“Haunt,” an early Halloween arrival that traps its collegiate protagonists inside an all-too-fatal holiday attraction, delivers a satisfying quantity of creeps and frights that more than compensate…
from MTV series “Faking It”): She has an abusive, alcoholic boyfriend who has recently given her a black eye and keeps sending angry text messages. Covering up they eye with makeup and trying to ignore his threats, she lets herself be persuaded into going out by bestie Bailey , plus fellow housemates Angela and Mallory .They land at a costume-party dance where Harper makes the acquaintance of nice-guy Nathan , as well as his somewhat overbearing pal Evan .
Mostly eerily silent, the villains are a half-dozen or so costumed figures with generic identities , whose masks sometimes nod toward famous movie ghoulies . We get no intel as to who they are or why they’ve set up an elaborate Halloween haunt to lure victims for very real homicides. The ambiguity works; any straightforward explanation would likely dilute the menace of these robed, mute messengers of death committing heinous acts out of sheer malevolence.
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