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* AsHerself: Adrianne Curry makes [[TheCameo a cameo]] as herself in "The Night Billy Raised Hell", with Billy and Mr. Abaddon carjacking her and stealing her car.
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* TheCameo: Adrianne Curry appears AsHerself in "The Night Billy Raised Hell", with Billy and Mr. Abaddon stealing her car.
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* BiggerOnTheInside: In "Ding Dong", Bobbie's oven looks normal from the outside, but is large enough inside to [[spoiler:take the body of a full grown man]]. (However, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane this may be a case of]] ThroughTheEyesOfMadness.)

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* BearTrap: Combined with FlamingBagOfPoop in "The Night Billy Raised Hell". Billy places a flaming paper bag on the doorstep and rings the bells, but when the householder goes to stomp it out, the bag contains a bear trap that snaps shut on his leg.

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* BearTrap: Combined with FlamingBagOfPoop BurningBagOfPoop in "The Night Billy Raised Hell". Billy places a flaming paper bag on the doorstep and rings the bells, but when the householder goes to stomp it out, the bag contains a bear trap that snaps shut on his leg.



* BurningBagOfPoop: Combined with BearTrap in "The Night Billy Raised Hell". Billy places a flaming paper bag on the doorstep and rings the bell, but when the householder goes to stomp it out, the bag contains a bear trap that snaps shut on his leg.



* ManEatingPlant: The monster in "Bad Seed" is a self-mobile, man-eating pumpkin.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: In "Ding Dong", Bobbie sprouts several extra arms in her WickedWitch persona and uses them to attack Jack.
* MurderByCremation: In "Ding Dong", [[spoiler:Jack is shoved inside the flaming oven--which is much larger on the inside than it has any right to be--by his wife after she learns he has had a vasectomy.]]



* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These are homicidal beongs who resemble rotting corpses and will do anything to achieve their goals.

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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These are homicidal beongs beings who resemble rotting corpses and will do anything to achieve their goals.


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* SinisterShiv: In "The Night Billy Raised Hell", a dentist gives Billy a toothbrush instead of candy. Mr. Abaddon sharpens the toothbrush into a shiv, and then sends Billy back to the dentist's door, where Billy stabs the dentist to death.
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* BearTrap: Combined with FlamingBagOfPoop in "The Night Billy Raised Hell". Billy places a flaming paper bag on the doorstep and rings the bells, but when the householder goes to stomp it out, the bag contains a bear trap that snaps shut on his leg.

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* TheHeroDies:
** [[spoiler:"The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy is gunned down by the police the second he's released from captivity.]]
** [[spoiler:"Ding Dong": Jack is shoved in the oven after his wife learns he had a vasectomy.]]

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* TheHeroDies:
** [[spoiler:"The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy is gunned down by the police the second he's released from captivity.]]
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TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:"Ding Dong": Jack is shoved in the oven after his wife learns he had a vasectomy.]]
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** [[spoiler:"The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy is released from his bounds and immediately shot by the police for the crimes he was framed for.]]

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** [[spoiler:"The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy is released from his bounds and immediately shot arrested by the police for the crimes he was framed for.]]
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* TheSociopath:
** Sweet Tooth, a ghost who killed his parents because they ate his Halloween candy and now kills others for candy.
** Mr. Abaddon, a demon who frames his neighbour for a crime spree because the kid pranked him.
** [[spoiler:The main characters of "Trick," who torture a bunch of children for no apparent reason.]]
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'''''Tales of Halloween''''' is a 2015 {{Horror}} comedy AnthologyFilm. It features ten stories all taking place in one neighbourhood on UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve, punctuated with commentary from a jist radio show host.

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'''''Tales of Halloween''''' is a 2015 {{Horror}} comedy AnthologyFilm. It features ten stories all taking place in one neighbourhood on UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve, punctuated with commentary from a jist radio show host.
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* "The Night Billy Raised Hell": A young boy eggs his neighbour's house and learns what a real Halloween prank is.

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* "The Night Billy Raised Hell": A young boy eggs his neighbour's (Creator/BarryBostwick) house and learns what a real Halloween prank is.



* "The Weak and the Wicked": A group of delinquents learn exactly what happens when the wicked torment the weak.

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* "The Weak and the Wicked": A group of delinquents (Grace Phipps, Creator/BoobooStewart, and Noah Segan) learn exactly what happens when the wicked torment the weak.



* "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": Two kidnappers learn the kid they're holding for ransom is much more of a handful than they expected.
* "Bad Seed": A cop investigates a series of murders by a monstrous pumpkin.

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* "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": Two kidnappers (Creator/SamWitwer and Jose Pablo Cantillo) learn the kid they're holding for ransom is much more of a handful than they expected.
* "Bad Seed": A cop (Kristina Klebe) investigates a series of murders by a monstrous pumpkin.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Caitlyn and her friends are brutally murdered by a group of kids... who wanted to rescue their friend and avenge all the other kids Caitlyn's group murdered for laughs.]]


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The main characters in "Trick" discuss how a lot of kids are dressed as pirates for Halloween, with one joking they might all be missing eyes. [[spoiler: It turns out they've been torturing kids by cutting their eyes out, making the joke especially heinous.]]


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* TooDumbToLive: The adults in "Trick" don't try to call the police for help and one stupidly leaves the house to start her car, leaving her open for the other kids. [[spoiler: This is because if the police came, they'd find out about the pool house being used by the four to torture children. The last member of the group is shown considering dialing 911, but instead opts to delete the photos of her and her friends carving up a young boy's eyes.]]


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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: "Trick" reveals the main characters are a bunch of psychopaths who kidnap children and torture them by removing their eyes.]]
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's not hard to notice the backwoods serial killer's deformed face is a rubber mask, especially when the actor moves his mouth looking up at the flying saucer.
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** Boris is upset that his new neighbor outshined him in Halloween decoration and is playing loud music during a party, so he destroys his property and assaults him, ending in both getting impaled on a sharp piece of wood.


'''''Tales of Halloween''''' is a 2015 {{Horror}} comedy AnthologyFilm. It features ten stories all taking place in one neighbourhood on AllHallowsEve, punctuated with commentary from a jist radio show host.

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'''''Tales of Halloween''''' is a 2015 {{Horror}} comedy AnthologyFilm. It features ten stories all taking place in one neighbourhood on AllHallowsEve, UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve, punctuated with commentary from a jist radio show host.
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* TheSociopath:
** Sweet Tooth, a ghost who killed his parents because they ate his Halloween candy and now kills others for candy.
** Mr. Abaddon, a demon who frames his neighbour for a crime spree because the kid pranked him.
** [[spoiler:The main characters of "Trick," who torture a bunch of children for no apparent reason.]]
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: These are HornedHumanoid monsters who can take more human forms and love murder. However, deapite that deacriptor, they aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil. Some are vigilantes who bring KarmicDeath on the wicked.

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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: These are HornedHumanoid monsters who can take more human forms and love murder. However, deapite despite that deacriptor, descriptor, they aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil. Some are vigilantes who bring KarmicDeath on the wicked.



** "This Means War": Boris iz a controlling, sexist prick who resorts to property damage, assault and [[spoiler:murder-suicide]] over his neighbour's haunted attraction overshadowing his own.

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** "This Means War": Boris iz is a controlling, sexist prick who resorts to property damage, assault and [[spoiler:murder-suicide]] over his neighbour's haunted attraction overshadowing his own.
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** "The Weak and the Wicked": The Demon of All Hallow's Eve acts as a supernatural vigilante, bringing vengeance on all who harm anybody who performs the ritual tp summon him.

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** "The Weak and the Wicked": The Demon of All Hallow's Eve acts as a supernatural vigilante, bringing vengeance on all who harm anybody who performs the ritual tp to summon him.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: "Ding Dong". It is unclear whether Bonnie truly is a demonic witch who wants to eat children, or if this is a metaphorical visual trick and she is really just an abusive woman who wants to be a mother, her appearing as a child-eating witch representing the abusive mother she would definitely be to a child.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: "Ding Dong". It is unclear whether Bonnie Bobbie truly is a demonic witch who wants to eat children, or if this is a metaphorical visual trick and she is really just an abusive woman who wants to be a mother, her appearing as a child-eating witch representing the abusive mother she would definitely be to a child.
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: The lead characters in "Trick" are actually psychopaths who kidnap and torture children, and what the trick-or-treating kids are doing to them is part of a rescue mission to save their current victim.]]

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* "Ding Dong": A dude deals with his monstrous wife's quest to get a child to eat.

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* "Ding Dong": A dude deals with his monstrous wife's quest to get a child to eat.child.



* CaptainErsatz: The {{slasher}} from "Friday the 31st" is a big deformed man wearing a mask and wielding a machete, a dead ringer for Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series. Heck, Just look at the title.

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* CaptainErsatz: The {{slasher}} slasher from "Friday the 31st" is a big deformed man wearing a mask and wielding a machete, a dead ringer for Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series. Heck, Just look at the title.



** [[spoiler:"Ding Dong": Jack is shived in the oven after his wife learns he had a vasectomy.]]

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** [[spoiler:"Ding Dong": Jack is shived shoved in the oven after his wife learns he had a vasectomy.]]


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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: "Ding Dong". It is unclear whether Bonnie truly is a demonic witch who wants to eat children, or if this is a metaphorical visual trick and she is really just an abusive woman who wants to be a mother, her appearing as a child-eating witch representing the abusive mother she would definitely be to a child.
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* ChildEater: Bobbie, from "Ding Dong," spends the entire segment trying to get a child to eat.

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* ChildEater: Bobbie, from "Ding Dong," spends the entire segment trying to get a child to eat. It is kept ambiguous whether this is literal or metaphorical.
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** "Trick": [[spoiler:Caitlyn]].

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** "Trick": [[spoiler:Caitlyn]].[[spoiler:Caitlyn and her friends]].

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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Hallow’s Eve Devil is a monstrous being that looks like something fresh out of Hellraiser and Silent Hill, but he is also a punisher of the guilty.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: The DarkIsNotEvil:
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Hallow’s Eve Devil is a monstrous being that looks like something fresh out of Hellraiser and Silent Hill, but he is also a punisher of the guilty.
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** The creepy children are AxCrazy killers who cut down the homeowners on Halloween night. Its later revealed that [[spoiler: the creepy kids were GoodAllAlong and were hunting down the homeowners who were revealed to be [[EvilAllAlong sadistic child murderers.]]]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Hallow’s Eve Devil is a monstrous being that looks like something fresh out of Hellraiser and Silent Hill, but he is also a punisher of the guilty.
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* "Trick": A group if adults are terrorized by homicidal trick-or-treaters.

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* "Trick": A group if of adults are terrorized by homicidal trick-or-treaters.
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** "This Means War": [[VillainProtagonist Brois]].

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** "This Means War": [[VillainProtagonist Brois]].Boris]].



* ChildEater: Bobbie, from "Ding Dong," spends the entire segment trying to get a chikd to eat.

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* ChildEater: Bobbie, from "Ding Dong," spends the entire segment trying to get a chikd child to eat.



** Mr. Abaddon frames a child for a killing soree because the kid egged his house.

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** Mr. Abaddon frames a child for a killing soree spree because the kid egged his house.
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* CaptainErsatz: The {{slasher}} from "Friday the 31st" is a big misshapen man wearing a mask and wielding a machete, a dead ringer for Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series. Heck, Just look at the title.

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* CaptainErsatz: The {{slasher}} from "Friday the 31st" is a big misshapen deformed man wearing a mask and wielding a machete, a dead ringer for Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series. Heck, Just look at the title.
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* CaptainErsatz: The {{slasher}} from "Friday the 31st" is a big misshapen man wearing a mask and wielding a machete, a dead ringer for Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''.

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* CaptainErsatz: The {{slasher}} from "Friday the 31st" is a big misshapen man wearing a mask and wielding a machete, a dead ringer for Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''.''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series. Heck, Just look at the title.
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* CaptainErsatz: The {{slasher}} from "Friday the 31st" is a big misshapen man wearing a mask and wielding a machete, a dead ringer for Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''.
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'''''Tales of Halloween''''' is a 2015 {{Horror}} comedy AnthologyFilm. It features ten stories all taking place in one neighbourhood on AllHallowsEve, punctuated with commentary from a jist radio show host.

The stories are:

* "Sweet Tooth": A young boy learns of a ghostly killer who will do anything for candy.
* "The Night Billy Raised Hell": A young boy eggs his neighbour's house and learns what a real Halloween prank is.
* "Trick": A group if adults are terrorized by homicidal trick-or-treaters.
* "The Weak and the Wicked": A group of delinquents learn exactly what happens when the wicked torment the weak.
* "Grim Grinning Ghost": A ghost stalks a woman walking home from a party.
* "Ding Dong": A dude deals with his monstrous wife's quest to get a child to eat.
* "This Means War": Two neighbours go to war over their haunted attractions.
* "Friday the 31st": A backwoods slasher encounters a trick-or-treating alien.
* "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": Two kidnappers learn the kid they're holding for ransom is much more of a handful than they expected.
* "Bad Seed": A cop investigates a series of murders by a monstrous pumpkin.
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!!This film contains examples of:

* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: "Bad Seed" has a killer pumpkin.
* BigBad:
**"Sweet Tooth": [[AxCrazy Sweet Tooth]].
** "The Night Billy Raised Hell": [[{{Satan}} Mr. Abaddon]].
** "Trick": [[spoiler:Caitlyn]].
** "The Weak and the Wicked": [[WhiteGangBangers Alice]].
** "Grim Grinning Ghost": [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Mary Bailey]].
** "Ding Dong": [[ChildEater Bobbie]].
** "This Means War": [[VillainProtagonist Brois]].
** "Friday the 31st": [[SerialKiller The unnamed killer.]]
** "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": [[spoiler:Rusty Rex]].
** "Bad Seed": [[spoiler:Milo]].
* ChildEater: Bobbie, from "Ding Dong," spends the entire segment trying to get a chikd to eat.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:The main characters of "Trick" are revealed to be serial torturers of children.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Sweet Tooth began his evil career by murdering his parents for eating all his Halloween candy.
** Mr. Abaddon frames a child for a killing soree because the kid egged his house.
* DownerEnding:
** [[spoiler:"The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy is released from his bounds and immediately shot by the police for the crimes he was framed for.]]
** [[spoiler:"Grim Grinning Ghost": Our heroine manages to get home and escape the ghost trying to remove her eyes... who's on her couch.]]
** [[spoiler:"This Means War": What starts out as a comedic battle over haunted attractions ends with a murder-suicide.]]
* TheHeroDies:
** [[spoiler:"The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy is gunned down by the police the second he's released from captivity.]]
** [[spoiler:"Ding Dong": Jack is shived in the oven after his wife learns he had a vasectomy.]]
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Halloween.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:The twist of "Friday the 31st" is that the alien is trick-or-treating for human flesh.]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: These are HornedHumanoid monsters who can take more human forms and love murder. However, deapite that deacriptor, they aren't AlwaysChaoticEvil. Some are vigilantes who bring KarmicDeath on the wicked.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These are homicidal beongs who resemble rotting corpses and will do anything to achieve their goals.
* ThePublicDomainChannel: The film consistently uses the old horror standby of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''.
* VigilanteMan:
** "Trick": [[spoiler:The murderous children are revealed to be vigilantes going after the main characters, who are serial child torturers.]]
** "The Weak and the Wicked": The Demon of All Hallow's Eve acts as a supernatural vigilante, bringing vengeance on all who harm anybody who performs the ritual tp summon him.
* VillainProtagonist
** [[spoiler:"Trick": The main characters are revealed to be serial child torturers.]]
** "This Means War": Boris iz a controlling, sexist prick who resorts to property damage, assault and [[spoiler:murder-suicide]] over his neighbour's haunted attraction overshadowing his own.
** "Friday the 31st": This segment follows an unnamed backwoods SerialKiller.
** "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": Hank and Dutch are two bank robbers who have taken up kidnapping.
* TheXOfY
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