Sam ls a peculiar demon trick-or-treater dressed in pajamas and a burlap sack, who appears to enforce the “rules” of Halloween who stars in four interwoven events on the night of Halloween set in the fictional town of warren Ohio.
Just as it would be alongside a fire, the spooky power of the myths and legends being spun is all in the style of the storyteller. This delivers the nasty goods with fluid grace and demented glee and is bound to become Halloween appointment viewing.
Those that have grasped its intentions have every reason to be happy with the end result. And to that end, mere words in a movie review cannot express how much I just don't care.
The only shock is how Brian Cox and Anna Paquin ended up in something so atrocious. In trying to span so many genres, the film fails to hit the mark with any of them.