World Famous Comics: Sacha A. Dzuba Jack O'Lantern
Sacha A. Dzuba Jack O'Lantern
Starring: Brian Avenet-Bradley, David Chilian, Cheri Christian, Alex Dzuba, Sacha A. Dzuba Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Lions Gate Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 20, 2005 Running Time: 94 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Description: One year after a deadly car accident, Jack returns home and tries to get past the recurring nightmares that haunt him. As his deadly visions become a reality, Jack soon realizes that each new nightmare is uncovering details of the accident that he had forgotten and someone is using him to exact a deadly vengeance.
PUTRID PUMPKIN JACK O'LANTERN may be one of the worst horror movies made in the past twenty years. The film opens with three good old boys in a pickup truck on Halloween evening in Mississippi. They encounter a couple of rednecks who are obviously cannibals, and also a screaming blonde who says these guys killed a bunch of her friends, and of course, the three good old boys get it too, but so do the killers by some unseen force. Flash forward to a year and lo and behold, this whole setup has nothing to do with the rest of this lamely made fiasco. A teenage boy who looks all of 27 is mute as a result of an auto accident which killed his father. Soon some jackolanterned killer starts wiping out his friends, and is it this lamebrained kid named Jack or what? Forcing a totally unconvincing reason for these revenge killings does little to validate the plot. The acting in this movie is awful; they even have one scene where they switched victims because one of the actresses (used loosely) wasn't available to finish the movie, so they just switched who got killed...but they don't show the audience who gets killed. This is just a waste of time, folks.
Maybe it's Just Me??? Just a quick side-note. I love bad horror films. I love cheesy-bad horror films. And one of the best parts about seeing a bad film is coming here to Amazon to read the reviews. I got a good laugh out of a couple of the reviews posted here....the fact that you can add the "Jack O'Lantern" DVD to your wedding registry is GREAT! I never would have noticed that if it weren't pointed out in a review! I want to get divorced and remarried just so I can register a ton of crappy movies for me and my future wife! Okay onto the movie. Maybe it's just me, but I enjoyed this film. Sure it's grade Z stuff, with bad acting, goofy special effects, and has the production values of your standard home movies, but I enjoyed it. Of course I only paid $1.99 for it at Blockbuster, so I felt I got my money's worth. And while the story is hardly original, "Wrong Turn" meets "Pumpkinhead" meets "I Know What You Did Last Summer", it was kind of fun. It's nonsense, but it's fun nonsense. Like how "Jack" chases several victims around the Georgian suburbs in broad daylight, but we later learn, sunlight may be Jack's Achilles heel? And "Jack" is a pretty impressive looking monster....until he steps out of the shadows. When we finally see "Jack" in full lighting you can't help but chuckle. The acting is awful for sure, but I gotta say I couldn't do any better, and it's about on par with what you would expect from an indy horror flick shot in Georgia. The "Behind the Screams" extra is great. Everyone is so excited and talking about "Jack O'Lantern" as though it's an A-List film. But it does offer a neat peak into the world of indy films. I don't think I would recommend "Jack O'Lantern" to anyone wanting a truly scary flick, but if you like your horror with no production values, and served with a heaping load of cheese, then you might like this movie. And by the way, for those of you who think the is the "worst horror movie ever!", I defy you to sit through "The Last Slumber Party".
Crap o Lantern I had marginal hopes for this one. It looked like it would have the classic horror elements but with a slightly new spin. A few minutes into the movie I realized I was wrong. "What went wrong?", you ask. Well, to start with the prologue deals with some guys being pursued by cannibalistic rednecks. This has nothing to do with the rest of the movie, or if it does it was during one of the moments towards the end where I began to doze off. Sad thing is I was wide awake before I started watching. The main plot deals with your basic 26 year old "teenager", named Jack, who has been left seemingly brain damaged after a car accident that also took the life of his father. The guilty parties start getting killed off by a monster with a pumpkin head(though not "Pumpkinhead", that movie was pretty good). After each killing, Jack seems to become more normal. Although the plotline's derivative, this still could have been a decent movie. Any chances of that happening are foiled by the hack writing, bad acting, and amateurish direction. Not to mention the leaden pacing. The movie's boring, bottom line. The DVD contains a "making of" featurette that's much better than the film itself. The filmmakers and actors are enthusiastic about the film in the featurette which leads me to believe none of them had seen the finished product before they were interviewed. Ladies and gentlemen, this is one to avoid.
What's really scary, is that Amazon actually has "more of this movie on the way! The clear winner, absolutely the worst horror movie I have ever seen. So that makes the fact that Amazon is ordering more REALLY scary, and look at the other link. . you can add this to a wedding registry. (gee guys, I'd sure love that "Jack O Lantern" movie for my own collection, forget the bottles of wine or the trip to Cancun)
The cover art and trailer looked promising.. . the tag line . "One year after a deadly car accident, Jack returns home and tries to get past the recurring nightmares that haunt him. As his deadly visions become a reality, Jack soon realizes that each new nightmare is uncovering details of the accident that he had forgotten and someone is using him to exact a deadly vengeance"
This is a HOME MOVIE! Seriously, it looks to be shot on a Best Buy camcorder with actors rounded up from the nearest McDonalds.
It opens with the words "Halloween" on the screen while the three boys running out of gas in the boonies are clearly being filmed in what was the middle of summer, as far as vegetation, lighting and the chorus of cicadas as the sun went down.
The first part of the movie had absolutely no semblance to the plot tag. These three young people, the sterotypical good guy, black guy, and overweight fun guy, break down after leaving the main roadway onto dirt roads in search of a gas station. It morphs into a deliverance type plot with a slow witted inbred with an "ax to grind", his face hidden by a hat (run for your lives it's Wilson from Home Improvement!)
The next scene where some blond on the run from the monster runs into the boys is such a monument to bad acting, it is almost worth the rental just to watch that scene alone. "Wilson" is soon done in by the real movie monster. . which after seeing, all I can say is bwah ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaa. The Petco dog sock puppet would have been scarier.
The film itself has no semblance of a cohesive plot, with completely unexplainable and random threads tossed in with wild abandon. After the seemingly unrelated opening we get to a bit about a car accident and another sterotype is added, this time the religious figure who has to be the worst actor ever fill the screen.
The movie ends abruptly, never pulling any of the plot pieces together, and ending seemingly only for the reason that the sun came up, but not before they could throw in a lame brained "maybe there will be a sequel" scene that defies credulity.
Like Stale Halloween Candy Don't worry, there's nothing I can spoil for you in this review. This pumpkin is already spoiled and rotten beyond belief.
A bunch of kids are drunk and then kill somebody on the road. Years later, there's a stalker going around with a pumpkin on his head killing all the kids that were involved. It's like I Know What You Did Last Summer with a pumpkin man. This shoddy production is shot on somebody's home video camera with a bunch of actors who have been recruited from the local shopping mall. It's not really worth spending any more time on it. It's a waste of time for me to write, and a waste of time for you to read. Go ahead and pass this one by, trick or treaters, this movie is like the stale candy that somebody had left over from three years ago.
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