Before seeing the film, I was theoretically in the camp of “this is an early to mid-November movie”, and I’m very surprised that my mind changed on this.

I honestly didn’t know how much of the film was a riff on The Grinch. But like, if the Grinch was a friendly goth instead of a cranky neighbor.

Obviously, not trying to say it’s *wrong* to watch the film in October, but the film uses Halloween for its setting / characters, and Christmas for Skelington’s character arc / the overall story structure.

The latter is what the movie is “about” imo.

William Peter Blatty’s just spinning in his grave

For me that slot was taken up by the moment I went “Oh hey, Matthew Lillard is in this! I bet he’s the twist villain…”

My GOD I completely memory-holed this scene…

Lowkey starting to think he’s this generation’s Christopher Lee. Gravitas for days, voice that sounds like an earthquake, frequently squandered.

This knowledge really makes me feel for his ADs…