 Thank you for checking out this no spoilers review for episode 3 of the Shutter Creepshow series Yes, I've been watching these ahead of time because Shutter was nice enough to give me screener copies for these So I have them about a week ahead of their actual release on every Thursday Go back and watch my reviews for episodes 1 and 2 if you haven't seen those because I kind of I feel like it's important to kind of work through all of these and know all of the episodes At the same time especially because at the end of each of these episodes. I'm kind of breaking down. Here's my list of Least to most favorite of these individual episodes. Well, not individual episodes But the individual stories within the episode since they're doing two stories per episode. So let's talk about episode 3 Overall It's like a half and half so the first story. Oh, well actually first of all I need to say the creep in the beginning they're kind of mascot his little intro for this one is the best of his little snippets of film yet. I thought it was clever and a little bit funny and Creepy at the same time. I was gonna say scary, but I'm like is that it's actually not scary Not a whole lot actually like scares me in horror anymore. So Okay, so excuse me So let's talk about the first story all Hallows Eve is what it's called It was written by Bruce Jones, which I wasn't able to find any IMDB credits for Bruce Jones So I don't really know what he's been involved with before Directed by John Harrison who did the short for the creep show series the house of the head And he did a really good job directing that go back and watch the episode 1 Review that I put on here because I talked about a lot about that and his directing and how good it was He's also been involved with tales from the crypt in the past and tales from the dark side as well So he's very used to this kind of anthology layout The acting in this one is okay. It's just okay, and that's kind of happened in a few of the other ones, but It's not bad. It's not good It's this very in-between thing where you're kind of like at moments. You're like that was good They nailed those lines and then at other moments. You're like that doesn't sound too good. They didn't do a great job there So it's the directing is solid. I have no problem with the directing in this So John Harrison continuing with what he's doing So the thing I like about the story is that it gives you this nice kind of like trick-or-treating nostalgia You could assume that based off of it being called all hollows Eve. It's about you know, there's a trick-or-treating aspect to it, which You know like people who love Halloween and have positive thoughts and memories about Halloween like myself It's my favorite holiday. I just love when that's incorporated into film So it just immediately makes me feel nostalgic and makes me feel a little bit of something for the film So that said Well actually real quick the music actually matches Particularly well in this one. I think this is probably one of the best musical match-ups for what's actually going on in The story so it's kind of like light and a little bit whimsical, but it's also kind of creepy at the same time I think it matches very very well Now comes to some of the issues the dialogue seems a little bit stilted at times and more proper than People would actually use especially because these are younger kids in this, you know, they're Teenagers for the most part. There's some grown-ups in it, but it's mainly teenagers in this in this story and They they say things like gracious. No No Absolutely not and there's a lot of lines like that There's a lot of dialogue that that doesn't actually match The age group that you're dealing with here and the personalities of who these people are So there's a real issue with with Bruce Jones and his dialogue writing and the last and the last That's not the dialogue because sometimes they'll kind of let people improvise or sometimes will kind of change things last minute And it's a director. It's not the writer So I don't know for sure, but I assume that that's the way the script was written and the dialogue is just not Very good to be honest in certain moments. Like it's totally fine at other moments it like strikes you in these ones where it's like gracious no and It takes you out of the story because it hits you as being so odd and out of place And it just does not match or fit So that's a big issue that that I saw I Saw things coming immediately with this story. There's there's not a whole lot of mystery for me personally Maybe for for other people watch it. I saw where it was going immediately No hesitation So, you know not to say that that's bad because if you execute it properly then it can still be satisfying But I don't think it was executed all that well to be honest And then that comes to my next note the story was a I mean It wasn't a bad story, but it wasn't a good story. It was kind of just like That's a story and overall I just kind of feel like that particular Story in the creep show series is It's like, okay. I watched it Moving on You don't have a lot of time with this is what I'm reading one of my notes I put down you don't have a lot of time so you need to use it wisely It seems like they had to add stuff in order to hit a certain runtime for this Which that is a huge problem if that's what was the case when you're clocking in at like 20 minutes It really seems like they just kind of had a little bit of wasting time here and there because the story itself is so light There's not a whole lot to the actual story when they could have actually Put a lot to this story because the premise Can really work and it's not like a super new premise. I've seen it done before But if you can take a premise this old and put an interesting spin on it Which there's there's some ideas of an interesting spin in this, but it's just not executed well So, you know overall this is actually my least favorite of all the stories I've watched thus far through the six Because we're halfway through, you know after episode three or halfway through the creep show series. It's my least favorite I didn't like it Then we go to the second story for episode three, which I did quite like and this is a prime example of taking an old story a story that's been done actually quite a few times at least that I know of and Putting a twist to it doing something a little bit new making a little bit fresh Updating it in a sense and I think this one works and this is one of the better ones in my opinion And it is called the man in the suitcase now the person who wrote it is Christopher Christopher Buellman and I can find no credits for this individual except for creep show So this is kind of a new person a relative unknown And it's a good start for this individual because I liked the script. I thought the story was good I thought the dialogue was good a lot of things with the script working well the pacing well That's part script. That's part directing. That's part editing. So But the pacing was good. It was directed by David Bruckner. I like David Bruckner. He's done the signal He did ritual which was a Netflix film both of those films. I think are very good I really really enjoy both of those films if you have not seen ritual or the signal definitely see them there the signals kind of like zombie film-esque But it's kind of smarter than that and it's got its kind of own take on things and I and I find it very refreshing within a kind of kind of zombie film genre That one's really good and the ritual the ritual is really cool and atmospheric and can be scary at times but the creature in the ritual is Awesome design in my opinion one of the better designs So it's those were seen. So this had good acting this had good to quite good acting It was It was well done. The performance has really helped out with the story and selling the script It starts in a mysteriously playful way, which I really really liked So it gives it a little bit of a corkiness in the beginning It ends up uh incorporating some comedy to it But it's also very serious and it's and it's kind of at the heart of it this real moral Story and you know, it's an older moral story that's kind of been used a lot But like I said, it puts its own twist on it and it does it in its own way And the comedy stuff that's put into it works It works very well And everything feels appropriate for the characters in there for what the tone of the story is It all matches So there's some interesting and fun camera angles in this so brockner I thought did a really cool job of just keeping the look of it and the feel of it interesting through his directing style and the cinematography You know, there were a few shots that are kind of like from the floor angle kind of at like an angle going up So it's kind of like off-kilter and you would think that those might be a little disorienting and a little weird But they just looked good and it kind of like keeps you I feel like it keeps you more engaged It makes you more aware that there is a style and there is a particular approach to the directing and the camera work And I like that Uh, they're uh, like I said, there's good humor mixed in uh, interesting premise good writing nice directing Um, yeah new twist on an old premise And then there's some actually good tension in this film That actually revolves around a lot around morality like I was saying it's kind of like a moral tale But there the tension in particular um Is involved around the morality of what's going on and uh, yeah overall I really liked this story I thought it was quite good now Okay, I got to give ratings. Um, I was gonna say for individual uh on a on a five star scale with half stars in play for The first one all halos eve. I'm gonna give it a Two no one and a half one and a half stars Not so great not terrible, but not not very good either. Um, and for the man in the suitcase, I'm gonna give it I get three and a half I'm gonna give a three and a half star. I like it. It's pretty good So then here I'm gonna do my breakdown of thus far of all six stories that I've watched through My ranking list last one in sixth place all halos eve This the fifth place gray matter Uh fourth or fourth place bad wolf down third place man in the suitcase second place house of the head and first place the finger So there you have it. Thank you for checking this out. Um, I'm gonna continue on with creep show So keep looking for these reviews. We only have three more left. So it's a little bit sad I like going through this and even though you hit stories that you're you're not into or you don't think are good Uh, it then bounces back and that actually kind of seems to be what's going on It's they lead each episode with one that's not that great or just okay And then they finish it with one that is quite good or really good So I'm interesting. 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