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Summary: [Junko]-O
Review: A very poor attempt at a b-movie. Apparently it's very hard to make a purposefully stupid movie these days. Boring, not bad enough to be good. Not cheesy enough to laugh at. No compelling gore. An occasional chuckle from the 6-grade school-play script.
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Summary: Looking for Laughs?
Review: A while back, my friend and I went to get a horror film of ghetto proportions, and found this gem in our local video store. We could not have been more delighted! This movie is the absolute best to make fun of, and just have a good clean laugh at! The acting is quite possibly worse than an elementary Christmas show (my personal favorites from the film: The pure "terror" in the little boy's voice when he is being buried alive, and the Oscar worthy acting skills of the wife of the man in old times who goes off to kill Jack-O). The producers of this movie blew their budget on the opening lightening sequence, making the other effects laughably fake. If you're looking for a scary, quality horror movie, keep moving on. But if you want to have some good fun laughing at and making fun of a movie so bad that the participants must hang their heads in shame to know it resides on their resumes? You have found it.
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Summary: Lame-O
Review: I watched this movie by accident and still regret it 2 weeks later. I love B movies, but this one puts them all to shame. The plot is so weak I found myself trying to make one up just so I could continue watching. If you are a fan of actors that not only cannot act but have no heart, and a story that isn't really there watch it, but if not avoid it at all costs.
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Summary: So bad it is amazing!
Review: If you are looking for the worst possible movie you can find, you must rent Jack-o! My friends and i began a tradition to get together every other weekend, and rent the cheesiest horror flick we could find. One day, we rented Jack-o. This movie is a splendid mix of horrible acting, dispicable writing, and effects that left me laughing histarically in my seat. This movie is beyond bad. It is absolutely histarical. The start of the movie was just fantastic. In no more than the first 5 minitues, we paused the movie to see the shaddows of the crew in the lower left hand corner of the screen. We knew we were in for a treat as soon as we saw that. The acting was pitiful. This movie had it all. A woman's eyes too large for her own good and a lifeless child actor who borringly states "no" with no emphasis at all left me cracking up. The effects were just as pathetic. The death scenes were very cheesy. At one time, after a death, the movie cuts to a rock, and "blood" is just thrown against it. In another scene, a man is decapitated. His head rolls off and his body is left there twitching, while it is still in the standing position. I don't even want to get into the plot. For one, I didn't even understand it. But the movie was just so awful, that it was hillarious. I loved it frankly. My friends and I continue to watch cheesy horrors every other weekend, but Jack-o is at the top of our list of favorites!
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Summary: So bad it is amazing!
Review: If you are looking for the worst possible movie you can find, you must rent Jack-o! My friends and i began a tradition to get together every other weekend, and rent the cheesiest horror flick we could find. One day, we rented Jack-o. This movie is a splendid mix of horrible acting, dispicable writing, and effects that left me laughing histarically in my seat. This movie is beyond bad. It is absolutely histarical. The start of the movie was just fantastic. In no more than the first 5 minitues, we paused the movie to see the shaddows of the crew in the lower left hand corner of the screen. We knew we were in for a treat as soon as we saw that. The acting was pitiful. This movie had it all. A woman's eyes too large for her own good and a lifeless child actor who borringly states "no" with no emphasis at all left me cracking up. The effects were just as pathetic. The death scenes were very cheesy. At one time, after a death, the movie cuts to a rock, and "blood" is just thrown against it. In another scene, a man is decapitated. His head rolls off and his body is left there twitching, while it is still in the standing position. I don't even want to get into the plot. For one, I didn't even understand it. But the movie was just so awful, that it was hillarious. I loved it frankly. My friends and I continue to watch cheesy horrors every other weekend, but Jack-o is at the top of our list of favorites!
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Summary: Hardly "White Bread"
Review: It's Halloween night (of course), and a small boy named Sean has no idea that he is being hunted by a "demon"- er, a silent creature with a glowing pumpkin for a head because of the actions of his ancestors. In this film, we follow Sean's parents, his conservative neighbors, school friends, a supernatural woman, and his babysitter. But how could it be complete without the babysitter's irresponsible sister and her Harley-wannabe boyfriend? Well, they're there, too...along with other beer drinking teens that find themselves facing this evil creature, Jack-O. Okay, this film is low-budget, but filled with diverse characters and funny 80s humor. Not much music, but armed with plenty of Halloween spooks and even a little nudity for the guys out there. If you like B-movies, catch this one and watch yourself around toasters.
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Summary: Looks as if it was made in 1960!
Review: Jack-o had a good story to it but the acting was okay but the sound quality was worse. Even though I never lived through this time, I have seen movies that were made in 1960. This was a movie that looked as if it came from that time. Since the movie was made in 1995, the quality was poor. I gave it two stars instead of one because I thought it had a good story to it.
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Summary: Looks as if it was made in 1960!
Review: Jack-o had a good story to it but the acting was okay but the sound quality was worse. Even though I never lived through this time, I have seen movies that were made in 1960. This was a movie that looked as if it came from that time. Since the movie was made in 1995, the quality was poor. I gave it two stars instead of one because I thought it had a good story to it.
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Summary: Stay away from Jack-O!
Review: Jack-O is doubtlessly one of the most ridiculous horror movies I've ever seen. It's so bad it's insulting.The effects are so ridiculous you don't know if to laugh or to cry; the so-called actors should get another job (even Linnea Quigley is disappointing), and the dialogues are as low as they can get. I like cheap little horror movies if they can at least deliver some thrills, but Jack-O is just a waste of time from the beginning to the end. But what is really detestable is that they put in some material featuring John Carradine who died years before Jack-O was made, and then use another guy for the wide shots. How stupid do those guys think the audience is? Next time producer Fred Olen Ray (Beverly Hills Vamp) should direct himself, and not the obviously untalented Steve Latshaw. I'd recommend every horror fan to stay away from this waste of celluloid.
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Summary: Rent this sometime
Review: Jack-O is one of those rare films that are so unbelievably devoid of ability, it's hard to imagine any human could have constructed them. However, producers Fred Olen Ray and Roger Corman are known for taking garbage to whole new dimensions.The plot approaches total nonsense (what jumps to mind: shower scenes that appear from nowhere, along with footage seemingly cobbled in from a separate film), the characters are as obnoxious as is humanly possible, and the acting is the worst -- there is one fantastic scene at the end, where as the child is being buried by the monster, mumbles "No..." in a bored voice.. All said and done, Jack-O is quite possibly the ultimate b-movie; it goes far enough off the un-artisic scale to become art again.
It's a work of genius.
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