Halloween Night

Plot synopsis:
The film follows Chris Vale (Scot Nery), who was admitted into an insane asylum at the age of 12 after witnessing how his mother was raped and killed by two thugs hired by his father(who subsequently committed suicide) and nearly killed by them with a headshot. Now a 22-year-old gross disfigured young man he escapes from the asylum at Halloween after killing two orderlies who mock him wearing masks that are the same as the thugs were wearing.
His old home is now inhabited by the family of David Bexter(Derek Osedach) who hosts a party there with his girlfriend Shannon(Rebekah Kochan), friends and schoolmates. Vale manages to kill Todd(Nicholas Daly Clark) at a gas station, hiding in his costume and stealing his car in which he drives to the party.
At the party Vale is taken for Todd by everyone and starts his killing spree unnoticed. Meanwhile, David fakes a dispute with a friend who kidnaps Vale(who still is taken for Todd) with a gun and another friend disguised as police officer who is forced to hand over the keys of his car. After escaping with the car the kidnapper is murdered my Vale who goes back with it. Because someone at the party has called the real police the angry officer ends the party telling everyone to go home, leaving only David, the now disappointed Shannon and some friends there.
Vale enters the house again, killing several of the remaining people and tying Shannon because she wears the collar of his mother that David found in the house earlier. He breaks up a hole in the wall that was covered with boards where the corpse of his mother was hidden by his father before committing suicide.
As one girl escapes from the house in panic David begins to search for Shannon, finding her captured in the basement. After freeing her Vale knocks out David from behind but Shannon manages to grab a gun that Vale has lost shooting him twice, presuming the killer for dead.
As the police and ambulance arrives later David seems to have disappeared with the police searching for him. Suddenly a hooded person appears behind a police officer who is talking to Shannon. Shannon grabs the officers gun shooting and killing the hooded person, after removing the hood she is shocked to see that she killed David.
In the final scene Vale is seen hitch-hiking and picked up by a car-driver who presumes him to having a long Halloween party night. The film ends while the car leaves.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
For a low-budget DTV, it certainly isn't terrible...I have seen much worse.The BAD: A weak script, and sub-par acting are this films main faults.
That is probably because NOBODY was good in this movie, even Rebekah Kochon who gave a good performance in "When A Killer Calls." None of the actors seem to be really into the film, which is problematic.
The films looks like it was filmed all in one day, and yes, the killer resembles a zombie much more than he does a burn victim!
There wasn't a big chase scene and really no suspense as to who was gonna live/die.The GOOD: Some pretty decent death scenes are about all this has going for it, and they aren't even THAT great.
But mainly, this entertains because of the old "it's so bad it's good" cliché, and sometimes, like on Halloween eve, that's all I really need out of horror flick--entertainment, no matter what its source.
Still die-hard and picky slasher fans should probably just stick to watching the original "Halloween" for the 30th time.My Grade: D-.
Its so laughable, I guess he was trying to improvise and ad lib, but he kept stumbling, and sounded so ridiclous, one of the worst acting jobs ever, honestly he gives the guy from El Chupacabra, Eric Alegria, a run for his money for the worst performance ever given in one of the worst movies ever made.
That is the halmark of a true b-horror movie - characters so annoying you root for the killer.However, the greatest thing about this movie is the hot girl-on-girl action!
The guy who plays "David" in this movie is one of the worse actors I have ever seen.
Even the killer, Chris Vale, did a better acting job than this David character and he didn't even have any dialog in the movie.
I have noticed that the guy who plays David has directed a few B-movies.
Halloween Night is about the psychotic adventures of a child who grows up in a mental institution after witnessing his mother's death and also getting severely burned and disfigured.
'The Asylum' flat out HATES horror movie fans.
Christopher Vale witnesses his mother brutally raped and killed before being hideously burned and being sent to a mental asylum.
This 'Asylum' outfit has produced 50 some movies, you'd think one of this would be actually watchable, right???
Oh no, the blame can be spread liberally from the director who has yet to make a decent film on down to the atrocious acting and further down to the sloppy editing and mediocre special effects.
So,There are tributes to Psycho,Halloween and Friday the 13thThe Badguy very much resembles JASON© as original boyish self from the lake.I really liked this film from theasylum,It has a look and flavor that will make rentals happen.The make-up is good and use of blades more than guns look fresher.Derek Osedach(see interview) does a different acting style,That we wonder if rest could keep up with.Rebekah Kochan reminded me of REGINA CARROL (Al Adamson's wife who co-starred in most of his films),That Scream Queen who is too well liked to get killed.Scot Nery does a wonderful job as monster,Was hoping it was Eric Spudic inside,Size was right.Erica Roby STEALS the film as The Strong Lesbian,She did a great fight scene with Scot Nery and Saved wardrobe, So Much money .The downside would be all the red herring points and cops that didn't ring true, in character.So,What have we learned This is a Theasylum flick of a different color,Based On David Michael Latt memories..
Not being a big fan of b movies I almost passed it by(and now wished I did) after reading it's plot summary and thought how similar it sounded to the plot of Halloween.
That being the case most movies should use the caption of based on true events for example sitting down or talking with friends or renting a bad (and I use this term loosely for this "film") horror film to make a film.
Maybe Asylum should go into making lesbian porn flicks which seems to be what they are dare I say good at..
Well, I gotta say that this was the best Asylum movie I've seen so far.
The killing scenes were pretty decent, although the blood seemed fake in a couple of cases.
I think Asylum should stick to making horror films (I believe it's what they first started off doing), which seems to be what they're better at..
A killer returns to town to do some killings on Halloween night.
Not that bad at all for an Asylum flick.Gore 1/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5.
For The Asylum Halloween Night is not too bad, they have certainly done much worse.
Even with that taken into account, Halloween Night is still not a good movie.
There are some things that are done reasonably, some of the daylight scenes are shot nicely, the music is a good mix of jaunty and eerie, Scot Nery does bravely as the one character that we come close to rooting for and there are some gory and imaginative slasher death scenes(honourable mention must go to the hanger death which is just hilarious).
There have been worse-looking movies from The Asylum, but the special effects are poorly rendered, the editing is sloppy for much of the movie and some scenes especially the first 10-15 minutes are really amateurishly shot.
The acting is pretty dire from almost everybody, Nery is the best of the lot but then we have Rebekah Kochan overacts her rather shallow character and Derek Osedach mumbles his way through his lines and not much else.
The story is even more of a problem, that it's mind-numbingly ridiculous, painfully predictable and deathly dull is one thing but we also have a complete lack of tension, thrills sense of horror/terror(mainly because of the characters' interactions and expressions being so blank) and suspense, situations and interactions are really contrived and implausible, and there is a heavy reliance on drawn-out done-to-death clichés that are marred even further by being played far too straight.
4/10 Bethany Cox. A film that sharing a similar title to John Carpenter's Halloween and almost clear cut story can scare you yet..
The film takes a small kid who had watched his family be killed right in front of him and is later framed for doing so.
Then years later we see Chris Vane (the kid) grown up in an insane asylum, and for some reason burnt up to a crisp looking like Sam Raimi's Darkman, he soon escapes and heads back to his home to kid a series of kids who are trying to throw a party.
The film on its own is okay, it takes a story that has been done a thousand times (I have been guilty of doing so myself) and just puts in a new killer.
And I could never understand why directors think that the key to a great horror/scary movie is to show as much blood and gore as possible.
Tho I must say the blonde who played Shannon is a pretty good actress...she was great in the Eating Out movies.
What do Slasher films need to be good?
Well no, slasher films don't need it, but the best ones usually have at least one good actor to prove good acting still exists.
Plot twist, well slasher films don't need those, this one has one, but that can't be counted in its favor.
Yes this film is short but you sure won't know it unless you constantly look at your watch, which you will be doing especially if your DVD player is too far away to read those little numbers.
No almost no music here and it's all lousy.To wrap things up if you've seen Asylum movies in the past you probably have a lot of pent up rage at them.
If you watched them all you've seen that about one in 5 is pretty good.
I guess the final element is good direction that you need in a slasher film and this film definitely doesn't have that.
That is too often the approach to movies from THE ASYLUM and it hampers the hell out of a possibly decent by the numbers script by Fangoria's Michael Gingold.
From Michael Gingold, the editor of Fangoria...You would think that Gingold, after viewing thousands of horror films, would know how to make a good movie.
Halloween rip-off from The Asylum, surprisingly not as bad as much of their output....
Halloween Night starts as a young boy named Chris Vale (Sam Stone) witnesses his mum (Jan Anderson) get raped & then murdered before being horribly burnt by a jet of steam from a pipe.
Jump forward 'Ten Years Later' on 'Halloween Night' where Chris (Scot Nery) is now locked up inside a mental asylum with a face that looks like a McDonald's hamburger, he escapes & kills teenager Todd (Nicholas Day Clark) & his girlfriend who were on their way to a Halloween party organised by their friend David (Derek Osedach).
It just so happens that David is organising this Halloween party in the house where Chris used to live & he heads there dressed in Todd's Halloween costume & everyone mistakes Chris for Todd which lets him move about freely killing everyone he meets for no apparent reason...Directed by Mark Atkins I settled down to watch Halloween Night yesterday & I feared the worst, being made by those folk at The Asylum who specialise in ripping-off big budget well known Hollywood blockbusters (affectionately known as Mockbusters) with the vast majority of their product being amongst the worst films you could ever have the misfortune to see but rather surprisingly I though Halloween Night was a fairly reasonably watch & not a too bad little Halloween (1978, 2007) rip-off that does what it sets out to do.
The script by Michael Gringold will feel very familiar who has watched any sort of 70's or 80's teen slasher, although the title is obviously taken from Halloween there are elements of Friday the 13th (1980) with the killers mask resembling Jason's more than Michael's & the basic idea of a horribly burnt maniac killer is taken from The Buring (1981).
To give it some credit at least there's a steady stream of dead bodies & killings, there's a nice amount of sex & nudity including a bit of lesbianism & a deliriously awful double barrelled twist ending that doesn't make any sense.
Then in the final twist David is accidentally killed by his girlfriend after he is mistaken for the killer & placed in a body bag!
It's just a totally insane ending that makes zero sense & that sums up films from The Asylum quite well in that when they go for simple blood, guts & nudity their films are OK in a crappy sort of way but when they try to write twist endings or good scripts & plots then they fall completely on their face & look stupid.As usual for an The Asylum film Halloween Night looks like it was shot on a camcorder although the special effects are better than their usual output.
Out goes the horrible CGI & wisely the makers went with proper on set prosthetic make-up effects, there's various stabbings & impalement's, some effective burn make-up, a slit throat & a ripped out throat, some guts, a rotten corpse, a fair amount of blood splatter & Halloween Night is maybe the only slasher to feature death by clothes hanger!
There's nothing scary here but if all your looking for is some cheap gore effects & naked chicks then I suppose it delivers.This isn't as badly made as many films from The Asylum but that's not saying much as there really isn't anything to it & when a bit of film-making is required when the twist endings come along it all falls apart & becomes hilariously bad & inept.
The acting isn't anything special & I am sure the actors used were cast for their looks rather than their acting ability.Halloween Night is a Halloween rip-off with a bit of Friday the 13th in their as well & a modern Scream (1996) style twist ending which is just plain stupid.
When a friend of mine recently asked me to look round for some fun looking horror films,i,spotted a pretty good looking DVD cover to this film.Though now i have seen the film,i feel that it does not live up to what i was hoping to see from the cover.This is partly due to some of the worst shot slasher/killing scenes that i have seen in a while.The plot:A guy who has been held in a maximum-security prison for ten years,kills two guards and,decides to go back to his old house.Where as a kid,he saw his mum get brutally raped and murdered.But,unknowingly to him,in the ten years that he has been in jail for,the house has been turned into a place for students to have Halloween parties!.For this years party,one of the students is planning to scare everyone at the party,by having him and a few of his friends pretend that there is an insane killer on the loose in the area.When the real killer returns to his old house,the prank starts to go very,very wrong...View on the film:The first thing i have to highlight is the guy that played the troll,who blocks the entrance for the party goers,that injects some really good comedy moments into the film,with a fun performance.To my pleasant surprise,i actually enjoyed seeing the section of the film where the prank is played out.With the gun standoff being pretty entertaining.Sadly,the rest of the film seems to try every thing it can to crush any good horror moments out of the film,by having all the murder scenes,including the two creative ones (one involving a clothes hanger,and another with a seat belt.)being cut in a very badly done way,with the all the killings looking like they were filmed on a budget of 20p.The main thing that i was shocked about with the film,was how badly the story lines had been written,with parts of the plot making no sense at all (such as the "killer" being held in prison,even though everyone knows that he did not kill his mum,and there being no sense at all in the flashbacks of him killing anyone at all!!)Final view on the film:A film with some very badly made slasher scenes,and a poorly written plot..
It's too bad that the makers of "Halloween Night" didn't submit the cover art to their DVD to IMDb. It's awesome: an evil looking jack-o-lantern has a hand gripping a butcher knife coming out of the top of it.
It is far and away the best thing about the movie.But now, if you will, consider the rest of the DVD box.
He is horribly burned in the attack, but ten years later he escapes from an asylum and returns to his home, where a huge Halloween party is going on, steals a costume from a victim, and infiltrates the party.
Because the party involves a huge prank, no one realizes he's actually a killer, even as he goes around murdering partygoers.So...based on a true story, huh?
Apparently one of the producers used to throw Halloween parties involving pranks, and once someone escaped from an asylum while one of his parties was going on.
But the escapee never came it to the party and no one was actually killed, making the 'based on a true story' claim even more meaningless than usual.
It's kind of like me making a movie where I marry Sarah Michelle Gellar and say it's based on a true story because we were both alive at the same time.
Sub-moronic.The cover art also says, "In 1982, Christopher Vail was sent away after his family was brutally murdered...10 years later, on Halloween night, he returned".
Based on the actual events on Halloween night, 1982, an inmate of a maximum security medical facility escapes after brutally murdering two guards.
If the events occurred in 1982 or 1992, that's still years after such films as "Halloween" or "Friday The 13th" used similar story lines, so I doubt it inspired them.
It was filmed pretty well and had a couple of decent effects shots.
But there is zero suspense, the acting is simply atrocious (I'm talking sub-porn level here, which makes sense because I'm guessing most of the actresses came straight from that industry), and the film's tone veers between boring and improbable (my favorite scene has one the lesbians, while naked, kicking the killer's ass).
Asylum Home Entertainment is quickly becoming to go-to company for really bad, cheap rip-offs of better movies, and "Halloween Night" shows why..
Chris Vale (now a man, escaped from an insane asylum) overpowers him, kills him, puts on a leather mask, then goes to the car.
The killer hacks her up.Chris Vale gets to the party alone with a backseat full of steel weapons.What could possibly go wrong?Quite a lot.
The film is high on slasher deaths, splatter, screams, and psychotic behavior.-----Scores-----Cinematography: 8/10 Excellent for daylight exteriors.
A bit jerky on some of the darker interiors.Sound: 6/10 Did not expect the lag of lips versus voice, which makes it look like a bad Eastern European production made by/for the SyFy network.Acting: 4/10 Lots of non-actors in this one.Screenplay: 4/10 The dialog is terrible.
Christopher doesn't kill a girl because she reminds him of his mom, his mask looks similar to Jason's, 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.
Boo.In spite of my best attempted enthusiasm, I just couldn't muster the excitement in watching what I can safely consider one of the worst slasher movies ever made.