10th movie of Halloween season, i came into this one pretty blind. Just seemed like a low budget horror movie like i often watch set on Halloween and taught it could be fun. Obviously its hard to not use the comparison with Terrifier wich also star a clown serial killer on Halloween night and also made on a small budget.
Sadly this is no Terrifier. I think there is some great ideas in there, for instance the killer himself, i enjoyed his lines and i think he was the bright spot in the movie. The rest is mostly forgivable characters that you just simply do not care about because very fews are introduced properly. The kills are alright altough nothing to brag about either, the atmosphere/Halloween set up could had been better exploited.
When i said there was some nice ideas but badly exploited, i meant that the movie try to trick you in some ways to make you wonder whats really happening, sadly i feel the payoff is not satisfying enough and leave you still confused on what is going on.
Now the biggest flaw of this movie tough is the terrible dubbing. I didn't understand why this movie was dubbed, i taught maybe this movie was made in Russia or East Europe but the actors name sounded Americans or at the very least not Russian or Czech or such. I then learned it was made in Australia. I don't know if they feared the American public would had trouble with the accents or the dialogues were badly recorded during shooting, but the dubbing was simply just too distracting. I would had rather hear the Aussie accents and add subtitles, even as a french native speaker from Canada wich has a lot of issues with Aussie/Irish/Scotish english accents compare to Americans.
The dubbing sounded Americans, and voices didn't match much the characters in my opinion, so i think they had Americans dud the lines, but the truth is when like me you watch movies dubbed in French all your life, and you are used to a quality dubbing, a poorly made cheap english dubbing sound very distracting. I even prefer watching chinese movies in their original languages with subtitles despite not understanding anything vocally. When i watch movies in english i am use to the sound of lines recorded by boom mics and what it include as background noises etc. Anyway
Thanksfully as i said above, the killer is the bright star of the movie and even if he was dubbed he is the only one sounding fine. His voice is good, the lines are fun while he speak in riddles, ill give props to that.
But otherwise its a very mediocre movie made on a very small budget with a tons of issues including the audio, the story wich is a bit of a mess and the underdeveloped characters. This is the kind of movie to watch on a stream service like Tubi or such late at night drunk during Halloween season and not take seriously too much, and it may be servicable.
I know while i goes to my Halloween marathon of movies and include a bunch of low budget obscure movies some may not be great, but hey it was entertaining enough to not have me look at my phone or such so for that i will give it 4 stars.
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