'Friday the 31st', was actually the opening to a film he co-wrote with Dave Parker 18 years prior, called 'Dead Stuff'. Darren Lynn Bousman used a script from his colleague Clint Sears and reassembled his crew from 'The Devil's Carnival'. Gierasch, writer of films 'Mortuary' and 'Crocodile', first pitched a romantic short which would be rejected by Carolyn. For Ryan Schifrin's short, 'The Ransom of Rusty Rex', actor John Landis had assisted Schifrin after editing was completed by giving notes. Bousman and Neil Marshall shot their segments in the matter of two days.
Release
The film had its premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal on July 24, 2015. It was also selected as the opening-night film at Wizard World Chicago as well as London FrightFest Film Festival, where it closed the annual event on August 31, 2015, tying with its European premiere. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on October 16, 2015.
Reception
Reception for 'Tales of Halloween' has been positive, with Rotten Tomatoes certifying it "fresh" with a 77% rating. The site's consensus reads, "'Tales Of Halloween' boasts a number of fun scares and is overall more consistent than many horror anthology films, even if it isn't quite as dark or nasty as the classics of the genre."
Michael Gingold, writing for 'Fangoria', called it "Well-produced on its modest budget" and gave it three and a half out of four skulls. Kalyn Corrigan of 'Bloody Disgusting' called it "a fun, exuberant addition to the subgenre of horror anthology films." Katie Rife of 'The A.V. Club' gave it a "B" saying the film "might make it a new annual tradition in horror-loving households." Rob Hunter of 'Film School Rejects' wrote "'Tales of Halloween' is good fun, but its difficult not to wish that more of the stories had aimed for darker, more terrifying and affecting goals. Still, the EC Comics attitude finds a new home with Carolyn and her crew, and with any luck the film will spawn a new Halloween tradition of fun, gory, spooky anthology films highlighted by short, messy bursts of genre talent."
Dennis Harvey of 'Variety' gave the film a mixed review, calling the segments "polished enough but utterly routine" and saying "Even the best of these, however, are held back by brevity from developing silly ideas into anything truly memorable."
References
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