What do you get when you combine one of the most trashy film cycles of the 20th century with one of the most trashy production studios of the 21st century? Well you get lesbianism, which was apparently a mainstay of earlier Asylum pictures, we've got a white guy calling another guy the N-word, um, cropped framing which is tighter than a nun's arse, videography done on the cheap as well some fantastic kills and a great villain.
Yep, soon as I knew this was a slasher a-la-asylum, i knew i was gonna get a mixed bag. I'm pretty sure I can say without fear of conjecture that early period Asylum films are among some of the ugliest looking films that has ever been released onto the home video market with their washed out colour palette, low quality digital video and the aforementioned camerawork which attempts to cover up the most likely five figure budget to no avail. This drags the film's appeal down considerably. These early Asylum films just look terrible and their aesthetic gives me acid.
Overlooking all of that, because I am incredibly generous don't you know, Halloween Night still delivers as a slasher with a colourful cast of college douche-bags and one effective Michael Myers clone who kills silently and brutally and of course we all love that. What we don't all love though i'm sure is telegraphed Tv movie calibre dramatic tension and a generic soundtrack. For every good moment Halloween Night has, it has four or so problems with it's execution to diminish its impact.
In conclusion, as a shameless cash in on Rob Zombie's Halloween, Halloween Night has appeal as being your archetypal direct to DVD slasher film from the mid 2000's, giving you a good idea of where the sub-genre was at the time. Apart from that, it's a poorly shot, padded out slog that is only saved by it's impressive kills considering the quality of the rest of the filmmaking. I recommend to this hardcore slasher fans, fans of the Asylum, if there are any and for anyone who on the off chance has a thing going on with trash media from this time period. Everyone else, you might be bored out of your skull.
Yep, soon as I knew this was a slasher a-la-asylum, i knew i was gonna get a mixed bag. I'm pretty sure I can say without fear of conjecture that early period Asylum films are among some of the ugliest looking films that has ever been released onto the home video market with their washed out colour palette, low quality digital video and the aforementioned camerawork which attempts to cover up the most likely five figure budget to no avail. This drags the film's appeal down considerably. These early Asylum films just look terrible and their aesthetic gives me acid.
Overlooking all of that, because I am incredibly generous don't you know, Halloween Night still delivers as a slasher with a colourful cast of college douche-bags and one effective Michael Myers clone who kills silently and brutally and of course we all love that. What we don't all love though i'm sure is telegraphed Tv movie calibre dramatic tension and a generic soundtrack. For every good moment Halloween Night has, it has four or so problems with it's execution to diminish its impact.
In conclusion, as a shameless cash in on Rob Zombie's Halloween, Halloween Night has appeal as being your archetypal direct to DVD slasher film from the mid 2000's, giving you a good idea of where the sub-genre was at the time. Apart from that, it's a poorly shot, padded out slog that is only saved by it's impressive kills considering the quality of the rest of the filmmaking. I recommend to this hardcore slasher fans, fans of the Asylum, if there are any and for anyone who on the off chance has a thing going on with trash media from this time period. Everyone else, you might be bored out of your skull.