Jack-O (1995) * 1/2 (out of 4) An evil wizard is put to death but before that can happen he places a curse on the town. On Halloween that curse comes true with a Pumpkin Man showing up to take revenge.This movie apparently got made because Fred Olen Ray had footage of John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell that he wanted to be used in a film. Both men were already dead so he told director Steve Latshaw to build a story around that footage and the end result in JACK-O. This is pretty much what you'd expect from a direct-to-video release from the 1990s. There's certainly nothing ground-breaking here but if you're a fan of the slasher genre then you'll still want to check it out.Obviously they were working on a very low-budget here so you have to expect certain technical issues. If you're expecting some sort of high art then you're certainly going into the wrong sort of film. As I said, there's really nothing ground-breaking here and there's no question that this here is a bad movie but it does offer up a little entertainment. Linnea Quigley plays a babysitter here and she also has a wonderful shower sequence where she shows off her body. If you grew up watching these sorts of films then you know who Quigley is and you know what she does best.The film also manages to take unused footage of Carradine and Mitchell so fans of them will enjoy seeing the footage. Neither give Oscar-worthy performances but the footage being included here is what it is. The look of the monster certainly isn't scary but I actually liked the design and thought it was better than what you normally see from movies like this. Again, there's nothing great here so be prepared for what you're getting.

OK so first of all. What the hell is this? Who would ever even name a movie Jack-o? More like Crap-o! I mean come on a fricken pumpkin headed killing....thing?! Running through some farm ass town killing people. What the hell kind of movie is this?! OK second of all the actors in this make me want to wipe the movie case on my butt. I mean OK they have NO emotion. The boy Sean Kelly, yeah I am over 100% sure this kid is mentally retarded. He never closes his mouth and his glasses are about the size of a dog! And his so called "baby" sitter, who looks like she should be a college student. And since she has to baby sit him when his parents are in the garage. Or so called "spook house". OK so the garage is less than 10 feet away why waste money on a person to watch your kid? Oh and the "spook house". One word. CRAP! Who in gods name would pay money for that?! And what 10 year old carries around money for a "haunted garage" ~maryalright so okay. i am really out of words i sat there and watched this piece of dong. for a whole 90 minutes yeah. can you tell i have no life. I don't know who thought of this but they should be shot in a corn field. first off suck penis!. there are better actors on hip hop harry. i mean the people seem to like going to the grocery store in this film. because the so called mother always has some type of brown paper bags in her hands for god knows what reason. and most importantly she is cross eyed to the max. now for the father..yeah they never state what day it is in the whole entire movie but okay i don't know what grown up man wants to sit around his house and dress up like Dracula but what ever. it is his life and who the hell is going to pay money for a few crappy painted on pieces of card board with a darn hanging witch from a string wow fun spook house. oh oh oh don't even get me started on that boy.WTF i mean why,why would you cast this kid. i mean he wakes up from his 9th dream in about two mins and he has no emotions all he says is " Mr pumpkin man.." in the most unenthusiastic voice i have ever heard in my life. then some how he gets into his back yard which is now the mother fricken forest and some child rapist is in a cloak reading out of some devil bible. i think he was on some major acid. -sky.OK so now we have to talk about the "star" of the film, Jack-O. Yeah I don't ever remember when a walking scar crow with a pumpkin for a head was ever scary. It might have been sorta scary if he at least popped out in some parts of this crappy film. But no, all he does is stand in front of a bush and holds a crappy Styrofoam rip off of a scythe. Yeah I love how the end of his killing object is blunt? So it wouldn't even hurt that darn bad to be stabbed with it. But whatever. Oh and his legs, which are more like noodles tied together. In most parts of the movie he is stumbling around like a cripple. But when he needs to kill he runs like a gold medalist at the Olympics . And the random English people sitting in there homes watching government t.v. OK the view on the t.v. is better than the view on the whole movie?! And I don't what kind of people eat toast on Halloween at midnight, but she stuck the knife in the toaster and got turned into a skeleton? Yeah the skeleton looks like my gramma when she wakes up. So way to go there special effect man. And also the kid can not run or hide. He is in a house and hiding under a table while the pumpkins man is standing right in front of him?! Dude grab a knife and shove it in the pumpkins head. The things outfit is made out of straw, why doesn't anyone just light it on fire and get this horrible excuse for a movie over with. -MaryJack-o the main man. Okay so Jack-o well i don't really know how he got awaken, but he did...i guess beer actives him. okay. So he is now risen and starts killing people randomly, probably the worst killing scenes i have ever seen. Every killing scene is the same, kills them right through the neck. that was wonderful. So now he is in the bushes..no wait he is on the side walk..hold on..wait i think i see him in the house ? no the garage..okay so when does pumpkin face get teliporation powers. that was never stated. Alright so now he finally has the little boy cornered after a much thoughtful attempt to kill him while running like a paraplegic person.So he is cornered,anyways it seems daddy is having a hard time opening this door, so he lets his son get killed, blood shoots on the windows. BUT WAIT. they run out side, i guess the door is fixed now and they are saying" where is our song where is our son. " anyways the crack headed witch lady walks over to the murder scene, seeing now that both jack-o and Sean have magically disappeared. any who she looks down and says " This isn't blood.." what the heck was it a juice box... OK so the next scene they show is Jack-O herding the child. Why doesn't he just kill him there?! Is there a real reason for the child to be buried alive. I mean COME ON! -Sky

Jack-O (1995) was a really bad movie, we are talking snoozefest x 100, no entertainment value whatsoever, no budget, no gore, Z-grade actors etc etc, this film was an awful addition to the horror movie industry and shouldn't have been made!!! The only reason i purchased this movie was because i knew Linnea Quigley was in it, and sure enough, she does her obligatory nude shower scene, which is lovely yes.But as for the film itself........ i fell asleep at the 40 minute stage and had NO desire at all to finish it, it's just bigtime lame OK.I love horror movies, i'm an avid fan, a MASSIVE fan, i love low budget horrors, i love it all, but i hated this rubbish, so i think that will tell you all you need to know about "JACK-O".I give this movie 2/10, the "2" is for the 2 minute Linnea shower scene, the movie itself is a total ZERO!!!!

This thing, it shouldn't be called a film, is almost worse than "Manos", but you just have to see it it's hilarious. If you see it at video store rent it, if you see the 10th anniversary edition, yes there is a special edition, for under $10 buy it, if your friend has it borrow it, you just have to see this. The acting is so bad, and the gore is is so fake. After viewing this you'll be asking yourself why did they make this insult of the art of film? That's assuming your face doesn't melt off like the Nazis's in "Raiders" . If you manage to see this, be sure to vote this movie as 1 (awful) so it can make the bottom 100, it really deserves a spot there. I'm surprised it's not number 1, right now.