Different, an unusual outcome, a long development, full of problematic conversations and some unfounded, I liked the old man, the nosy neighbor, who has some extra scenes at the end of the film ... It is neither good nor bad, different, regular ...

Brooke Anne Smith plays Kaylie, the sardonic, bored, scratchy voiced precocious ex-self-harmer who has been lumbered with a baby-sitting job because the original baby-sitter, and Kaylie's friend, is ill. Actually, her friend isn't ill at all, and ends up as the first throat-slashed victim of a killer.

Anyway, a masked miscreant breaks into the house and gets caught up in the inevitable mild violent exchange with feisty Kaylie. With the baby long forgotten, the two then strike up an, ahem, unlikely bond, and are soon charging round the neighbourhood enjoying some Hallowe'en, trick-or-treat pranks. The misunderstood unmasked man and the dough-eyed wildcat blond strike up a bond of profound stature, two bland posers psycho-analysing each other to the sound of tinkling synthesised music. Two misunderstood youngsters flirting heavily whilst drinking all the alcohol in the house of the parents of the baby no-one cares about.

As the unnamed man behind the mask Marc Valera makes the most of the emotional backstory he is given, but an audience is being asked a lot to suddenly be required to relate to someone who it seems has just cut the throat of a local girl. It is all rather more than a little twee and seems to be setting itself up for some highly unlikely self-analysis between two pretty shallow people.

However, I believed this film was setting itself up in certain way. What resulted is something a lot more intelligent than I gave it credit for, and although others may guess the outcome, I found the storyline surprising in all the right places. It might occasionally seem like a struggle to get through at times, but 'Devil's Night' is worth sticking around for until the very end.

Malcolm McDowell, who plays a curious, extrovert local –'do-gooder' appears to have a great time with what it little more than a cameo. So much so that his various out-takes actually crop up after the end credits.

Mischief Night is a romantic film that baits audiences pretending to be a horror movie.

It is mischief night, devil's night, the one night a year where anything goes, so why can't a serial killer unexpectedly fall in love with his victim?

Mischief Night takes a risk and tries to be something different from the slasher killer horror movie typical of the genre: "The night before Halloween, a teenage babysitter is stalked by a masked killer; but in an unusual turn of events, victim and victimizer begin to develop romantic feelings for each other."

The opening sequence of the film was intriguing; shots of Halloween decorations and punk kids pulling pranks in a quiet suburban neighborhood. Mischief Night had potential for being the horror film to watch for fans of the festive night of Halloween, especially having a brief cameo by Malcolm McDowell for horror aficionados. Unfortunately twenty minutes into the movie it becomes a boring introspective talk fest that drags along between two mundane characters.

Brooke Anne Smith is the heroine Kaylie, she is strange and atypical, she has problems (sarcasm abounds). Marc Valera is The Man who unsuspectingly falls for his blonde haired victim. Both are so monotonous, so dull, that if I could I would jump into the movie just to kill both the characters and save myself sixty minutes of my life.

The film is so obviously expected and plebeian it is quite sad that writer/director Travis Baker actually thought he was making something riveting, intellectual and good.

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