With the highly anticipated Spirit Halloween movie finally dropping, audiences are understandably eager to learn all they can about the project. The popular store pops up all over strip malls in the United States and Canada to spread macabre merch for the fall holiday but now the brand has dipped its toes into the world of filmmaking. The production remained enigmatic until a rush of details began to surface surrounding the film's cast, plot, and characters.
In April 2022, a family-friendly film based around the Spirit Halloween stores was announced. Along with the information that this movie could be expected to drop around the Halloween season, plot and cast details were also revealed. On the day of the announcement, the producers of Spirit Halloween claimed production for the film was already wrapped up. Steadily, concept art for animatronics appearing in Spirit Halloween: The Movie started getting posted on Instagram. They included spooky and life-like renditions of the store's animatronics Buzzsaw and Nightcrawler.
Spirit Halloween was able to shoot privately in abandoned Toys R Us lots in Georgia and began production in 2019. The concept for the film is stupefying because there are not many films based on real-life retail chains. Mixing experienced actors with newcomers is the perfect formula to strike a proper balance between originality and nostalgia for this spooky extravaganza. A few months before its premiere, the teaser trailer of Spirit Halloween has been released to cap off a landslide of production details. Here is everything that's known about the Spirit Halloween movie.
Spirit Halloween Movie Cast
Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd has been confirmed to play a lead role in Spirit Halloween. Lloyd plays Alec Windsor, a ghost who possesses a Spirit Halloween store and antagonizes the lead child protagonists of the film. The group the plot will be following is made up of four friends. Donovan Colan, Dylan Martin Frankel, and Jaiden J. Smith are the actors playing a tight-knit group of boys while actress Marissa Reyes will be playing their friend Kate. In the trailer, Kate appears to crash the boys' outing when they decide to break into an abandoned Spirit Halloween store. Aside from Lloyd, another major name will be gracing the cast of Spirit Halloween. She's All That actress Rachel Leigh Cook will be playing the mother of one of the young boys. More names in the film's cast include Marla Gibbs, Brad Carter, Seth Ingram, Billie Roy, and Katherine Dudley
Spirit Halloween Movie Story
The light-hearted horror comedy Spirit Halloween will show off how well each animatronic and decoration from the store can fit into a monster movie. The morbid designs for Buzzsaw and Nightcrawler prove that while the film intends on being family-friendly, it also aims to frighten its audience. With the plot's focus being on a group of kids, Spirit Halloween is probably attempting to market off the massive success of sci-fi horror shows like Stranger Things, with that series recently wrapping up its fourth season. Keeping the Spirit Halloween trailer in mind, this movie will be attempting a less serious tone. It is more reminiscent of the children's horror book series Goosebumps, which is being adapted by Disney+ after its film reboots. The official summary of Spirit Halloween's plot casts a clearer light on what can be expected of the daring movie this Halloween season:
“When a new Spirit Halloween store appears in a deserted strip mall, three middle-school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick-or-treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store Halloween night, but they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves.”
Spirit Halloween Release Date
The Spirit Halloween movie will premiere on October 11th, 2022. Spirit Halloween will not be released in theaters but on demand instead. It will be airing just in time for the macabre holiday with other anticipated feature films, such as the upcoming 2022 revival of Hocus Pocus and Halloween Ends. Autumn is facing up to be a spectacular year for horror and movie lovers alike. The retail chain dropped the trailer at the seasonal grand opening of its flagship store in New Jersey on Saturday, July 30th, 2022. The official trailer was unveiled to the public on the YouTube channel of Strike Back Studios' production company just a few days later. More concrete details will likely begin to surface as October starts to draw nearer.
Spirit Halloween Movie Trailer
Casting the infamous Christopher Lloyd was the first of many perfect steps for the Spirit Halloween production to take. This Goosebumps-style project was made with a much lower budget than the average Hollywood horror movie classic but will nonetheless impart a significant effect on the dedicated shoppers who visit their local Spirit Halloween store every year, even if the film fails to drudge up any real scares. Thanks to a variety of production companies and the abandoned lots of retail stores which made reliable makeshift sets, the Spirit Halloween movie came to be and will grace audiences with what is sure to be a bombastic yet hilarious fright fest in October.