#hack-o-lantern (1988)

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Martin (1977)

Haven’t posted a proper piece to this account in quite a bit, my apologies (mostly because I don’t 100% make bigger pieces as often as I used to two years ago). I hope you enjoy this reaction of the poster for this movie!

I also felt like including his reference sheet considering it’s one of the more complex ones that I am very happy about!

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To make up for the lack of posts I’ve been making over on my tumblr, I thought it would be cool to showcase my recent horror designs to you all. I’m currently at 660+ designs after 2 years, hopefully I’ll hit 1000 by the end of this year!

1) Neal Mottram - Craze (1974)

2) Queen Tera - Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

3) Mapa Fanny Ted - American Gothic (1988)

4) Gene The Cannibal - Cannibal Campout (1988)

5) Norman Perkins - Deadly Dreams (1988)

6) Amanda “The Cult Devil” Drindle - Hack-O-Lantern (1988)

7) Robert Dominici - Phantom Of Death (1988)

8) Dippo Bippo Cheezo - Clownhouse (1989)

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SUMMARY: A young man under the influence of his evil grandfather can only achieve manhood through a Halloween-night murder.

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Hack-O-Lantern (1988)

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Hack-O-Lantern 1988

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day 8

Hack-O-Lantern (1988)

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HACK-O-LANTERN Reviews and free on Tubi

‘They’re looking for new blood’ Hack-O-Lantern is a 1987 American horror film directed by Indian-born Jag Mundhra (Open House; Night Eyes) from a screenplay by Carla Robinson. The movie as also been released as Halloween Night, Death Mask and The Damning. The Spencer Films production stars Hy Pyke (Vamp; Lemora; Nightmare in Blood; Slithis), Gregory Scott Cummins, Katina Gamer (Cannibal…

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some favorite films with less than 10k logs on letterboxd. took this idea from a random prompt stolen from twitter

IN ORDER FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: the comedy of terrors (1963), my little eye (2002), dead mans curve (1998), blood fest (2018), the return (2006), shakma (1990), the mad magician (1954), the devil bat (1940), the pit (1981), hack-o-lantern (1988), madhouse (1981), scalpel (1977), dark angel: the ascent (1994), nina forever (2015), demonic toys (1992), the forsaken (2001), hypochondriac (2022), priest (1994), big eden (2000), rock & rule (1983)

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Hack-O-Lantern (1988) // dir. Jag Mundhra

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Shout out to the woman who showed up to the Halloween party as a bowl of salad in Hack-O-Lantern (1988)

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Halloween Movie Challenge

Every day in October, except the days I don't, I am watching a randomly chosen Halloween-themed horror movie for the first time. Or for the first twenty-four days of October bc my list runs out then.

The first two weeks...are below

TRICK OR TREAT

1986 / directed by Charles Martin Smith / written by Joel Soisson, Michael S. Murphey and Rhet Topham (and Glen Morgan & James Wong, uncredited)

A heavy metal-themed Nightmare on Elm Street clone (the villain even does the "hands reaching through the wall" thing, but with a speaker), with cameos by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, the latter playing a Satanic Panic-spewing TV preacher. This one has a strange legacy on the whole: future X-Files scribe (and uncredited co-writer) Glen Morgan is featured in his only acting role, and the director went on to make Air Bud...and then define his career around animal movies. Fair enough! This one's pretty fun, with a long first act of high school bullying highlighted with a energetic chase sequence, though not especially Halloween-y, given its name (though the version I watched was titled Ragman?)

🎃🎃🎃.5/5

TALES OF HALLOWEEN

2015 / directed by [a lot of people] / written by [a lot of people]

The top Letterboxd review calls this "Trick 'R Treat if it was designed by a committee at a horror convention" and that just about sums it up. It has the requisite horror cameos - a litany of 80s final girls are joined by Joe Dante and John Landis, and John Landis is convincing in the role of a terrible person whose son is a monster for some reason. This one has way too many segments, and they're unsurprisingly same-y. Two stories have a twist where a child-sized killer turns out to be a demon, two of them feature gangs of evil kids, and none of them are very fun, though they feature so many of the winking in-jokes filmmakers mistake for fun. This is the type of movie where a candy will have the word "Carpenter" on it, written in the Halloween titles font, because hey. Remember John Carpenter? Remember? Remember John Carpenter? The oddest part is that this movie's format is very close to 2015's better A Christmas Horror Story, but they're totally unrelated?

🎃🎃/5

HELL HOUSE LLC

2015 / written & directed by Stephen Cognetti

Found footage movie that makes decent use of its rundown-Halloween-haunt setting & has some good scares with evil clown dolls, but is pretty routine, and does that mediocre found footage thing where it can't let any of the background scares breathe without a crash zoom and a scare chord.

🎃🎃🎃/5

MAY

2002 / written & directed by Lucky McKee

To call May a slasher movie doesn't really represent it. As a portrait of a loner among urban alienation, it's of a kind with Taxi Driver and the first act of Beau is Afraid, with unbearably real performances by Angela Bettis and Jeremy Sisto. May is psychological and restrained, striving for a queasy discomfort before it escalates into full-on bloodshed. This is the least Halloween-y film so far, but the final act is on Halloween night, and culminates in a shot that's haunting and lyrical in equal measure.

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

HACK-O-LANTERN

1988 / directed by Jag Mundhra / written by Dave Eisenstark & Carla Robinson

Direct-to-video horror classic featuring a deeply apathetic son of the Devil and a musical number featuring deaths-by-magic-guitar. Alternatively tediously padded and gloriously deranged, but then again, that's direct-to-video horror babyyyyyyy. Jag Mundhra had a career directing direct-to-video sleaze in the US, but made prestige movies in India?

🎃🎃🎃/5

DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW

1981 / directed by Frank De Felitta / story by J.D. Feigelson & Butler Handcock, teleplay by Feigelson

A TV movie, but you'd only know it from its 4:3 ratio & commercial break fades-to-black. Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a creepy gem, well-directed by de Felitta - a novelist with a sideline directing TV movies - with an eye towards the details of small town life. The lack of gore is made up with by stark, elemental horror imagery, and the horrors of humanity: a mob murders a developmentally disabled man for a crime he didn't commit, and gets off the hook for it - gets cheered, in fact, by the townsfolk. But soon a mysterious scarecrow is appearing in the fields, and the killers start to die...not a killer scarecrow movie, but something subtler, chillier, the horror of barns and grain silos and farmer's fields.

🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

HAUNT

2019 / written & directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

Extreme haunted houses are stupid.

While some use it as a mere William Castle-ian conceit, others take it seriously. Who could've guessed that if you replace themed scares and actors with people who will literally, actually hurt you, you'd still be scared? Only the Einsteins who act flabbergasted when the actors they hired with the pitch "you can hurt people and they signed something that said they can't sue you" turn out to disregard safe words. In Haunt, an extreme haunted house is a front for a murder-cult, which is more respectable than it being some guy doing the Evermore Park of frights. Haunt is a very pedestrian slasher, but a sincere one, and a modern one (the victims check the creepy house's Yelp reviews), which I'll take over a winking 80s homage any day.

🎃🎃🎃/5

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

1985 / directed by Jack Bender / written by Bill Bleich

Delightful little made-for-TV number, heavily inspired by Thriller. In 1985, this was trashed for its cliches, but now it's the cliches that make it so endearing. This one has its own musical number, a starring turn for LeVar Burton, some quality zombie effects and a lighthearted air, and excellent Halloween-y vibes to it, of course, courtesy of future Lost director Jack Bender. It also has a weirdly overqualified soundtrack; I really didn't expect to hear The Smiths repeatedly in a made-for-TV Halloween movie, but here we are.

🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

NIGHT OF THE DEMONS

1988 / directed by Kevin S. Tenney / written by Joe Augustyn

Night of the Demons has a gnarly final act, but spends way too much time getting there, and too much of that time is spent with interchangeable assholes bumbling about.

🎃🎃.5/5

THE CHILD

1977 / directed by Robert Voskanian / written by Ralph Lucas

A classical Weird 70s Horror Movie, which means a relatively simple plot told in the most inscrutable way possible, a lot of stark tight close-ups and quick cuts, and a preoccupation with psychics. The last act is a bit of a conventional zombie runaround, but everything before that is chilly 70s gold. By far the least Halloween-y film here, but there's an amazing moment with a Jack-O-Lantern.

🎃🎃🎃.5/5

SCARY MOVIE

1991 / directed by Daniel Erickson / written by Daniel Erickson, David Lane Smith, and Mark Voges

No, not that one; this one is a regional horror flick from Texas, from 1991, and starring John Hawkes as a gormless nerd touring a haunted house - the type so anxious to avoid a snake pit he ends up falling into a snake pit, which, relatable. The wonderful aesthetics of a local haunted house dominate this film, directed with sly attention to detail by Erickson, which follows Hawkes' character as an escaped madman lurks in the haunted house. Or does he? A surreal psychological story more than a slasher, it takes a while to get somewhere, but that a while is full of local atmosphere (similar to Tobe Hooper's classic The Funhouse).

🎃🎃🎃🎃/5

Anyway

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HACK-O-LANTERN (1988)

"Tremendously skeevy slasher anchored by one of the more off-putting performances I've seen in a while. The evil Satanist grandpa was played by some weird ageless actor doing a Harvey Fierstein voice and looking like Divine out of drag. Literally everything he does made me uncomfortable - including casual incesty molesty behavior and unnecessary eye makeup. Like this would be a horror movie even if this guy was just working on his car in his front yard. Yet another slasher that casually features a porn actress, who may have relished the opportunity to JUST take her clothes off and not have sess on camera. The director seems to have either made Bollywood films OR erotic night films for his whole career. Real chocolate and cheese situation. I'll revisit his work in March." -Tommy Gazelle

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1988 Horror Movie 'Hack-o-Lantern' Coming to 4K This Halloween

1988 Horror Movie 'Hack-o-Lantern' Coming to Blu-ray This Halloween

The 1988 horror movie Hack-o-Lantern is coming to 4K Ultra HD for the first time this Halloween, from Massacre Video. In the film, when Tommy was a boy, he witnessed his grandpa (Hy Pyke), the leader of a vicious satanic cult, murder his father in a brutal ritual on Halloween night. Now Tommy (Gregory Scott Cummins) is 18, and grandpa is ready to indoctrinate him into the ways of the black arts.…

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Hack-O-Lantern (1988) // Dir. Jag Mundhra