He also wrote a poem on Hallowe ' en in 1780 which influenced the bard of Scotland Robert Burns ' 1785 poem Halloween.

Seminary House is rumoured to be haunted, therefore, every Halloween, its residents transform the entire building into a Haunted House.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

There and in Ireland, they had been celebrating Samhain and Halloween since the early Middle Ages, and the kirk took a more pragmatic approach towards Halloween, viewing it as important to the life cycle and rites of passage of local communities and thus ensuring its survival in the country.

Before the success of the midnight screenings, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York opening ( on Halloween night ) was cancelled.

* Halloween-In October, Disney Channel airs Halloween programming in an annual event, titled " Monstober ", which Disney announced they would continue to use due to its popularity in 2011.

The park is famous for its large events during Easter, Christmas, Fourth of July and Halloween.

The Anglo-Saxon and American holiday Halloween has grown in popularity following its introduction in the mid-1990s by the trade associations.

Ten years later, he voiced Ted E. Bear again for its Halloween sequel The Great Bear Scare.

The town is already famous for its haunted houses and public buildings, its ghost tours ; a Halloween extravaganza in the cemetery, " Voices from the Past " ( in which live actors portray the dead of Eureka ), and for a variety of ghostly phenomena.

Tillson Street is known for its elaborate Halloween decorations.

One Halloween night, a new wagon was removed from its customary spot in front of the store by a group of pranksters.

The village incorporated in 1993 in attempt to have more control over its precarious state since it was obliterated in the Great Hurricane of 1938, 1991 Halloween Nor ’ easter (" The Perfect Storm ") and again in a 1992 Nor ' easter.

He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear ( which, because of Fear's raucous performance and the ultra-dark humour of the sketches, has never been re-transmitted on television since its original airing ).

In October and December 1994, Nickelodeon sold Halloween and Christmas themed episodes of its Nicktoons through syndication to local markets across the United States, with then-new former corporate relative, Paramount Domestic Television ( now CBS Television Distribution ).

Halloween, though not the first film of its kind, was the first with a masked killing machine, and also the first film to introduce the concept of the killer being a seemingly indestructible evil force.

Through its success, Halloween is often considered the film responsible for the proliferation of the slasher trend, popularizing many of what later became key elements in the genre.

In 1982, there was Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Last Starfighter in 1984 as Grig, Alex Rogan's copilot, navigator, and sidekick, The Whoopee Boys in 1986 as a conman, John Huston's The Dead in 1987, in RoboCop, and its sequel RoboCop 2.

Where Halloween had broken new ground and was imitated by many genre films following in its wake, this third installment seemed hackneyed to many: one critic suggests that if Halloween III was not part of the Halloween series, then it would simply be " a fairly nondescript eighties horror flick, no worse and no better than many others.

According to the film's director: Tommy Lee Wallace, on the Halloween: 25 Years of Terror documentary DVD, he said that the film had made no money, at the box office, it had " pissed-off " a lot of Halloween fans, it should have been released as just Season of the Witch, with no association, whatsoever, with the Halloween franchise, and he believes it might have found its ' audience, although it was " a good movie, by itself, but was not the Halloween franchise ".

In keeping with the time-oriented surprises of the Saturn original, the remake features Nights, Elliot and Claris wearing special seasonal clothing during certain holidays, such as party costumes during Halloween in Mystic Forest or swim-wear during two special days in summer in Splash Garden.

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

Since the publication of the two original documents, a number of additional Microsoft memoranda on related topics have also been leaked and published ( e. g. Halloween VII ).

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.

Halloween films such as the Halloweentown series have premiered in this month, along with Twitches, Twitches Too, The Scream Team, Mostly Ghostly, and Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, along with Halloween episodes of the network's original series.

John Carpenter, director and co-writer of the original Halloween film, grew up in Bowling Green, 12 miles from Smiths Grove.

Roger Ebert coined the derogatory nickname " Dead Teenager Movies ", although he did write a highly favorable review of the original Halloween.

Halloween III departs from the slasher film genre which the original Halloween spawned in 1978, instead featuring a " mad scientist " theme.

When approached about creating a third Halloween film, original Halloween writers John Carpenter and Debra Hill were reluctant to pledge commitment.

Nancy Kyes played Challis's ex-wife Linda ; she had appeared in the original Halloween as Laurie Strode's promiscuous friend Annie Brackett.

Wallace had served as art director and production designer for John Carpenter's original Halloween and he had previously declined to direct Halloween II in 1981.

The score of Halloween III differed greatly from the familiar main theme of the original and sequel.

Previously, he had written the original screenplay for the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch for Carpenter, but had been so incensed with all of the changes director Tommy Lee Wallace had made to it that he had his name removed from the credits.

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.

Her films Godkiller and Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet saw DVD release by the time Fear Clinic, a Fearnet original web series featuring Harris as well as Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, and Lisa Wilcox, made its debut the week of Halloween 2009, and her own upcoming horror resources website, horrorgal. com, was announced.

Wizards of the Coast released an updated version of the original module as a free download for Halloween 2005, retaining much of the original content ; the updated content is from the Dungeons & Dragons supplement book Libris Mortis.

Fuad Ramses was described by author Christopher Wayne Curry in his book A Taste of Blood: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis as " the original machete-wielding madman " and the forerunner to similar characters in Friday the 13th and Halloween.

Adult Swim has re-aired the pilot episode periodically since its original premiere, including twice on Halloween night, October 31, 2008, as part of an advertised " Halloween Stunt " night, where rarely seen programs such as the Korgoth of Barbaria and Boo Boo Runs Wild were aired, rather than the usual programming line-up for a Friday evening.

The film's opening title features a digitally animated jack-o '- lantern, an obvious reference to the jack-o '- lanterns that appeared in the opening titles of Halloween and Halloween II.

He reigned as champion for three months, which included title defenses against the likes of Ultimate Dragon, Malenko, and Super Caló before he lost the title to Malenko at Halloween Havoc.

These include the Star Wars-themed " Darth Tater ", " Spud Trooper " and " R2-POTATOO ", a 2007 Transformers film-themed " Optimash Prime ", a pair of Spider-Man ( red suit and black suit )- themed " Spider-Spud / Peter Tater ", a Indiana Jones-themed " Taters of the Lost Ark " set ( which, despite the title, was released as a tie-in to 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ), an Iron Man 2-themed " Tony Starch " and a " Trick or Tater " version for Halloween in October 2008.

He dropped the Cruiserweight title to Rey Mysterio, Jr. at Halloween Havoc in a Title vs.

Flair would challenge for the title at Halloween Havoc and World War 3, losing both times.

Wight made his professional debut for the World Championship Wrestling promotion at the Halloween Havoc 1995, defeating Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship via disqualification, with the pre-match stipulation that the title can change hands in disqualification finish.

Hogan claims ( in his autobiography, Hollywood Hulk Hogan ) that Russo made it a shoot, and Hogan was double-crossed by Turner executive Brad Siegel, who did not want to use Hogan any more due to how much Hogan cost per appearance ; and Bischoff, in his autobiography, Controversy Creates Ca $ h, contends that Hogan winning and leaving with the title was a work which would result in his return several months later-the plan was to crown a new champion at Halloween Havoc, only for Hogan to come out afterwards and ultimately win a champion vs. champion match-but that Russo's coming out to fire him was a shoot which led to the lawsuit filed by Hogan.

He then put a string of four more wins before facing Bobby Arthur for the British Welterweight title on Halloween night, 1972.

In the build-up to his first title defense at Halloween Havoc, there was growing dissension between Page and Kimberly.

At Fall Brawl, Page won the WarGames main event, and got a World title shot against the undefeated Goldberg at Halloween Havoc.

Despite this setback in the World title picture, Page rebounded this same following night of Halloween Havoc, on the October 26 edition of Nitro, with a win over Bret Hart to capture the United States Heavyweight Title.

The original working title for the film was Halloween 7: The Revenge of Laurie Strode.

WCW World Champion Sting was defending his title against the Horsemen's Sid Vicious at the Halloween Havoc pay-per-view.

Romero won three fights in a row, then lost, on Halloween night, 1998 to Vujani Bungu by a twelve round decision in an attempt to win a title in a third division, this time the IBF Super-Bantamweight title.

The storm is a contender for the title of most powerful extratropical cyclone recorded in the U. S. in the 20th century ; with respect to wind velocity, it is unmatched by the March 1993 " Storm of the Century " and the " 1991 Halloween Nor ’ easter " (" The Perfect Storm ").

An annual Halloween pumpkin carving contest named 343 Guilt O ' Lantern is organized by Halo. Bungie. Org ; both the contest's title and logo use the character's design and name as inspiration.

; a space tracking agent in the Austin Powers series ; another flight controller Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ; a cross-dressing man named ' Nipples ' in Little Nicky ; the title character in the 1995 low-budget comedy-horror film Ice Cream Man ; he played Rughead, a nervous and often annoying auto technician in the 1986 science fiction film The Wraith ; the title role of Stanley Coopersmith in the horror movie Evilspeak ; Kate the Caterer in The Cat in the Hat ; featured briefly in Rob Zombie's Halloween ; and appeared in the romantic comedies Play the Game and Speed-Dating.

He also starred as the title role in FOX's 1992 Halloween special Count DeClues ' Mystery Castle.

This episode marks the end of the tradition of using humorous tombstones in the title sequence of Halloween episodes.

Then, the title The Simpsons Halloween Special VII comes up in blood.