Halloween Party (2019)

Halloween Party: Directed by Jay Dahl. With Amy Groening, T. Thomason, Marietta Laan, Shelley Thompson. A college student unwittingly releases terrifying entities from her school’s past via a Halloween themed computer meme.

“This movie sort of rules. Itu0026#39;s not a great movie by any stretch, but it does the best it can with what it has available (read: basically nothing) and I admire its ability to go for it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA Halloween-themed computer virus spreads across a college campus via an internet meme wherein people are asked about their worst fears. Within 24 hours, those same people wind up dead, seemingly killed by whatever scared them the most. But whou0026#39;s really doing the killing, and why?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis movie channels a tiny sliver of old school Sam Raimi vibes. Not with his energy or slapstick, but in the tendency for his movies to embrace the inherent goofiness of their premise. This is a dumb movie, so dumb it can borderline on self-parody. Definitely dumb enough to be considered kind of trashy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut then you get whiplash because it stops to take itself just seriously enough that you stay hooked. Thereu0026#39;s a delightfully weird spark this movie taps in to sometimes, and some decently tense moments. Rarely scary, mind you, but tense enough for a bit of mood. It works enough that I felt like I had a good time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf this movie were a person, youu0026#39;d tell it u0026quot;Youu0026#39;re a bad movieu0026quot; and it would grin and reply, u0026quot;I know, and thatu0026#39;s why you love me.u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd itu0026#39;d be right. Dumb, trashy, bad, whatever you want to call it, but I had fun.”