Review of The Curse of Halloween Jack

This movie is boring and dumb, but also baffling. Set in Dunwich, Britainmerica, it mostly serves to remind viewers of other, better movies about towns haunted by the memory of a halloween murder spree. The movie refers to the Halloween series, in a failed attempt to make itself look like an homage, rather than an unambitious cynical cashgrab. The characters are flat, the costume of the murderer looks bad and the effects used on his voice are corny. Nobody is good at their job or basic decision making. The "terrifying Jim Jones style cult" is neither terrifying nor Jim Jones like, it's just silly, though admittedly pretty based apart from the murdering the world thing. The police can orchestrate a giant occult coverup, but lack peripheral vision or spacial awareness. The soon-to-be victim teens are utterly forgettable and interchangable, and the deep dark secret that is hinted at is predictable and lame. No good kills, terrible effects, terrible acting, but a wide variety of inconsistent accents. Watch this if you want to feel good about Halloween 5 by comparison.