Spirit Halloween Movie | Nightmare Nostalgia

If you were lucky enough to attend Spirit Halloween’s Grand Opening of their New Jersey Superstore this weekend, you caught a sneak peek of the highly-anticipated trailer for the upcoming movie that centers around everyone’s favorite pop-up Halloween market. Alas, most of us weren’t that lucky but today is our day to see terrifying, over-the-top Halloween animatronics come to life!

Behold, Spirit Halloween: The Movie first teaser trailer!

The film’s synopsis is as follows: “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.”

Starring Christopher Lloyd, Rachael Leigh Cook, Donavan Colan, Dylan Frankel, Jaiden Smith, Marissa Reyes, and Marla Gibbs, Spirit Halloween: The Movie is slated to arrive on October 11, 2022, as an on-demand title.

Can we just petition Spirit to have special screenings at their stores for the Halloween season? Please and thanks.

Horror and Halloween fanatics long for the days when Spirit Halloween opens its doors signifying the official arrival of the spooky season and now Spirit has one more grand Halloween treat for us to look forward to- A SPIRIT HALLOWEEN MOVIE!

I don’t even care what it’s about. Just put it in my eyeballs right now.

In an exclusive with Variety, the iconic seasonal costume and prop store with 1,425 locations across North America, has teamed with Strike Back Studios, Hideout Pictures and Particular Crowd for a feature-length family movie simply entitled, “Spirit Halloween.”

The premise so far is as follows:

“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.”

With a screenplay by Billie Bates, the movie is billing legendary actor Christopher Lloyd alongside Rachel Leigh Cook as the main stars for the film alongside Donavan Colan, Dylan Frankel, Marissa Reyes, Jaiden Smith, and Marla Gibbs with Director David Poag, making his directorial feature debut.

Filming is reported to have been completed and is eyeing an October 2022 release date.