All Hallows' Eve 2 is an American independent feature film of the horror anthology genre. It features eight segments directed by different filmmakers and written by multiple screenwriters. The film was produced by Ruthless Pictures and Hollywood Shorts. It was released on video-on-demand and on streaming services on October 6th, 2015. It was released in the United Kingdom on October 24th, 2016.
A woman is alone in her home on Halloween night, sipping a glass of wine, and playing with a Ouija board to a candlelit room. She tries to summon someone named Robert, then puts the board to the side. Hearing a noise, she goes to the window. On the street below is a masked Trickster holding a knife. Her friend Beth calls her and she tells about the eerie figure she had just seen. Suddenly, there is a knock at the door. She opens it and finds an old used video tape on the floor. Staring down past the adjacent steps, she spies the Trickster below staring up at her. The figure silently tilts its head. The woman takes up the video tape and closes the door. She goes inside and begins to play it. What she then sees may be a work of cinematic fiction... or maybe its real.
"Jack Attack"[]
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Elizabeth holds a Jack-o'-lantern.
Elizabeth is a young woman from New York, who is babysitting a boy named Jack. Having secured a pumpkin ripe for carving on Halloween night, they return to the townhouse that Jack lives in and Elizabeth shows him how to carve a Jack-o'-lantern as the family dog Oscar leaps and barks about the kitchen. After carving the Jack-o'-lantern, Elizabeth roasts the pumpkin seeds in the oven. While waiting for them to get done, she tries calling her boyfriend Elliott, who was supposed to come over, but whom she now suspects is sleeping with a woman named Angie Del Frisco.
Elizabeth chews on a few of the roasted pumpkin seeds, and as she turns around, she finds Jack dressed in his Halloween costume - a scarecrow. Jack begins feeding pumpkin seeds to Oscar, but Elizabeth tells him not to. Jack then eats a few of the seeds himself.
Don't we all want to put a knife to a child's throat at some point in our lives?
A moment later, Jack's eyes roll back into his head and he cannot breathe. Elizabeth rushes to his side and tries to get him to cough up the seed. When this fails, he collapses to the floor. Using a kitchen knife, Elizabeth tries to give him an emergency tracheotomy. This tactic also fails. Tiny vines creep outward from his bleeding throat wound, and Elizabeth tugs on them, pulling out a gourd. Jack's stomach begins to expand, as another pumpkin grows at an accelerated rate within him. Elizabeth, having also consumed the pumpkin seeds, now has a pumpkin growing within her as well. She slices open her own belly in the hopes of releasing it, but her intestines instantly spill out all over the floor and she dies. Moments later, the same fate befalls Oscar the dog.
Boyfriend Elliott finally arrives (while zipping up his pants) and walks into a townhouse that is now being overgrown with vines.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Helen Rogers | Elizabeth |
| Tyler Rossel | Jack |
| Brazen | Oscar |
| Steve Anderson, Jr. | Elliott |
Crew[]
"The Last Halloween"[]
Little trick or treaters.
In a post-apocalyptic future, four children wander through the ruins of an abandoned evacuation zone dressed in Halloween costumes, including a ghost, a devil, a witch, and a Grim Reaper. They knock on one door and say "trick or treat". A nervous woman opens the chain-locked door by a crack. She urges them to be safe and drops a dusty container of canned meat into one of their bags. The children continue to walk through the desolate grey neighborhood, passing an abandoned vehicle with the words "Leave me alone" spray-painted on the side. They approach a derelict house, and an eerie "chatterbox" pokes his head out and rattles off random gibberish. He drops the rotting remains of a dead bird into one of their trick or treat bags.
Moving along, the quartet pass through the evacuation zone until they reach another domicile. They ring the doorbell and intone "trick or treat". From inside the house, a man named Jack observes them over a computer that is connected to a video monitor on the door of the house. He tells them to go away and that there is nothing for them here. The children are persistent and continue to say "trick or treat" against Jack's protestations.
From another room inside the house, Jack's wife Kate emerges. She is very ill from whatever contagion has spread across the area. She urges Jack to help the children, but Jack refuses. He tells his wife "we have to protect ourselves", to which Kate responds, "From what", as she shows him a lesion on her neck, implying that it is too late for them.
Kate leaves, and Jack later hears her screaming from another room. As he goes to investigate, he finds the ghost child standing in the middle of the house. In an eerie voice, it tells Jack "It's too late". The devil, the Grim Reaper, and the witch all suddenly appear and they repeat the words "It's too late, Jack". Jacks spots an image of his wife behind the door, which then suddenly disappears. The children transform into larger, more monstrous versions of their Halloween costumes. Repeatedly chanting "It's too late, Jack", they converge on him until Jack backs into the Grim Reaper. The Reaper envelopes Jack inside his cloak and he disappears. The house suddenly catches on fire, and begins burning... just like every other house in the neighborhood.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Ron Basch | Jack |
| Emily Alatalo | Kate |
| Drew Davis | Little Grim Reaper |
| Alastair Forbes | Grim Reaper |
| Zoe Fraser | Little Witch |
| Kristina Uranowski | Witch |
| Brendan Heard | Little devil |
| Adrian G. Griffiths | Devil |
| Jake Goodman | Little Ghost |
| Ali Adatia | Ghost |
| Angela Besharah | Wary woman |
| Julian Richings | Chatterbox |
Crew[]
"The Offering"[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Bob Jaffe | Father |
| Jared Mark Smith | Son |
Crew[]
"Descent"[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| April Adamson | Andrea |
| Robert McLaughlin | Killer |
| Renee Madison Cole | Vanessa |
| Anthony Backman | Brad |
| Andy Dylan | Security officer |
| Jamie Neese | Security officer |
| Steve Bordelon | Man in elevator |
| Jennine Dwyer | Woman at apartment |
Crew[]
"Masochist"[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Nation | The Masochist |
| Bill Oberst, Jr. | Sade |
| Reno Selmser | Rick the Dick |
| Finn Kobler | Sam |
| Zion Healy | Fat Pat |
| Kalie Acheson | Female masochist |
Crew[]
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director | James Kondelik |
| Director | Jon Kondelik |
| Writer | James Kondelik |
| Writer | Jon Kondelik |
| Composer | Michael Jon Mollo |
| Cinematographer | Kyle Stryker |
| Editor | James Kondelik |
"A Boy's Life"[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Griffin Gluck | Max |
| Brian Majestic | Father |
| Christie Lynn Smith | Loraine |
| Landon Ackerman | Boy 1 |
| Cole Meyers | Boy 2 |
| Evan Meyers | Boy 3 |
Crew[]
"Alexia"[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Sergio Berón | Franco |
| Pilar Boyle | Alexia |
| Paula Carruega | Melina |
Crew[]
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director | Andrés Borghi |
| Writer | Andrés Borghi |
| Composer | Pablo Borghi |
| Cinematographer | Julián Batistuta |
| Editor | Andrés Borghi |
| Casting | Julia Gesteira |
"Mr. Tricker's Treat"[]
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Patrick Logothetti | Donnie |
| James Markidis | PJ |
| Carrie Seim | Monica |
| Michael Serrato | Mister Tricker |
Crew[]
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director | Mike Kochansky |
| Writer | Mike Kochansky |
| Writer | Mark Byers |
| Composer | Mark Byers |
| Cinematographer | Graham Bremner |
| Editor | Mike Kochansky |
Notes & Trivia[]
- All Hallows Eve 2 redirects to this page.
- The tagline to this film is "Don't answer the door".
- There are a total of forty-seven credited cast members in this film, including animals.
- All Hallows' Eve 2 was released on Blu-ray on August 13th, 2019 by RLJ Entertainment. [1]
- On the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, All Hallows' Eve 2 has an audience score of 14% based on more than fifty user ratings, averaging 2.3 out of 5. [2]
- On Letterboxd, All Hallows' Eve 2 has a weighted average rating of 2.18 out of 5 based on 2,252 user ratings.
- Scenes from the opening of the "Jack Attack" sequence were filmed in Greenwich Village in Manhattan in New York City, New York.
- Scenes from "Descent" were filmed in parts of Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, and Van Nuys in Los Angeles County, California. [3]
- This movie was released the same year as Frankenstein vs. the Mummy, which was directed by Damien Leone, who directed the first All Hallows' Eve and is a producer on this film.
- Jesse Baget wrote and directed the wrap-around framing story for this film.
- James Kondelik and Jon Kondelik - the directors and writers of "Masochist", are collectively credited as The Kondelik Brothers in this film.
- "Jack Attack" was originally released as a film short produced by Brickwall Productions, Inc. in 2013.
- "The Last Halloween" is based on a comic book story by Mark Thibodeau. It was adapted into a film short by Red Sneakers Media in 2014.
- In the framing sequence, the woman makes reference to the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre while speaking to her friend Beth on the telephone. She tells her that she thinks the movie looks better on VHS than on Blu-ray or DVD.
- Jack Attack is also the name given to a living toy featured in the Demonic Toys film series. It is a distorted and twisted version of a Jack-in-the-Box, given a semblance of life due to the efforts of a demon.
- Composer Sam Estes, who scored "The Offering", is credited as Samuel Estes in this film.
- Actor Tyler Rossell, who played Jack in "Jack Attack", is credited as Tyler Rossel in this film.
Recommendations[]
External Links[]
- All Hallows' Eve 2 at IMDB
- All Hallows' Eve 2 at Wikipedia
- All Hallows' Eve 2 at Letterboxd.com
- All Hallows' Eve 2 at Themoviedb.org
- All Hallows' Eve 2 at Rotten Tomatoes
References[]
- ↑ Bluray.com; All Hallows' Eve 2 Blu-ray; RLJ Entertainment, 2015.
- ↑ Rotten Tomatoes; All Hallows' Eve 2. Tomatometer Score (As of 5-19-2023).
- ↑ IMDB; All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015); Filming & Production.
Keywords[]
Carnivals | Dogs | Halloween | Human sacrifice | Knife | Mask | Nail gun | Ouija board | Profanity | Pumpkin | Slit throat | Throat injury | Video tape