You can rent “The Halloween Tree” from Apple TV and a variety of other streaming networks. More: If you want to hear an audio track of this review, listen in the window below! Ray Bradbury’s, “The Halloween Tree”… a very spooky, A+! Now, if that’s not the sign of a movie worth watching, I don’t know what is…?! And to me, every time I watch it, I feel as if I am thirteen again. “The Halloween Tree” truly is a timeless representation of what this time of year means to so many. I’ve read the book, watched the movie, and even procured a poster that sits in my room. It was directed by Mario Piluso and is based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury.
It first aired on the Turner Broadcasting System network in the United Sates in October 2, 1993. You’ll find yourself nibbling on intrigue each time Nimoy dives into a voluble disquisition.įor me, this story will always be a zenith piece of pumpkin pie that I devour over the month of October. The Halloween Tree is an American animated TV movie made by Hanna-Barbera. But at times throughout its one hour and nine-minute run time, it’s frightfully suspenseful in the best possible ways! Leonard Nimoy provides superb voice to the story’s sinister antagonist (Carapace Moundshroud). A Charming Film that Can Make You Feel Young AgainĪt its core, it’s innocuous. It does not preach, nor demand that you feel a certain way about things, it just holds you in place, much like an amusement ride, and takes you on a journey fraught with eery twists and turns. Not only that, but “The Halloween Tree” does this in a way befitting of good storytelling. It discusses the “why” on certain ghoulish trends, and gives a more grounded look at the origins of Hallows eve and the night that follows. It’s a clever take on Halloween in that it divulges the multifarious concoction that went in to creating the holiday we all know today. A scene from “The Halloween Tree.” (Photo: Hanna-Barbera Productions).
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