The Curse of Halloween Jack

This 2019 movie "The Curse of Halloween Jack" was just a tad better than the 2018 movie "The Legend of Halloween Jack", but not much mind you.

"The Legend of Halloween Jack" is by no means an interesting horror movie, nor is it one that offers anything of any interest or innovation to the horror genre. The movie quickly settles into a monotonous pace and doesn't really get out of that pace, which makes for a less than generic and mediocre movie experience.

The movie should get some points for trying, and also for actually turning out to be better than the 2018 movie. But truth be told, you don't need to be familiar with the 2018 movie in order to watch the 2019 movie. There is nothing lost by not having seen it, as this movie doesn't require anything from the audience in terms of thinking and paying attention.

The acting in the movie was adequate, taking into consideration the limitations of the script and storyline.

As for the villain, Halloween Jack, well... Let's just say that this was nothing majorly interesting, and the character was pretty laughable actually. A scarecrow come to life with glowing lightbulbs inside his sack-head. Sure, why not... This will not turn out to be a memorable slasher character, not even in the slightest.

All in all, "The Legend of Halloween Jack" wasn't particularly outstanding, and I am rating it a mere three out of ten stars, because it was quite boring actually.

OK. I was expecting it to be bad...but this just stole 77 minutes of my life. I'm even struggling at where to start with the review. I enjoy terrible films, I used to love some of the cheesy films the horror channel used to play but this was in a whole other genre. English police officers welding guns around like everyone has one, while we're on that note everyone seems to have a firearm even the public. The Dad giving his Daughter dollars to pay for a pizza even though its set in a fictional town in the UK.

The really Bad special effects. Everyone gets shot or stabbed and no blood in sight they even blow up a brick built police station then cut to the outside of a wooden cabin for the explosion, then use stock footage of a US fire department fighting the blaze. Nobody seems to be able to run. I've never been so bored watching a film. I put it on to pass the time and I honestly believe it would have been more entertaining if I had spent the 77 minutes cutting my lawn with scissors, watching paint dry or just sitting in silence.

American or English? I don't know if the film makers or actors knew. This felt like someone was trying to make a feature length version of a Goosebumps episode. Terrible, but I have seen worse.

If you are looking for a horror movie, then this is not it. No horror, no excitement, no atmosphere and the poor attempt to make realistic kills are so badly done. The only horror here are the movie itself. Total B-Movie with bad actors all around. Sadly it's not possible to give a minus review. It's a -5 for sure.. It is a puzzle to me, that movies of this kind is still being made, and just as much a puzzle to as why a streaming service like Netflix, decides to actually show it. I do know that movie makers and game makers have free hands, but come on, even food, clothes and other products have some kind of quality control. What a waste of time.

This is so bad, quite worse than an Asylum or SciFi channel production, and that is saying a lot.

Let's start, the plot makes little sense, the actors are all weak, the characters' reactions are laughable, illogical, and plain ol' weird at best, dialogue comes as a joke, simply put, nothing here makes sense. It is a quite boring as well, the only way it comes off better is whenever you decide to genuinely pay attention to everyone's reaction, decision, words that are coming out of their mouths. This is not how human beings exist! No, no, nowhere will you find these kind of people, not even in a horror movie!

Therefore, The Curse of Halloween Jack is nothing more than a cash grabbing attempt of a production that will be linked to Halloween thus perhaps it shall do better in rentals in that particularly period of time. And yet, I for one doubt it!

Cheers!