Packing in ten short Halloween tales, this portmanteau is little more than simple, silly goofy fun, just like the Halloween holiday itself. It is not as stylish or as successful as Trick 'r Treat, but it knows its audience and its genre very well and is eager to please, from straight-played urban-legends-styled cautionary tales to engagingly daft parodies of Friday the 13th and John Carpenter movies, and appearances from a host of genre favourites (Greg Grunberg, Lin Shaye, Stuart Gordon, John Landis, Adrienne Barbeau, etc). Inevitably, some shorts are better than others but there is no real weak link, and there is plenty of (mostly physical) gloop and splatter for the gore fans. With little scope for real development within each story, Tales Of Halloween therefore delivers basic but well-realised fun for horror fans.
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