This is the blind person terrorized by an intruder film. There has been nearly a dozen of these made and I thought this was one of the worse. Emily Walton (Noell Coet) who is psychologically blind from an automobile accident where her mother (Shannon Makhanian) died, must defend herself against an intruder on mischief night.There were only three characters introduced besides Emily. Two of them are victims and the third is doubtful, leaving you with a senseless meaningless film that is simply a break-in for the sake of a break-in. No twist.Emily is blind, but watches TV and turns the lights on. Had the feel of a made for TV drama. I didn't feel the intensity or horror.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

RELEASED TO TV IN 2016 and written & directed by Sheldon Wilson, "The Night before Halloween" concerns a group of teens who must deal with the ramifications of a Halloween prank gone wrong. It is eventually revealed that they are under the Curse of the Carver: a curse that slays you on the night before Halloween unless you can trick someone into killing someone else.The overall filmmaking is professional and the cast takes the material seriously and perform proficiently with Bailee Madison & Justin Kelly emerging as the main protagonists. Anthony Lemke is particularly effective as the detective. There's an almost "Wow!" moment at the halfway point where Wyatt (Alex Harrouch) reveals what was really going on during the confusing opening act and I hoped the rest of the movie would change my "Meh" feelings, but it was not to be. The perplexing curse and the baffling non-creature it unleashes (a bunch of flies that sometimes morph into a partial monster) are too befuddling. If the viewer can hardly understand what's happening how can the teens in the story comprehend their life-or-death situation with any certainty? Note to emerging filmmakers: Work the kinks out of your premise BEFORE making the movie. The director, Sheldon Wilson, needs to improve his scriptwriting skills because the movies he writes tend to be problematic story-wise ("The Hollow," "Neverknock" and "Stickman") whereas his movies written by others can be quite good for TV-budgeted flicks ("Mothman," "Red, Werewolf Hunter" and "Scarecrow," which is excellent).The female cast is decent, but not stellar, rounded out by Kiana Madeira as Lindsay and Dani Kind as the secondary detective. Natalie Ganzhorn has a small role as Beth.THE MOVIE RUNS 90 minutes and was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.GRADE: C-

Scyfy doesn't do horror very often and on the rare occasion they do they don't have the habit of producing anything even remotely watchable.Bailee Madison stars in this messy little tale which though has an explained concept (As terrible as it is) it doesn't explain itself beyond that and leaves it to the viewer to fill in the blanks.Poorly made, terribly paced, with forgettable characters and few redeeming features this paint by numbers effort isn't terrible it's just simply not very good either.A decent enough (Though inevitable) twist near the end saved it a point or two but even that should have been handled better.If they make a sequel (Which is teased though I doubt it'll ever happen) I just hope everyone packs bug spray and those annoying sticky yellow tape things that catch flies! That would make the movie at least comical.Move along, nothing to see here

Sheldon Wilson writes/directs for the Syfy Channel this creepy bit of horror. The night before Halloween, a group of friends are trying to scare each other with what is thought to be a prank and Beth (Natalie Ganzhorn) ends up in a coma after being accidentally electrocuted. What is unknown among the group, is that newcomer Kyle (Jahmil French), is being secretive of the fact he is trying to rid himself of the Curse of The Carver. He has to trick someone into committing murder before midnight on Halloween Eve or he will be mutilated by a mysterious creature.That's all I can say; all pranks aren't pranks. All accidents are not accidental. Detective Burk (Anthony Lemke) is finding it hard to believe what the friends have to say about the situation. No one should feel at ease. Fear is for real.I personally feel that Bailee Madison steals the show. Also in the cast: Justin Kelly, Kiana Madiera, Elisa Moolecherry, Alex Harrouch, Jonah Wineberg and Dani Kind.