Happy Halloween – FrightFest 2024 Movie Review
Director: Brittney Greer
Writer: Brittney Greer (Screenplay)
Cast
- Emma Reinagel (Cinderella in the Caribbean)
- Aline O’Neill (Eldritch USA)
- Cameron Mabie (Inheritance)
- Mickey Stone (Vincent’s Vow)
- Nathan Shelton (Everything)
Plot: A small midwestern town is celebrating its 300th birthday with festivities including a Halloween dance and corn maze. The previous All Hallow’s Eve, Hadley Briggs survived a brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend which put him in prison. But now a new series of slayings has started with the masked perpetrator making grisly decorations out of their victims’ body parts.
Runtime: 1 Hour 36 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Happy Halloween starts when Hadley Briggs (Reinagel) returns to town after surviving a brutal attack. Hadley gets to reunite with her friends Payton (O’Neill), Dacey (Mabie), Kagan (Weldin) and others. However, a killer has reappeared and killed again.
Hadley faces a new threat as the killer starts targeting her friends and leaves her wanting to know the truth. However, it means looking back on what happened the year before and the memories that changed her life.
Verdict on Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween is a horror thriller following a group of high school students targeted by a killer. It happens one year after the last incident and now their past comes back to haunt them. Can they survive the attacker and discover what the killer wants?
This horror slasher dives back into the original Scream era for the style. The slasher elements are entertaining, and the masked killer is always fun to watch. If you only dive in for these things, you will have a good time. However, it does fall into the same problems most slashers have, the teenagers and town still wildly celebrating Halloween after a murder happened while a murderer is on the loose. That question aside, this does create a mystery about who the killer is, which goes hand in hand with the Scream era of horrors.
Final Thoughts –Happy Halloween is a fun slasher that keeps you guessing.