Featuring films from Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, and Darren Lynn Bousman, among others, Tales of Halloween is the latest anthology horror film to come around, which features ten stories centered around Halloween night in an American suburb. Like any anthology film, the quality differs greatly from segment to segment, but fortunately Tales of Halloween features enough degenerate fun centered around demons, evil children, and a even a killer pumpkin, to be one of the stronger anthology horror films to come out in recent years. Tales of Halloween gets started off with a bang, as Dave Parker's Sweet Tooth is a dark, demented little short that tells the story of a little boy slaughtering his parents over candy. It is a twisted segment that doesn't hold back in the gore department, but perhaps more importantly the film sets the tone for Tales of Halloween, an anthology film that is more fun than scary, gleefully celebrating the macabre from start to finish. Personally, many of my favorite segments were centered around demented children, taking advantage of the built-in juxtaposition of innocence with violence and evil that such a storyline provides. The ten various segments provide a loose inter-connectivity, with neighborhood kids being recognizable from segment-to-segment, but what makes Tales of Halloween work is the variety it offers, with some segments being purely horror-based while others fall much more under the category of comedy. As one would expect, Lucky McKee provides one of the more batshit insane segments, while Neil Marshall's final segment centered around a genetically altered pumpkin is a nice final act. High variability of quality is a built in construct of any anthology effort, and while I wouldn't say Tales of Halloween is particularly scary, there is a lot of fun to be had from a film that gleefully celebrates a holiday centered around death.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorLove of all things cinema brought me here. Archives
June 2023
|