Boo! A Madea Halloween

Boo! A Madea Halloween
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Tyler Perry
Written by	Tyler Perry
Produced by	Tyler Perry Ozzie Areu Will Areu
Starring	Tyler Perry Cassi Davis Patrice Lovely Bella Thorne Liza Koshy Diamond White Lexy Panterra Yousef Erakat Andre Hall Brock O’Hurn
Cinematography	Richard Vialet
Edited by	Larry Sexton
Music by	Elvin Ross
Production company	Tyler Perry Studios
Distributed by	Lionsgate
Release date	October 21, 2016 (2016-10-21)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million
Box office	$74.8 million

Boo! A Madea Halloween is a 2016 American comedy horror film directed, written, starring and co-produced by Tyler Perry. The idea for the film originated from a fictitious Madea Halloween movie that was mentioned in Chris Rock's 2014 film Top Five. It is the ninth in the Madea series, and it is the second Madea film (the first being Madea's Witness Protection) to not be adapted from a stage play.

The film was released on October 21, 2016 by Lionsgate, received generally negative reviews and grossed $74 million, making it the second-highest film of the Madea series. A sequel, titled Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, was released in October 2017.

Plot

On the day of Halloween a young fraternity leader Jonathan (Yousef Erakat), and his fellow frat brothers discuss their upcoming Halloween party outside their frat house. Tiffany (Diamond White) and her three friends Aday (Liza Koshy), Rain (Bella Thorne) and Leah (Lexy Panterra) walk past the frat house, and are invited to the frat party. Brian (Tyler Perry), Tiffany's father and Madea's nephew (Uncle Joe Simmon's son), catches them at the frat house, which he had ordered Tiffany not to walk by and angrily orders her and her friends to get in the car, to which she refuses and tells him they can walk home because it's right around the corner. Brian forbids her from going near the frat house ever again and reveals that he is sending her and her brother to their mom's house while he is out of town, much to her dismay. Later on that day, Brian spies on Tiffany's conversation with Jonathan, the frat president, on a mobile tablet and notices how sexual things seem to be getting, much to his anger and indignation.

That night, Madea (also played by Tyler Perry) and Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis) are sitting outside of her home on Halloween Night giving away candy to kids trick-or-treating while Bam is secretly stealing back some of the children's candy, until one kid (dressed as a cow, which Madea mocks the kid's mother for) notices her stealing his and an argument ensues. After that a clown approaches with a huge jack-in-the-box, which frightens Bam. As the clown is approaching, Madea threatens him and dares anything to jump out of the box. Another clown pops out and she immediately punches the clown, causing it to fall out of the box. It is revealed to be Uncle Joe (also played by Tyler Perry), Madea's brother and Brian's father, and Hattie (Patrice Lovely), a longtime friend of Madea and Aunt Bam, who then go on to explain they were just trying to scare them for fun. Meanwhile, in order to keep Tiffany from sneaking off to the Halloween party, Brian calls Madea, out of options, to stay there and look after Tiffany to keep her away from the party. Madea agrees and Bam, Joe, and Hattie tag along with her after Brian promises to pay Madea. Tiffany and her friend Aday, realizing that Madea and the others are there to watch them and keep them from sneaking to the party, decide to trick them into sleeping early by faking a story about a man named Mr. Wilson who committed murders in their house, and she tells them that the only safe rooms are the bedrooms. She then convinces them of the story's authenticity by secretly hitting a remote control to turn the lights off in the house to frighten them.

Tiffany and Aday sneak off to the party, but Madea perspicaciously sees through the scheme after finding pillows placed under the blanket on the bed in their bedroom to look as if they are sleeping. Madea then goes to the frat house and crashes the party as she searches for Tiffany, but Tiffany's friends and Jonathan both lie to cover for her. Madea tries to shut the party down, but is thrown out by the frat brothers into the bushes outside the frat house, by Jonathan's orders and leaves defeated. However, one of the frat brothers discovers that Aday is underage and throws her out of the party which is then shut down once again when Bam calls the police due to Tiffany being underage. The frat brothers realize that Madea and her friends are the ones who called the police on them and decide to prank them back by scaring them, unaware that Aday had been hiding behind the bushes near the outside staircase, underneath the front patio, and overheard their entire plan.

Back at home, Tiffany still claims that she was asleep the whole time and had been sleeping in her father's room, even though she was supposed to be in her room. The frat brothers then begin their pranks by scaring Hattie, Joe and Bam by posing as the ghost of Mr. Wilson (which Jonathan had learned from Tiffany earlier) and by one of the frat boys, Horse (Brock O'Hurn) dressed as a scary and deranged homicidal clown in the house. Madea, Hattie, and Bam leave the house and drive away out of fear. They in turn leave Joe alone with the clown, which he knocks out with his cane while he is smoking marijuana through a hookah.

Madea's car breaks down up the road and the three are pursued by the rest of the frat brothers and partygoers who are posing as zombies that chase them down. Madea, in a panicked frenzy, runs inside a nearby local church, that is led by Aday's parents who are ministers, and finds interest in being saved, believing that the things she is seeing are punishment for her sins. A female parishioner, who was praying when Madea ran inside, then tries to get Madea to calm down by consoling and comforting her and tries to lead her to Christ and get her to become saved. Aday's father (Javon Johnson), who is revealed to be the pastor of the church, and Aday then lay down a confession, telling Madea that all of the things happening with the ghosts, clown and zombies were tricks being played on them by the frat brothers as revenge on Madea for shutting down the party and calling the police. Madea finds Aday's apologies sincere, but says the frat boys will be more sorry when she gets on them and get assistants to condemn the house. Aday agrees with the plan and she, Hattie, Bam and Madea then vengefully come up with a plan to make the brothers pay.

Brian is also called back into town by Madea to deal with Tiffany for sneaking out of the house and going to the party. When Brian orders her to come downstairs she is at first hesitant, but then finally comes down. When he asks and confronts her about sneaking off to the party, she boldly admits to it and tells him to get over it. It is clear Tiffany has no respect or appreciation for Brian as a parent due to him being a pushover and refusing to discipline his kids the same way he was raised by Joe. Madea, Hattie, and Bam then begin to pack Tiffany's clothes up in bags to throw her out of the house. This plan works and Tiffany and Brian lay their feelings out about Brian's wife cheating on him and him being a pushover. Brian, finally toughening up, participates in helping to throw her out and exclaims that she can either live there with him, abiding by his rules and respecting him, or go out on the street on her own. Tiffany apologizes to Brian and the women for her behavior and agrees to listen to her father's rules. Madea hopes Tiffany has learned a lesson as she is also mad at her for letting the fraternity brothers prank her with such scary things. Afterwards, the police return to Brian's house looking for Tiffany, revealing to her that her best friend, Aday has gone missing. They then take her with them and handcuff her.

The next day, the police knock on the door of the frat house and one of the brothers discovers the body of Aday with her throat slit and blood spewing out in the basement. The brothers are arrested after the police find Aday's body and they are all placed on a prison bus. Rain and Leah are also arrested for bringing minors to an "over-18" party, as well as Tiffany for her alleged involvement. A brawl breaks out on the bus with the prisoners, scaring everyone including Jonathan. Aday comes out of the house and everything is revealed to be a prank. The girls are grateful that Aday is alive, who reveals that the blood and mortal wound was just special effect make up, and Jonathan apologizes for his and his frat brothers' behavior as well. Just then, Madea learns, much to her shock, that Brian called in actual police officers for the prank. They find a bag of marijuana in the frat house as one of which (Dominique Witten) recognizes Madea as an old acquaintance. Madea, Jonathan and the rest of the frat brothers flee from the officers, fearing they will all be arrested for real as the film ends.

Cast

• Tyler Perry as Mabel "Madea" Simmons, Brian Simmons, and Uncle Joe Simmons
• Cassi Davis as Betty Ann "Aunt Bam" Murphy
• Patrice Lovely as Hattie Mae Love
• Bella Thorne as Rain Mathison
• Diamond White as Tiffany Simmons
• Yousef Erakat as Jonathan
• Lexy Panterra as Leah Devereaux
• Andre Hall as Quinton
• Brock O'Hurn as Horse
• Liza Koshy as Aday Walker
• Kian Lawley as Bean Boy
• JC Caylen as Mikey
• Jimmy Tatro as Sean
• Tyga as Himself
• Mike Tornabene as Dino
• Bradley Martyn as Frat Boy #9
• Mario Rodriguez as Frat Boy #10

Production

Production on Boo! A Madea Halloween began in mid-January 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, with filming only lasting six days. On March 4, 2016, Lionsgate released a teaser trailer for the film, and on July 14, 2016 the official trailer was released, as well as a parody poster of Halloween.

Reception

Box office

Boo! A Madea Halloween grossed $73.2 million in North America and $1.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $74.8 million, against a production budget of $20 million.

The film was released on October 21, 2016 and opened alongside Ouija: Origin of Evil, Keeping Up with the Joneses and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and was expected to gross $15–17 million from 2,260 theaters in its opening weekend. The film grossed $9.4 million on its first day (including $855,000 from Thursday night previews) and an above-expected $27.6 million in its opening weekend, finishing first at the box office and ranking as the fourth-best debut for a Perry film. In its second weekend the film grossed $17.2 million (a drop of only 39.6%) and remained first at the box office, despite facing competition with the newcomer Inferno ($14.9 million).

Critical response

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 21% based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Boo! A Madea Halloween won't win Tyler Perry's long-running franchise many new converts – but at nine films and counting, it hardly needs to." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 30 out of 100, based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Accolades

Award	Category	Subject	Result
Golden Raspberry Awards (37th)	Worst Actress	Tyler Perry	Nominated
	Worst Director		Nominated
	Worst Combo		Nominated
		That same old worn out wig	Nominated

Sequel

Main article: Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

In May 2017, Lionsgate announced that a sequel, titled Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, would be released on October 20, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Boo! A Madea Halloween at IMDb
• Boo! A Madea Halloween at Box Office Mojo