I sat down with my 12 year old son to watch this 2022 family Halloween-themed movie titled "Spirit Halloween". I hadn't heard about the movie prior to sitting down on All Hallows' Eve to watch it, so I wasn't really sure what I was in for.

Writer Billie Bates churned out a fair enough script and plot for the movie, though "Spirit Halloween" wasn't really the most enjoyable or interesting of family Halloween-based movies out there. Sure, it was watchable, but this is hardly going to become a Halloween classic. The story was just simply too mundane.

The acting performances in the movie were fair enough. I was only familiar with Christopher Lloyd and Marla Gibbs on the entire cast list here.

The special effects in the movie were actually fair enough for a movie such as this. Not scary though, as it is a family-friendly movie.

Watchable for what it was, but you're not in for a particularly outstanding, memorable or ghoulish Halloween-based family movie here.

My rating of "Spirit Halloween" lands on a four out of ten stars.

The film starts with a witch cursing Alex Windsor. Fast forward some time (The film doesn't explicitly say how many years) Bo, Carson, and Jake go to a spirit halloween store for the night. Carson sister Kate follows to give Carlson his phone The Main character Jake is still sad about his father's death (his dad died of blood cancer) which helps with the lesson the movie is telling. Jake has a step father which he hasn't really connected with. At the end of the movie. They have to sacrifice something that's special to them, so Kate offers her grandmothers necklace, but Windsor takes it. Then Jake is forced to sacrifice the (I'm assuming) only photo of his real dad, but Windsor posses Kate and then eat's it in front of him. Then he sacrifices the only thing he had to remember his dad a book. Thus shows the messages of the story which is I think you have to move on in life. Showing he moved on from his father's death. Time jump a year later he finally accepted his step dad as his dad and took his sister out trick or treating. It was not bad but it was not good either, also the film did not have any pg-13 scenes despite being rated pg-13 maybe it was the jump scare but this movie could've been pg.

Every classic horror movie is contrived, tropey, filled with recognizable genre cliches. I love those cliches-dumb characters, haunted houses, body snatchers, poltergeists, jump scares, creepy clowns, all of it. These are bricks to build a house, and they need concrete told hold them together.

Spirit Halloween The Movie is just the building blocks and a blueprint of a horror movie. It's not real. I can't think of a more soulless horror film. It's the bare minimum needed for a plot, character arcs, and themes, along with the typical horror tropes, yet nothing is remotely original. An hour long commercial.