History Film / TalesOfHalloween

* {{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.]]

** In "Grim Grinning Ghost", Creator/BarbaraCrampton, Lisa Marie Smith, Mick Garris, and Stuart Gordon are guests at Lynn's mother's Halloween party.

* "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": Hank and Dutch (Creator/SamWitwer and Jose Pablo Cantillo), a pair of bank robbers, watch as Rusty Rex is let out by his father, millionaire Jebediah Rex, to go trick-or-treating. Seeing the opportunity of a major score, the two criminals kidnap Rusty and hold him for ransom. When they call Rusty's father for their demands, they are shocked to learn that Jebediah doesn't want his son back. It is revealed that Rusty is actually a malicious imp who has actually been holding his "father" hostage for years. Rusty proceeds to attack his kidnappers, leaving the duo scrambling to get rid of him by any menas nessecary.

* "Sweet Tooth": Mikey, having just finished trick-or-treating and currently eating his candy, is cautioned by his babysitter Lizzy not to eat all of it. Lizzy and her boyfriend Kyle tell him the tale of Timothy Blake, a boy whose parents ate all of his candy on Halloween 15 years ago. In a rage, he murdered them and ate the candy in their stomachs. Timothy's murderous spirit, dubbed "Sweet Tooth", roams the neighborhood on Halloween, looking for any candy he can find, even if it is already eaten. Despite warning Mikey that it is only a story, Lizzy and Kyle soon discover that the legend of Sweet Tooth is all too real, especially since they have just finished eating all of Mikey's candy.
* "The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy Thompson, alongside his older sister Britney and her boyfriend Todd, attempts to begin trick-or-treating early in the afternoon. The teens persuade Billy to egg the house of Mr. Abaddon (Creator/BarryBostwick), a stingy neighbor who has never given away any candy over the years. When he is caught in the act, Billy learns that Mr. Abaddon is the Devil himself, who vows to teach him what a real Halloween prank is. To that end, Mr. Abaddon and Billy go out on a crime spree, tormenting the townsfolk with various deadly "pranks".
* "Trick": James, Maria, Nelson, and Caitlyn are a group of friends who are spending Halloween lounging around, smoking weed, and handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. Suddenly, Nelson is assaulted and fatally stabbed by a girl dressed as a witch, prompting the group to panic. The others are attacked and killed one by one by various children in costumes, but it would seem that these homicidal children have a certain motive to do so.
* "The Weak and the Wicked": Alice, Issac, and Bart, a group of leather-clad delinquents (Grace Phipps, Creator/BoobooStewart, and Noah Segan), are interrupted from tormenting a kid dressed as a cowboy when they are confronted by a teenager dressed as "The Demon of All Hallow's Eve". Despite warning them that the demon will come for those who harm the weak, the bullies pursue him into a dead end, where they learn that he is a person from their past. When they move into finish him off, the bullies end up meeting the real Demon of All Hallow's Eve, who shows them exactly what happens when the wicked torment the weak.
* "Grim Grinning Ghost": Lynn attends her mother's Halloween party, where she tells the story of Mary Bailey, a girl who was mocked all her life for her disfigured appearance whose ghost rises from the grave to take the eyes of anyone who looks at her. After leaving the party, Lynn's car breaks down and she can't call a tow truck, leaving her to walk home by herself. Hearing ominous laughter in the distance, Lynn begins believing that her mother's story is true, and that Mary's ghost is stalking her.
* "Ding Dong": Bobbie is left despondent over the fact that she has no children. Her husband Jack tries to cheer her up by dressing their dog as Gretel, but this ends up with Bobbie, who is revealed to (possibly) be a [[WickedWitch witch]], assaulting him into submission. As the two go out to greet trick-or-treaters dressed as Hansel and a witch, Jack grows more and more concerned with his wife's obsession with children. When Bobbie nearly kidnaps a boy who is also dressed as Hansel, things between the couple reach the breaking point.
* "This Means War": Middle-aged Boris (Creator/DanaGould) proudly decorates his house for Halloween, setting up a classic, graveyard themed display. Any trick-or-treaters who attempt to observe his decorations are frightened away by the loud music being blared by his neighbor, Dante, an obnoxious rocker who has set up a morbid, gore-themed display at his own house. Boris asks Dante to turn the music down, but Dante refuses and mocks his decorations. Eventually, the two go to war, wrecking each other's decorations and engaging in a fistfight.
* "Friday the 31st": Deep in the forest, a deformed backwoods slasher pursues his latest victim, a young girl dressed as [[Film/{{TheWizardOfOz}} Dorothy Gayle]]. After he finishes off the girl with a spear through the chest, a UFO suddenly appears overhead. A tiny, costumed alien greets the killer and repeats "Trick-or-Treat!" constantly. Unable to give the alien any candy and annoyed with his constant repetition, the killer ends up crushing the alien with his foot. The alien's remains slither the mouth of the killer's victim, causing her body to become possessed. The possessed girl goes after the killer, who discovers that the tables have turned.
* "The Ransom of Rusty Rex": Hank and Dutch (Creator/SamWitwer and Jose Pablo Cantillo), a pair of bank robbers, watch as Rusty Rex is let out by his father, millionaire Jebediah Rex, to go trick-or-treating. Seeing the opportunity of a major score, the two criminals kidnap Rusty and hold him for ransom. When they call Rusty's father for their demands, they are shocked to learn that Jebediah doesn't want his son back. It is revealed that Rusty is actually a malicious imp who has previously been holding his "father" hostage for years, leaving Hank and Dutch scrambling to get rid of him.
* "Bad Seed": Ellen Bishop watches in horror as her husband Ray, who had previously been carving pumpkins in the kitchen, has his head bitten off by a sinister looking pumpkin that escapes out the back door. Detective [=McNally=] (Kristina Klebe) is called in to investigate the crime scene, and after some initial disbelief, the forensic team proves to her that the killer was indeed a pumpkin. [=McNally=] is assigned to track down the monstrous pumpkin before it can cause anymore damage to the neighborhood, but discovers that the pumpkin may not be the only member of its kind.

** "The Weak and the Wicked" has Creator/JackDylanGrazer play Jimmy Henson's younger self in a flashback.

* "Ding Dong": Bobbie is left despondent over the fact that she has no children. Her husband Jack tries to cheer her up by dressing their dog as Gretel, but this ends up with Bobbie, who is revealed to (possibly) be a witch, assaulting him into submission. As the two go out to greet trick-or-treaters dressed as Hansel and a witch, Jack grows more and more concerned with his wife's obsession with children. When Bobbie nearly kidnaps a boy who is also dressed as Hansel, things between the couple reach the breaking point.

** BookEnds: "Bad Seed" serves as this for the film, as it brings together elements from the previous stories. Lynn's "hysterical blindness" from "Grim Grinning Ghost", Boris and Dante's fistfight from "This Means War", Mordecai's crime spree from "The Night Billy Raised Hell", and the UFO from "Friday the 31st" are mentioned in reports that Captain Zimmerman shows to [=McNally=]. A pair of officers also mention to [=McNally=] that Mikey from "Sweet Tooth" had been arrested for supposedly killing his babysitter.

* "Sweet Tooth": Mikey, having just finished trick-or-treating and currently eating his candy, is cautioned by his babysitter Lizzy not to eat all of it. Lizzy and her boyfriend Kyle tell him the tale of Blake, a boy whose parents ate all of his candy on Halloween 15 years ago. In a rage, he murdered them and ate the candy in their stomachs. Timothy's murderous spirit, dubbed "Sweet Tooth", roams the neighborhood on Halloween, looking for any candy he can find, even if it is already eaten. Despite warning Mikey that it is only a story, Lizzy and Kyle soon discover that the legend of Sweet Tooth is all too real, especially since they have just finished eating all of Mikey's candy.

* "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 (Creator/BarryBostwick) house and learns what a real Halloween prank is.
* "Trick": A group of adults are terrorized by homicidal trick-or-treaters.
* "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.
* "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.
* "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 (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.

* 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.

* TheCameo: Adrianne Curry appears AsHerself in "The Night Billy Raised Hell", with Billy and Mr. Abaddon stealing her car.

** 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.

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

** [[spoiler:"The Night Billy Raised Hell": Billy is released from his bounds and arrested by the police for the crimes he was framed for.]]

* EscalatingWar: "This Means War" is about a war between neighbours over Halloween decorations that gets completely out of hand.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: "Ding Dong". It is unclear whether 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.

* TeensAreMonsters: In "The Wicked and the Weak", Alice and her gang of bullies torture and murder people ForTheEvulz. However, a flashback shows that [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour they were like this even when they were children]].
* 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.]]

** The murderous children in "Trick" attack and kill the homeowners silently and with no expression on their faces, using a variety of weapons including knives and an AerosolFlamethrower. [[spoiler:However, the kids are actually the good guys, attacking a gang of {{Serial Killer}}s to rescue one of their friends.]] Their behaviour is still creepy and unsettling.

* TeensAreMonsters: In "The Wicked and the Weak", Alice and her gang of bullies torture and murder people ForTheEviluz. However, a flashback shows that [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour they were like this even when they were children]].

* VomotingCop: When the cops arrive to find Boris and Dante ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice in "This Means War", one of them immediately throws up.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Covers the events of one Halloween, combined with a couple of short flashbacks.

* ManEatingPlant: The monster in "Bad Seed" is a self-mobile, man-eating pumpkin.

* 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.

* PyroManiac: Alice in "The Weak and the Wicked" likes to burn things. When first encountered she about to burn the lost trick-or-treater with her cigar; she later douses the Stranger in high-proof alcohol and tries to light him up; and a flashback shows that, as a child, she killed the Stranger's parents but burning down their caravan with them inside.