# Halloween 2025

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-2025/1023942>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 13, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-2025/1023942 "2025-10-13T20:31:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-2025/1023942/41 "2025-11-01T18:07:45Z")

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> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> We do an outdoor movie night every Halloween and the movie this year is _The House on Haunted Hill_ starring Vincent Price. I’m going to try to replicate the William Castle gimmick “Emergo” where a life-sized skeleton swoops over the audience at the appropriate point in the film.

Everybody had a good time. There were more laughs than screams. I had the skeleton on a wire ready to go but aborted when the time in film came since I could never get it to work in rehearsal. I attempted to demonstrate it after the movie and, sure enough, the wire broke and the skeleton crashed to the ground. Most of the feedback was along the lines of “Do all of Frank Llloyd Wright’s designs have acid pits in the basement?”

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