Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent adaptation.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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

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")

Ugh. Pretty awful.Linnea Quigley gets top billing, but her character doesn't have a big part. Who is her character supposed to be anyway, the little boy's aunt? Another user commented on her getting nude in a shower scene. While there was a shower scene in the movie, it was a head and shoulders shot. Perhaps there are some alternate versions of this movie.Quigley does have a bigger part than John Carradine, Cameron Mitchell, and Brinke Stevens, though. Carradine shows up briefly in a monkish robe reciting vague dialog. No other characters are in the scene with him, though he's sort of composited in, or else there are over-the-shoulder shots unquestionably belonging to someone else. There's also a really bad photo of him in a cameo locket (it looks like a bad photocopy), and a decent picture of him in a family bible. He conjured up Jack-O originally, or something like that.Cameron Mitchell briefly shows up on a TV as a TV horror host. Brinke Stevens is in the movie he's showing "The Coven," in which she runs around a cemetery in a robe. Evidently there's more of the Brinke footage as a bonus feature on the Retromedia DVD double feature Mark of the Witch/The Brides Wore Blood.Jack-O: what's it about? Darn if I know. A little boy is told a story about a pumpkin-headed demon killer, and he and some other kids are scared by a woman they think is a witch for some reason. She follows him home and offers to help his family with their haunted garage for Halloween (put your hand through a hole and feel eyeballs that are actually grapes, etc.). The pumpkin-headed killer shows up several times to hold onto branches while he watches people, or hold his scythe in front of the camera and pose with it for a while. Sometimes he manages to do more than just stand around holding things, and actually kills people.There are also some flashbacks to a western or prairie family, with the little boy playing the little boy in that family too: ancestors of his, I think. I think they figure into Jack-O's backstory, but I'm not sure how.The little boy is ostensibly the main character, but we don't really learn anything about him except that he wears glasses, has nightmares, and will fight bullies even if he'll get beat up in the process. More time should have been spent establishing his character. I couldn't have cared less if he died.Not recommended, not even for Halloween.

I've always loved horror flicks. From some of the usual well-known like "The Exorcist" to some of the more underrated like "Black Christmas" or "Just Before Dawn". But who are people kidding,even calling this trash a b-movie. It's straight up bottom-of-the-barrel Z-grade. The acting is the worst ever on film. Really,I've seen better on an episode of the "Young and the Restless"...SPOILER...Lookout for when the woman comes to tell them about the legend of Jack-o. She pauses sometimes for a matter of seconds as if someone is flashing her cue cards and she's struggling to read her lines. A RIOT! Oh,and besides the bad acting,absolutely no gore or F/X. And Jack-o looked like a plastic lit pumpkin. Watch Linnea Quigley in "Night of the Demons",or "Silent Night,Deadly Night",far superior flicks.