"The Curse of Halloween Jack" is 81 minutes long, but in the tradition of low-budget Brit horror flicks directed by Andrew Jones, it feels like 800. Revolving around an undead killer who wears a sack mask and returns on Halloween night to off a bunch of low-talent British actors, the movie lifts heavily from numerous better films without ever justifying its derivativeness by blending its borrowed ideas into something remotely resembling a good horror flick. It doesn't even have the kind of cheap, stupid gore effects you'd want and expect from this kind of knock-off; just a whole lot of wooden acting and incompetently staged dialogue scenes that drag on for way too long. I did kind of like the guy who was some weird mashup of Dr. Loomis from "Halloween" and Snake Plissken from "Escape from New York", but it's not like he's fun enough to make this movie all that watchable. Sure I've seen worse, but that isn't saying much!
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