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WNUF Halloween Special
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A 2013 Retraux horror film that takes a form of a VHS recording from 1987.The recording shows the (fictional) television channel WNUF TV28 in full Halloween spirit, with its newscasters in costumes and reporting appropriate content. This segues into the titular special, which investigates a Haunted House which was the site of the infamous "spirit board murders" 20 years earlier, with psychic and spiritual help to detect and exorcise whatever evil spirits may be lurking within.But the program doesn't go exactly as planned...Followed in 2022 by Out There Halloween Mega Tape, featuring both a '90s-based Talk Show and an investigative news broadcast of a rumored alien invasion. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_1282bf4f | comment |
No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Bergers are an obvious parody of Ed and Lorraine Warren. | |
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| WNUF Halloween Special / int_18d15922 | type |
Title Drop | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_18d15922 | comment |
Title Drop: Accompanies every cut to and from a commercial break. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_27a42ebc | comment |
Spiritual Successor: For 1992's Ghostwatch, which was also a "live broadcast" of a Haunted House investigation, although WNUF is more tongue-in-cheek and doesn't pretend that it's real. | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: The actor who was hired to play a priest wets himself as terror takes a hold on him in the basement. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_2e8441c9 | comment |
The Bad Guy Wins: Mrs. Harris and her partner apparently get away with murdering the camera crew and their guests, despite the fact her face is briefly caught on-camera. | |
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Satanic Panic | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_3529edef | comment |
Satanic Panic: Ultimately a deconstruction, as it's the people who buy into the Panic who are the real danger. | |
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| WNUF Halloween Special / int_415b3315 | type |
Stylistic Suck | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_415b3315 | comment |
Stylistic Suck: It looks, both in the video quality and the acting, like something recorded back in the 80's. Which was the whole point... | |
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Spooky Séance | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_4179d411 | comment |
Spooky Séance: Subverted. One segment of the Special is supposed to have the audience calling a number and asking questions during a seance held by Claire Berger. They only get crank calls, and are soon interrupted with the offscreen mutilation of the cat Shadow. | |
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| WNUF Halloween Special / int_4b9a8e96 | type |
"Scooby-Doo" Hoax | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_4b9a8e96 | comment |
"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: a darker take on it. The supposedly "supernatural" events of the broadcast are actually the work of a group of violent killers trying to ruin the show. | |
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| WNUF Halloween Special / int_4ec4c5ab | type |
Harsher in Hindsight | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_4ec4c5ab | comment |
Harsher in Hindsight: Done intentionally in-universe with an ad for a flight company, which features the skyline of New York with the Twin Towers (which were destroyed in 2001) in full display in its penultimate shot. | |
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Chainsaw Good | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_5caef4ca | comment |
Chainsaw Good: The special's producer Veronica gives its host Frank Stewart a scare by suddenly appearing before him in a ski mask and holding a running chainsaw. | |
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The Reveal | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_6b2b3b59 | comment |
The Reveal: There's no supernatural activity in the house (all evidence to the contrary was created or caused by the producers for ratings, the "priest" was just an actor, and it's likely the Bergers were frauds), but there are two psychos killing people with an axe. | |
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| WNUF Halloween Special / int_7063c9cc | type |
Fang Thpeak | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_7063c9cc | comment |
Fang Thpeak: A costumed audience outside of the haunted house is being asked by Stewart about its history. A tall, scared-looking man in a vampire costume, complete with cheap plastic fangs, says "Shomebody died in thish houshe?" | |
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Murderer P.O.V. | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_714667be | comment |
Murderer P.O.V.: On a metafictional level: the ending of the movie implies that the video tape of the broadcast - the video tape we are watching - was made by the killers themselves, since it includes Frank being murdered on camera, yet the final sequence with the two news anchors shows that they don't know whether Frank is alive or dead, suggesting that Frank’s death was not broadcast. On a more literal level, during the scene in question, a murderer is holding the camera. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_7e6c0522 | comment |
Off with His Head!: The killer responsible for the "spirit board murders" decapitated his parents with an axe (which was ordered by demons), and their headless ghosts now allegedly haunt the place. | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_83ea0763 | comment |
Rouge Angles of Satin: The aforementioned report of church vandalism includes a quick shot of a graffiti-covered church wall - the perpetrator misspelled "Satan" as "Satin". | |
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Creepy Basement | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_95be648c | comment |
Creepy Basement: The finale of the Halloween Special was supposed to have a live exorcism being performed in the house's basement, as the bodies of the Spirit Board Murders were found there. | |
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Attack of the Political Ad | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_9d7e0313 | comment |
Attack of the Political Ad: There are ads from two state governor election candidates attacking each other with accusations of infidelity, corruption, and excessive gun control. | |
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_9ee065ab | comment |
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: A live special goes wrong on Halloween, how appropriate. | |
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Deliberate VHS Quality | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_a9b15ce4 | comment |
Deliberate VHS Quality: The movie is full of VHS scratches and generally poor picture quality, as if it was taped direct from broadcast back in '87 and has sat on someone's shelf ever since. The production team openly admitted to recording it, then playing it back and recording it again multiple times until they got the poor quality right. | |
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| WNUF Halloween Special / int_b5cd68e9 | type |
Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_b5cd68e9 | comment |
Shellshocked Veteran: One news segment is about the first anniversary of a tragic death on Halloween - a Vietnam veteran had a trick-or-treater come to his door dressed as a soldier. He mistook the boy for a Vietcong insurgent, and shot him. | |
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Real Trailer, Fake Movie | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_c60b080b | comment |
Real Trailer, Fake Movie: There are various ads for fictional shows and movies, including a family picture called Doggone It and a Mummy horror film called Sarcophagus. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: An ad for a show about two vigilantes (called Armed to Strike) features a character posing in front of a mirror with his gun. One of the games advertised in the Tokens Pizzeria & Arcade is Space Paranoids. | |
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Tongue Trauma | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_d1522cf | comment |
Tongue Trauma: Mrs. Harris cuts off Stewart's tongue before the live feed from the camera disappears for good. | |
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Red Herring | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: A news item early in the film mentions a Shellshocked Veteran who murdered a child and is now on death row. A viewer might conclude that he will play some part in the events later on. He does not. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: HARVEST spokesperson Mrs. Harris and the random guy who jumped on Stewart outside the house prove to be significant later on, as they're the ones responsible for the disappearances of the crew at the end. | |
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Hollywood Satanism | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_e390612a | comment |
Hollywood Satanism: There's a spot in the show about Satanists mutilating animals and vandalizing church-grounds. | |
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Everyone Is Satan in Hell | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_eb2ede7b | comment |
Everyone Is Satan in Hell: In-Universe. The HARVEST evangelical group are convinced that celebrating Halloween guarantees you a one-way ticket to Hell. Present on a subtler level in the way the history of the Haunted House itself, and the way every telling emphasizes that the killer was very fond of playing with a Ouija board. | |
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Kitschy Local Commercial | |
| WNUF Halloween Special / int_f5418d03 | comment |
Kitschy Local Commercial: Tons of them, including one for a shop dedicated to rugs and a local petting zoo (with free pony rides!), which help to sell the "'80s local TV station broadcast" angle. | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog: The Bergers' cat Shadow supposedly has clairvoyance, which enables it to sense supernatural things before Claire. | |
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