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Jack Attack (2013)

Jack Attack poster
Directed by
Antonio Padovan
Genre
horror, fantasy
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A babysitter and a little boy named Jack must deal with a strange infestation of pumpkins that come to life. The pumpkins are parasitic and dangerous.

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What happens

Jack Attack is a 2013 American short holiday horror film about a babysitter (Helen Rogers), her charge Jack (Tyler Rossell), and parasitic pumpkins, written and directed by Bryan Norton and Antonio Padovan, who were also responsible, respectively, for special make-up and mechanical effects, and set design. The short was selected by more than a hundred festivals internationally and won more than thirty awards, and was selected for two anthology films in the US: Seven Hells (2014), and All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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