What a dumb, messy film. I didn't like the flashback opening. The mob plot didn't make any sense, it wasn't credible, and I didn't buy the motivations. It wasn't scary, and was just violent for the sake of it. At times it felt more like a horror comedy. The bad taste humour took me out of what was meant to be scary scenes. That sort of humour doesn't belong in a Halloween film. I quite enjoyed Karen in the film, but Laurie should have been given the film off, because they did nothing with her. Alyson was wasted too. Terrible script.