Jack-O Lantern

One year ago, Jack suffered a terrifying car accident. He emerged from it alive, but others weren’t so lucky. Now Jack is plagued by recurring nightmares of the tragedy, and he returns home to try to rid himself of his terrifying nightly visions. Once there, however, he realizes that the nightmares contain the crucial details of what really happened that fateful night, and when the others who were involved start dying off, Jack realizes that he is an instrument of someone’s brutal revenge…, One year ago, Jack suffered a terrifying car accident. He emerged from it alive, but others weren’t so lucky. Now Jack is plagued by recurring nightmares of the tragedy, and he returns home to try to rid himself of his terrifying nightly visions. Once there, however, he realizes that the nightmares contain the crucial details of what really happened that fateful night…, Trick-or-treaters inadvertently free the spirit of a demon. Linnea Quigley, Rebecca Wicks, Gary Doles, Ryan Latshaw., This Florida-lensed slasher silliness (not surprisingly produced by exploitation overlord Fred Olen Ray) is enlivened only slightly by posthumous cameos from John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell, as well as appearances from B-movie “Scream Queens” Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens. The plot is basically a riff on the standard Freddy Krueger-esque supernatural-maniac formula, only here the unstoppable psycho is merely a lumbering ghoul with a big pumpkin for a head, awakened from a cursed sleep on Halloween night by the usual handful of obnoxious teenage morons. Amid confusing flashback sequences and some phony occult blathering (courtesy of the town witch), we’re told that Jack-O is the incarnation of a murdered farmer who has returned to avenge himself by taking a scythe to his killers’ ancestors, but this particular pumpkinhead’s people-reaping spree seems to cover a much broader swath, including a crop of nubile young things — preferably just out of the shower, or fresh from a randy romp in the local cemetery. Even allowing for a certain camp appeal, there’s not an original concept to be found amid the abundant nudity and severed limbs.