{"id":979853,"date":"2025-10-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=979853"},"modified":"2025-10-03T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:49:35","slug":"v-h-shalloween-sinister-rick-baker-cameo-other-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/v-h-shalloween-sinister-rick-baker-cameo-other-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"V\/H\/SHalloween Team Explains Sinister Rick Baker Cameo and Other Tricks and Treats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well before she joined a team of half a dozen other filmmakers to bring <em>V\/H\/SHalloween <\/em>to spooky season, director Micheline Pitt was living it. Which is to say that like a lot of the genre fans who count horror as sacred ground, All Hallows\u2019 Eve has always been a special time of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a big Halloween kid,\u201d Pitt says when considering the allure of the holiday that gives the latest <em>V\/H\/S<\/em> its title. \u201cIt\u2019s part of my personality, it\u2019s in my DNA. Our house permanently looks like we celebrate Halloween, but it\u2019s just our stuff. 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In this way, she and Norman are paying tribute to both the reason for the season, as well as the appeal of every <em>V\/H\/S<\/em>: to find inventive ways of having fun while saying boo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a heavy weight of expectation on it,\u201d Norman says about the new film. \u201cIt could become an annual watch for people. Everyone\u2019s always looking for Halloween anthologies, especially in horror. So there was [an onerous that] \u2018this has to be special,\u2019 because Halloween is special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is indeed kind of surprising to realize that despite there being <em>seven <\/em>previous <em>V\/H\/S<\/em> installments\u2014making <em>Halloween <\/em>lucky number eight\u2014this is the first of the anthologies to be set entirely around the pleasures and terrors of Oct. 31. Previous installments have dabbled in the macabre and autumnal, and several have been set exclusively in slivers of actual VHS technology\u2019s glory days during the 1990s and \u201880s, but the newest Shudder original in many ways returns to its roots. After all, the <em>V\/H\/S<\/em> franchise has often as much been about the mischief of how a filmmaker is going to adapt to the constraints, and sometimes advantages, of the found footage conceit inside of a handful of minutes as it is purely about the scares. These segments want to be tricks and treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take \u201cFun Size,\u201d for instance, the new segment in <em>V\/H\/S Halloween <\/em>from writer-director Casper Kelly wherein adults go trick-\u2018r-treating in full-costume, and two of them speak to the irony-poisoned moment of Gen-Z while dressing as \u201cFound Footage Filmmakers.\u201d As the unsuspecting victims of the most comical of the new <em>V\/H\/S<\/em> segments, these cats wind up bedeviled by what Kelly gleefully describes as <em>Willy Wonka but in Hell<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the joy of being scared in a safe way,\u201d Kelly says about the segment that features adults ignoring the \u201cPlease Take One\u201d sign over a bowl of candy and getting dragged down to a netherworld where the chocolate is made. Let\u2019s just say the ingredients include more than milk and coco. Says Kelly, \u201cI just wish [candymaking] was more inventive, but maybe I\u2019m wrong\u2026. 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You guys are like [possessed] with chemicals. Everything that gets exported to the UK from here is a different version of it, so I thought let\u2019s make something and have the guy be an American testing on the idiots in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s cheeky cynicism here\u2014which can sometimes careens into outright nihilism, as is <em>V\/H\/S<\/em>\u2019 wont\u2014but more so than previous installments, this chapter of the franchise seems determined to celebrate what Norman notes is the spirit of the holiday. But then, he and Pitt have an especially strong gateway for that in their backyard since they count a seven-time Oscar-winning makeup design artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/rick-baker\/\">Rick Baker<\/a>, as a neighbor and pal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe loved Halloween as kids, but the big moment for [Norman] was when I took him to my friend Rick Baker\u2019s house on Halloween,\u201d Pitt explains. \u201cHe got to see how his family does a home haunt. It\u2019s like a diorama, and he does these amazing prosthetics and costumes, and set pieces, and the entire neighborhood\u2014I\u2019m talking hundreds of people\u2014line up. Not just for the full-sized candy bars but to also see what [the Bakers] do, and also getting to spend time with the family, and getting to know them and their stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It inspired Pitt and Norman\u2019s \u201cHome Haunt\u201d short, which the couple describes as <em>Evil Dead<\/em> in maze. Here a 1970s Burbank family goes all out every year decorating their garage and backyard with Halloween stylings that a teenage son now acts like he is too cool for. But after Dad brings home a record with demonic chanting\u2014to add, you know, <em>atmosphere<\/em>\u2014things go sideways fast. 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Yet they run into a more chilling inversion of their vibe when one house leaves a door open for them to come get candy\u2026 and then traps them in a space where they want them to be both childlike and maternal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s also something scary about being forced to take care of people,\u201d explains Zlokovic. \u201cI think the forced motherhood element of it scared me more than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some ways this mirrors what is the most disturbing short of the anthology in this writer\u2019s opinion, \u201cKidprint.\u201d Based on an actual quasi-forgotten 1990s relic of \u201cprotection technology,\u201d in which parents would have local, self-styled (and haphazard) filmmakers videotape their children in case they were ever kidnapped, this short film by Alex Ross Perry regresses viewers to an allegedly simpler time when predators might have hidden in plain sight, and tech meant to keep children safe this Halloween season instead haunts the psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI encourage you to look on YouTube for kidprint videos,\u201d Ross says. \u201cYou\u2019ll see if kids have them, they upload theirs, and they\u2019re very creepy, they\u2019re very strange, a lot of tracking lines, a lot of weird, open sound, a lot of erratic camerawork on behalf of the videographer.\u201d While Ross didn\u2019t experience making them in his own youth,&nbsp; he became aware of kidprints by stumbling on an old Blockbuster Video commercial for them where John Walsh, the host of <em>America\u2019s Most Wanted<\/em>, encouraged parents to keep their kids safe by filming these. 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