***Spoilers Ahead*** You know you're in trouble when you see 'written,directed, and produced' by the same person, but in this case Leone also grabs the editing and Special Effects slots too. The only silver lining here is Art the Clown, who is brilliantly conceived and executed by both the director and actor. He is demonically delicious and could have been the tentpole for an endless series of sequels, so bravo to Mike Gianelli. His cutscenes steal the movie, if not so much his actual section. Unfortunately, everything else Leone crafted is half- assed at best, and at worst falls back on the worse aspect of the horror genre : "I like to rape, torture and slaughter pretty young women! Cuz it's Scary Right!?!?!" Nope, it's dull and unoriginal, and I'm sorry you didn't get dates in high school Mr. Leone... Where the Art the Clown costuming/make up is concise and effective, the Scuba Alien is like something you could buy at Wal-Mart for Halloween. Where the art painting of Art is fantastic, the subway demons are unfinished and silly. I would have been more impressed that Leone crossed the horror film taboo line with the brother/sister, but the pregnant assault (for NO apparent reason to the story) and the final 'slut/whore/cu*t' carvings scene were too ludicrously misogynistic to accept seriously. This had cult potential but unfortunately is failed by not enough cooks in the kitchen.

ALL HALLOWS' EVE is yet another indie horror anthology made on a tiny budget without much in the way of imagination. This film's sole saving grace is that the director has a little bit more creativity than most so he manages to make a handful of scenes halfway spooky which is saying something given the bottom-of-the-barrel nature of the genre. There are three stories collected here. The first is an unpleasant little thing about a demon raping chained up girls in a basement. The second one has a woman visited by an extraterrestrial and is quite amusing. The last one is about a woman hunted by a psychotic and creepy-looking clown, a story that spills over into the wraparound tale about a babysitter. At least two of the stories are pre-existing short films made by the director. As a film, ALL HALLOWS' EVE is a little too obsessed with the mutilation of young women, but it could be worse.

Sarah (Katie Maguire) babysits for two kids on Halloween. One gets an unmarked VHS tape in his bag. She watches the tape which contain three episodes with a common theme of a clown and women being abducted/killed. Anybody who has seen a film of someone watching an unlabeled VHS tape knows what happens next.

This is a "me too" yawner. I liked Kate Maguire as the babysitter, but the film needed to be something besides predictable film shorts. Okay as a rental.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. Implied off screen rape. Mutilated FX nudity.