Ninth Annual FMS Scarelicious October Movie Series:#14 Tales of Halloween

Another October and I take another stab at a mediocre Halloween horror/comedy anthology series: 2015's Tales of Halloween.  Ten tales, connected by taking place in one town on one Halloween, where the kids starring in one segment show up as background trick-or-treaters in other segments.

The stories are: (1) "Sweet Tooth," a cautionary tale about sharing (or not sharing) your candy; (2) "The Night Billy Raised Hell," where in Billy and the actual Devil paint the town red; (3) "Trick" with murderous children collecting lives instead of candy - and a nice, dark, little twist at the end; (4) "The Weak and the Wicked," pretty weak itself as three bike-riding bullies get their comeuppance; (5) the "Grim Grinning Ghost," which seems to be a first-draft sort of thing; (6) "Ding Dong" has the Wicked Witch wishing for children of her own - very, very weird; (7) "This Means War" is the battle of the Halloween decorations; (8) "Friday the 31st," with a deformed slasher and an alien, which turns into some over-the-top crazy goriness a la Ash vs. the Evil Dead; (9) "The Ransom of Rusty Rex" wherein a kidnapping goes horribly wrong ... for the kidnappers; and (10) "Bad Seed" which is kind of Pumpkinhead, Jr.

The framework samples Adrienne Barbeau from the wonderful classic The Fog.  There's a decent cast, including Greg Grunberg, Clare Kramer, Barry Bostwick, Barbara Crampton, Pollyanna McIntosh, John Landis and Sam Witwer.  And some of the segments aren't terrible.  But I thought it averaged out to a sold meh, so you can take it or leave it, I guess.