Candidate #1
TALES OF HALLOWEEN
(July 2015)
"Do you know what would perk up this candy-ass display?
"Do you know what would perk up this candy-ass display?
“Some motherf*ckin’
blood!”
With
ten stories in its 97-minute running time, The October Society’s Tales of Halloween has a pretty darn
good batting average for a horror anthology, in that--at least as far as I’m
concerned--there really isn’t any segment in here that’s a particular stinker.
Naturally,
you will like some stories more than others, but it’s a pretty good bet that
you’ll come out of this thinking, “Sh!t, yeah, that was fun!”
And
that’s what Tales of Halloween is,
really.
From
the “SNL sketch as directed by old
school splatter Peter Jackson” insanity of Mike Mendez’s “Friday the 31st”
to the stylized horror of Lucky McKee’s “Ding Dong” (with Pollyanna McIntosh!),
from the blackly comedic commentary of the ultimately pointless debate between
old school horror and the more modern black metal splatterpunk aesthetic in
John Skipp and Andrew Kasch’s “This Means War” (with James Duval!) to the bizarro
horror of Neil Marshall’s “Bad Seed” (with Pat Healy as “Forensic Bob”!), Tales of Halloween is some awesomely fun
Halloween horror viewing.
“Are you kidding me?! My
nuts were viciously assaulted by a monster, dude!”
Plus,
there’s a whole bunch of familiar genre faces in here, including Greg Grunberg,
Lin Shaye, Noah Segan, Sam Witwer, John Landis, Adam Green, and Joe Dante.
Alex
Essoe (from ¡Qué horror! 2015 title, Starry Eyes) and Drew Struzan (as “Rembrandt”) are in here, too,
along with Adrienne Barbeau, who basically echoes her Stevie Wayne character
from The Fog as the very loose
bridging element of “The Radio DJ”.
Originating
from an idea by Axelle Carolyn (who also happens to be Neil Marshall’s wife), Tales of Halloween is a mighty fine
addition to the ranks of horror anthologies out there.
So
be sure and stuff this one into your Halloween candy sack!
“Go bag me some of those
horror freaks!”
Parting
Shot: The film is dedicated to the memory of Ben Woolf, who recently appeared
as Meep in American Horror Story: Freak
Show.
(Tales of Halloween OS’ courtesy of aintitcool.com
& bloody-disgusting.com.)
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