The movie was originally going to be called “Halloween House,” and was going to be much darker than what it ended up being.
“What I had written originally was about 12-year-olds,” co-writer Mick Garris said in 2017. “The kids being younger and in more jeopardy was certainly something more explicitly frightening.”
It was inspired by producer David Kirschner telling a bedtime story to his kids.
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