Hallow's End

Starring:Cloud, Little, Hearron, Morris, Dunn
Studio: Orfeo D'or
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

night of terror
The neverending hallow.
Not what I had hoped for...
Dumb (Not Fun Dumb)
WHO CARES ABOUT THE ACTORS!!

Hallow's End
Starring: Stephen Cloud , Brandy Little , Amy Jo Hearron , Amy Morris (II) , and Matt Moore (III)
Director: Jon Keeyes
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2004-12-07

Description

DVD FEATURES:
Director's Commentary
The Making of Hallow's End Documentary
Casting Featurette
Deleted Scenes with Alternate Ending
A Comedy of Horrors: Bloopers and Outtakes

Customer Reviews:

night of terror.......2006-08-03

I received this movie in the mail yesterday, and my girlfriend and I watched it and loved it. The movie is set in a haunted house environment, like something you'd find in a small town. That adds to the whole creepiness of the setting. The acting's not as bad as everyone says, a few parts are little to acted. But the idea of everyone turning into there costume's and the story line is classic. I live for movies like this, and if you like horror movies at all, you'll love this one.

The neverending hallow........2005-09-30

Hallow's End (John Keeyes, 2003)

That Hallow's End isn't the worst movie I saw this weekend is a traumatic experience. The worst part of it is that, unlike the completely useless Centipede!, there was so much potential here to have made not only a really good horror film, but one with subtexts, strong characters, and all the other things that would have made it an underground Silence of the Lambs. But... well, no. Not at all.

I can't actually reveal most of the plot without spoilers. The movie revolves around a service fraternity who put on an annual haunted house to raise money for charity. All well and good, except that things start to go very, very wrong one year when tensions are already running high. The reason for each of those things constitutes its own major plot spoiler; the former is actually something of an unusual twist that I can't say anything at all about. The latter involves a love... well, quintangle, I guess.

Hallow's End is Chris Burdick's first script, and it reads like a first script-- but like a first script which, had it had a really solid editor and a couple of rewrites, would have taken the world by storm the way the first feature scripts of Alan Ball (American Beauty) or Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) did. Burdick obviously has a great feel for college life, especially the ugly "everybody sleeps with everybody and everybody's jealous about it" soap-opera stuff that no one wants to write about because, well, it's soap-opera stuff. Burdick comes so very close to nailing it here. The relationships in the movie, in fact, are the strongest part of the script. That's not saying a great deal, because a lot of things seem to have been shoved to the back in order to make room for the relationships; in particular, a number of other characters don't get anywhere near the development they deserve (including, ironically, one of the five characters involved here). Plot, also, recedes into the background in some very important places. That's great when it's intended; for example, in figuring out who's behind the whole mess. However, when plot threads disappear, never to be found again (whatever did happen to that guy in the parking lot? And what about that cat on the back fence-- why was it there?), one has to think that a few more rewrites would have been a really good idea.

It's completely chauvinist to say that the movie was saved by the sex scenes. And, to be fair, the movie isn't saved by the sex scenes. One of them had the potential, if we cared at all about the characters, to have been a sex scene for the ages. Unfortunately, however, we once again turn to Burdick's script for why it's not; he's so focused on the dynamics of the relationships themselves that he forgot to people them with real characters. The lovers (not just in this scene, but in the whole film) are flat, wooden creations who might as well be blow-up dolls.

I hope someone eventually retools the script and remakes this movie, because it really could be one for the ages. Unfortunately, however, this particular iteration is a horrible disaster. You won't be able to stop watching it, because it's really that bad. (zero)

Not what I had hoped for..........2004-09-21

Let me start off by saying that I am a huge horror fan, and my absolute favorites are the cheesy 80's flicks. That said, when I chose to watch a new (2003) horror movie, I never expected to see a film that was trying so hard to copy the "cheesy 80's horror" genre. Some things just cannot be copied and still maintain entertainment value. This film wasn't funny or exciting on any level, at least to me. The actors were dull, and the story was not developed well. The displays of nudity seemed to be placed in hopes of attracting hormonal teens. Oh, and there were no subtitles, which is a 'must' in our household. For people looking for a truely entertaining cheesy horror flick, I suggest "Dolls" and those looking for a good modern horror should keep looking. Just my opinion, as always.

Dumb (Not Fun Dumb).......2004-09-10

I watched this on PPV in the early morning hours. First off, it was barely watchable and boring. Secondly, the acting was shocking. But the film did have some good production values. Director Keeyes did a fine job with the low budget.

Defining this movie as "dumb" doesn't do justice to all the dumb fun movies out there. "House of the Dead" for example. This movie just doesn't succeed on any level and the attempts at sexiness with a girl on girl scene are laughable!!! I truly regret watching this film and my life is poorer for it. There is 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back and $3.95 that I'll always be chasing.

Sucks....

WHO CARES ABOUT THE ACTORS!!.......2004-07-10

OK,PLAIN AND SIMPLE...If your a horror junkie like i am, this movie is not for you.

If your looking for a so-bad-it's-good film, this is not it.

If your looking to become an actor/actress and you want to know how to go about it..again this is not for you.

Here's what i really think of this film..without being to harsh!

NOW SIT BACK AND ENJOY AN EXCULSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE MAKING OF "HALLOW'S END"....

This movie looks like a college film project made by the most popular and richest kid in the school who's determined to get an A so he can impress his new girlfriend and father he never sees, so he gets some friends and family to act. "Don't worry guys, we got cue-cards..so just act natural" he tells them.

For the location, he remembers that the owner of the warehouse is a golf buddy of his father "Sure, anything for Walter's son..how's your father anyways, still in Europe?"

Then, it's time to find a make up artist "Wait" he asks his buddy's "Think Amy still works at the make up counter in Wal-Mart?" Thankfully she did, and she agreed to help and she also got a discount on the make up cause she works there!

Things are going so well up to now, he's got everything he needs to make a movie, location, actors, script (coffee fell on the papers but you can still make out most of it), make up artist, camera and tripot.(newest model at circuit city!)So he calls everyone and says that we has to start shooting over the weekend because the project is due for next week Thurday.

To his amazement, everyone is ready and willing to do this film and to help him out even more, every "actor" brought with them their friends, moms, little brothers to be "extras" in the film!

So 5 days pass and the film is finally completed, he is so exhausted but he knows it was all worth it..one day HE IS going to be that big hollywood type director everybody will want to work with! "Reach for the stars" he tells his friends "..and never let go, Hollywood here i come!"

That's the last his friends ever heard of their aspiring director friend "What do think ever happened to him" a buddy asks a buddy "Don't know, but i really hated that film he made in college..dude, it really sucked!"

THE END

Sorry about the sarcasm but this film is a disgrace to all horror fans and i wish that people will open their eyes and realize that horror films are slowly becoming comedies and not taken seriously anymore.

Product Description

It's Halloween in a small town and in order to raise some money for their fraternity, a group of college students concocts a haunted house to scare the locals. A local farmer offers some of his old props, including a book of witch's chants and a cursed jack-o'-lantern. When one of the students reads the chants, all hell breaks loose with costumed vampires and zombies turning into the real things.

Average customer rating:

Hallow's End/Hemoglobin
Starring: Hallow's End , and Hemoglobin
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
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Average customer rating:

night of terror
The neverending hallow.
Not what I had hoped for...
Dumb (Not Fun Dumb)
WHO CARES ABOUT THE ACTORS!!

Hallow's End
Starring: Stephen Cloud , Brandy Little , Amy Jo Hearron , Amy Morris (II) , and Matt Moore (III)
Director: Jon Keeyes
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Horror | Genres | DVD | Video

DVDs Under $9.99 | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

( H ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video

American Nightmare
Evil Remains
Suburban Nightmare
Boo
The Cave (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B0001XLVOU

Customer Reviews:

night of terror.......2006-08-03

The neverending hallow........2005-09-30

Not what I had hoped for..........2004-09-21

Dumb (Not Fun Dumb).......2004-09-10

WHO CARES ABOUT THE ACTORS!!.......2004-07-10

OK,PLAIN AND SIMPLE...If your a horror junkie like i am, this movie is not for you.

If your looking for a so-bad-it's-good film, this is not it.

If your looking to become an actor/actress and you want to know how to go about it..again this is not for you.

Here's what i really think of this film..without being to harsh!

NOW SIT BACK AND ENJOY AN EXCULSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE MAKING OF "HALLOW'S END"....

For the location, he remembers that the owner of the warehouse is a golf buddy of his father "Sure, anything for Walter's son..how's your father anyways, still in Europe?"

To his amazement, everyone is ready and willing to do this film and to help him out even more, every "actor" brought with them their friends, moms, little brothers to be "extras" in the film!

THE END

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