“All Hallows’ Eve” is a seriously generic horror flick. It’s a movie with a cursed tape like “The Ring” and it has a maniacal serial killer that is clearly meant to be the next Freddy Krueger or Pinhead. There’s very little that’s truly new on offer with “All Hallows’ Eve”. It’s not a terrible movie but it is a forgettable one.

A young boy and his sister find an unmarked VHS tape in their Halloween candy collection and are eager to find out what is on it. Despite some objections from their babysitter, they all sit down to watch and the tape. It contains sadistic murders carried out by Art the Clown (Mike Giannelli). As the night goes on, questions are raised about how ‘real’ the violent images onscreen were.

The kids are okay for this type of movie. The babysitter is pretty annoying and once again, I am left wanting to see another Jamie Lee Curtis in “Halloween”. The babysitter is pretty dumb because she tells the kids that she will turn off the tape if it gets too violent (at least one of them is only 10). However, she lets the tape continue to roll even when it shows a pregnant woman having her baby ripped out of her stomach. Art the Clown does not speak but looks fairly sinister. There are other monsters that appear in the movie. There is a robotic one that looks absolutely ridiculous. Satan also appears on the tape at one point.

“All Hallows’ Eve” has some gory effects that are as violent as the ones that you can see in “Laid To Rest”, the 2006 “The Hills Have Eyes”, “Trick ‘r Treat” and countless other movies. The plot is not really very interesting here and the whole movie is just an excuse for the director to include some of his earlier short films.