The Boogeyman is coming for your Homeroom Teacher

I discovered this ad for a showing of Halloween 2 on the USA channel while remembering the old urban legends of the 'real' Michael Myers. These days kid call him Stanley Stiers lol, but in my day he was the escaped mental patient that comes out at Halloween to kill people. It may sound silly now, but he was the source of real terror for the kids in my neighborhood. I still remember a commercial for Halloween 4 airing while my brother and I were watching The New Leave it to Beaver.

Immediately after the commercial was over, my brother told me about the real killer attacked his home room teachers friends when he was in school. Yikes! This commercial is fun as it's another airing of Halloween 2 on Halloween Night (2 and 3 usually together) with the same set of clips from the movie. Though USA did something I've always appreciated, they added their own homemade flair. This time in the form of an animated pumpkin. In today's age of streaming fast channel apps, little things like a TV station making low budget commercials from media package clips full of charm feels like a Mandela Effect. But it happened, and it was glorious. 

Halfway 2 Halloween~Watch Halloween this Halloween

It's no surprise that a movie series named Halloween would be popular during Halloween. Though, if you're around my age, you'll remember it being a more forbidden thing. The escaped mental patient that killed kids on Halloween urban legend spread like wildfire during October. At the time, Halloween was a popular movie... but not the institution that it is now. Kids were often more sheltered by their parents from these movies, and Michael Myers was one of the more taboo movie monsters. So of course your local television station commercials had an aura of mystique. I'm glad these old local spots somehow survived and got uploaded. They're firmly a relic of days gone by.

Originally Posted: 10/12/2023

Watch Halloween this Halloween

It's no surprise that a movie series named Halloween would be popular during Halloween. Though, if you're around my age, you'll remember it being a more forbidden thing. The escaped mental patient that killed kids on Halloween urban legend spread like wildfire during October. At the time, Halloween was a popular movie... but not the institution that it is now. Kids were often more sheltered by their parents from these movies, and Michael Myers was one of the more taboo movie monsters. So of course your local television station commercials had an aura of mystique. I'm glad these old local spots somehow survived and got uploaded. They're firmly a relic of days gone by.