YMMV / Jack-O

• Complete Monster: Walter Machen was a sorcerer in the 1910s. Lynched for prior murders, he summons the pumpkin demon Jack-O as his automaton of destruction to massacre the leader of his killing, his family and anybody connected to the family. Jack-O kills one family, and his nemesis's wife and teenage son before being imprisoned. Decades later, the demon is released while Walter psychologically torments Sean, the youngest member of his hated family, with nightmares of his past crimes and the warlock mind controlling his parents. Jack-O proceeds to kill the teenagers who freed him, and goes on a killing spree of the rest of the neighborhood on his master's command. The demon then finds Sean, who's the only one who can kill him, and has him Buried Alive to eliminate the obstacle, killing Machen's niece in the process.
• Moral Event Horizon: Walter Machen crosses it when he has his demonic automaton servant try to bury a child alive.
• Narm
  • The conservative wife's death from sticking a knife in a toaster is set up like something out of Final Destination and is shot like a black comedy. It doesn't help that Jack-O is shown leaving the scene right after the death like he saw something awkward.
  • During the scene where Jack-O tries to bury Sean alive, the acting from Sean's actor is so stilted that its laughable.
• Special Effect Failure
  • The decapitation scene has a severed head prop that doesn't look like the actor and looks more like Nicolas Cage.
  • One of the death scenes has an obvious stiff dummy standing in for the actress.
• Stock Footage Failure: John Carradine's scenes as Walter Machen were clearly not filmed for this movie. The shots where his face is visible are colored differently compared to the rest of the scene.