Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Hack-O-Lantern (1988)


Directed by Jag Mundhra
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Massacre Video)

Satanist Hy Pyke looks forward to initiating his grandson Gregory Scott Cummins into his local coven on Halloween night. Cummins lives in his mom's garage and listens to bad heavy metal music. His do-good brother is a local cop, who has duty at a party also being thrown on Halloween night. A killer (or killers) in a devil costume starts murdering people around town with a pitchfork and shows up at the party to kill more people. The killer's identity will only be a mild surprise. Slasher/satanism genre blend doesn't help this very bad but very entertaining movie. The acting is the pits, with Pyke hilariously awful as the devil  horn flashing grandpa with a bad southern accent. There is a break for an 80s style music video featuring a Motley Crue ripoff band and a dancing girl who shoots lasers from her eyes. Another bad metal band, The Mercenaries, plays at the party. I might watch it every Halloween from now on. 

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