Scary series special fails to pack punch

Last night marked the highly anticipated screening of the Pretty Little Liars mid-season finale Halloween special. 

Having ended the previous episode with the 'Ezra is A' bombshell, it appeared as if the Halloween episode was off to a promising start. And it was.

In the opening scene, we see Aria, Hanna, Emily and Spencer (in full victorian costume) heading to the Halloween Party that's being held in Ravenswood Cemetery. 

Victorian costumes? A party in a cemetery? This is shaping up to be the episode of the season. And then just like that, it begins to fall by the waist side. 

While in the cemetery, the girl's spot Red Coat(Alison) entering a crypt, and so they follow her. In what is nothing more than a head-spinning maze, the girls then travel from the crypt into a tunnel, and then through the tunnel into a mansion, rounding corners, and opening doors as they search for Alison. Along the way, Hanna and Spencer go missing, Hanna gets locked in a phonebooth before being freed by Caleb's new friend Miranda, Spencer attacks Ezra, the girls reunite, Hanna and Caleb part ways, and the girls get a flat tyre leaving Ezra to drive them home.

And then comes the episodes's BIG reveal. Alison Di Laurentis, who has been missing and presumed dead for the past four seasons is actually alive? Well, we definitely didn't see that one coming.

Yet again, after being promised answers by show creator I. Marlene King, the only bits of information that were were given are that Ezra is bad, and Alison is alive. And well, we sort of knew that already.

What about all of the other mysterious occurrences that were never explained?

- Who was the creepy man on the bus to Ravenswood, and what, if any, was the significance of his character?

- How did Aria not realise that she was holding hands with a statue, and not Hanna?

- Why did Spencer and Hanna disappear? Did someone grab them?

- What were those bright lights that Hanna saw shining through the telephone booth?

- Other than inflicting harm on one another, what was the purpose of Ezra going after Spencer?

- How did Ezra happen to drive his car around at the exact moment that the girls realised they had a flat tyre?

- While Hanna is in the phone booth, she see's Ezra or A grabbing Alison through the glass. At the end of the episode, Alison is alone. How did she escape his grip?

- After Ezra drops the girls off at Rosewood he drives away, but coincidentally reappears with Aria's phone at the exact moment that the girls are talking to Alison. Was his reappearance for the sole purpose of giving Aria back her phone, or did he know that Alison was there?

- How has Alison remained undiscovered for this length of time? Where has she been, and with whom?

- Is Ezra really the one that she fears the most?

- How did she get back to Rosewood so fast?

- More importantly, why is Ezra acting so creepy? What exactly does he want, and what is his motive?

With so many questions left unanswered, the real question is, are we ever going to find out the truth? We'll have to wait until at least January 7th to find out.