Surprisingly Good

Are you for real? Did you work on the film or something?

It was a horrible film, everything about it was extremely poor even to someone like me who will usually take bad horror films for what they are. It wasn't scary just stupid and badly acted!

I'm with sharpfish

I enjoyed it as well. I don't understand the responses where people essentially say they like it, but have to say it's not good or qualify their comment with some final negative to save their reputation. That happens too often on IMDB. There's no guilty pleaure in film or music or tv, there's just pleaure;no need to pretend you aren't allowed to like some low budget indie horror flick with no asperations for high art.

There was a very solid sense of dread in the film, and that's a tough atmosphere to create. The only problems it had were budget and experience oriented. It would have worked better shot on film, with more skilled cinematography (not that it was poor or anything, just not as good as it could have been) with more drawn out scenes in places to draw out the dread and tension longer, better camera angles and placement, etc. The budget also constrained the fx a bit (again, still solid for such a small indie crew). I also think that switching to the grain filter at the end was a mistake (perhaps just flashes of it to signify this would become part of the tape), it hurt the impact of the final deaths. The final aspect that could be improved on was in establishing more scenes and tension in the main house, like finally seeing the handle turn at one point like the little boy said happened, and it had been too long since checking on the kids before the end. There wasn't enough scenes like those lingering shots of the very slightly moving closet door, those little scenes can really amp up the tension and dread and so more scenes like that, perhaps some cratch at the window, some atmosphere shots outside, some of a dark room or cellar or attic door, these help a lot.
As is it was a solid horror film. Like I said before, capturing that sense of dread is very difficult. They also had that 4th wall effect, some really solid score pieces (horror music is all too generic these days, so it stood out even more), the clown makeup with the pitch black around the eyes and mouth contrasting with the clown white as well as the black and white costume, was well done too. The acting was standard (you can see worse in much higher budget tv shows and films, so while it could be better, there's not much room for complaint), though the main girl in the core segment did the best job and was actually good. The fact that some of those segments dated as far back as nine years prior to the release of the film was impressive as well, as they didn't feel out of place in terms of crew experience.

A solid horror flick that shows promise for what may come next.

I also love this movie...fun and creepy. Art the clown is awesome. Great Halloween watch! :)

Agreed. I was veeeeeeery reluctant to rent this film. The only, and I mean ONLY reason I gave it a shot is because it's a halloween-themed movie and I can use all of those that I can get! I expected this to be another z-grade piece of crap.

But it was actually great! The soundtrack was straight out of the 70s and it had a genuine creepy retro vibe. Plus the gore was surprising and effective. It's no Trick 'r Treat but it's one of the better Halloween movies out there, few as they are.

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Its crap but I liked

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Just the first quarter of this movie alone blows away mainstream garbage Hollywood horror films like the conjuring or Insidious... all of those put together

I'm glad that Art the clown is finally getting his own big movie debut, Terryfier, in 2017 and I honestly believe that he's going to be the next big slasher horror icon, just look at all the scary clowns out there already this year... it's sheer genius on the part of the director and creators.

I don't think that this movie is the very best horror movie ever made, far from it, but it is a cult classic worth watching and after watching it, I can't imagine how they could have really made it much better considering the fact that it's a low budget indie flick...

People that say the acting is sub par don't even know wtf they're talking about, it's actually believable and come on people it's a low budget b grade horror movie, don't apply Oscar standards to it, just enjoy...