Awesome Music: Noir Deco provide an unsettling, 80s-synth inspired score.
Bizarro Episode: The second segment has nothing to do whatsoever with the rest of the movie, and isn't even set on Halloween like the others and the wraparound. It doesn't help that it's initially built up to be another supernatural-themed segment only for the alien threat to show up out of nowhere.
Complete Monster: Art is a sadistic Monster Clown who finds humor in torture and murder. He's introduced in the first segment, "The 9th Circle", drugging Casey and taking her underground, where she's abducted by a coven of witches who tie her down to an altar to be raped by the Devil. In the third segment, "Terrifier", he viciously murders his way through a number of victims, all the while relentlessly pursuing a young woman who saw him dismembering the corpse of the gas station attendant. When he finally catches up with her, he shoots her would-be rescuer and takes her back to his lair where he horrifically mutilates her while she's unconscious. He spends most of the wraparound segment stalking and tormenting Sarah and the children, particularly Tia, which all culminates in him killing the two children.
Creepy Awesome: For all his unquestionable evil and blatant misogyny, Art is an amazingly terrifying character.
Fridge Horror: What does Art need a naked, defenseless, limbless woman for?
Fridge Logic: The kids might have survived had Sarah actually acknowledged that something was amiss when Timmy called her out for "checking in on [them] every five minutes.
Funny Moments: While largely bereft of the humor of the latermovies, the third segment does get one genuinely funny part in, even if it's still a little creepy.
Gas station attendant: (to Art) Are you out of your fucking mind? Art: (vigorously nods his head)
Harsher in Hindsight: A few years after the movie's release, there were some actual Monster Clown sightings around Halloween, including ones where armed clowns would try to lure children into the woods.
Just Here for Godzilla: Let's face it: creepy as All Hallows' Eve is, it's still incredibly clichéd. The main reason to watch it is for Art.
Moral Event Horizon: His murders are all rather gruesome, but Art's butchery of the costume designer is particularly cruel and horrific.
Narm: The alien in the second segment is kinda scary... at least until we see it. It looks like a scuba diver wearing a plastic, gray alien mask from a dollar store.
Nightmare Fuel: Any scene with Art. He is a walking incarnation of this trope.
The dialogue listed under Wham Line on the main page. While it's already pretty obvious that Art is creeping into the real world, it only serves to reinforce the movie's creepy atmosphere.
Took the Bad Film Seriously: It's not a bad movie, per se, but it's still a Cliché Storm. With that being said, Mike Gianelli gave his all to his performance as the maniacal Art the Clown.
The Woobie: Everyone in the cast qualifies, but most notably:
Tia. Her brother is a rudejerkass who laughs at her for being scared of Art, while Art himself seems to enjoy stalking her in particular.
The costume designer. First she witnessed a brutal murder, and ended up being followed by the Ax-Crazy clown, who's hellbent on killing her and anyone he runs across. Ultimately, Art captures her and mutilatesherhorribly while she's unconscious, and possibly rapes her.
Sarah. She babysat her friend's children with absolutely no idea that things were going to turn out the way they would.
Sequelitis: It's generally regarded as weaker than the original, being composed primarily of shorts that fail to have any connection to the wraparound segment.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Changing the killer from the insane Monster Clown Art to a generic Michael Myers knockoff in a pumpkin mask who has no clear connection to the shorts — which themselves don't fit the wraparound segment at all — didn't really win over many fans of the first movie.
