On Halloween

On Halloween (2020) is an Australian horror movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a news reporter who believes in the legends of the local woods where bad things have happened in the area every Halloween season. When a string of murders start again as usual she looks to find whom or what is responsible. The police believe they've found the person responsible, but when the killing continues they're left with no choice but to listen to the reporter.

This movie is written and directed by Timothy Boyle (The Plex) and stars Terry Serio (Running on Empty), Mike Flokis (Underbelly), Patch May (Shadow Wars), James Pratt (Malibu Crush), Ava Caryofyllis (Thor: Love & Thunder) and Robert Harrell (Reckoning).

The writing acting is fairly average and isn't too bad. The storyline is fairly straightforward and not overly clever. The face paint and masks were solid and created the appropriate menacing looks. The kills and violence were sudden and well executed but not gory. The twist(s) at the end wasn't as smart as Boyle hoped.

Overall, this movie is a below average addition to the horror genre that I wouldn't go too out of my way to see. I would score this a 3.5-4/10 and recommend skipping it.

Seriously, if you're a filmmaker watch this film! Not because it's well done, but because it's exactly what you should try to avoid. Bad acting, terrible dialogue, cliche and mediocre production value.

It's not that hard to pull off a killer clown movie - take one clown, add weapons, add victims, shake, serve. On Halloween just tries way too hard to improve on that formula and doesn't succeed. S There's a plucky female journalist who shares a lot of research about killer clown sightings over the past 100 years, there are cops on a reality show for a little found footage presence, there's the requisite group of teens who get trapped in a spooky old house, and there's a (nonsensical) twist at the end. There are also terrible American accents, interchangeable characters, multiple timelines that I really couldn't keep straight, and most of the fun gore is either just off camera or too dark to see. The biggest problem I had (although I had many) was trying to be afraid of the killer clowns, as one was named Whaa and the other was named Boo. That they spoke in rhyme was goofy enough, but when trying to seduce someone into the immortal clown life, the viewer does not want to hear "drink and be a Boo" or "choose to be a Boo" over and over.

But still nothing special. The acting is bad, the kills are okay, story is stupid. Thats all really mediocre movie.

I watched this movie in my local cinema during a "Horror's Night" event, and because of this movie, I regret making my decision to participate there.

This movie is horribly written; it feels like its budget was a pack of beer and three quarters. Honestly, if it weren't for the movie description on websites, I wouldn't even know what the plot is about. The film contains random, meaningless flashbacks and horrible, absolutely horrible special effects that feel like they were made in 10 minutes using free software. If you were wondering, if the movie gets better at the end of it, it gets even worse. The final scenes are so bizarre that I feel like the author either drank too much or his crazy friend took his notebook and wrote the scenario for the climax of the story. Literally, it was so bad. Random things that made no sense, random plot twists that are just stupid...

Honestly, I feel like this movie is just a joke. I don't think someone who made this movie watched the final version and said "Okay, this movie is going to be an absolute hit!". I just can't get my mind around how bad the experience of watching this movie was.