Season's Greetings

Season's Greetings (1996)

This animated twist on Halloween memories involves the traumatic theft of a candy bag on Halloween night.

Date of release
1996-12-31
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (29)
Runtime
4m
Genres
Horror, Animation, Comedy
Director
Michael Dougherty

Interesting facts

Trick 'r Treat is a 2007 American comedy horror anthology film written and directed by Michael Dougherty and produced by Bryan Singer. The film stars Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Anna Paquin, and Brian Cox. It relates four Halloween horror stories with a common element in them: Sam, a trick-or-treating demon wearing orange footie pajamas with a burlap sack over his head, who appears in each story whenever one of the other characters breaks a Halloween tradition.

Production

Season's Greetings is an animated short created by Trick 'r Treat writer and director Michael Dougherty in 1996, and was the precursor of the film. The film featured Sam as a little boy dressed in orange footy pajamas with his burlap sack head covering, as he is being stalked by a stranger on Halloween night.

"The Halloween School Bus Massacre" segment initially took place in a graveyard and had the kids luring the girl to play with them. It was going to be revealed that they were all ghosts and that the girl had forgotten she was one of them. Dougherty ultimately had to rewrite the whole segment because he felt that the twist of someone being dead all along had become an overused trope.

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