Jack O'Lantern

Okay, up front let me just say, that the (completly random) shots of the pumpkin monster weren't half bad (at least until you hear in the special features that it took the director MONTHS to make it...) The film itself has no semblance of a cohesive plot, with utterly inexplicable and random threads thrown around with reckless abandon. The characters are all two dimensional and seem to have come right out of any bargain basement screen writing guide. There is the token black guy, the token asshole, the token bitch, token religious figure (who may have been the worst actor to ever grace a c-list horror film) etc etc etc. The movie ends as abruptly as possible, for apparently no reason other than the sun coming up, and goes onto one of the most half assed "hope someone wants a sequel" moments I've ever seen. Words cannot describe how tacked on, and utterly ridiculous the last few minutes are. This one isn't even worth it for the kitsch value. I fully support and love indie cinema, and always encourage folks to follow their dreams, but this time, it just produced a heaping pile of pumpkin innards.

Well I have seen two reviews on IMDb for this film one good and one bad. I am wondering if the guy who wrote the bad comment even watched the film, or maybe he is confused because the movie he recommends "SLEEPY HOLLOW" is pure garbage to be thrown out the window at 60 miles an hour. I was curious so I went out this morning and rented a copy from Blockbuster. I have just screened the film and find it to be several notches up the food chain from SLEEPY HOLLOW. The death scenes were shocking, especially one in particular, and the plot is very original. As far as indie horror films go, I think this one is pretty darn good. There are a couple of quirks that I found odd but nothing distracting or terrible. The films monster is much better than the monster in Jack O, and especially better than the one in Sleepy Hollow, which is just a joke. I really like the way the film was shot, it gave it a real creepy element. Well that's my take on it. I guess I could give it 2 1/2 to 3 stars. It is much better than previously depicted in the bad review. But opinions are like...well you know. HAPPY HALLOWEEN James

Tiresome, done a million times before boring direct-to-video horror yarn, from Lions Gate endless vaults of crappy fright flicks. This one takes place on Halloween and tells some sort of revenge story with a supernatural twist. Blah! Before you can say "I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), because that's when you guys blatantly ripped off Pumkinhead's (1989) plot line!" you'll also notice they stole from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Halloween (1978) as well. Not in a good way I might add: A snooze-inducing patchwork wanna-be terror tale that is neither scary, entertaining and far from being original. The badness of this movie simply sucks, leaving no room for making fun of it. Jack O'Lantern is just another sad example of cheese gone sour, with no redeeming whatsoever. Do yourself a favor and look for cheese with flavor. This one won't deliver.

Saw it once and that's about all I needed for the next 10,000 years. Really really bad. Maybe if it had some female nudity it would be worth the one star I had to give it. Think I paid about 8 bucks for this which was probably the same amount of money needed for the movies budget. I could have acted better than the people in the film! Just awful.

So if you see this dvd at the store do yourself a favor and keep on walking. Do the world a favor and destroy it!

i was really impressed with this one,, now i know that i am going to get huge amounts of flack over this one,, you know what i don't care,, i enjoyed this movie,, so what if they're wasn't a million special effects shots, or CGI, or Oscar winning performances, a. the movie was funny . B. the movie was interesting, had a good storyline,, revenge is always a good storyline,, only part of movie i didn't understand was how the spirit manifested itself while Jack was sleeping, but other than that,, i loved the whole entire movie. This movie does not deserve that bashing that it is getting on this site. The monster,, with the pumkin on his face was original, i loved the idea, never seen that before in all of the horror movies that I've seen and i've seen over 500 horror films, easy, so folks give this one a chance, it will make you laugh,, it's scary at times, decent plot, and good looking monster, and it's NOT as bad a everybody claims it to be on here, take my word from it, i own over 1600 movies, and seen over 2,000 this is NOT CRAP, there are many movies out there that deserve that title.