“The Night Before Halloween” (** out of four) was a hokey horror thriller about a 16-year old (Bailee Madison) and her friends who take part in a Halloween prank that lands one of their friends (Natalie Ganzhorn) in a coma but one year later, they come to find that she still may be alive. Or so it seems. Both overlong and overdone although some of the special effects and performances are good. Story alternately rips off “Sorority Row” and also “April Fool’s Day.”