All Hallows' Eve 2 hits store shelves this week.
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Hallows' Eve 2 is festive horror project bound to be fallen in love with by
short attention spanned gore hounds. As
an anthology film, I found it to be a consistent effort in mood and tone even
without the core plot that strings all the stories together. A lot of my preconceived notions were really
slapped down while viewing this film. I
mean, it does not stray completely away from any formulas, but I just found the
whole spectacle very satisfying.
I really
enjoyed the shrouded meanings behind some of the stories. There is one section in particular with a
message extremely clear to me concerning the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The whole way it is presented just cracked me
up.
The
challenge I think with anthology films of this sort is the fact that you have
to tell a whole story in a short amount of time without cheating the
viewer. All Hallows' Eve 2 is
successful with this idea for the most part.
Some of the stories were cut off a little short at times. Some of the stories were a little too
ambiguous. I think the majority of these
tales, however, were written to really tie up nice in a short amount of time
keeping the viewer interested and wondering, “What the hell will be next”!?
One thing I
noticed in All Hallows' Eve 2 is that there was really no nudity. This was quite refreshing as the mantra
for just about every contemporary horror film of this sort relies VERY heavily on
gratuitous skin scenes to get the point across.
All Hallows’ Eve 2 is lean on this and I think it really proves the
“less is more” idea to a tee. Let’s
unclutter the stories of the perky breast of confused women freshly out of
their teens and……uh…..what was I saying?
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-Scott L. Lambert