All Hallows' Eve - Come out and play!
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| German title | All Hallows' Eve - Come out and play! |
| Original title | All Hallows' Eve |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Damien Leone |
| script | Damien Leone |
| production | Jesse baget |
| music | Noir Deco |
| camera |
Christopher Cafaro Christopher Eadicicco George Steuber Marvin Suarez |
| cut | Damien Leone |
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All Hallows' Eve - Come out and play! is an American horror - episodic film by Damien Leone from the year 2013. The film established the horror clown type the Clown, who is also leading actors of the film later Terrifier was (2016). it was therefore later marketed in Germany under the title Terrifier: The Beginning .
action
Babysitter Sarah takes care of the two siblings Tia and Timmy on Halloween . The three look together The Night of the Living Dead . It's almost time to go to bed, but after a night of “trick or treating” Timmy searches his bag of candy first. A VHS tape falls into his hands. Reluctantly, Sarah lets the two of them look at the tape after first wanting to watch it alone.
The first episode ( The 9th Circle ) shows a young woman named Casey who is drugged and kidnapped by a clown at a subway station. She wakes up in a cave where other women are held, all on chains. After one of the women is pulled away by her chain, Casey and the other woman follow her. However, all attempts to escape fail and the two women witness a satanic ritual. Casey is raped by Satan after the fetus is ripped from a pregnant woman's belly.
After the end of the first episode, Sarah sends the two children to bed and watches the rest of the tape alone.
The second episode is about Caroline who has just moved into a country house. During the night, a bright object near the house crashes and causes a power outage. It quickly turns out that it is an alien that is now trying to catch the woman. She tries to contact her husband, a painter, but the connection keeps breaking off. After she can initially hide, the alien finds her when her cell phone rings. In agony, she tears down a blanket from a picture and you can see a painting by Art the Clown.
Between this and the next episode, Sarah hears strange noises in the house and speaks to a friend on the phone.
The third and final episode ( Terrifier ) is about a costume designer who runs out of gas on a country road. She manages to get to a gas station, where a gas station employee is just throwing out Art the Clown who smeared the toilet with feces. The clerk then wants to write down the route for the young lady and goes back to the gas station. When the woman followed him after waiting a short time, she saw Art saw his head off. She escapes by car, but cannot leave the city. Suddenly, Art appears behind her and tries to strangle her. She hits the brakes and kind of flies through the windshield. Then she flees to a small hut, but Art follows her. There she manages to stab him in the eye with a scalpel and then again in the back. She escapes him and meets a man in a car. This stops and wants to take the costume designer to the nearest police station. But Art survived and shoots the man from a moving car. The car crashes into a tree and the woman wakes up on an operating table. In the meantime, Art has amputated all of her extremities and carved profanity into her body.
Sarah turns off the television. The phone rings and the woman from episode three is on the phone. The television then switches itself on again and Art approaches on the screen. Sarah destroys the videotape and runs up the stairs to the children. There she finds the bodies of the two who have been murdered by Art in the meantime.
background
The individual episodes of the film are earlier short films by Damien Leone. The first episode was called The 9th Circle and was made around 2006 on 35mm . it was Leone's first film to be shot with a professional crew. In this film he first introduced the character of Art the Clown. The original short film was a little longer, but was shortened for the episode film. It premiered in 2008 at the Backseat Film Festival.
Terrifier , the third episode, was made in 2011 and is only about Art the Clown, who was the most popular character from the first film. For this film, the character was expanded and established as a horror clown who, like a pantomime, never speaks. From harmless but disgusting pranks, he can turn into a violent, murderous person. He has supernatural powers and survives even the most severe injuries.
The middle, nameless episode was shot for the film, and was supposed to take a slightly different route. That's why this episode is a small science fiction film with a home invasion theme. Due to budget and time pressures, the original plan to use an alien doll had to be discarded. So the episode was played with an actor in an alien costume.
Many scenes in the individual films are intended as an homage to various other horror films. So the character of Art the Clown is of course based on other clowns, especially Pennywise . Excerpts from Night of the Living Dead are on television. In addition, a scene of Caroline hiding under the stairs was taken from the film The Visitors (1989). The design of the alien is based on Jason Voorhees ' ice hockey mask. The first episode alluded to the rape by Tuefel on Rosemary's Baby (1968) by Roman Polanski . The last episode is reminiscent of various Grindhouse films from the 1970s and the finale refers to The Horror Comes Around 10 (1979) by Fred Walton . The setting of the film as well as some scenes of the framework again refer to Halloween - The Night of Horror by John Carpenter , while the lighting of the second episode is based on The Fog - Fog of Horror by the same director.
Originally in Germany in 2014 on DVD under the title All Hallows' Eve - Come out and play! was released, the film was reissued as a mediabook under the title Terrifier - The Beginning 2019 as part of the release of the spin-off Terrifier . Despite the significant splatter effects , especially in the first and third episode, the film was approved by the FSK for people aged 16 and over. Nevertheless, both DVDs and Blu-Rays were released with an FSK-18 sticker.
Reviews
Haiko Herden from Haiko's Film Lexicon reviewed the film quite benevolently:
“In general, the whole film has a very retro-like effect, which may be due to the fact that you sometimes think you are in Carpenter's ' HALLOWEEN '. Trash fans should also find their favor, because insectoid aliens also appear in the course of the film. For a horror film, the violence is in the healthy midfield, there are no excesses, but it is not too squeamish either. All in all, a rock-solid contribution that you can enjoy before going to bed on Halloween. "
Web links
- All Hallows' Eve in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for All Hallows' Eve - Come out and play! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 176 V).
- ↑ a b c d Madeleine Koestner: Q&A: Damien Leone on “ALL HALLOWS 'EVE” and “FRANKENSTEIN VS. THE MUMMY ”. Fangoria, December 2, 2013, archived from the original ; accessed on October 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Nando Rohner: The many faces of horror. A look at All Hallow's Eve . In: Mediabook by All Hallow's Eve . Cinestrange Extreme, 2019.
- ^ All Hallows' Eve in the online movie database
- ↑ Repack Watch: Terrifier - The Beginning in Mediabooks by Cinestrange Extreme - Update. Schnittberichte.com, April 23, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Haiko Herden: All Hallows Eve´ - Come out and play! Retrieved October 5, 2019 .