Netflix is celebrating Halloween with The Curse of Bridge Hollow, which looks to be this year’s Hubie Halloween and deliver spooky fun for the whole family on the road to the big day.
Directed by Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare), The Curse of Bridge Hollow arrives on October 14.
In the film, “A father (Marlon Wayans, Scary Movie) and his teenage daughter (Priah Ferguson, “Stranger Things”) are forced to team up and save their town after an ancient and mischievous spirit causes Halloween decorations to come to life and wreak havoc.”
Halloween has been used in numerous ways to set up horror plots in films and TV shows. In short, Halloween makes for the perfect setting for all things scary, evil, or amusing. Priah Ferguson’s Sydney accidentally sets an ancient Halloween spirit loose, and this poltergeist brings every Halloween decoration to life, wreaking havoc on the town. Sydney has to team up with her dad (played by Wayans), albeit reluctantly, to fight the spirit and stop it before things go out of hand.
Even though Wayans is known for most notably acting in raunchy horror and comedy films, The Curse Of Bridge Hollow will be kid-friendly. In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wayans spoke about his love for mixing comedy with horror in his films:
“You get to go horror, comedy, tension, tension, scare, then a joke.”
But speaking about The Curse Of Bridge Hollow, in particular, Wayans had clarified on the late comedian Bob Saget’s podcast that there won’t be any adult jokes on the Netflix film, saying:
“It’s basically a father and daughter story about a dad who moves his family and 15-year-old daughter from Brooklyn to Massachusetts because he gets a job at a school, and the Halloween decorations in the city start coming to life. And him and his daughter have to work together to figure it out. It’s a cute movie, it’s not like A Haunted House, because it’s very PG, PG-13. It’s not like I’m going to go (expletive) a stuffed animal.(sic)”
Written by Todd Berger and Robert Rugan, the film also stars Kelly Rowland, Rob Riggle, John Michael Higgins, Nia Vardalos, Lauren Lapkus, Holly J. Barrett, Myles Vincent Perez, Abi Monterey, and Helen Slayton-Hughes.
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