Why Did Spirit Halloween Make A Bad Movie??
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Today we're gonna be taking a look at something I didn't believe existed until I payed $9.99 for it on Amazon, The Spirit Halloween movie. Yep that Halloween store made an awful movie... for some reason. But it's perfect, at least for what I do over here. Anyways sit back and enjoy what I can only imagine will become a Halloween Classic.
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the only way I know how to get into the spooky mood
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It was filmed where I live and that is what the store actually looks like. 😂😂😂
I applied to work at Halloween store once. Was told I would be part of the set up crew and the store would keep the best workers to help run the store. First 2 days I showed up and didn't do much of anything, we hung a shelf or two but everyone mostly stood around. On the 3rd day, I walked in and saw someone I haven't met yet. Was asked who I was, after telling him.. I was dropped with "the person who hired you and this crew doesn't actually work here, we do not know who he is."
Apparently the owners of the store are from out of state, left for a week to handle some business, came back and noticed the door was open. Guy who hired everyone had been sleeping there. The owners didn't plan on hiring or anything until the week after. I wonder what ever happened to the guy who hired me. He seemed so well put together.
This is the wildest story I’ve read on CZcams 😂😂
So the homeless guy hired you guys to keep him company? That’s wild AF
Honestly that checks out for a Halloween store
I feel for the guy, I would have kept him on staff. just down on his luck
Ok this is wild💀
I’m kind of impressed that this movie held back on the kiss between the main protagonist and his love interest that he’s had little to no time to develop a relationship with. That seems like the only cliche it didn’t lean into.
Well I guess she was like 18 😂
Everyone knows America isn't in an official recession unless at least 75% of available commercial real estate is occupied by a Spirit Halloween store
they’re so overpriced
why you have a store just for halloween stuff? how it operates rest of the year?
@@Judessin it doesn’t. Just occupies vacant spaces for the season.
During the 2008 recession a hummer dealership turned in to one by me
The year is 2525 the only stores that survived the franchise wars is taco bell & spirit halloween
The transition between her slipping and the 1000 ways to die was absolutely halarious thank you Chris and keep up the work man
I thought I accidentally tapped a related video on the side!
I flew to the comments for this that was perfection 😂
As an exemployee of spirit halloween, no I never checked the store. I made an announcement and left.
Was I responsible? No.
Was I a stoned highschooler left alone everyday? Yup.
This movie was filmed in my hometown apparently! I saw the Toys r Us and then the theater and I was like oh crap that's where I grew up 🤣
Fun fact: the "Chernobyl" building by the Halloween store used to be a dope indoor paintball park
Now it's just used for dope.
Heh, that "I'm sorry your dad died of bone cancer" has got some Tommy Wiseau energy... "the Doctors told me its breast cancer"
ha ha, so anyway, how is your sexlife?
@@rmutt7441 oh hai doggy!
My dad died for it and I just that funny
Imagine if that was the quote in his yearbook from his dad.. "Sorry about my bone cancer, sport 😕🤷🏾♂️"
His father's one regret was having bonitis
I actually worked in a Spirit within the last 5 years and can assure you that they actually do use alarms, even in buildings they've never used before. These kids wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes without setting it off.
Not seeing an employee in sight is like a requirement for opening and running a Spirit store lol
It is?
Bruh I saw employees all over the place. They were just 16 and had no idea how to do their job
I guess you could say the Spirit is run by spirits 👀🤣
"and that kid is 7!" Had absolutely no right slaying me the way it did 😭
i laughed so hard at the sudden Doctor From Spike TV Explaining How Someone Dies that shit was on point LMFAO
Yo fucking same 😂💀
This has inspired me to make a Walmart movie. Set in a real Walmart somewhere in Florida- and a crack head stole my camera.
There are some pretty scary Walmarts.
AHAHA
As a Floridian for 21 out of my almost 35 years of life, I am begging you to not do that you know not what danger you are in entering a Floridian Walmart if you must do this, do this, while donning a knight’s helmet a captain America shield, and a Batman costume (movie, accurate, of course) all while brandishing at least four cheap gas station bottles of MD 2020. You should be safe then and fit right in. The consumers will be none the wiser that you are filming a film.
The funniest thing is that there's a former Toys R Us near me turned Spirit Halloween next to a Chinese buffet 🤣
Chattanooga?
All the budget was wasted on just having Christopher Lloyd on set 🤣🤣
The Spirit Halloweens in Salem, MA (Witch city-one of the Halloween capitals of the world) are on point! You'd never find a broken animatronic and there's tuns of employees, everything is in order. Didn't realize that wasn't everyone's experience
Everywhere else: Halloween is…cool yea. Then it’s not so much.
Salem: IT IS OUR DUTY TO LOVE AND HONOR HALLOWEEN FOREVER
they didnt have a single working animatronic at mine when i went. xD
Rough times for Rachel Lee Cooke, from playing the star of “she’s all that” to the mom in the spirit Halloween movie lol
Even worse, the mom in He’s all that
THATS HER?!
I didn't even recognize her! I think the last movie I saw her in was Josie and the Pussycats 20 goddamn years ago
At least I could probably watch this he's all that is terrible 😔
LOL I didn’t catch that before reading your comment😂😂😂 Poor Rachel…rough times indeed
My man said the word planogram. That's how you know he's worked in retail lol
My first thought as well
Okay I know this movie is bad and all, but main character guys delivery at 5:15 got a good laugh out of me. Whether that laugh was supposed to be intentional or not is up for debate, but the way he said such a stupid line so matter-of-factly just sells it.
Having Christopher Lloyd is nothing to sneeze at. I'm not defending this dumpster fire but I would be stoked to have him in my homemade movie.
It's always a good time when he shows up!
*"...nothing to sneeze at"?*
What? Lmao
@@JustTheWarning "Nothing to Sneeze At' means something that is not an inconsequential matter, not a trifling thing. Example of use: "When Daniel was chosen to be valedictorian, he was so proud, because the honor of being chosen to represent your entire class is nothing to sneeze at."
Really wish they had a big enough budget to make that Spirit store a portal to a Halloween world with some refugees from Toys 'R Us. That would probably be a more interesting movie, but licensing would probably be a nightmare.
the word ‘planogram’ giving me the spookiest retail flashback scare this halloween
"I got up to take a piss and didn't pause it but, can you blame me?"
And this is why i subbed. 😂
There's no better way to find out about a movie than watching Chris make fun of it 😂
They really tried to make the building look scary and they are walking up and it's covered in rainbows 😭😭😭.
The only people that are scared by that building are in the deep south
Spirit Halloween moving into vacant TV time slots is a sign of the times.
Thank God you were able to get a Spike TV doctor to explain what was going on.
Man I can’t wait for the sequel.
The bad guy possesses a circuit city.
The weird ass grandma just evaporating from a ritual leaving the child without a guardian was much more funny to me than it should have been. Partially because of Chris’s reaction but still got me good lol
I laughed too hard at the rotting pumpkin bit
Man u make the most cringe boring movies reviews so dam funny and interesting lol got a good laugh out of me today happy Halloween Chris and family subscribers
Thank you for watching Spirit Halloween for the rest of us haha. Enjoyed the video and congrats on 100k!
Thank you!!
Thank you Chris!!! Long day of work and then trick or treating with my kids and now I can relax and just laugh and enjoy your content as always! Happy Halloween and hope all is well.
Holy guacamole. This channel has grown SO FAST over the last few months. Congratulations man. You’ve been putting out great videos for so long it seems like. You definitely deserve it.
thank you!!
Having at least a Chinese takeout or buffet place close to the store is easily one of the most accurate things said for sure 🤣
In the Roosevelt outdoor mall in Philadelphia ours was next to a Chinese takeout buffet
Dear Mr. James, I (and I think all of your fans) greatly appreciate the work you put into doing these videos. You are FAR more entertaining than the content you review. AS always, I look forward to the next video.
You're welcome
the Spirit Halloween and Mandarin parking lot combo is DEADLY
Dam, I binge watched all your content in a day. Now all I can do is wait for your new videos. Keep up the fantastic work! I love everything you do :)
Rachel Leigh Cook went from starring in “She’s All That” to this movie. Oof.
Josie and the Pussycats is a goddamn masterpiece as well!
I worked at Spirit when this movie was being produced and it was so heavily marketed to the staff. We literally had to read a pamphlet about it during our onboarding
The old Toys R Us/Spirit Halloween and the DeSoto is in Rome, GA. It really did used to be a Toys R Us and is used as a Spirit Halloween every year. We got my kid's costumes there this past Halloween. Fun Fact, Vecna's house from Stranger Things is also in Rome.
That Spirit Halloween store looks exactly like the old Toys R Us in Athens (Georgia), so I looked it up and it was filmed in Rome, Georgia. Lol.
Btw Chris, I love your videos!
As someone from Georgia, nearby, I'm not surprised.
I’m from Newnan and live in cumming lol. I’m not surprised at all
Wait really? My mom is from Rome and my grandparents live there.
(I was actually supposed to go there today but I got sick)
Better ending: kid sacrifices his dads picture and his dads spirit appears and fights the bad spirit. Then has a cringe cliche moment with his son. Then convinced his son to be ok with the stepdad. Then poofs and appears in front of the step dad, shoves the lights in his hands, and says “put the ducking lights up…and thank you for watching over my Christmas wife (que the Santa ho ho ho for double irony) and my wonderful son”. Then cut to the boy helping his new little sister scene and camera slowly pans out revealing the entire neighborhood and across the street you see ghost dad peeping in the window of the neighbors to add a context of dad being a weirdo that way you subconsciously end the movie liking the new stepdad.
You're a master editor, I gotta admit that fart scene had me dying.
The most realistic part of this movie is that kid being very open about how he doesn't want people to call his step father his dad but everyone doing it anyway💀
Was in a Spirit Halloween yesterday and saw signs advertising this movie. I was hoping you would cover it so I wouldn't have to watch it.
Lmao the stunt doubles for stranger things, so damn true
I watched it and the first thing that threw me off was the line "is he ok with you calling him frank?" Because most step parents let the step kid call them by their name it's a super common thing
Love your shit as usual. Thanks for giving me something to watch after 3 hours of trick or treating and making pizza and ya know whatever happy Halloween 🎃
Do you have kids or was it a dream date? Either way I'm jealous. LoL
"Princesses *SUCK* "
That was so unnecessary that it took me out. Bro ratioed his step sis for no reason lol
The romantic interest in this movie reminds me of my high school gf, that doesn't mean much but it was a weird experience and i want someone else to be bothered by it
"We see where most of the budget went to for this movie" haha so true. He easily cost 75k of the 100k that went into this movie.
Rachel Leigh Cook too! I wish she got better roles these days, she deserves it after the masterpiece that is Josie and the Pussycats
There's an episode of Gravity Falls that follows a very similar premise and flow. Cept that was 22 minutes and enjoyable.
My local abandoned Kmart did not become a Spirit this year. Probably because they spent too much on getting Christopher Lloyd.
I worked at goodwill for a few years and I can honestly say their manufactured costumes are better quality than anything at spirit Halloween and literally 10% of the price.
I used to be the middle school kid that used to go to high school parties. My local neighbourhood friends all happen to be older than me and i went to a different school system. I'd go to their parties and lie about my age if anyone asked. Then when i tried to brag about that stuff at my actual school, nobody would believe me lol
It was kinda funny seeing the kids walking around after close, there aren't really many places to hide and we had to scour every last inch of the store for remaining customers
The lighting is honestly the most unsettling part of this film. It’s lit like a commercial, and even in the dark parts, it just looks like they turned down the brightness in post. No dynamic lighting/shadows at all.
Also nearly every shot I’ve seen is a mid-shot at eye level. So visually uninteresting. Completely still camera as well.
To say nothing of the special effects- I don’t think I need to. I get that it’s low-budget so I don’t mind that as much as I do the bad camerawork.
The suspense was surprisingly decent for the first Ghost Decoration Possession. But after the that, it was ass. I guess they just gave up halfway through.
I need more retail store movies: a Dollar General war movie, an Office Depot grand space opera, an Old Navy roadshow musical...
landlords being cartoonishly evil is the most realistic part of this movie.
That little girl was like “Sorry your dad died of bone cancer, why didn’t he just drink milk every day like normal bodied people?” 😂
That Chinese buffet joke needs more recognition
Congrats on the 100k subs, can I say one thing! In your videos you sometimes mention another content creator making "the same video" and that's the reason you don't make one one on the topic, but here's the thing! I've just discovered your channel in the past week and I've also just discovered this type of content, so I say do it! Even if others have made one on the same topic! Here's to a million-billion subs! :) :)
The main kid was actually just in the movie theater camp. He was hilarious in it and is actually a good actor he was just given a crappy script.
No way that's a coincidence when they show that black pickup truck in the Spirit parking lot that looks eerily similar to Marty's in BTTF in a Christopher Lloyd movie.
Spirit Halloween execs after seeing this review: we should open a location in Chernobyl.
Me and my wife love your content Chris and are watching some of your older videos. We just realized that this movie was filmed in our town. First noticed the theater then realized the abandoned Toys R Us is ours too, and they do use it as a Spirit Halloween every year. Lol.
I'm glad you watched this "movie?" So I don't have to but still get to laugh at how terrible it is. And you can't blame Mr. Christopher Lloyd for taking the part. He's getting up in age and this was probably the easiest paycheck he got in a while. What he was on set for a few hours tops, probably memorized the lines on way to set and, well we saw the extent of his stunts. I don't care who you are, Lloyd is a fucking legend!
There’s literally a Chinese food Buffett right next to our local spirit of Halloween hahaha
This is my new favorite channel thanks for the regular uploads!
So?... this is why I keep seeing spirit meme costume all over the place lol
christopher lloyd needs to stop agreeing to roles where 75% of his lines are incomprehensible noises (yes i am thinking of food fight!)
He's controlling another form, and in a store just like that movie.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST LENNAAAAAAAAAAHD
That 1000 Ways to Die edit 😆
That cut to the 1000 Ways to Die doctor was brilliant
Haha! Omg, this movie is on the same level of quality of a mid-tier 90's goosebumps episode
they're probably selling the DVDs of this at the checkout of your local Spirit store
"and that kid is seven" - I'm dyin' 🤣
8:43 we cannot blame you. This is def the type of movie that you purposely go to the bathroom and take your time, hoping its almost over by the time you get back 😂
I didn’t even know this movie existed but what do you expect from a spirit Halloween movie, it doesn’t look too bad either .
We expect it to be good since people got payed to make it and that's their profession. That's the problem i this country. Everyone sucks at their job now. Everywhere you go the quality and service sucks. And it's because of people like you that happily accept it and make excuses for it as the world turns to crap around us. If people would hold each other to high standards again and stop accepting failure we could make this country great again. Please grow a spine and join the rest of us in rejecting crappy subpar content. Sincerely -Someone who is sick to death of living on the same planet as people like you
Omg I squealed when the mom put on that jacket. I almost bought that jacket from target last year, but then I realized it looked stupid as fuck. Lololol
"You don't need sentences when you got touchdowns bro." - Aristotle
As someone who watched this movie and sat through it 1 time I can't imagine doing it 4 times that deserves a like
Hilarious. Movie commentating could be cool content. With Christmas coming up, there me be one or two cheesy Christmas movies coming out? :P
So funny story about the blueprint bit. I'm stockroom manager at our local Spirit and actually did find the original blueprints from when it was the first Fred Meyer in town.
“I’m sorry your dad died of bone cancer” best dialogue I’ve ever seen in a movie
Was listening to your old videos at work, now can relax at home watching a new video.
The other part of their budget went to hiring Marla Gibbs as the grandma she's a freaking legend
@8:25 they did a long take to show off the costumes; after all, the movie is still an ad 🎃
I agree about the cheesiness and how low budget the movie is...but it also kind of looks good lol I didn't see it, I wanna see it now lol
Another great video Chris! I find you very comforting to watch especially when I’m having a bad day. I’m also commenting for the algorithm, I really feel you deserve all the success and I’d love if more channels like yours were able to thrive! Happy Hallowe’en! 🎃
Idk when I went to spirit this year it was pretty lit, had a bunch of the good anomotronic decorations and set ups. Even Crazy Clowns from Outerspace good ass ones
Omg .... there IS always a Chinese buffet nearby a Spirt Halloween ..trippy
OMG! 22:35 had me dying. You actually got me to make a laugh. In a room alone. Bravo!
what a fun surprise on this most spooky of holidays!
I love your "Editor" bits omg so funny!
13:12 you definitely missed a big opportunity to have a funny jump scare with that old lady
This was literally filmed at my local spirit Halloween
My girlfriend: let's find something Halloween themed to watch
Me: ah Chris James has a new video and its Halloween!
*CHRISCHRISCHRISCHRISCHRIS I just remembered a hell of a doozy, if not the biggest, wtf early 00s show for ya! Remember Superstar USA?! You gotta do a video on that! I still can’t believe that was a thing!*
"The stunt doubles for the kids from Stranger Things." is the most accurate description I've heard. lol