FilmRSlasher Witchcraft & Occult Demonic & Possession

Hack-O-Lantern1988

Name: Hack-O-Lantern
Genre: Slasher, Witchcraft & Occult, Demonic & Possession, Folk Horror
Released: 1988-03-25
Rating: 5.2

“The power is in the blood.”

Directed by Jag Mundhra

5.2

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 4.7TMDB 4.9

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Year

1988

Runtime

96 min

Box Office

Budget

$5,500,000

The premise

When Tommy was a boy, he saw his grandpa, the leader of a vicious satanic cult, murder his father in a brutal ritual on Halloween night. Now he is 18, and grandpa is ready to indoctrinate him into the ways of the black arts.

Horror Vault's take

A young man named Tommy has spent his entire life under the shadow of a grandfather who leads a ruthless satanic cult — one whose influence over him began with a blood-soaked Halloween night in his childhood. Now that Tommy has come of age, grandpa is ready to fully pull him into the darkness of the black arts. What follows is a Halloween-night spiral of cult rituals, masked violence, and escalating dread as the sins of one twisted family threaten everyone around them. It's low-budget, unapologetically mean-spirited, and dripping with late-80s satanic panic energy.

Content: Graphic Violence, Satanic Ritual Imagery, Murder, Disturbing Family Dynamics