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  • Horror trivia: William Shatner played Freddy Voorhees from the Halloween on Elm Street The 13th movie

    Horror trivia: William Shatner played Freddy Voorhees from the Halloween on Elm Street The 13th movie


    At this point, it’s not even trivia anymore—everyone knows that William Shatner’s face became the face of Michael Myers in Halloween. Horror fans have repeated this story for almost half a century: John Carpenter’s low-budget film needed a mask, so the crew went to a store, grabbed a William Shatner Star Trek mask, slathered it in white paint, widened the eye holes, and—voilà—the Shape was born.

    So, last night I stumbled across a nostalgic TikTok clip of William Shatner himself talking to Conan O’Brien back in the ’90s about this very thing. What should have been a fun exchange quickly turned into a painful mess. Shatner and Conan mixed up Jason and Freddy, the audience shouted out Friday the 13th when the real answer was Halloween, and Andy Richter, joking about being a “slasher movie connoisseur,” still couldn’t get the facts straight.

    In fairness, this may not have been as WELL KNOWN in the 90s–perhaps it was more of obscure trivia compared to the amount of knowledge people have today of horror and the Halloween films.. but when your face is the base for a horror icon, you’d think you would have gotten it right? (This aired in November 1997)..



    The whole segment is a horror fan’s worst nightmare—not because of Michael Myers, but because of how wrong everyone managed to be. It’ll make you wince, but it’s worth a watch..

    For some more reading, check out our October 2022 post about the aging Shape.. the fate of the original Myers mask and how it looked then.. It is falling apart..

  • A new Halloween game coming out in 2026 looks incredible

    A new Halloween game coming out in 2026 looks incredible

    Now this looks like an amazing game coming out next year.

    The world premiere trailer has revealed Halloween: The Game—an immersive, stealth-based horror title based on John Carpenter’s 1978 classic. The game is set to release in 2026 for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.

    Of course, the internet wasted no time weighing in. Some critics are already dismissing it as just another horror title recycled from familiar mechanics seen in other games. But for Halloween fans? That hardly matters. This could finally be the Halloween game we’ve all been waiting for.

    We do have one small criticism, though. Michael Myers doesn’t look like the infamous William Shatner mask. Instead… he looks a little too much like Spock from Star Trek.

  • Clowning around on Halloween

    Clowning around on Halloween

    The rumors are true: Art the Clown will ring rhe closing bell on Wall Street today, Halloween 2024..

    Is this historic? Weird?

    Or a huge in your face to the other clown who flopped at the box this fall?

    Terrifier 3 studio and distributor Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS) said in a press release that it will celebrate the box office success of the shock horror movie in New York City on Thursday when Art the Clown rings the closing bell…

    From their press release:

    “Art the Clown and Terrifier 3 took on The Joker at the box office and won, and now are taking on the street,” Cineverse Chief Legal Officer Gary Loffredo said in a press release. “As our company marks one of the most exciting phases since it began being listed on Nasdaq nearly two decades ago, it’s only fitting that on Halloween we are joined by the iconic character, from our number one movie, to ring the closing bell.”

    According to the release, Art the Clown will be joined by various Cineverse executives and guests, as well as representatives from the movie…

  • Halloween just ain’t what it used to be

    Halloween just ain’t what it used to be

    Here are the top costumes in 2024..

    Here are this year’s top 25 trending costumes, according to Google Trends:

    1. Shrunken Head Bob, from “Beetlejuice”
    2. Raygun
    3. Catnap
    4. Delores, from “Beetlejuice”
    5. Pomni, from “The Amazing Digital Circus”
    6. Envy, from “Inside Out”
    7. Red, from “Descendants”
    8. Dr. Doom
    9. Sabrina Carpenter
    10. Lady Deadpool
    11. Chipotle burrito
    12. Anger, from “Inside Out”
    13. Disgust, from “Inside Out”
    14. Wolverine
    15. Anxiety, from “Inside Out”
    16. Delia Deetz, from “Beetlejuice”
    17. Gambit
    18. Dune
    19. Minion
    20. Shadow the Hedgehog
    21. Joy, from “Inside Out”
    22. Peely, from “Fortnite”
    23. Lydia Deetz, from “Beetlejuice”
    24. Soulja Boy
    25. Godzilla

    MEANWHILE..

    Trunk or treat is here to stay (no matter how much you may hate it) *

    Great article that debunks all of those fears over trick or treating.. razor blades in apples.. tainted candy..

    But regardless, cultural shifts and endless fears of fakery and trickery have caused us to be comfortable accepting candy from decorated car trunks in parking lots across America..

    Lest we forget: Malls were the ‘place’ to trick or treat for years..

    Until malls shuddered across America. Shifts occur.. maybe one day soon we will just accept ‘virtual’ candy on social media for Samhain…

    The Atlantic laments: Halloween has changed..

  • Keeping this Halloween spirit a little longer.

    Keeping this Halloween spirit a little longer.

    This is probably a brilliant move. Imagine the Spirit Halloween store closes down and immediately the spirit changes to Christmas.. a store opens up with ugly sweaters. A Santa Claus .. and maybe some Nightmare before Christmas socks and door nats?

    It’s apparently going to happen. A few tests pop-up stores are coming.

    https://www.spirithalloween.com/content.jsp?pageName=spiritchristmas&fbclid=IwY2xjawFwItNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZziuuT1c_4oZt63lO87QmNkdDsdMF9gsWH3gX3S5dOCvFsNx0m1n0mFsA_aem_hBSgF50B2V0T-3_UecmTrg

    Spirit Halloween is opening a couple test run.. at this point, these stores will be in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

    And they are going to work!!

    Honestly, we’re hopeful of some form of a mixture of the scary and supernatural along with the bright and cuddly imagery of Christmas.

    At this point, the spirit store may as well just keep ongoing with spirit, New Year’s and Easter, and then while we’re at it. Spirit, fourth of july?Let’s make this a year round thing

    There’s plenty of retail space to house it and most likely at least with Christmas. A number of customers that can make it work.

  • A truly brilliant Michael Myers TikTok toenjoy as October begins

    A truly brilliant Michael Myers TikTok toenjoy as October begins

    We’re not stealing this, but we’re reposting because we think it’s genius.

    The tiktok page called  Myers of TikTok hit it out of the park with this video. Give the page a follow if you have that social platform. But please watch the video and enjoy as much as we did.

    It’s October and it’s almost Halloween. Everyone’s entitled to one good scare.

  • That’s the SPIRIT!! Store jabs back at SNL

    That’s the SPIRIT!! Store jabs back at SNL

    The Season 50 premiere of the NBC late-night sketch show featured a sketch that made light of the retail store that sells Halloween costumes throughout October.

    SNL’s Season 50 premiere, with guest host Jean Smart, featured a fake ad for Spirit Halloween, the costume store that pops up in vacant retail stores for the month of October.

    “Times may be good on Wall Street, but on Main Street, communities are struggling,” SNL’s Heidi Gardner says in a voice-over. “Closed stores, shuttered businesses, empty parking lots… When hard times hit, it’s easy to feel like no one cares.”

    The fake ad continued, “But help is on the way because when others leave, we show up.”

    Spirit Halloween sets up shop in a vacant K-mart and revitalizes the building, welcoming customers “for six weeks and then bouncing.”

    SNL’s Chloe Fineman then says, “We’re here providing vulnerable communities with the things they need most: Wigs that give you a rash, single-use fog machines, and costumes of famous characters tweaked just enough to avoid a lawsuit.”

    But.. Spirit got its own revenge..

    The store offered this on X:

  • Its never too early for the season of the Witch

    Its never too early for the season of the Witch

    Now keep in mind that decor began going up in August.. 

    Neighbors were aghast.. but tis the season for ghostly aghasts..

    More to come. It’s only September after all 🎃😆😉

  • Michael Myers: The less than minimum wage serial killer!

    Michael Myers: The less than minimum wage serial killer!

    The original Halloween was low budget.

    But this low budget!?
    Whoa!!

    Michael — called “The Shape” — was played by Nick Castle.. As a small boy, Michael Myers was played, in one scene, by an actor named Will Sandin in his first and last role on screen. In POV shots, the hands of young Michael were provided by co-writer and producer Debra Hill, while the unmasked Michael — who appears only briefly at the very end of the movie — was played by Tony Moran. 

    There were certainly a lot of Shapes.

    The shooting schedule for the original “Halloween,” filmed in Pasadena, was a mere 21 days back in 1978. The film was famously completed for a mere $300,000 to $325,000 … although little of that, it seems, went to Castle. According to a 2018 interview with Vanity Fair, Castle’s pay was $525, in total.

    Vanity Fair adjusted Castle’s paycheck for inflation, saying that $525 in 1978 would be about $2,509 in 2018. By 2023, that inflation only equals $2,583.43. According to Rent.com, the average price of a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is about $2,853..

    In Castle’s own words:

    “I was paid $25 per day for ‘Halloween.’ That was a lot at the time! You have to remember: my interest in doing the film was being on set, so I could demystify the experience of filmmaking and directing. I expected to hang around the set for no money. But hey, $25 per day, and all I had to do was wear a rubber mask. It’s a mystery what [John Carpenter] saw in me and the way I moved. I asked John, ‘What is this character going to do?’ And he said, ‘Just walk across the street.’ I knew Michael’s movements weren’t going to be robotic. He was a real guy. He’s not rushing.”

    MORE..

  • The OFFICE Halloween cut scene lives on in infamy

    The OFFICE Halloween cut scene lives on in infamy

    BIG fans of the OFFICE here at the HORROR REPORT.

    After seeing a ‘best of Halloween’ Youtube OFFICE themed video, one particular scene was foreign. That is because it was rarely seen–cut by NBC and not on Netflix when it appeared there or Peacock now in its current home.

    The scene was originally featured in the episode, “Koi Pond,” the eighth installment of season 6. You will not find it now.

    “Koi Pond” was one of the most memorable episodes from The Office season 6. Jim had a meeting with an important client but it was requested that Michael come along. When the duo returned, Michael was soaking wet and it was revealed that he fell into a koi pond. After a lesson about mocking fellow employees, the office learned that Jim could have stopped Michael from falling into the pond but he purposely stepped aside to let it happen.

    The episode is famous in OFFICE lore for the plot. But also famous for what vanished.

    The episode aired on October 29, 2009, and opened by showing the employees of Dunder Mifflin Scranton putting together a haunted warehouse for the local kids. Darryl , who Michael referred to as “gangster pumpkin”, pushed the kids around as the rest of the employees put on less than inspired horror scenes.

    The cold open-ended with Michael simulating a suicide, horrifying the children while turning it into a life lesson and referencing that Christmas is not the only season with a message and that suicide is not the answer..

    It appears NBC had a backlash to the episode. Some thought it was too offensive and inappropriate causing NBC to remove the scene. Michael was dressed as Saturday Night Live‘s character, D*ck in a Box during his hanging.

    You an see it here, still, in all its cut and edited glory:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_gVDfKSms8&t=185s