Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.
Lined by an amicable sense of dark humor and a sporadically amusing bloodlust, this hit-or-miss compilation could bring Halloween cheer to genre fans ...
– Nick Allen,
RogerEbert.com,
16 Oct 2015
fresh:
Consistently entertaining - enough to make it a favorite among genre fans.
– Noel Murray,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Oct 2015
rotten:
A collection of 10 macabre miniatures that are disposably diverting at best and execrable at worst, despite the participation of some familiar genre faces and directors.
– Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
20 Oct 2015
rotten:
"Tales of Halloween" is full of great fodder for urban legends, and that's about as sophisticated as most of the film's 10 scary vignettes - all set in a suburb on Halloween night - get.
– Tom Keogh,
Seattle Times,
29 Oct 2015
fresh:
While it pales in comparison to such horror anthology predecessors as Tales from the Crypt, Asylum and Creepshow, Tales of Halloween offers enough minor diversions to make it enjoyable late-night viewing.