Halloween fans got a taste of the next Spirit Halloween: The Movie via the official teaser. Loaded with spooky creatures, the film follows four children who find themselves in one of the stores of the same name after it closes on Halloween and are terrorized by a ghost who can possess objects and people. The Halloween spirit The film is set to hit theaters this fall and will be available on demand soon after.
Although Halloween spirit is aimed at children, the film also seems to have been tailor-made for adults – especially those who grew up with genre films in the 1980s and 1990s like The Monster Squad or the adventure film The Goonies. The trailer has lots of little nods to movies from those eras, from its cast to other little easter eggs that should make adults feel like this was the kind of movie they would have too. watched when they were young.
One of the biggest nods to genre movies past is the casting of Christopher Lloyd. The veteran character actor – who recently appeared on The Conners – previously cemented a cinematic legacy with his work as the lovable and eccentric Doc Brown in the Back to the future trilogy. However, as Halloween spiritThe evil real estate developer who returns from the dead, he may be evoking a different role that became an immediate nightmare for kids in 1988: Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. All in all, Lloyd’s involvement is a key part of the cast that will make adults smile.
Another prominent cast member is Rachael Leigh Cook, who was the lead in teen movies of the late 1990s and early 2000s. She is all that and Josie and the Pussycats. Here, she seems to be taking on a different role than is usually remembered: the mother of one or more of the film’s main characters. People who grew up with her as Laney Boggs or Josie McCoy will be delighted to see her now in a more adult role.
The trailer for Halloween spirit is loaded with other visual references to other movies. These include films from the 1980s where the young protagonists used the bicycle as their main means of transport, in particular AND the extra-terrestrialwhere the heroes even used them to evade the police. Halloween spiritThe trailer also features a movie theater that appears to show the 1985 vampire classic scary night. However, the references do not stop there.
Halloween spirit also pays homage to the 1988 fantasy comedy Big, in which a young boy grew into adulthood through an ancient fortune-telling machine. The new film has its own fortune teller in the store, which seems to let the heroes know if the ghost of Lloyd’s character is present and ready to terrorize them for the rest of the film. Halloween spirit even seems to evoke the Ivan Reitman classic ghost hunters by having the love interests of one of its protagonists possessed and levitated, which is done to similar creepy and comedic effect. Audiences will ultimately decide whether this new film is a trick or treat, but luckily the Halloween spirit the film seems to provide more than just publicity for the pop-up stores.
To see all of these references in action, Spirit Halloween opens this fall and will be available on demand on October 11.