| All Hallows' Eve | |
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| Title: | All Hallows' Eve |
| Director: | Damien Leone |
| Writers: | Damien Leone |
| Producers: | Jesse Baget; Gary Lo Savio; Lisandro Novillo |
| Composer: | Noir Deco |
| Cinematography: | Christopher Cafaro; Christopher Eadicicco; George Steuber; Marvin Suarez |
| Editors: | Damien Leone |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Ruthless Pictures RLJ Entertainment |
| Released: | October 29th, 2013 |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Running time: | 83 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
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| Next: | All Hallows' Eve 2 |
All Hallows' Eve is an American independent horror film of the anthology genre featuring killer clowns. It was written and directed by Damien Leone and produced by Ruthless Pictures. The film was released direct-to-video on October 29th, 2013.
Plot[]
The Babysitter[]
Sarah & Tia on Halloween night.
Sarah is babysitting two children named Tia and Timmy on Halloween night. The kids have just returned home from a night out trick-or-treating and are rooting through their candy bags while watching Night of the Living Dead on the television. Timmy finds a strange unmarked videotape in his bag. Sarah asks him where he got it, but he doesn't know. He doesn't remember anyone putting it in there. Intrigued, both of the children want to watch it, but Sarah tells them no. Timmy is obnoxious about the whole affair and goes to put the tape into the VCR. Sarah rebels, but Timmy decides they should put it to a vote. Tia votes in favor of watching the tape, which suprises Sarah a little. Sarah eventually relents, but warns them that at the first sign of seeing something inappropriate, she is turning it off. They start playing the tape and sit on the couch as strange images of rooms in a dirty, bizarre underground building begin flickering on the screen. The first story has just begun...
The 9th Circle[]
Casey at the station.
At nearly 4:00 am on Halloween, a young woman named Casey takes a seat in the seemingly empty and desolate Realmsville train station. A drunken man and a woman, still intoxicated from their Halloween festivities, stumbles into the waiting area. The woman asks Casey if she knows what time the train is arriving. She then asks Casey for a cigarette, but she cannot accommodate her on either request. The two then leave.
Time for the world to meet Art the Clown.
Moments later, an eerie looking clown in a black and white costume and matching makeup can be seen sitting directly across from Casey. Next to him is a large black garbage bag. This is Art. Art smiles at the woman and pulls out a bulbhorn. He honks the horn obnoxiously, which startles Casey. He then gets up and sits next to her. Casey begins to grow nervous. Without saying a word, Art pulls a bouquet of plastic flowers from his garbage bag and hands them to her. She reluctantly accepts and Art begins pantomiming the act of uproarious laughter - though no sound comes out of his mouth. He points at Casey while he laughs and it is only then that she notices a large cockroach in the flowers. Casey screams and tries to run away, but Art grabs her by the arm and injects her hand with some mysterious substance from a syringe. As Casey begins to fall unconscious, she catches her last sight of Art. His eyes are glowing with a demonic yellow hue and he is slowly waving at her.
Casey cries out.
Sometime later, Casey awakens in some dark, underground tunnel system. She is bound by chains that trail off into the shadows. She calls out, but no one seems to answer. Moments later, two women emerge from the shadows. They are dirty and scared, and are chained up the same way that Casey is. This is Kristen and Sara. Kristen tells Sara to stop screaming. She then reveals that there was another woman with them up until recently, but she was dragged away into the dark recesses of the tunnel. Casey is so unnerved that she turns around and vomits. She meekly asks why this is happening then loudly begs to the open air, "Let us go, please!"
Sara is about to get yeeted.
All three women continue to panic. Kristen says that she cannot take it anymore and Sara huddles down to console Casey. The three of them argue over what to do next. Casey suggest s being proactive, Kristen just wants to sit and wait in the hopes that help might come along. Suddenly, Sara's chain is pulled taught and she is dragged down the tunnel into the darkness. Kristen is too terrified to do anything, but Casey continues to stat that they must find a way out of here.
It's the Pig Man!
Casey begins walking down the tunnel and follows the slack of her chain until she finds a length of horizontal pipe along the tunnel wall that it is connected to. She picks up a sizeable rock and begins smashing at the chain. Suddenly, a hideously disfigured mutant looking creature appears. It mounts Kristen who struggled against him until he produces a meat cleaver, and brings it down, cutting off her right hand. He then takes several more whacks at her, presumably killing her. The creature then lunges at Casey, but she avoids the blow and the cleaver strikes her chains, cutting her free. Casey runs off.
Casey runs further down the tunnel and encounters a hobo pushing a shopping cart. She pleads with him for help, but the long-haired young man says nothing. She gazes down into his cart and sees the hand of some victim twitching amongst the other items. She looks back up towards him and his face now resembles a skull.
The witch.
Casey falls unconscious. When she comes to, she finds herself bound to a table. A group of hooded cultists wearing animal skull masks lean overtop of her. Among them, a witch woman can be seen stirring cauldron. Casey looks past them and sees the aforementioned fourth victim - a pregnant woman, whose arms are suspended from the ceiling by chains.
Could it be... Satan?
A female member of the cult goes to the woman and places a cup on the floor beneath her. She then slices her belly open with a knife, allowing the blood to flow into the cup. She then brings the cup of blood to the leader of their coven, who is a demonic looking figure - possibly even Satan himself. The demon figure drinks the blood from the chalice. The demon approaches Casey as his followers tear her clothes from her. The last thing Casey sees is smoke coming from the creature's mouth as it bears down on her.
Interlude[]
Tia and Timmy.
In the bathroom, Tia is trying to wash her witch makeup off, but Timmy is there as well and brushing his teeth over the same sink. He spits into the sink getting toothpaste spittle in Tia's hair. Tia screams in disgust, and Sarah goes to the foot of the steps, yelling at them to knock it off.
Sarah gets off the phone with Dee then hears a strange noise coming from outside the living room window. Inspecting the window closely, she sees several pranksters egging the side of the house before running off into the night.
Sarah makes Tia feel better.
Sarah goes upstairs to tuck Tia into bed. Tia is scared by the images she saw on the videotape and Sarah instantly regrets letting them watch the videotape. Tia asks if Art the Clown is real. Sarah tries to tell her that there are no such thing as monsters, but Tia counters, citing that Art isn't a monster, he's just a guy in makeup - like a serial killer. Sarah is bothered that Tia is even aware of the concept of serial killers. Sarah promises that she won't let anything happen to Tia then goes back downstairs.
Tia is still frightened, however. She goes into Timmy's room and asks him if she could sleep in his bed the rest of the night. Timmy is reluctant, but ultimately relents. Downstairs, Sarah continues drinking a glass of wine and puts the video tape back on.
Something in the Dark[]
Caroline unpacks.
A woman named Caroline has just moved into a countryside home. As she is unpacking boxes, she talks on her cell phone to her friend, Mary. She loves living in the country as opposed to the noise of the big city. They speak about Caroline's husband John, who is an artist currently away at an evening gallery show. Caroline is disturbed by his most recent painting, which is in the house covered up with a cloth. Caroline says the inspiration came to John in a dream, but that he swears he does not remember painting it.
Shortly after the call, a bright object crashes near the house and a power outage occurs. Caroline begins to freak out and her phone suddenly has no service. Suspecting that someone might be in the house, she tries to leave, but the car won't start.
The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming!
Caroline suddenly receives a call from John, and Caroline frantically tells him about something landing near the house and the power outage. The connection breaks up and terminates a moment later.
She discovers that she is being stalked by an alien, who is wearing a black body suit, and a grey face mask with various atmospheric hoses. Caroline runs upstairs and the alien pursues her. Caroline manages to disorient the alien, and runs back downstairs where she hides in a small room under a staircase. There, her telephone begins ringing again, alerting the alien to her location. As the alien drags her off, she pulls a sheet off of one of John's paintings, revealing an image of Art the Clown.
Interlude II[]
Sarah can't stop watching.
Irritated, Sarah turns off the video again. She gets up and picks up her cell phone, but is distracted by some furtive movement around the corner. It looks a bit like the alien creature from the video segment she just watched. It must be her imagination. Suspecting that its the children, she calls out to Tia and Timmy and goes upstairs. She goes up to Timmy's room and her entrance awakens Timmy. Sarah is surprised to see Tia in his bed. Timmy sleepily tells the babysitter that Tia does this all the time because she's always getting scared. Timmy says that Tia is in his room because she had a nightmare. Tia corrects him, saying that she heard a noise. She says it came from her closet. Timmy pokes fun at his sister, telling that it was probably the clown and that he is going to drug her and take her to the witches. Sarah tells him to knock it off. She then insists that there is no clown in the closet and wants them to both go to bed. Timmy counters by saying "Maybe we could if you stopped checking in on us every five minutes". Sarah asks him, "What are you talking about?", and Timmy tells her that he heard her creeping around outside the door, turning the handle. Sarah pauses, repeats for them to go to bed and closes the door. She goes back downstairs, and for some inexplicable reason, begins watching the video tape again.
Terrifier[]
A woman drives alone at night.
A woman is driving down a dark, rural road at night. She is a movie costume designer on her way to New York from Albrightsville, but has gotten off on a back road and is now lost. She passes a sign that reads "Last Chance Gas - 3 Miles". She reaches the gas station and pulls up to the pump. She honks her horn, but nobody comes out. She gets out of her car and knocks on the door of the station. From around the corner of the building she hears the clattering of a skirmish. The gas station attendant has just kicked a man dressed up as a clown out of the restroom. The clown, whose name is Art, does not speak, but the man yells at him for apparently urinating and defecating all over the bathroom walls. They both stop and look over at the woman who stands motionless by the door. The man turns back towards Art and tells him that he has ten seconds to leave before he calls the police. Art waves goodbye and wanders off.
The woman asks the attendant to fill her gas tank and asks if the strange man really did all those things. The attendant tells her that is true. She asks if he thinks he will return, but the man is so agitated that he doesn't really care. The woman tells the attendant that she is lost and he gives her directions on how to get back onto I94.
Art gets busy.
They both suddenly hear a large clamoring coming from inside the gas station. The man goes inside, leaving the woman by herself. The woman stands and looks about nervously for a bit, but when the attendant takes too long to return, she ventures inside the building. She is horrified to see Art the Clown in the middle of cutting off the attendant's head with a hacksaw. He has already cut off a few of his limbs. Art looks up and smiles menacingly at her. Art holds up the attendant's severed head with glee as the woman runs outside to vomit. She scrambles to get to her car and quickly drives off.
As she drives, the woman keeps trying to call 911, but the signal keeps getting broken up. She notices that the battery on her phone is low. As she drives, she inexplicably sees Art hitchhiking on the side of the road holding up a sign that reads "Circus". Exclaiming how this is "impossible", she speeds up and nearly collides with a van. She then stops the vehicle so she can collect herself.
"Can I get a ride, lady?"
Art suddenly appears and tries to get into her car, but both doors are locked. The woman screams and hits the accelerator. A ways down the road, she spots a parked car with its emergency lights on. She stops and observes the driver leaning against the car horn. She opens the driver side door and pulls the person back only to reveal that they are barely alive. Their face has been completely severed and their hands have been cut off. She gets back into her own vehicle and drives off again screaming.
Picking up her cell phone, she tries to telephone her boyfriend Nick. She tells him that she is on I94 and that the battery on her phone is almost dead. The call is suddenly cut off. She shouts her lover's name into the phone, but gets no reply. Suddenly, Art the Clown appears in the back seat of her car. He pulls a piece of plastic wrap around the woman's head and begins suffocating her. She struggles to rip the plastic off her face and upon doing so, slams on the breaks, sending Art flying forward into the dashboard.
The woman gets out of the car and runs into the woods. She eventually comes upon a decrepit brick building and runs inside. She closes the large double doors and barricades them shut with a metal pole. Art tries to force his way through the door, but eventually gives up.
Art and his gear.
The woman slumps down to rest for a while, but Art burrows up from the earthen floor of the structure. He takes up a length of chain laced with barb wire, syringes and other assorted blades and begins repeatedly whipping the woman across the back and face. The woman picks up a scalpel that had fallen off the chain and stabs Art in his right eye. As he turns around in pain, the woman picks up a knife that she spotted on the floor and plunges it into her back. She then lifts the pole barricading the door and races outside. Running down the road, she spots a motorist coming towards her and flags him down. The man stops and offers to help, but the woman tells him to "just drive". The man offers to take her to the police station.
Things are about to get a whole lot worse.
Suddenly, they spot a pair of headlights bearing down on them. The car sweeps up beside them and they can see that it is Art. Art looks over, smiles and produces a handgun, which he uses to shoot the driver in the head. The vehicle veers off the road and smashes into a tree. The woman is knocked unconscious.
She awakens sometime later and discovers that she is lying on a metal table in some sort of abattoir. A quick scan of the room shows a display of various human body parts and viscera as well as numerous bladed objects. Art appears and points two fingers at her and begins silently laughing. The woman looks down to discover that she is naked. Moreover, and to her horror, her arms and legs have been amputated, her body has been slashed up and the words "Pig", "Slut", and "C*nt" have been carved into her flesh. The woman screams in abject agony as the clown continues to go through a fit of maniacal laughter; never making a sound.
Finale[]
Art is watching!
Highly disturbed, Sarah turns off the television. The home phone rings, and when Sarah answers it, she hears the costume designer from the third segment pleading for help. The television turns back on, displaying a dingy room. Art steps into the frame, approaches Sarah from within the screen, and begins to pound on the glass. Sarah then sees herself on the television screen, with Art behind her. She frantically removes the tape from the VCR and smashes it on the floor, destroying it.
Shortly afterwards, she hears Tia and Timmy scream. Sarah runs upstairs and sees Art the Clown outside their room, covered in blood, laughing at her and gleefully gesturing for her to enter. Sarah covers her eyes in terror; when she uncovers them seconds later, Art has disappeared. Sarah enters the room, finding just Tia and Timmy's severed heads, and "ART" written on the wall in blood.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Katie Maguire | Sarah |
| Catherine Callahan | Caroline |
| Marie Maser | Costume designer |
| Kayla Lian | Casey |
| Mike Giannelli | Art the Clown |
| Sydney Freihofer | Tia |
| Cole Mathewson | Timmy |
| Michael Chmiel | Attendant/John |
| Marissa Wolf | Kristen |
| Minna Taylor | Sara |
| Brandon deSpain | Alien |
| Daniel Rodas | Man in car |
| Anna Maliere | Pregnant woman victim |
| Eric Diez | Satan |
| Jennifer Castellano | Mutilated woman |
| Marc Romano | Hobo |
| Andrew Mahler | Pig man demon |
| Steven Mancuso | Bird man demon |
| Lori Anne Lovaglio | Witch cultist |
| John McCarthy | Scarecrow's slave/Demon |
| Robyn Kerr | Mary/Dee (voice) |
| Gary Lo Savio | Radio host |
| Rich Ryan | Demon |
| Dean Briscoe | Demon |
| Jev Maskuli | Demon |
| Beth Goepel | Demon |
| Charlie Scharfman | Demon |
| Carmin Faljiean | Demon |
| Sammi Borriello | Demon |
| Mat Lucas | Attendant |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The tagline for this film is "Come out and play".
- All three vignettes were written and directed by Damien Leone. The first and third vignettes, titled "The 9th Circle" and "Terrifier" were previously produced film shorts. The middle story was crafted specifically for this anthology.
- This movie was filmed in Staten Island, New York City. Scenes of the Realmsville Station from The 9th Circle were shot at Seaview Hospital.
- On IMDB, All Hallows' Eve has a Starmeter rating of 5.2 out of 10 based on more than 16,000 user votes.
- On Letterboxd, the movie has a weighted average review score of 2.20 out of 10 based 56,981 user votes.
- The movie does not have a Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, but it does have a Popcornmeter score of 34% based on more than five-hundred verified user ratings, averaging 2.7 out of 5.
- This movie introduces the character of Art the Clown, who will become the central antagonist of the Terrifier film series. Art's appearances in this movie are not considered part of the official canonical continuity of the Terrifier franchise.
- In this film, Art the Clown is played by Art the Clown, who is not an actor, but rather a friend of the crew. In the Terrifier film series, Art the Clown is played by actor David Howard Thornton.
- The film that Tim and Tia are watching before they discover the videotape is George Romero's Night of the Living Dead from 1968. It is used here because the movie exists in the public domain, which means Damien Leone did not have to pay out money to include it.
- The house number in the framing story is 237, which is a to Room 237, a central location featured in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining.
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Alien life forms | Art the Clown | Automobile accidents | Bondage | Bulb horn | Chains | Clown | Cockroaches | Cult | Cult leader | Decapitation | Demons | Disfigurement | Elusive movement | Full moon | Gore | Gunshot victims | Hacksaw | Halloween | Handgun | Hell | Human sacrifice | Insects | Knife | Mask | Meat cleaver | Mutilation | New York | Realmsville | Realmsville Station | Ritualism | Satan | Satanism | Scalpel | Severed hand | Severed head | Severed limbs | Skull | Syringe | Torture | Transformation | Van | Videotape | Vomit | Whip | Witches