--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Pranks Kids With Halloween's Michael Myers description: As if it wasn't already scary enough that Jimmy Kimmel may convince your parents to trick you into thinking they ate your Halloween candy. canonical: https://time.com/5433032/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-prank/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-24T14:59:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:37.495Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Is Already Frightening Children for Halloween og:description: The late-night host wasn't afraid to enlist the help of Michael Myers og:url: https://time.com/5433032/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61915d1f5bfd0b2f/69893d51457a528f70d5fb51/screen-shot-2018-10-24-at-9-55-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1106&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1106 og:image:height: 622 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Halloween-Prank-Michael-Myers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Is Already Frightening Children for Halloween twitter:description: The late-night host wasn't afraid to enlist the help of Michael Myers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61915d1f5bfd0b2f/69893d51457a528f70d5fb51/screen-shot-2018-10-24-at-9-55-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1106&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Is Already Frightening Children for Halloween With Hilarious Results > Sponsored content. 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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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5433032/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5433032/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-prank/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Is Already Frightening Children for Halloween With Hilarious Results","datePublished":"2018-10-24T14:59:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:37.495Z","description":"The late-night host wasn't afraid to enlist the help of Michael Myers","url":"https://time.com/5433032/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television","halloween 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61915d1f5bfd0b2f/69893d51457a528f70d5fb51/screen-shot-2018-10-24-at-9-55-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61915d1f5bfd0b2f/69893d51457a528f70d5fb51/screen-shot-2018-10-24-at-9-55-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy-Kimmel-Halloween-Prank-Michael-Myers","caption":"","creditText":"ABC/Jimmy Kimmel Live!","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5433032/jimmy-kimmel-halloween-prank/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Is Already Frightening Children for Halloween With Hilarious Results"}}]}] ```