It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I thought I would just comment about movies within movie. I always appreciate when there are scenes where other movies are given tributes via a shot at a TV or a big screen theater showing of a movie.In this case the movie tribute shown was The Coven. However, im not sure of its existence, so im asking other movie reviewers here to identify it as being real or not and listing the IMDb link.On this site there are a couple tiles of The Coven. However, the oldest one dates back to only 2002. The film shown during Jack-O looks a bit older than 2002 or at least made to look that way.So if anyone can identify The Coven in Jack-O (year, IMDb link), that would be some good IMDb sleuthing skills.

Warning Might contain spoilersi just sadly spent 5 bucks on this movie on amazon and i wish i never spent it. I have never seen suck horrible special affects, or acting. I mean Jack-0 is just a laughable monster and his costume looks like something u could buy at a Halloween store or make yourself. The acting is just horrible especially Sean Kelly i mean come on he is so pathetic with his little lines "COme get me PUmpkinman" low i laughed so hard on this its just stupid. I mean the movie is so awful they had to put a few minutes of nudity in it just for people not to shut it off low. I think the most laughable scene is when the woman sticks a butter knife in the toaster and gets electrocuted. I mean come on that looked so fake and the dummy i could buy that at any Halloween store or make it myself. Well I recommend not watching this cheesy movie cause it will be time you will never get back.

OK so first of all. What the hell is this? Who would ever even name a movie Jack-o? More like Crap-o! I mean come on a fricken pumpkin headed killing....thing?! Running through some farm ass town killing people. What the hell kind of movie is this?! OK second of all the actors in this make me want to wipe the movie case on my butt. I mean OK they have NO emotion. The boy Sean Kelly, yeah I am over 100% sure this kid is mentally retarded. He never closes his mouth and his glasses are about the size of a dog! And his so called "baby" sitter, who looks like she should be a college student. And since she has to baby sit him when his parents are in the garage. Or so called "spook house". OK so the garage is less than 10 feet away why waste money on a person to watch your kid? Oh and the "spook house". One word. CRAP! Who in gods name would pay money for that?! And what 10 year old carries around money for a "haunted garage" ~maryalright so okay. i am really out of words i sat there and watched this piece of dong. for a whole 90 minutes yeah. can you tell i have no life. I don't know who thought of this but they should be shot in a corn field. first off suck penis!. there are better actors on hip hop harry. i mean the people seem to like going to the grocery store in this film. because the so called mother always has some type of brown paper bags in her hands for god knows what reason. and most importantly she is cross eyed to the max. now for the father..yeah they never state what day it is in the whole entire movie but okay i don't know what grown up man wants to sit around his house and dress up like Dracula but what ever. it is his life and who the hell is going to pay money for a few crappy painted on pieces of card board with a darn hanging witch from a string wow fun spook house. oh oh oh don't even get me started on that boy.WTF i mean why,why would you cast this kid. i mean he wakes up from his 9th dream in about two mins and he has no emotions all he says is " Mr pumpkin man.." in the most unenthusiastic voice i have ever heard in my life. then some how he gets into his back yard which is now the mother fricken forest and some child rapist is in a cloak reading out of some devil bible. i think he was on some major acid. -sky.OK so now we have to talk about the "star" of the film, Jack-O. Yeah I don't ever remember when a walking scar crow with a pumpkin for a head was ever scary. It might have been sorta scary if he at least popped out in some parts of this crappy film. But no, all he does is stand in front of a bush and holds a crappy Styrofoam rip off of a scythe. Yeah I love how the end of his killing object is blunt? So it wouldn't even hurt that darn bad to be stabbed with it. But whatever. Oh and his legs, which are more like noodles tied together. In most parts of the movie he is stumbling around like a cripple. But when he needs to kill he runs like a gold medalist at the Olympics . And the random English people sitting in there homes watching government t.v. OK the view on the t.v. is better than the view on the whole movie?! And I don't what kind of people eat toast on Halloween at midnight, but she stuck the knife in the toaster and got turned into a skeleton? Yeah the skeleton looks like my gramma when she wakes up. So way to go there special effect man. And also the kid can not run or hide. He is in a house and hiding under a table while the pumpkins man is standing right in front of him?! Dude grab a knife and shove it in the pumpkins head. The things outfit is made out of straw, why doesn't anyone just light it on fire and get this horrible excuse for a movie over with. -MaryJack-o the main man. Okay so Jack-o well i don't really know how he got awaken, but he did...i guess beer actives him. okay. So he is now risen and starts killing people randomly, probably the worst killing scenes i have ever seen. Every killing scene is the same, kills them right through the neck. that was wonderful. So now he is in the bushes..no wait he is on the side walk..hold on..wait i think i see him in the house ? no the garage..okay so when does pumpkin face get teliporation powers. that was never stated. Alright so now he finally has the little boy cornered after a much thoughtful attempt to kill him while running like a paraplegic person.So he is cornered,anyways it seems daddy is having a hard time opening this door, so he lets his son get killed, blood shoots on the windows. BUT WAIT. they run out side, i guess the door is fixed now and they are saying" where is our song where is our son. " anyways the crack headed witch lady walks over to the murder scene, seeing now that both jack-o and Sean have magically disappeared. any who she looks down and says " This isn't blood.." what the heck was it a juice box... OK so the next scene they show is Jack-O herding the child. Why doesn't he just kill him there?! Is there a real reason for the child to be buried alive. I mean COME ON! -Sky

I bought Jack-O a number of months ago at a Blockbuster video sale, and at the time I wasn't expecting anything outstanding from it. Upon watching it, I realized I not only got less than I could have ever bargained for, but a whole lot more as well. It seems, strange, I know. And it is. But it's perfectly fitting when you consider that the utter weirdness that is "Jack-O"The movie follows a young boy named Shawn Kelly. Somehow, thru ancestral ties, he is marked for death at the hands of a demented, scythe wielding Pumpkin man. This pumpkin man was killed by Shawn's Great-grandfather-uncle-cousin-etc, and now that the villain has been resurrected, Shawn's death is apparently crucial to his hell-bred mission of vengeance. Anyway, much "horror" ensues as Jack-O hacks his way thru various neighbors before battling Shawn to the finish.I'm not so much here to discuss the plot as I am to determine who may find any worth in this movie. I can honestly tell you that Jack-O is one of the most poorly made movies in the history of time. The acting is deadpan (except when it should be), the script is apparently a 1st grade group project, and the production budget must not have exceeded $150. Some of the most laughable death scenes are carried out in this anti-thriller, and they're all the more humorous when you realize director Steve Latshaw actually seems serious in his movie-making.And yet I heartily enjoyed the film. I can call it a terrible horror movie, yes. But I can also say I had a great time watching it with my friends, and have watched it several times since that fateful first viewing. Many people (including some of my friends) will find this movie intolerable and needlessly time-consuming, and that's understandable. If you're like me and enjoy ridiculously bad horror movies that take themselves seriously, you'll find Jack-O an instant classic, which is also understandable.That's why it's so hard to rate this movie. If I were rating Jack-O's quality as a film, I wouldn't give it anything. In fact, the studio would owe me stars. Yet if I were rating it's on the basis of pure enjoyment, I'd give it an 8 or a 9. I'll give it a 4, so to be somewhere in the middle. I recommend everyone go out, rent this, and form their own conclusion.