TALES OF HALLOWEEN (2015)

When you compact ten short films about Halloween into just over an hour and a half's running time, you can expect the films themselves to be hit and miss.  That said, Tales of Halloween, from the beginning, felt like putting on your favorite set of pajamas and watching episodes of "Creepshow" or "Tales from the Darkside" as a kid - though with the gore factor ratcheted up.  Ghosts, ghouls, the devil, serial killers, witches, evil children, vengeful demons, and wonderful cameos from Lombardo Boyar to Barry Bostwick, Greg Grunberg (in full Big Ass Spider! uniform) to Sam Witwer, Booboo Stewart to John Landis, Lin Shaye to the late, great Ben Woolf to some sexy-wicked narration by Adrienne Barbeau, even with a few clunkers there is just something wonderful about the whole package of evil little short films here, it all feels somehow both nostalgic yet fresh at the same time.  So much so, am kind of hoping they'll produce another next Halloween. (rated R)  B+