Segments were directed by Neil Marshall, Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Lucky McKee, Andrew Kasch, Paul Solet, John Skipp, Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson, Mike Mendez, Ryan Schifrin, and Dave Parker.
Billy Thompson, dressed as a red devil and accompanied by his older sister Britney and her boyfriend Todd, tries to begin trick-or-treating early.
Mr. Abbadon and Billy go around the neighborhood and play twisted "pranks" throughout town, ranging from spray-painting walls to stabbing a dentist neighbor.
It is revealed that Caitlyn, Nelson, Maria, and James are actually a group of psychopaths who have been kidnapping kids and torturing them for amusement.
The kids free the group's most recent victim, a girl whose eye was gouged by the adults, who kills Caitlyn with an axe to the head.
The actual Demon of All Hallow's Eve shows up, looking exactly like Jimmy's costume (the drawing Alice dropped contained instructions on how to summon it).
Suddenly angered at the gesture, Bobbie transforms into her true form, a red-skinned demonic witch with multiple arms, and proceeds to claw Jack's face.
Jack alerts the boy's mother of his location and informs Bobbie that he secretly underwent a vasectomy to prevent a pregnancy, believing that his wife is far too abusive and unstable to properly care for a child.
Boris has proudly finished decorating his house for Halloween, setting up a classic, graveyard themed display, complete with an animatronic talking skeleton.
Taking Dante's words as criticism and mockery, an angered Boris retaliates by wrecking the sound system, putting a halt to the music.
Spectators (including characters from the other stories in the film) begin to crowd as the two neighbors engage in a fistfight, placing bets and egging them on until the police arrive.
Deep in the woods, a deformed serial killer who resembles Jason Voorhees hunts down a teenage girl dressed as Dorothy for Halloween.
Bank robber Hank and his partner Dutch, lounging in their van, spot millionaire Jebediah Rex letting his son Rusty go out for trick-or-treating.
However, Jebediah seems not to express fear about the fact that his son has been kidnapped, tells the kidnappers that they have made a terrible mistake, and promptly hangs up the phone.
Dutch is briefly fooled when Rusty begins emitting the cries of a child, only for the imp to spew bile at his face when he checks on him.
Sometime later, as Hank comes back from buying food from a convenience store (the same one featured earlier), he finds Rusty in the backseat, feasting on Dutch's severed head.
Detective McNally is called in to investigate the crime scene (as most of the police department are busy dealing with the emergencies portrayed earlier in the film).
After mentioning that the town goes crazy every Halloween (showcasing reports describing incidents from earlier in the film), Zimmerman assigns McNally to track down the pumpkin before it can do any more damage.
McNally finds a sticker on a broken piece of the pumpkin, revealing that it comes from a company known as Clover Corp, advertised as a "100% organic super-pumpkin".
Gottlieb takes them to a warehouse where they discover thousands of genetically modified pumpkins; all potentially dangerous, all waiting to be sold.
Sweet Tooth: The Night Billy Raised Hell: Trick: The Weak and the Wicked: Grim Grinning Ghost: Ding Dong: This Means War: Friday the 31st: The Ransom of Rusty Rex: Bad Seed: Tales of Halloween was conceived by filmmaker Axelle Carolyn, who garnered a slew of directors to make a Halloween-centric film taking place in the "same town on the same night".
Mike Mendez, director of The Convent, signed onto the film a month later and helped secure a deal with Epic Pictures Group.
[8] Mendez's short, Friday the 31st, was actually the opening to a film he co-wrote with Dave Parker 18 years prior, called Dead Stuff.
The site's consensus reads, "Tales Of Halloween boasts a number of fun scares and is overall more consistent than many horror anthology films, even if it isn't quite as dark or nasty as the classics of the genre.
"[15]Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generaly favourable reviews".
[17] Kalyn Corrigan of Bloody Disgusting called it "a fun, exuberant addition to the subgenre of horror anthology films.
"[19] Rob Hunter of Film School Rejects wrote "Tales of Halloween is good fun, but it’s difficult not to wish that more of the stories had aimed for darker, more terrifying and affecting goals.
"[20] Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a mixed review, calling the segments "polished enough but utterly routine" and saying "Even the best of these, however, are held back by brevity from developing silly ideas into anything truly memorable.