A family moves from the big city to a home-with-a-past in a small safe rural town just in time for Halloween and its local Stinky Jack festival, and as the unhappy teenage daughter hooks up with some local misfit/paranormal high-schoolers, spooky events are triggered, Halloween decorations become animated (bats, front-lawn witches and zombies, etc) and havoc ensues. This is a very-young-teen by-the-numbers inoffensive comedy-horror (uptight father, bad-cook mother, one-dimensional comedic townsfolk) that clearly strives for a Goosebumps vibe but has neither the lightness of touch - dialogue scenes often feel laboured - nor any real thrills. A couple of moments land well - reactions to an animated Grim Reaper figure appearing in an old people's home, Wayans chainsawing his way through a skeleton football team - but overall the idea is stronger than the adequate execution here.
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