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goth girls in horror

ily-a

Ready or Not 2019 | dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

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Terrifier 2 (2022)

Behind the scenes

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

FINE! I'll do it myself

ikiry

I set fires ablaze inside…

Pierce The Veil - Pass The Nirvana

happyfunf3tti

Obsessed with these tags

wooteena

are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane

offishly

Imagine an empty storefront. Some business that closed years ago. The building stands empty, unused for literal months. And then boom. Fall comes around and there’s a Spirit Halloween. There’s no escape.

what the fuck 😁

Yeah this is a thing

Are you serious

Yes and they are divine gifts of beauty and cheap plastic lawn decorations.

cheeseanonioncrisps

… I honestly assumed that the existence of Halloween stores was just a running joke in American TV shows.

what-even-is-thiss

No they’re very real

onepersonfriendgroup

Can confirm this phenomenon also occurs in Canada

fan-enby-anonymous

It’s fun

what-even-is-thiss

Oh, it’s a blast.

moonybyte

Wait, so during non-halloween they are just empty? Like, they don’t switch between seasonal decorations (like christmas, easter, etc), they just…close and wait for next year???

strawberrydragon

Yeah, it’s not a permanent store. A company will rent an empty building for the 2-3 months before halloween, sell halloween stuff, and then clean everything up and disappear until the following year. And they’ll usually set up in different buildings from year to year. They just find any good-sized empty store space that will give them a cheap, short-term lease.

It’s so temporary that the halloween stores don’t even have a real sign, they just hang up a banner outside:

wheeled-jack

So you’re telling me that every year for a month or two the Spirit of Halloween possesses a dead building then disappears?

velvety-vixen

that is exactly what we’re telling you

naamahdarling

Ours here do Christmas also which is ALSO delightful but in an opposite vibe kind of way.

aphony-cree

In America big corporations prefer to put new locations on undeveloped land because there’s less EPA testing required and they get tax write offs for “developing the area.” When they decide to close a location they almost always put a non-compete clause in the contract. This means if a big name home goods chain closes a store location and the building is sold, the contact will say that the new owner can’t allow anyone to permanently operate a store that sells “similar products” (it’s purposely left vague) on that location for a certain period of time (usually at least 5 years). We have a lot of empty buildings that were built for a specific purpose but they’re not allowed to be used for that purpose, so they get rented out to people who only want them for a few months

The pop-up Halloween stores are the most noticeable (because we all love them) but in the spring they usually turn into places where you can pay an accountant to do your taxes. And sometimes they’ll get used as temporary office space by a charity or someone running for political office