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Halloween - Official Trailer_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 24, 2018 2:59 PM UTC Halloween - Official Trailer  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 24, 2018 2:59 PM UTC As if it wasn’t already scary enough that [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5428469/jimmy-kimmel-brooklyn-gets-pranked/) may convince your parents to trick you into thinking [they ate all of your Halloween candy](http://time.com/4508599/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-candy-prank-videos/), now kids have a terrifying new October prank to worry about. Banking on the fact that kids these days likely have no idea who [Michael Myers](http://time.com/5419481/michael-myers-halloween-movies-ranking/), the knife-wielding psychopath from the _Halloween_ franchise, is, Kimmel set up a free photo booth just to see how youngsters would react to the masked menace. “We asked some parents who were walking by our theater if they wanted their kids to take a Halloween picture—the same way you take a picture with Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny—but we told them this picture would be with Michael Myers,” Kimmel explained. “And believe it or not, lots of parents sent their children right in.” Reactions were definitely mixed, but the first child to meet Michael face-to-face managed to synthesize the experience with just one phrase: “This is spooky.” Watch the full clip below. ## Transcript [00:00] I've waited for him. [ SOUND ] Testing [00:07] one two three we're rolling. We're [00:11] here to investigate a patient that killed three innocent [00:13] teenagers around the year 1978. [ SOUND ] He [00:20] was shot by his own psychiatrist and taken into custody [00:22] that night, and has spent the last 40 years in captivity. [00:31] Hello, Michael. [ SOUND ] [00:34] I have something you might like to see. [ MUSIC ] [00:36] [ LAUGH ] [ SOUND ] [00:52] [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ] Everyone in my family like, turns [00:53] into a nutcase this time of year. I mean, your [00:56] grandmother is Laurie Stroad. She was almost [00:59] mudered. Wasn't it her brother who murdered all [01:03] those babies of hers? No, it was not her brother. That's [01:06] something that people made up. Do you know that I [01:08] pray every night that he would escape? [ UNKNOWN ] [01:14] did you do that for So I can [01:18] kill him. [ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] [01:22] Dad look out. [ MUSIC ] [01:27] The bus crashed. Mom, what bus crashed? Michael [01:30] escaped. [ SOUND ] Excuse me, somebody is in [01:35] here. Hello. [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] He's waited [01:38] for this night. [01:58] [ SOUND ] He's waited for me. [ SOUND ] I've waited [02:02] for him. Get out. Go home. Get inside. [ MUSIC ] [02:03] [ SOUND ] You don't believe in the Boogey Man. He's [02:04] here. Michael. [ MUSIC ] [02:24] You shouldn't. Will you close the closet door? 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