Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Scarecrow-88 Mr. Jack, the Pumpkinman. Yeah, expect a camp horror flick here. Not as bas as I was expecting, but maybe that was because I was prepared for something truly excremental. I think one thing I admired about Steve Latshaw's "Jack-O" was the homage to screen legends John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell. Some critics I imagine would complain that their belated appearances was just an excuse to use footage of the two deceased screen veterans, but I could sense an appreciation for them even if their faces did cause me to feel a bit odd that they had been passed a few years after this movie was made. Good old Fred Olen Ray, an executive producer and one of two behind the film's idea, was more than willing to lend a fellow low budget filmmaker a helping hand. Carradine is a warlock who conjures a supernatural demon which looks like a scarecrow with a pumpkin head to kill the townspeople behind his lynching. Many moons later, and some dopey kids fooling around remove a wooden cross buried in it's grave, and so Mr. Jack, The Pumpkinman rises, scythe in hand, prepared to slice and dice. A little boy(played by the director's son), must save his father(Gary Doles), an ancestor of the family who sent Carradine to his death, by somehow killing Mr. Jack (something about being the fifth descendant and according to some rule must be the one to defeat Mr. Jack) or else the Kelly clan will indeed be put to rest by the Mackins. I could say I was interested in seeing how the filmmakers would present some pumpkin-head killer, but who am I kidding? I wanted to see Linnea Quigley and as much of her as possible..and Latshaw give me just that. I'm never one to complain when I get my customary Quigley shower as she soaps that magnificent naked body. Oh, and besides that you get a side-splitting murder by toaster with animated lightning bolts as the victim deteriorates to a skeleton! Anyway, a descendant of Mackens(Catherine Walsh) befriends the Kelly family wanting to help silence Jack forever, finally laying the demon to rest. Latshaw and company aren't without a sense of humor..you have to imagine they'd have to consider that their killer would be a laughingstock. And among the victims, a pair of uptight, penny-pinching conservatives who don't have the Halloween spirit. Oh, and there's also a fake decapitated head gag with a not-so-very-convincing prop which might provide some extra chuckles. Quigley, if you are interested, is a babysitter taking the Kelly kid trick-or-treating while her sister is off with the biker boyfriend on his hog. The effects are poor and Quigley's role is minor, (although she does prevent the kid from getting stabbed, before being socked across the face and knocked unconscious)..not a lot to recommend to slasher fans unless you enjoy cheap gore gags and seeing Quigley bathe her nude body. Without the nudity and modest gore, this could be a family television horror flick. Mitchell's part is of a host of the Dr Cadaver Horror Theater while Brinke Stevens turns up as the character of a bad horror flick on the boob tube(something called The Coven).

mcrfreack 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

Claudio Carvalho In Halloween, three friends seek an ancient cemetery in the suburb for fun and remove a cross from a tomb, where Jack-O was buried many years ago by the farmer Arthur Kelly. The evil creature is unleashed, kills the trio and seeks the descendants of the Kelly family for revenge.The cheesy "Jack-O" is a combination of a terrible story with awful acting. I was curious with the name of John Carradine in the credits and I can not imagine how a relative authorizes the use of archive footage in such a bad movie, showing a total lack of respect with the name of this great actor. It is impressive how bad the acting is, shifting the film to a comedy instead of the proposed horror genre. This is the type of movie good to see with a group of friends, drinking beer, making comments and laughing a lot. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Jack-O – Demônio do Halloween" ("Jack-O – Demon of the Halloween")

Lukeydude-1 I bought Jack-O a number of months ago at a Blockbuster video sale, and at the time I wasn't expecting anything outstanding from it. Upon watching it, I realized I not only got less than I could have ever bargained for, but a whole lot more as well. It seems, strange, I know. And it is. But it's perfectly fitting when you consider that the utter weirdness that is "Jack-O"The movie follows a young boy named Shawn Kelly. Somehow, thru ancestral ties, he is marked for death at the hands of a demented, scythe wielding Pumpkin man. This pumpkin man was killed by Shawn's Great-grandfather-uncle-cousin-etc, and now that the villain has been resurrected, Shawn's death is apparently crucial to his hell-bred mission of vengeance. Anyway, much "horror" ensues as Jack-O hacks his way thru various neighbors before battling Shawn to the finish.I'm not so much here to discuss the plot as I am to determine who may find any worth in this movie. I can honestly tell you that Jack-O is one of the most poorly made movies in the history of time. The acting is deadpan (except when it should be), the script is apparently a 1st grade group project, and the production budget must not have exceeded $150. Some of the most laughable death scenes are carried out in this anti-thriller, and they're all the more humorous when you realize director Steve Latshaw actually seems serious in his movie-making.And yet I heartily enjoyed the film. I can call it a terrible horror movie, yes. But I can also say I had a great time watching it with my friends, and have watched it several times since that fateful first viewing. Many people (including some of my friends) will find this movie intolerable and needlessly time-consuming, and that's understandable. If you're like me and enjoy ridiculously bad horror movies that take themselves seriously, you'll find Jack-O an instant classic, which is also understandable.That's why it's so hard to rate this movie. If I were rating Jack-O's quality as a film, I wouldn't give it anything. In fact, the studio would owe me stars. Yet if I were rating it's on the basis of pure enjoyment, I'd give it an 8 or a 9. I'll give it a 4, so to be somewhere in the middle. I recommend everyone go out, rent this, and form their own conclusion.