All Hallows' Eve: Trickster

"This Halloween, Hell Opens"

Director: Evan Tramel Year: 2023 Runtime: 89 min IMDb: ⭐ 3.4
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Synopsis

When a lost traveler on Halloween night comes across an isolated rural gas station, she thinks she's found her way home. Unbeknownst to her, the eerie gas station is the residence of a family of degenerate, devilish creatures.

On Halloween, after a night out trick-or-treating, children Tia and Timmy are surprised to find an unmarked VHS tape in their candy bag. Together with their babysitter Sarah, they watch the tape, which contains three stories featuring a homicidal clown named Art. The 9th Circle[edit] The first segment features a young woman named Casey, who is drugged and kidnapped by Art while waiting for a train. She awakens to find herself chained in a room with two other women, Kristen and Sara. When Sara is dragged away by her chain, Casey and Kristen follow her to see where their chains lead. Upon reaching the end of the chains, Casey attempts to break the chains with a large rock. A deformed humanoid appears and dismembers Kristen with a cleaver, unwittingly freeing Casey by severing her chains. She runs away and encounters a man with a shopping cart who she begs for help but the man recaptures her and she is soon tied down and surrounded by a hooded coven of witches. After watching the witches cut the fetus from the womb of a restrained pregnant woman, Casey is taken over by Satan. Sarah sends Tia and Timmy to bed and continues watching the tape by herself. Something in the Dark[edit] The second segment features Caroline, who has just moved into a countryside home. At night, a bright object crashes near the house and a power outage occurs. Caroline's phone and car malfunctions and she suspects that someone else is in the house. She suddenly receives a call from her husband, John, a painter, but the connection soon breaks. She discovers that she is being stalked by an alien, and after managing to disorient it, she hides in a small room under a staircase. There, her phone rings again, alerting the alien to her location. As the alien drags her off, she pulls a sheet off of one of John's paintings, revealing an image of Art the Clown. Terrifier[edit] The third segment features a costume designer driving down an isolated road. Stopping at a gas station, she finds the attendant furiously kicking out Art, who had apparently smeared feces on the gas station's bathroom walls. While the attendant fills her tank and gives her directions, he hears a noise from inside the gas station. He goes inside to investigate, and when he does not return, the costume designer enters the building and sees Art chopping up his body with a hacksaw. She drives off and calls the police, but Art appears behind her seat and attempts to suffocate her with cellophane. She slams on the brakes and escapes, barricading herself inside a large shed. Art digs his way into the shed and slashes her with a makeshift whip. She stabs Art in the eye with a scalpel and in the back with a knife. She escapes again and is picked up by a man who tries to drive her to a nearby police station. Art pursues them in a car and kills the man with a handgun, causing their car to crash. After some time, the costume designer regains consciousness on a crude operating table and finds that Art has amputated her limbs and breasts and carved obscenities into her body. Ending[edit] Disturbed, Sarah turns off the TV. A home phone rings, and when Sarah answers it, she hears the costume designer from the third segment pleading for help. The television turns back on, displaying a dingy room. Art steps into the frame, approaches Sarah from within the screen, and begins to pound on the glass. Sarah then sees herself on the television screen, with Art behind her. She frantically removes the tape from the VCR and smashes it on the floor, destroying it. Shortly afterwards, she hears Tia and Timmy scream. Sarah runs upstairs and sees Art the Clown outside their room, covered in blood, laughing at her and gleefully gesturing for her to enter. Sarah covers her eyes in terror; when she uncovers them seconds later, Art has disappeared. Sarah enters the room, finding just Tia and Timmy's bodies slashed apart, and "ART" written on the wall in blood.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

someone is sexually assaulted
Yes
there's genital trauma/mutilation
spoiler He dies via getting ass fucked by a dick with a mouth ????????? I Don't KNOWWWWWWW
someone is restrained
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler Implied
a baby cries
Yes
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
a family member dies
spoiler Sister, but she doesn't really know she's dead just that 'something is wrong'
someone is kidnapped
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler woman is locked in a box
there are shower scenes
Yes
someone vomits
Yes
There's audio gore
Yes
someone is eaten
Yes
heads get squashed
Yes
there is copaganda
spoiler One of the main characters of the various shorts is a cop
there are hangings
Yes
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
shaky cam is used
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
an LGBT person dies
spoiler They happen to be gay in a horror movie: they aren't killed *because* they're LGBT. They're killed because they're there when the killer is
there's demons or Hell
Yes
there is sexual content
Yes
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
someone is sexually assaulted onscreen
spoiler A man is raped on screen by a weird monster- it kills him via that??? It's so fucking weird bro
rape is mentioned
spoiler It wasn't mentioned, but it happened on screen so-
sexual assault on men is a joke
spoiler They kind of made the onscreen rape of this guy a huge joke ? It was so fucking weird I don't know
the ending is sad
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
spoiler Cops shoot at a serial killer
there's body horror
Yes

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