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Curse of Crom


Curse of Crom, The Legend of Halloween is a new favorite film. I watched this film last season, and I honestly fell in love with it right away. I ordered the bluray right after watching it on tubi or some other streamer, of which there were many showing Crom. Low-budget Indy flicks have never been my cuppa but this one had me at Halloween. The opening is Halloween 4-style perfection. It's incredibly earnest, for some reason I've used this word often when talking about this flick. What I mean is that low-budget or not the characters are in this film and they own it. I really like every single character. Steve, or Lil Rock, as I refer to him (Halem Medina) is the spitting image of a younger Dwayne Johnson. I do not accept that this guy is not the bastard son of the Rock. I shouldn't gossip, it doesn't become me.

The scene where Steve finally sees the spirit is great. The next time we see him he is dressed in a costume of dead animals (or the likeness thereof, to protect him from Crom) and it's hilarious. Harvey's reaction to it works, too. The characters all click in scenes like this.

The Steve character, as I refer to him (Tanner Gillman), is Harvey. Tanner's character just reminded me of Steve from Stranger Things the first time I watched. He has a dance scene that has me LOL every time. And he and Mary's (Chelsea Jurkiewicz) adventures in fighting the dark Irish Halloween god could have been a bit more developed. What I mean by that is just that I wanted more. I'm not a movie critic, so I don't have any insight to what's missing with the movie, but I felt like there was more to explore.

Screen-used prop sent to me by director Rob York

Crom was filmed in beautiful Utah, and I would have liked more Halloween imagery, more Trick or Treating, more jack-o'-lantern carving. The film has some of this, but I didn't think enough. Perhaps I'm just never satisfied. As I've already mentioned, I love this movie. The climax does very much close out this story, but it needed more. Just more, more of Crom, more interactions between the characters and Crom. It feels like the story closes with a whimper and a stare.

I have to note the monster, Crom. The budget has certainly affected the main star of the film. There are moments where the creature does look low-budget, but there is a close-up scene where the monster looks fantastic. So there we go, hit and miss. However, there is a scene where we see the monster, and he looks like a dangling Halloween dancer popular in the late-'90s, and he reminded me of the monster from Screams of a Winter Night. Lorraine is this little witch's spirit zipping around the graveyard killing high school kids, and she could be a cousin to Crom. This only helped to further endear the film to me more.

Curse of Lorraine, Another Legend of Halloween...

So take my criticisms with a grain of salt because this film is now in heavy rotation for Halloweentober here on out. It's worth a watch if you love Halloween. I think the director, Rob York, has said there will be a sequel. Get your copy below!

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