Spirit Halloween, The Movie

 When the producers of this movie approached us last fall about using our house for set location we reluctantly turned them down. We had scheduled a road trip to Southern California and a long stay there with our daughter, son-in-law, and three granddaughters. We would not be home for the filming.

But they persisted and agreed to pay us and also to pay our nephew, Andrew, who agreed to be on hand to watch the house and make sure all went well. They agreed to careful take down my Christmas decorations so they could decorate the house for Halloween and then replace the Christmas decorations when they were finished. So we relented. 

I admit I was a bit uneasy about it, but both Andrew and our neighbor Joan Ledbetter took lots of pictures and sent them to us so we could see what was going on.

Click this picture to see more pictures of our yard from Andrew and Joan.

Our impression was that our house would appear very briefly in the movie. The trailer seemed to confirm that.

Then Friday we attended a special showing of the movie at the Desoto Theater. I kept my phone handy hoping to quickly snap the scene with our house. Turned out our house was often frame very often. 

My pictures aren't great:

Christopher Lloyd is the big name in the movie though his appearance was brief.

A costume contest was part of the fun-- an all-way tie was declared and all the costumed participants received a pass to this year's RIFF! 

Here's our front porch early in the movie.

This is the lead character walking on the sidewalk in front of our house.

One of the scenes shot in our front yard.

Trick-or-Treaters on Avenue A across from our house.

Other parts of the movie were filmed at the old Toys-R-Us building at Mount Berry Mall, the deserted Celanese buildings at Riverside, Georgia School for the Deaf and the namesake cave in Cave Spring. Of course, through the magic of cinema these locations were meshed and melded and molded into a completely different geography of the imagination.