Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween

A little spooky, a little cheesy, and a lot of fun to watch. There are parts that will be scary for young children, but for the most part it is a fun, spooky, family friendly Halloween movie. Comedic relief is scattered throughout One of my favorite parts is when a scared teenage guy pauses to grab his food off of the table before running off to hide, but leaves his cell phone behind. My son would totally do that.

If you're looking for a serious scary movie, this is not it.

If you're a parent looking for a "safe" Halloween movie for your kids, or anyone looking for something good, clean and not dark (albeit spooky and with demons) to watch, this is your movie.

This PG-13 style horror movie is surprisingly not dumb. I don't know why, but despite the low budget and tired mythology Curse of Crom is entertaining and fun for a light watch. It is reminiscent of silly horror movies of the 1980s like The Gremlins or Ghoulies. I would not recommend it outside of the Halloween season, though - its charm is limited to holiday specific movies.

A group of high school students are just average people, they aren't obnoxious and disposable like slasher characters. The main character Mary has the WORST Republican step-dad in the world, though. Can you imagine telling a 17 year old to drive for Door Dash every night to pay for college, he tries to force her to skip hanging out with friends or celebrating Halloween. I kind of wish he met a different end, to be honest.

It was a fun ride but watching 30 something actors playing scared high schoolers takes the edge off the spooky vibe. The monster is kinda cheesy, but the atmosphere is set up pretty well and the climax moments are pretty effective. For a no-name semi professional production company it was worth watching! The acting was pretty good and fairly believable with the main character being played convincingly by the lead actress. The only wooden portrayal seems to have come from the lead male actor who looks to be the oldest teenage in cinematic history who also seemed to be oblivious to the pretty overt love triangle that becomes apparent within the first ten minutes of the movie.. Sorry I watched it? No, not at all. Would I watch it again? Heck no!

Given my love and fascination with the horror genre, of course I opted to watch the 2022 movie "Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween", as I had the chance to do so here in 2025. Sure, I had never heard about the movie prior to watching it, but I was lured in by the movie's cover, and the fact that I had never heard about it.

The movie started out well enough, but sort of flatted out about halfway through and slipped into a slump, one from which the narrative never recovered. Sure, it was a watchable enough movie for what it was, but it was hardly an outstanding horror movie. The concept idea behind the story was definitely interesting, and the synopsis sounded promising, but the execution from script to screen just wasn't all that impressive.

I was not familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, and that was actually something that spoke in favor of the movie. I will say that the acting performances in the movie were fair.

Visually then the movie was okay. It wasn't a movie that made a whole lot usage of special effects. But the special effects that were in the movie were actually fair.

Watchable a single time, but this movie hardly warrants more than just a single viewing. Is it a movie that I would recommend horror fans to rush out and get to watch? Hardly so.

My rating of director Rob York's 2022 movie "Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Watched this movie because the story sounded fun and the cover looked cool. The movie lacks good acting from it's 2 main characters, although they still did a decent job. Scenes went on longer than they should have at times.

It also suffered from some pacing issues. They tried to add more depth to characters when they really didn't need to.

I would recommend this movie to someone who is trying to ease their child or friend into the horror genre.

Props to actor Halem Medina who played Steve and Monica Moore Smith who played Stephanie. They were the best 2 actors in the movie in my opinion.

"Curse Of Crom" had a lot of potential I just think it wasn't executed as well as it could have been.