All Hallows' Eve (not rated)
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This direct-to-video movie was released in 2013, but I didn't see it until 2025. It's sort of an anthology movie, but the segments sort of blend into the framing story, somewhat. Which is fine, except that the segments are supposed to be short films, and I don't think they entirely come across that way. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, I thought the movie as a whole wasn't very good, but it also wasn't very bad. I don't really care about the movie, but I did want to check it out because it introduced a character, Art the Clown, who was later spun off into his own series of "Terrifier" movies, which I might want to watch someday. I thought I should see this first.

On Halloween, a brother and sister named Timmy and Tia get home from trick-or-treating with their babysitter, Sarah. Timmy finds a VHS tape in his bag of candy, and has no idea how it got there. He wants to watch it, but Sarah is reluctant to let him. However, ultimately she does let Timmy and Tia watch the first short film on the tape. In it, we see a young woman get drugged by a silent clown. She then wakes up to find herself chained in a tunnel, with a couple other women. They end up being tortured by a coven of deformed witches, or whatever. After that, Sarah sends the children to bed.

In the second short, a woman named Caroline is stalked in her house by an alien, during a power outage. At the end of the short a painting is revealed, which is of Art (the clown from the first short).

In the third short, a young woman stops at a gas station on her way home. She finds the attendant threatening to call the cops on Art the clown if he doesn't leave. Well, Art does leave, but later comes back and kills the attendant. He then stalks the woman as she desperately tries to escape. She fails.

After that, Art shows up in the house where Sarah is... and that's all I want to say about that. I will say that all three shorts, and the wraparound story, were horrifying, but gratuitous. I mean, there's really not much plot to any of it, it's all just about various people being menaced. The whole point of the film seems to be the horror. And that may sound rather obvious, when talking about a horror movie, but... most horror movies have more to them than just that. So... I dunno what to think about this. I just hope the "Terrifier" movies are better than this.

The movie was followed by "sequels" that really have no connection to this movie. But since I have the first one on a double-feature DVD with this movie, I'll at least watch that one someday.