CohenForthright Just see this movie for yourself and draw your own conclusion.The Barn is a movie that you will either like or not. There's no pretense with this movie. It has a strong marketing strategy that has worked in their favor, and it worked! Personally, I enjoyed the movie. The acting was what you expect from a low budget indie film, but the cinematics and the mastery of nostalgia are what solidify this movie as a strong flick.

BA_Harrison Halloween, 1989: a bunch of friends travelling to a heavy rock concert stop off at the small backwater town of Wheary Falls, where they unwittingly resurrect three Halloween demons — the boogeyman, the candy corn scarecrow, and the pumpkin man — who proceed to hack and slash their way through the youngsters.The Barn is yet another nostalgic retro-styled horror that attempts to replicate the look and feel of yesteryear. Here's what it gets right: it's got an annoying group of teens, most of whom are deserving of a pick-axe in the head; there's a virginal female who is destined to be the 'final girl'; the black guy dies first; a sex scene supplies the obligatory gratuitous nudity (after which both involved meet a grisly demise); the music is spot-on, with a synth score and a few heavy rock songs on the soundtrack; and the number of deaths is fairly high, with plenty of enthusiastic splatter (mostly of the cheap and cheerful kind).But here's where it all goes wrong: the acting is utterly atrocious (even from supposed seasoned pro Linnea Quigley); the direction and editing are clumsy, most notably during the action scenes; there's way too much expositional chit-chat that really bogs down proceedings; and even at only 90 minutes, it all seems way too long, the story perhaps better suited to a short film, or as part of an anthology. I could also have done without the affected film degradation used to give the movie that authentic '80s feel—it's a technique that has been done to death.4/10. Unlikely to become a Halloween tradition in my household.

msblackeyes68 Not a total waste of my time. I read the reviews (which I'm beginning to believe we're written by people associated with the movie) and I was skeptic because most horrors don't get this high of ratings. But I thought what the heck I will give it a go. It started and my first thought was it reminds me of a Canadian after school special. The monster costumes came from your local value village. The special effects consisted of smoke and coloured lights. I did get a kick out of the pumpkin killers costume. There was a lot of giggling during most of the movie. The main characters cracked us up as they took on sending the monsters (3) "back to hell" and save what was left of their friends and townspeople. The one liners and James Bond sounding script was hilarious. The one scene where the monsters attacked the dance and people were slashed and limbs torn off was very unrealistic but still amusing. All in all this movie wasn't that bad. It's not scary, doesn't have much of a plot, more silly then anything else but if you go into it not expecting any of that you'll see the movie like we did and have a good laugh. There's even a little twist at the end no one would predict was coming. Don't watch tho if your sense of humour is asleep and you really want to watch a well put together scary movie.

Coventry Judging by the recent plenitude of (horror) movies - and even entire TV-series - that are either taking place during OR unmistakably paying tribute to the 1980s, I think it's safe to say that a whole new generation of filmmakers suffer from "homesickness" (by lack of a better term) towards the decade in which it was so much easier and more fun to produce and watch horror movies! There's noticeably an immense longing for the good old times when stereotypical characters and clichéd plot lines weren't world-widely criticized on the Internet before the movie got properly released (what Internet?), when dumb teenage protagonists were still getting into physical trouble rather than belittling each other via social media, and when horror victims were still being massacred by killers & monsters with hideous make- up effects rather than by digitalized computer creations. "The Barn" obviously also belongs in this trend and, although not as popular or hyped as "Stranger Things" or "The Final Girls", it's definitely worth checking out for fans of old-school splatter as well as amateurish yet enthusiast low-budget film making. It's almost Halloween in the year 1989, and the 19-year-old but still very immature buddies Sam and Josh are petrifying the neighborhood children and annoying their teacher (cameo of none other than Linnea Quigley). The next day, on their way to a Halloween concert with a few more friends, they stop at a godforsaken barn where according to an ancient local legend three sinister Halloween monsters lie buried. Against the will of firm legend-believer Sam, the group knocks at the door and thus awakens the Boogeyman miner, Hallowed Jack-o-Lantern and Candycorn Scarecrow. The monsters promptly go on a killing spree in the nearby town Helen's Valley, with as gory highlight the extermination of nearly the entire village during the annual Halloween dance. Writer/director Justin Seaman has a lot of heart for the genre and many bright ideas, and therefore you also gladly forgive the lack of style and the many directorial defaults. There are too many overlong dialogues, redundant sequences and questionable performances, but it doesn't matter all that much because this is a full-blooded Halloween feature and highly recommended for the fans. Too many gore-highlights to choose from, including decapitations, eye- gouging, pickax in the head, etc… There's also a good soundtrack and – like it was the case in the 80s - even a bit of totally gratuitous nudity.