The Spirit of Haddonfield (2018) The Halloween Fan Film Drops Its First Teaser Trailer and Release Date- Fitz of Horror

Written by Bryan Fitzgerald (Fitz of Horror) June 12, 2018

After watching this teaser for The Spirit of Haddonfield, a new Halloween short film from Rene Rivas, I thought that the twist was going to be that Michael Meyers was going to be a midget or something based on the tiny pumpkin but in fact Rivas is giving us a giant Michael Meyers, more specifically, his Michael will be played by Vincente Disanti who also directed and played Jason Voorhees in his very own and very successful fan film Never Hike Alone.

Halloween Daily News got the exclusive with Rene about the film:

Where does his film takes place within the Halloween mythology?

“This story would fall canon into an alternate H20 universe”, Rivas tells Halloween Daily News. “My story takes place 20 years after the events of Halloween H20. Let’s say if The Shape wasn’t decapitated at the end of H20, this is the story that would have subsequently happened.

“It’s a self-contained short film. It’s basically a third act cat and mouse short film.  We are going to have a pursuit. We are going to have our protagonist bump into The Shape at some point. It escalates, and then she’s put in situations where she has to defend herself and stand up to adversity. Our main character’s name is Hannah, and she is 17 years old.

“It’s a pretty fun little piece. It’s a simple story. It’s what we’re all familiar with, it’s just that I put my own flare on scenes and shot it a unique way.

“We’re stepping into familiar territory, but I’m putting my Rene Rivas twist on it.“

The interesting part about this film is that it was shot and completely finished before any marketing.

“For just shy of six months I was working on this thing”, Rivas said. “It was a secret passion project. I didn’t tell anybody about it. In April (2018), we made the announcement that ‘Hey, this thing’s done, this is what we’ve been working on’.

“I just thought it would be cool for the fans if not only are we going to get a feature from Blumhouse coming out soon, but we’re also going to have a little appetizer before that.

“Vincente DiSanti (who wrote, directed, and stars as Jason Voorhees in the 2017 Friday the 13th fan film Never Hike Alone) is playing The Shape, and he’s co-producing.  I presented my script, and he had some definitely great ideas to contribute to it.”

This looks like it has serious potential in the world of fan films and will be a great special feature on any future Halloween box sets.

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