The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It
Tags: horror, gothic, prank

Plot synopsis:
written by KrystelClaireA young boy, Max (Alex Winzenread), feels terrified: he can't sleep in his room because everything scares him, from the twigs tapping on the window to the door of his walk-in wardrobe. He constantly calls for his mum and dad, and consequently, they can't sleep at all. Finally, Dad/Jack Keller (John Hawkinson), promises him to buy his longed-for videogame if he sleeps quietly on his own. The young boy promises to try, but then, the door to his closet opens up again. He leaves bed to close it up, but then, a green hand appears. The boy screams and his parents come once again. This time, we can see it was his sister Cassie Keller (Emily Osment)The film now focuses on Cassie. She is a fifteen-year-old teenager Goth full of angst. She dresses as if it were Halloween all year around, and her mother Eileen (Michelle Duffy) can't convince her of wearing even one of the pretty clothes she has bought for her teenaged daughter. Back at her new high school the following morning, she tries to talk with the boy she likes, attractive but dumb Sean (Cody Linley). Priscilla Wright (Brittany Elizabeth Curran) is the most popular girl in school, and she expects to be crowned Pumpkin Queen in the approaching high school ballroom. Priscilla humilliates Cassie by throwing food over her in the school canteen, as she wants to mark her territory with Sean. He will go to the ball with Priscilla because she has offered to do a class assignment for him.In frustration, Cassie wants to buy a new Halloween outfit, although Mum tells her she is too old to go trick-or-trading. Cassie finds a new costume shop at the end of a corridor. The weird shop assistant, (Tobin Bell), tells her that he only opens in Halloween. Cassie buys the only book on store, entitled The Evil Thing. The first page clearly states DO NOT READ ALOUD. Cassie becomes more aggresive, and she spoils Priscilla's moment when, after having been crowned as Pumpkin Queen, she tears open a piñata and worms fall on her.Cassie has to baby-sit Max while their parents are away. He insists on being read a horror story, something which Cassie doesn't want to do at first because she knows that Max will have nightmares later on. Max insists and he turns her computer off, making her lose the horror Hollywood story she has been writing for some time. Cassie is angry. A noise is heard outside: she goes to look what happens, and a witch doll falls on her. She screams, and suddenly, Priscilla and Sean appear from the shadows: she has told him to record Cassie's terrified screams, and the next day, all high school will see the video and laugh about Cassie. Angry, Cassie reads The Evil Thing aloud and then tells Max to wash his teeth and go to sleep.A huge monster appears. theoretically, it only appears if you believe on it. It has two heads, with one it sucks blood and with the other one it tears flesh out to eat it. It also picks people and puts them into coccoons until its children are born and eat the humans.The monster captures Max, the pizza guy and Priscilla. It's Cassie and Sean's turn to do something. Cassie remembers the shop assistant, but he doesn't want to help her. He explains that his shop appears at Halloween for one day and disappears the rest of the year. He says that he opens the shop close to the home of the child who wants to scary everybody the most, and this year, Cassie has won over the other "contestant", a ten-year-old who loves Halloween as well. He tells her to use two heads instead of one. Sean finds a solution: make one head of the monster eat the other one.Cassie and Sean go to the gutter where the monster is nesting. The eggs are about to hatch. They find Max easily, and they free him, but the monster appears. It's Max who has to throw blood all over the monster. When Cassie encourages him, Max can eventually carry out the plan. The monster attacks itself and the babies are easy to kill.Priscilla, freaking out because she is covered in slimy goo, gets angered at Sean, but seems to be cleverer that what everybody thought, but not quite. The pizza guy invites Cassie, Sean and Max for pizza, but Priscilla wants to walk home on her own in the night.Back and safe at home, Cassie burns the book in the chimney. Her parents come back, and they find Cassie and Max hugging each other, so they are contented. Jack sees something in the chimney - it's the book The Evil Thing. He reads it aloud, and the monster wakes up once again.

Review: The cartoon network is not my normal source for Sunday night movies but when I saw the previews for this new movie based on the R.L. Stein book it reminded me of my days of reading Goosebumps and decided to give it a try.
I must say that I was pleasantly surprised as it was a fun movie with its share of spooky moments that children will love around Halloween time.
The acting by the kids is well done, and Emily Osment (of Hannah Montanna) is great in the lead role.
I recommend this to all parents wanting to watch a spooky movie with their kids.
The version of the movie I saw was a special version in which Emily Osment did commentary along with the movie so that was pretty interesting too..I am not sure if this is on the DVD version but if it is it's an added bonus..
Horror-obsessed Cassie Keller (Emily Osment) likes to scare his afraid little brother.
Cassie buys a book "The Evil Thing" at a mysterious Halloween store from a mystery man (Tobin Bell).
Priscilla wins Pumpkin Queen at the Halloween dance and Cassie plays a prank on her.
Cassie reads the book to her little brother despite the warning "Do Not Read Aloud" bringing forth something evil.R.L. Stine is a widely liked kiddie horror series.
Totally entertaining Halloween movie.
Okay, I had never seen Emily Osment, either (although I knew she was Haley Joel's sister, for which I should be awarded some points, I think), but I thought she was excellent, as was all the cast.Guess what: when Halloween came around this year, I found myself looking for this movie again!
It is entertaining for kids, older kids and adults, and I recommend it highly for just about any age group (the icky monster stuff may be too much for really small kids), and as a family watch-it-together movie.
The thing that made me bring this movie down a few stars then i would have is the little brother, he is such an annoying pest and is scared of the silliest things.
Emily Osment looked completely different in this movie compared to her character in Hannah Montana, it was pretty cool to see her dressed as a goth.
The parts were played well and the kids did a good job bringing the characters to life.
All in all, remove the commentary, and this is a very good Halloween movie!.
Over the years, they've made lots of Halloween movies, usually kids movies and you can find them on TV like on ABC Family during Halloween.
You can also find some random Halloween movies you haven't heard of like at RedBox during Halloween.
Most of the Halloween movies are kids movies, and a lot of them seem more cheesy than they are scary.
It seems like a more entertaining film to watch on a big screen than Hocus Pocus which is like the most watched Halloween movie and which made the movie theaters.So, I watched this movie today after my work shift got cancelled because of the bad weather.
This movie seemed to entertain me more today than when I watched it on my computer.
I even thought of the movie as a little scary, and there was a scene that made me move back on my chair and gasp.
I like this movie as it's an entertaining Halloween movie.
We have Cassie who is played by Emily Osment and instead of being the blonde we recognize her for she is a goth.
We also have her little brother Max who wants to be close to his older sister, but she gets annoyed at him and he is scared of everything.
We have Sean who is the cool guy in the school and Priscilla who is a popular school girl, but enemies with Cassie.
This movie makes you feel a little at home and can even get you in the Halloween spirit early.
It's also cool how this movie was filmed in my home state, Pennsylvania in Cranberry Township where my sister used to live by Pittsburgh.
Or, I would even consider this number 1 of what he made and possibly the best Halloween movie.
But, the real thing that helped me from this movie in a positive way.
Lots of movies will try to leave you with good messages that can be helpful in life and characters that can be role models or characters we can relate to.
This movie will show messages like caring for family, and bravery, but here is how the movie helped me for a more personal example.
So, this R.L. Stine movie had a character who helped me out in real life where I figured if I needed help I should ask for it, and I don't have to think less of myself because of it or have to hide it anymore.
After trying to scare her brother with a tale of a monstrous creature, a teen finds that the titular creature has been released into the world and must try to stop it before it consumes more people from their town.This one ended being a pretty interesting teeny-bopper horror film that's quite fun.
Though a majority of these scenes serve as the building of their relationship and home-life that gives their relationship a nice touch with all their teasing and tormenting, and the school troubles thrown in there's a great balance here of acceptable teen melodrama with the flirtings of a decent horror story.
However, once the switch-over occurs, it's a lot more enjoyable here, starting with a creepy legend at the center of the film told within the book that's all quite fun overall.
Great family Halloween movie....
This movie is so very suited for Halloween, especially if you are a kid, teenager or if you got a family with kids.
The movie is just the right amount of scary and thrilling to be great for family entertainment for the most spooky of Halloween eves.From the creator of Goosebumps, R.
L. Stine, comes the thrilling tale of 13-year old Cassie who is stuck with her younger brother Max on Halloween.
Being fed up with her brother and his mishaps, Cassie decides to tell him a scary story from a book that she acquired from a very odd Halloween store.
Being spooked out of his mind, Max's imagination runs rampart, but the Evil Thing is not only a thing of his imagination.The acting in "The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It" was really great, and the actors/actresses really brought the story to life on the screen.
Emily Osment (playing Cassie) really carried the movie.
So for me, she was doing a great job in this particular family movie."The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It" tells a really good story that will keep the entire family entertained from start till end.The creature in the movie was great as well.
Of course, it wasn't super CGI effects like in those blockbuster Hollywood movies, but still, the creature looked nice and was nicely made.
If you got 1 hour and 23 minutes to spare on Halloween, then "The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It" is well worth watching, be it alone or with your family..
Emily Osment was able to pull the far stretched character of Cassie, the goth girl very well.
The fact it is a horror/comedy meant for the family seemed odd to my opinion, but The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It is now my favorite movie, granted I am a HUGE Emily Osment fan.
Although, I must admit the yellow monster goop towards the end of the movie was kind of weird looking.
Whether it was Sean (Cody Linley) acting goofy with a shocker pen or Cassie (Emily Osment) saying her amusing lines.
For instance, at the end Sean (Cody Linley) says to Cassie (Emily Osment) to "Stay weird." I personally loved the movie and hope you all do to.
But one thing that did annoy me was the movie's script at certain points.
For example, a bit before the end of the movie Sean (Cody Linley) says "Oh dang, gotta jet." I must admit, the line made me giggle but seriously, who speaks like that?
Haha, anyway this is a great movie and worth watching on TV/buying the DVD.
I'm not usually one to watch Cartoon Network, but I decided to make an exception for this movie.Young actress Emily Osment stars in this flick alongside Cody Linley and Alex Winzenread.
The acting is very, very good in this movie..
I liked that things didn't always work out for the characters the first time they tried it, like in most movies.The worst thing about this movie was the effects.
Of course, after I saw it, I actually enjoyed it.Emily Osment's character Cassie, is a welcome change from the normal female protagonist: a goth!
As much as I liked this movie though, there was something that bothered me, and this has probably been mentioned before: the ending.
It starts the whole thing over.The good news is that it was really well-scripted and just plain funny and fun to watch.Other than that one minor hitch, this movie is excellent.9/10.
Haunting Hour: The perfect halloween movie!.
i watched this when it first came out with my sisters, i wasn't a fan of goosebumps, and since it was Emily osment i was expecting a girly Halloween movie.
Emily is supposed to be a goth, and i could sense she did have some hidden issues, thats how good her portrayal was, the other characters are funny, except for her little brother who kind of annoyed me with his cowardice, but towards the end when he faces his fears, i was very pleased with him.
And now, for the best part of the movie, Emily is walking down a street and looks into an ally and sees a secluded Halloween store, the minute she walks in, i was in awe, they put a lot of work into it, and then she meets the shopkeeper, who is very creepy but mysterious, and hes played by none other than jigsaw from the Saw franchise!
of course i didn't know this when i was a kid, but later when i found out it was the same guy i realized he had the same demeanor, in fact it felt like it was jigsaw, his motives were very similar as well!
this thing gave me nightmares for weeks, its aesthetics were so good, and for a children's movie it looked super real, also i felt the dread when Emily was told never to read the evil book out loud, just like from the evil dead!
this a great Halloween movie, that is funny and scary, but not grotesque in any way, it was perfect when i was a kid, and it made me like horrors films after that.
And every year me and my siblings still like to watch this movie to get us all in the mood, watch this movie, and remember don't think about it....
I know I'm 3 days late, but this was a really good children's Halloween movie.
Emily Osment was very hot as the Gothic chick, Cassie.
Cassie's younger brother, Max is annoying and is afraid of everything.
Cassie is new in school, and made fun of for looking and acting different than the preps, except for Sean, who likes her for being weird.
After an embarrassing episode in the school's cafeteria, she runs into The Stranger, who sells her a book called The Evil Thing.
On Halloween night, the Evil Thing comes alive and attacks anyone who gets in its way.
It's up to Cassie, and Sean to save everyone and stop the Evil Thing.
First of all, the movie was pretty good, but there are two drawbacks: 1 They overdid the whole "halloween" tone of the movie 2 This is what really bothered me: has anyone seen "Godzilla 2000 Millennium?
still, I enjoyed the movie, I liked it better than the Goosebumps series, no offense intended, Everyone's entitled to their opinion..
Emily Osment steps outside of her goody goody personae as a goth girl who has had to move with her family to another town.
She then gets tasked with watching her brother on Halloween and when he accidentally turns off her computer she reads him a special book.
This book brings forth "The Evil Thing".
Now her brother is a super wuss and I did not like his character at all.
It is okay to be afraid of things but not like this kid is in this movie.
Of course the Evil Thing shows up and kidnaps the brother, a pizza delivery guy, and the queen of the dance.
To make a long story shorter Emily and the boyfriend use the blood from a roast to get the Evil Thing to eat itself.
It was a lot better than I imagined.It is perfect for children and I think kids will get a kick out of this movie.
I had a great time watching this film.The acting in the movie was pretty good.
At first, it was a little difficult to see Emily Osment as a goth, but I feel she pulled it off very well.
It was a stretch for her and I think it's great she's expanding her roles.Overall, great family movie!.
Cassie is a thirteen year old goth girl attending her new school where a preppy and rich snot named Priscilla goes out of her way to make Cassie's first days a misery.
Meanwhile at home, Cassie has to try and convince her parents to accept her Gothic lifestyle, and also enjoys scaring the head off her little brother, Max.One day while going to the local library, clad in the stereotypical goth black cloak and carrying an armload of horror novels, Cassie comes across a secluded Halloween store and her curiosity gets the better of her.
She meets a creepy old salesman who sells her a book called 'The Evil Thing', and she also gets her revenge on Priscilla at the school dance by filling Priscilla's pinata full of cockroaches.
Everybody begins calling Priscilla the Cockroach Queen, so Priscilla dares Cassie's crush, Sean, to read her diary.While babysitting Max on Halloween night, Max accidentally deletes Cassie's homework (kids, write by hand, you'll save more time), and to scare him she reads him 'The Evil Thing'.
Sean apologizes for Priscilla's jerky behavior but it isn't long before the Evil Thing monster comes to life...
can Cassie and Sean rescue Max, Priscilla and the local pizza dude from becoming food for a monster's newborn babies?
For kids this certainly isn't a bad movie.
It's a horror movie but no one dies aside from the monster, there is very little, if any, gore and it isn't very scary.
Cassie, Sean and Priscilla all look to be high schoolers, not to mention the school itself has a high school appearance.
The scenes at the school are like something out of a Lifetime anti-bullying film, and Cassie is too stereotypical, as if all goths do is act depressed, hate their parents, throw on a pair of headphones to listen to alternative rock, borrow horror novels and constantly think of death and creepy things.
And if you think I don't know what I'm talking about, I only graduated high school a year ago so I definitely know what real kids act like, it most certainly isn't this.
Priscilla's snob personality was way too overdone, as was Cassie's goth personality, to the point where both characters seemed incredibly fake.That being said, The Haunting Hour isn't a bad kids' film, although I liked R.
L. Stine's two-part TV movie Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House (1997) much better.
If this movie was ever remade, I think they should tone down the Wednesday Addams act from the role of Cassie.
Either way, check it out, it's not too bad and for kids who like horror but you're afraid Stephen King or George Romero might be too much for them to handle, this is a great compromise..
the story's all about this goth girl (Cassie) who loves reading horror.
she finds this out of the blue shop, where she bought herself a book called 'the evil thing' from a white haired weirdo.
It turns out that this books so called 'evil thing' turns alive if you read it aloud.
So soon, this evil monster grabs Cassie's brother Max, a pizza boy and the 'Pumpkin queen' Priscilla and locks them up in a spider web cocoon.
Great Halloween Movie for People Who Don't Like Horror.
Emily Osment did an amazing job playing Cassie.
And I think the ending could've been a little better, but I saw that the title said "Vol. I" or something..so maybe a sequel?
Even though it was really fake looking, I have to say parts of the movie I did get creeped out.
All in all, it was a great Halloween movie.
A fun thing to watch with your family or something..
It is so bad that by the end of it I can guarantee you will have completely lost all faith in a decent horror movie.
The cast: The main characters are an extremely annoying family of four made up of: two parents who add literally nothing to the story and who seem not to care for their children whatsoever and leave them alone for basically all of the film; their daughter, a Goth who has less acting talent then Johnny Rotten on crack cocaine and who always plays tricks on her brother; who in turn is an excruciating boy with the most irritating accent I have ever heard who constantly screams for his mother.
Then the Goth buys a horror book and her brother (while still screaming for his mother) begs her to read the book.
It is without doubt the worst film I have ever seen and I didn't even watch it to the very end (thank God!).