Movie: All Hallows’ Eve

 

Production Year: 2012

 

Tubi Provided Summary: A babysitter’s Halloween descends into terror when she’s tormented by a creepy clown from a mysterious tape the kids found trick-or-treating.

 

Film Can Be Accessed At: https://tubitv.com/movies/391450/all-hallows-eve?start=true

 

 *All Hallows’ Eve is a horror semi-anthology film comprised of three segments in the videotape and an outside segment of the main characters. Each will be assessed individually*

 

Segment One

 

Does This Segment Pass The Bechdel Test: Yes

 

Character Analysis:

  • Art the Clown
  • Casey
  • Kristen
  • Sara

Death Analysis

  • Kristen: First to die, extended death scene, dismembered with a cleaver, killed by humanoid creature

 

Survival Analysis

  • Art the Clown

 

Final Statistics:

Character Sex Ratio: 3 Females: 1 Males

Character Survivor Ratio: 0 Females: 1 Male (not including ambiguous characters)

Character Death Ratio: 33.3% of Females to 0% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)

 

Segment Two

 

Does This Segment Pass The Bechdel Test: No

 

Character Analysis:

  • Caroline

 

Death Analysis

  • No confirmed on-screen death

 

Survival Analysis

  • No confirmed on-screen survival

 

Final Statistics:

Character Sex Ratio: 1 Females: 0 Males

Character Survivor Ratio: 0 Females: 0 Males (not including ambiguous characters)

Character Death Ratio: 0% of Females to 0% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)

 

Segment Three:

 

Does This segment Pass The Bechdel Test? No

 

Character Analysis:

  • Art the Clown
  • Costume designer
  • Gas station attendant
  • Man with car

 

Death Analysis

  • Gas station attendant: First to die, killed off-screen, attacked by Art the Clown and shown being cut up with a hacksaw post mortem, killed by Art the Clown.
  • Man with car: Second to die, quick death scene, shot in the head, killed by Art the Clown.

 

Survival Analysis

  • Art the Clown

 

Final Statistics:

Character Sex Ratio: 1 Females: 3 Males

Character Survivor Ratio: 0 Females: 1 Male (not including ambiguous characters)

Character Death Ratio: 0% of Females to 66.6% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)

 

Final Segment About Main Characters: 

 

Does This segment Pass The Bechdel Test? Yes

 

Character Analysis:

  • Art the Clown
  • Sarah
  • Tia
  • Timmy

 

Death Analysis

  • Tia and Timmy: First to die, killed off-screen, hacked apart, killed by Art the Clown.

 

Survival Analysis

  • Art the Clown

 

Final Statistics:

Character Sex Ratio: 2 Females: 2 Males

Character Survivor Ratio: 0 Females: 1 Male (not including ambiguous characters)

Character Death Ratio: 50% of Females to 50% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)

 

Final Takeaways: 

All Hallows’ Eve is a semi-anthology film composed of several parts so characters are scantily on screen for more than a few minutes. This makes it difficult to analyze personality traits in characters as they rarely have more than enough time to introduce their names and place in the plots of the segments. Due to this, it is difficult to analyze using the Sex Role perspective more than to note the sex of characters in relation to the death ratios.

For example, of the five deaths in the anthology, two deaths were female. Despite this, the film does not prefer female characters. Of the ambiguous character endings, all were female. In the first segment, two females were left chained up and running through a dark basement from a humanoid creature with a cleaver while one was raped by Satan, in the second, a woman was left attacked by an alien, in the third segment, the fashion designer was left with her limbs amputated, breasts cut off, and misogynistic phrases carved into her chest, and in the final segment, Sarah was left to cope with the murder of the children she was babysitting and defend herself from Art. 

When addressing this surplus in violence, often sexually charged attacks, against female characters as well as only 50% of the segments passing the Bechdel test, it becomes clear that All Hallows’ Eve is anything but feminist. Although there is little room for characterization, the Sex Role perspective reveals a disgusting lack of respect for female characters as well as the use of the women in the story as pawns of gore and violence. This makes All Hallows’ Eve an unnecessarily crude film with little to no redeemable qualities. 

Shared by: Ariana Nichols
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