The Halloween holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots, even though the etymology of the word is Christian.

", they will simply say " Halloween ", though in tradition it used to be La charité s ' il-vous-plaît (" Charity, please ").

Peeps are used primarily to fill Easter baskets, though recent advertising campaigns market the candy as " Peeps-Always in Season ", as Peeps has since expanded to include Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day.

Halloween trick or treating is traditionally held on October 30 in Barboursville, though the date is set by the city council and therefore subject to change.

Candy corn is a confection in the United States and Canada, popular primarily in autumn around Halloween ( though available year-round in most places ).

A long succession of slasher films were produced, though Halloween actually has far less graphic violence than the later films that defined the slasher genre.

She feuded with Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff throughout 2002, though the enemies inexplicably shared a kiss at a Halloween party in which McMahon was dressed as a witch and Bischoff was disguised as her father underneath a mask.

In the episode " Halloweenie ", he is the leader of the Pumpkin Eaters who are bent on ruining and destroying Halloween even though their reasons for hating the holiday are never explained.

In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, " Had Mr. Cronenberg settled simply for horror, as John Carpenter did in his classic Halloween ( though not in his not-so-classic The Fog ), Scanners might have been a Grand Guignol treat.

When seen by the living, reapers ' physical appearances are different from those they had when alive, except on Halloween when the living see them as they were in life, though fellow reapers always see their original appearances.

It is commercially sold by Penthouse Home Video as the " Wedding Night " tape, even though the wedding gown was actually a Halloween costume.

As the Halloween decorations and costumes dwindle in October, Christmas is already being pushed on consumers, and by the day after Halloween retailers are going full-force with advertising, even though the " official " season doesn't start until the day after Thanksgiving.

Due to Western influence, however, the ceremony is today often held around Halloween and Mexican Day of the Dead, which are similarly devoted to remembrance of the deceased, and though less emphasized in the modern period, the potential placation of their spirits.

Australian fancy dress parties typically follows the style of the United States, and Halloween costume parties have been common since the early 1990s, even though Halloween has not historically been a celebrated event in Australia.

The Fog was Atkins ' first appearance in a Carpenter film, though he would also go on to appear in Carpenter's next film, Escape from New York, and Halloween III: Season of the Witch ( 1982 ), which was produced and scored by Carpenter.

It was taken from the 1996 Halloween Slaugh-Tour, though it used the album's music.

Only Sally believes him, though she still has some suspicions after the Halloween fiasco.

The Halloween Pen is a small tunnel which runs underneath the Forth and Clyde Canal and links Lambhill to Summerston, this was well lit at one point apparently, not now though.

The word Halloween was first used in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows '- Even (" evening "), that is, the night before All Hallows ' Day.

The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going " guising " around the neighborhood.

While the first reference to " guising " in North America occurs in 1911, another reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.

The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.

The Rhythm Devils announced their first tour in 2006, which ended at the popular Vegoose festival in Las Vegas, Nevada over the Halloween weekend.

The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going " guising " around the neighborhood.

While the first reference to " guising " in North America occurs in 1911, another reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.

* The observance of Halloween in the Roman Catholic Church is first recorded.

Akkad became best known for his key involvement in the first eight Halloween movies, as an executive producer ( the only producer to participate in all of these films ).

Buffy's debut into literature came in the comic Dark Horse Presents 1998 Annual on August 26, 1998, while her first prose appearance was in Halloween Rain by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder on October 5, 1998.

The first Halloween document, requested by senior vice-president James Allchin for the attention of senior vice-president Paul Maritz and written by Microsoft program manager Vinod Valloppillil, was leaked to Eric Raymond in October 1998, who immediately published an annotated version on his web site.

In 2002 Lexington became the first city to launch a Thriller video reenactment as a Halloween festivity.

Despite this, Lynde's amazing popularity led to his being signed by ABC to host a series of specials from 1975 to 1979, including: The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( November 6, 1975 ) with Jack Albertson, Nancy Walker and the Osmond Brothers ; The Paul Lynde Halloween Special ( October 29, 1976 ) featuring the first prime-time network appearance of KISS, along with Margaret Hamilton recreating her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.

For example, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, cakes for first communion, Christmas cakes, Halloween cakes and Passover plava ( a type of sponge cake sometimes made with matzo meal ) are all identified primarily according to the celebration they are intended to accompany.

The practice of Guising at Halloween in North America is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported children going " guising " around the neighborhood.

The first release announced is a DVD of the Halloween special which will be released on August 26, 2008, and will contain 2 bonus episodes.

His fear first began when a swarm of cats scared him while he was dressed as a mouse when he went Trick or Treating with his brothers on one Halloween night when they were little.

Following his newest assignment, one of his first acts was canceling A Current Affair in September 2005 and replacing it with a new Geraldo Rivera show titled Geraldo at Large, which debuted on Halloween, 2005.

Delta Kappa Epsilon's first West Coast chapter was founded at the University of California, Berkeley on Halloween night, 1876.

Radio stations — responsible for so much of Christmas music broadcasting, popularization, and appreciation — are " going Christmas earlier and earlier ", even the day after Halloween, because executives " think that listeners will stick with the first station to change to a seasonal theme.

* Season 2: " School Hard " ( first appearance ), " Halloween ", " Lie to Me ", " What's My Line, Part One ", " What's My Line, Part Two ", " Surprise ", " Innocence ", " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ", " Passion ", " I Only Have Eyes For You ", " Becoming, Part One " ( Also in flashbacks ), " Becoming, Part Two "

After a Halloween gig in Leamington Spa ( their first in the UK for 3 years ) the band returned to North America in November, including a return orchestral event with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra on 9 November After playing in Tallinn, Estonia on 18 November, they returned to the US for an orchestral concert in Wilmington, Delaware on 4 December.

Sarandon also reprised his role as Jack Skellington for Halloween Screams and the Haunted Mansion Holiday, a three-month overlay of the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, where Jack and his friends take over the Mansion in an attempt to take over Christmas, much as his character did in the film.

After the success of Halloween, he had enough influence to get the film made and shot most of it in St. Louis, Missouri.

" He brought in Nick Castle, a friend from his film school days at University of Southern California who played " The Shape " in Halloween.

This sub-genre would be mined by dozens of increasingly violent movies throughout the subsequent decades, and Halloween became a successful independent film.

Before the success of the midnight screenings, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York opening ( on Halloween night ) was cancelled.

Internet snuff films are alluded to in the Marc Evans film My Little Eye ( 2002 ), and the film Halloween: Resurrection.

Having aired once at 10: 30 pm on Halloween 1983 and promptly shelved, prints of the film are extremely difficult to locate, which contributes to the rumor that this project does not exist.

Moustapha Akkad (; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005 ) was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert.

In 1978, he helped make low-budget film history when he produced Halloween.

A Kirk Halloween mask was altered and used as the mask worn by the character Michael Myers in the Halloween film franchise.

The film was rediscovered in the USC archives in 2011 and proved interesting because it revealed elements that would appear in his later film, Halloween ( 1978 ).

Halloween ( 1978 ) was a smash hit on release and helped give birth to the slasher film genre.

Originally an idea suggested by producer Irwin Yablans ( titled The Babysitter Murders ), who envisioned a film about babysitters being menaced by a stalker, Carpenter took the idea and another suggestion from Yablans that it take place during Halloween and developed a story.

In addition to the film's critical and commercial success, Carpenter's self-composed " Halloween Theme " remains a recognizable film music theme to this day.

In the theatrical cut, the song playing during the Halloween party is " Proud to be Loud " by Pantera, a track released on their 1988 album, which would coincide with the time setting of the film.

Curtis's film debut occurred in the 1978 horror film Halloween, in which she played the role of Laurie Strode.

Her next film was the horror film The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter.

The film, for which she earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Performance by a Foreign Actress, was similar in style to Halloween, yet received negative reviews which marked it as a disposable entry in the then-popular " slasher film " genre.

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.