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Produced
& Directed by: Steve
Latshaw
Produced
& Written by:
Patrick Moran
Story
by: Brad
Linaweaver & Fred
Olen Ray
Starring:
Linnea Quigley ....
Carolyn Miller
Rebecca Wicks .... Linda
Kelly
Gary Doles .... David
Kelly
Ryan Latshaw ....
Sean/David Kelly
Catherine Walsh ....
Vivian Machen
Rachel Carter .... Julie
Miller
Tom Ferda .... Jim
Bill Cross .... Richard
Watson
Helen Keeling .... Amanda
WatsonSpecial
Appearances:
John Carradine ... Walter
Machen
Cameron Mitchell ... Dr.
Cadaver
Brinke Stevens ... Witch
Dawn Wildsmith ...
Sorceress
Release
Date: Direct-to-video:
October 10, 1995
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A
young boy named Sean Kelly (Ryan
Latshaw) is told by a neighbor
that one hundred years ago in a
small town called Oakmoor
Crossing, the locals put to death
a mysterious man who claimed he
was a warlock.
But before they could hang him,
he brought forth a demonic,
pumpkin-headed being to wreak
havoc on the town.
Several people died valiantly
before they managed to bury the
creature forever or, so they
thought but he swore vengeance on
the townsfolk people,
particularly Arthur Kelly's
family and was told that Arthur's
son David looks just like
him.
This spooks Sean a little and at
one point falls into a sleep and
goes through time in his dream of
what happened there and continues
to have them.
Some teens decide to hang out and
drink beer at a graveyard and
explores some tombstone's
including Arthur's which awakens
the pumpkin headed demon named
the Mr. Jack.
Mr. Jack goes back to his old
village on Halloween night which
is in the same neighborhood as
Sean's is.
On the same night Sean is being
babysat by a sexy woman named
Carolyn (Linnea Quigley) as the
two of them are trick or treating
and must find a way to survive
Hallows Eve since many of the
neighbors are being slaughtered
by the evil Mr. Jack.
Sean becomes the final target for
him due to his ancestory
background as his family is
cursed.
This film was
corny, cheesy, Z grade but still
alot of Halloween type fun.
It's not the least bit scary as
you can easily consider it a Goosebumps
type show but for grown ups only
with the nudity and some of the
gore.
It's worth a try to watch close
to Halloween but don't expect it
to be a high profile show cause
it's not even close to that.
The outfit of Mr. Jack looks
funky though.
I enjoyed the film for what it
was but it's only worth watching
when Halloween is just around the
corner.
The acting is very
wooden and even Linnea
Quigley doesn't stand out
with her performance in this
film.
Sexpot/scream queen
Linnea's first appearance in
the movie is her taking a long
shower rubbing soap all over her
body so I think you'd get the
picture.
Rachel Carter's character
takes off her top and exposes her
breasts to her boyfriend.
Mr Jack doesn't
know how to make a convincing
brutal murder but here we go.
Throats are slit.
A grumpy neighbor is stabbed in
the stomach as he also spits out
blood caused by Mr Jack's blade
and the neighbors wife is
electrocuted burning her skin
into a dead corpse.
Mr Jack also beheads a biker with
his blade and you can tell the
head looks like a dummy.
A woman is also stabbed in the
stomach.
The directing by Steve
Latshaw is poor.
He made the actors look a little
plain and wooden but he showed
some neat stuff in the film like
Mr. Jack being resurrected from
the grave and the dream sequences
too.
Some of the scenes however, where
it shows the role of Mr. Jack
attacking his victims is not at
all convincing.
The music is
extremely cheesy and cheaply done
on a keyboard composed by Jeffrey
Walton whom has worked with Steve
Latshaw in his other films
too as well as with other cheesy
b-film directors like Fred
Olen Ray and David
DeCoteau.
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