The Day After Halloween
2022
Comedy / Horror / Mystery
The Day After Halloween
2022
Comedy / Horror / Mystery
Plot summary
Two lifelong buddies must unravel the circumstances that led to a corpse in their bathtub in the wake of a Halloween party.
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Not a fun watch
No, this has nothing to do with 1979's The Day After Halloween.
Every year, lifelong friends Addison (Danny Schluck, who wrote this) and Hayes (Brandon DeLany) have a Halloween party at the drive-in that Addison operates and then an after-party. It's always a lot of fun. So how did this year's party end with the corpse of Addison's ex (Aimee Fogelman) in the bathtub? Seeing as how the boys were both blackout drunk, they better find out and find out fast.
This movie would be better if it was presented in a linear structure, as it bounces around so much that it's difficult to follow. But even if that still happened, the fact that every female character doesn't have a name and is instead named after their role in the film kind of makes me not all that into this. Throw in some humor that is just in your face instead of provocative -- a character is painting a sign with an unfinished racist slur at one point -- and you have a film with unlikeable leads, unlikeable side characters and a frankly unlikeable plot.
Hey -- at least some of this was filmed at the Mahoning Drive-In. And I liked some of the very in-your-face dialogue that Fogelman says, but so much of this feels like a drag. This is being sold as "The Hangover meets horror!" but perhaps they meant that it has all the pain of an actual hangover, not the movie that is being referenced.
Watch it. You've seen worse.
Chompcrc again. This movie is everything right about independent cinema. It has good dialogue, better than average acting, a unique storyline, and likable characters. The problem that I have with it is the film's structure. It uses time jumps to fill the narrative, and the ending is not typical or fulfilling. I was entertained throughout, and I like the overall feel of it. I dig the drive-in theatre setting, and love the John McClane costume. The two female leads are gorgeous and good at what they do. I couldn't decide which one I liked more. The two male leads did what they should of done for the most part, and carried the film nicely. The Jehovah's Witnesses angle was an afterthought, and should have been fleshed out more, but overall, I say it's a win for horror comedy. The good: the chicks are great, you have no idea where the story is going, and the characters are likable. The bad: too much time is spent in the past, whereas more time should have been spent making the present more coherent. The unclean: too much bj and masturbation talk. Overall, I say good job though, and I really hope this gang gets together and makes something else real soon.