The Night Before Halloween

2016

Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25%
IMDb Rating 4.2/10 10 720 720

halloween murder curse

Plot summary

When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.

Director

Sheldon Wilson Photo
Sheldon Wilson

Top cast

Bailee Madison Photo
Bailee Madison as Megan
Dani Kind Photo
Dani Kind as Detective Reese
Anthony Lemke Photo
Anthony Lemke as Detective Burke
Justin Kelly Photo
Justin Kelly as Adam
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791.81 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 3
1.59 GB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 3 / 10

convoluted curse business

Reviewed by Wuchakk 4 / 10

Half-baked horror curse nonsense

RELEASED TO TV IN 2016 and written & directed by Sheldon Wilson, "The Night before Halloween" concerns a group of teens who must deal with the ramifications of a Halloween prank gone wrong. It is eventually revealed that they are under the Curse of the Carver: a curse that slays you on the night before Halloween unless you can trick someone into killing someone else.The overall filmmaking is professional and the cast takes the material seriously and perform proficiently with Bailee Madison & Justin Kelly emerging as the main protagonists. Anthony Lemke is particularly effective as the detective. There's an almost "Wow!" moment at the halfway point where Wyatt (Alex Harrouch) reveals what was really going on during the confusing opening act and I hoped the rest of the movie would change my "Meh" feelings, but it was not to be. The perplexing curse and the baffling non-creature it unleashes (a bunch of flies that sometimes morph into a partial monster) are too befuddling. If the viewer can hardly understand what's happening how can the teens in the story comprehend their life-or-death situation with any certainty? Note to emerging filmmakers: Work the kinks out of your premise BEFORE making the movie. The director, Sheldon Wilson, needs to improve his scriptwriting skills because the movies he writes tend to be problematic story-wise ("The Hollow," "Neverknock" and "Stickman") whereas his movies written by others can be quite good for TV-budgeted flicks ("Mothman," "Red, Werewolf Hunter" and "Scarecrow," which is excellent).The female cast is decent, but not stellar, rounded out by Kiana Madeira as Lindsay and Dani Kind as the secondary detective. Natalie Ganzhorn has a small role as Beth.THE MOVIE RUNS 90 minutes and was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.GRADE: C-
Reviewed by Platypuschow 4 / 10

The Night Before Halloween: Terrible premise, terrible execution

Scyfy doesn't do horror very often and on the rare occasion they do they don't have the habit of producing anything even remotely watchable.Bailee Madison stars in this messy little tale which though has an explained concept (As terrible as it is) it doesn't explain itself beyond that and leaves it to the viewer to fill in the blanks.Poorly made, terribly paced, with forgettable characters and few redeeming features this paint by numbers effort isn't terrible it's just simply not very good either.A decent enough (Though inevitable) twist near the end saved it a point or two but even that should have been handled better.If they make a sequel (Which is teased though I doubt it'll ever happen) I just hope everyone packs bug spray and those annoying sticky yellow tape things that catch flies! That would make the movie at least comical.Move along, nothing to see here
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