The Spirit Halloween movie looks exactly like what you’d expect from a Spirit Halloween movie
It looks like a horror movie you'd buy at a Spirit Halloween, alright? We're not trying to be mean.
Let’s get one thing clear: Spirit Halloween is a fine brand, and we have no complaints about it and no interest in disparaging the good work that it does in providing reasonably priced Halloween paraphernalia to the public (to say nothing of the noble strides it has made in revitalizing America’s underused strip malls). That being said, we didn’t exactly have high hopes when we first heard that some kind of movie based on Spirit Halloween stores was in the works a few months ago. Say what you will about movies based on toys, but they at least usually have characters and stuff. This is a movie based on a store.
Well, we’re ready to eat our words like so many handfuls of delicious Halloween candy, because the trailer for Spirit Halloween: The Movie is here and it… looks a whole lot like a movie based on a store. Actually, to be more specific, it looks like a movie somebody made because they got permission to film inside an actual Spirit Halloween (inside an actual abandoned Toys R Us) and then they just figured everything out from there. Like how Steven Spielberg just happened to set up a camera on Amity Island one summer during a string of shark attacks and figured he might as well turn it into Jaws.