A/N: Hey everyone! I decided to update this story because a certain movie will be coming out very soon next month that has the whole world excited. I'm not talking Avengers or Star Wars, it's bigger. Much, much bigger than that. What better way to express my excitement then with a new update for MPAS React that shows the cast reacting to the trailer for that movie. So, let's delve right into the update shall we? Enjoy!
MPAS Reacts to: Movie Trailers
This Episode: Halloween
The inside of a heavily guarded prison is shown, and two individuals with reporting gear is shown. The redheaded woman puts on some headphones before speaking into a microphone to see if it works.
"Testing, one two three. And we're on" the woman said. The guard working at the prison pushes a button that allows the two reporters to walk through it.
"Oh? Wonder what this is?" Mr. Peabody asked, curious as to what he was going to be watching today.
"Is this what I think it is?" Hayden asked, getting a feeling he knew what he was watching.
"I'm confused, what is this?" Sherman asked.
Several files and autopsy reports are shown while the voice of the male reporter is heard over them.
"We're here to investigate a patient that killed three innocent teenagers on Halloween in 1978" his voice said before the screen cut to black, and flashes of light appeared, along with the sound of gunshots.
"He was shot by his own psychiatrist, and taken into custody that night. And has spent the last forty years in captivity" the voice said while a bird's eye view of the reporters walking down a courtyard where several prisoners were standing and chained to concrete blocks.
"He must not have been that tough if his own psychiatrist shot him" Penny said, not impressed with the resume of whoever it was the reporter was talking about.
"Three people murdered on Halloween? Woah" Carl whispered to himself.
"Why do I get the feeling I already know what I'm watching right now? This all sounds very familiar to me" Mason said.
The reporters then stop and face a prisoner that has his back turned away from them and staring out into space.
"Hello Michael" the male reporter said. He then takes out his backpack and unzips the top flap.
"I have something you might like to see" he added before pulling out of his backpack, a white William Shatner mask that looks very old and the latex has aged a long time. When the reporter holds the mask out to the prisoner, all the other prisoners and the guard dogs start to go ballistic and shout.
"Oh dear. I recognize that mask anywhere" Mr. Peabody said, eyes wide at the William Shatner mask the reporter pulled out.
"Why's everyone going crazy? It's just a mask" Sherman asked.
"Oh my God, it's all coming together. This is the trailer for the new 'Halloween' isn't it?" Hayden asked, super excited.
The logos for Universal, Miramax, and Blumhouse Productions are shown before a scene of three friends walking down a street covered in Halloween decorations.
"Everyone in my family turns into a nutcase this time of year" one of the girls said.
"Yeah, I mean your grandmother is Laurie Strode. She was almost murdered" one of the other girls said.
"Halloween! The minute they said Laurie Strode, I knew this was the new Halloween trailer" Mason called out.
"She must have been lucky to survive that" Penny said while watching.
"I was told that this movie pretends that Halloween II never happened and neither did the other sequels. Not even Halloween H20 or that God-Awful Halloween: Resurrection movie" Carl explained.
A shot of a woman's bicep with a scar left from a knife cut is shown, and then she walks down a secret staircase in her kitchen.
"Wasn't it her brother? Who murdered all those babysitters?" asked the only boy in the group who was walking down the street.
"No, that was not her brother. That was a thing that people made up" the first girl said.
"Wait? Laurie's not Michael's sister? Then what purpose does he have for trying to kill her in this movie then?" Hayden asked.
"Oh, so we're pretending all the other movies after the original didn't happen, huh? I see what they're doing here" Mr. Peabody said.
"What happened must have really scared her huh? For her to have to go into hiding after that" Sherman asked himself while his eyes were still glued to the screen.
"Did you know that I prayed every night that he would escape?" Laurie's voice asked while a shot of her approaching a plaster mannequin in the middle of an abandoned shooting range while holding a shotgun in her hand. The scene then shows the sheriff talking to Laurie.
"What the Hell did you do that for?" he asked, bewildered as to why she would pray for something like that.
"So I can kill him" she answered with a whisper. A shot of her loading her gun and firing it at an off-screen target is shown.
"She's like one of those 'Doomsday Preppers'. Only she's preparing for a serial killer's return instead of doomsday" Penny said, observing every aspect of the trailer.
"Why didn't they just give Michael the death penalty after he was put back in jail? Common sense, people" said Mason.
"All of this could have been avoided if they just gave him the lethal injection after that one Halloween" Carl said, similar to what Mason's reply to this was.
A father and son are driving down the road late at night.
"Dad, look out!" the son shouts. The father slams on the brakes to see several prisoners roaming around in the streets, trying not to hit any of them.
"The bus crashed" Laurie said.
"Mom, what bus crashed?" asked another woman in the room.
"Michael escaped" Laurie's voice-over said over a shot of a man with a loaded rifle entering the wreckage of the bus carrying Michael as well as the prisoners shown in the previous shot.
"Looks like Laurie's gonna get her wish" Sherman said in a sing-song voice in a manner that said 'I knew this was gonna happen'.
"The killing is about to start all over again" Mr. Peabody said, his heart pounding in suspense as he couldn't take his eyes off.
"The Shape finally returns after so many years. And after Rob Zombie screwed fans over with his own remakes" said Hayden.
The redheaded reporter from the beginning is shown using a bathroom inside a gas station. She then heard someone come inside and start to shake on the door of her stall.
"Excuse me, somebody's in here" she said. Outside the station, the male reporter walks into the garage and sees a mechanic lying in a pool of his own blood, wearing just a pair of briefs and white tee-shirt.
"Hello?" the male reporter called out. A hand reached out over the stall of the female reporter and opened up his hand to drop several bloody teeth and began to shake on the door of the stall before breaking in and murdering the woman off-screen.
"That's my biggest fear, getting shanked to death in a gas station bathroom" Carl said, wincing at the fate of the reporter.
"Ugh. That's a horrible place to die" Penny said with her tongue out in disgust. She didn't like how filthy the bathroom in the last scene was.
"This is why I don't pee in public establishments. Especially gas stations" said Mason.
Michael is shown putting on his famous William Shatner mask, while wearing the coveralls from the gas station owner he just murdered. The Halloween theme song by John Carpenter began to play in the background.
"He's waited for this night. He's waited for me. I've waited for him" Laurie's voice over said over scenes where Michael wandered the streets, passing by several trick or treaters, and murdering Laurie's son in law by stabbing him in the neck with his knife. We are then shown Laurie getting out of her truck with a shotgun.
"Get out! Go home! Get inside!" she shouted to the children who were now running around the streets in panic. Laurie then looks up to a house where Michael is shown looking out the window of one of the house's top floors. She then fires a pistol at him, and the window breaks, only to reveal that it was Michael's reflection in a mirror she just shot.
"The hype is real! I'm too excited!" Hayden said, shouting like a kid seeing their favorite band in concert for the first time.
"You haven't learned, have you Laurie? It's like Tommy said, you can't kill the boogieman" Mr. Peabody said like he was actually talking to Laurie.
"Wait, did he shoot Michael? Or did she shoot Michael's reflection?" asked Sherman, confused as to why Michael didn't fall down after being shot at.
"You don't believe in the boogieman?" Laurie asked the male reporter off-screen. An officer is shown wandering around a child's bedroom with an unlit jack-o-lantern inside a fish tank, and someone sitting in a time-out chair in a ghost costume.
"No" the male reporter said.
"He's here!" Laurie shouted. A scene of her walking down a dark hallway with a gun is then shown.
"Michael!" she called out, in a tone that sounded like she was calling out to a dog. Laurie is then shown trying to stab Michael with his own knife, only for him to grab her wrist before he can get the chance to stab her and the screen cuts to black.
"You should" Laurie says.
"Looks like a whole lot is going on in this movie" Carl said.
"The theaters are gonna be so packed this October. I just know it" said Mason while bouncing around in the office chair.
"Looks scary" Penny simply said.
A teenage girl tucking a little boy in bed is shown.
"Can you shut the closet door?" the boy asked. The babysitter nodded and went over to close it, only for it to open back up, even after the second time. She then opened the door to see why it was doing that, and showed Michael holding up his knife getting ready to stab her.
Halloween
"Just 'Halloween'? Did they run out of clever titles to use after Resurrection?" Mr. Peabody asked.
"I wonder if a lot of people are gonna get confused by the title because it shares it's title with the original movie" Mason pointed out.
"It's appropriate too. Halloween's 40th anniversary is this year. Very fitting time to release this new one" Hayden complimented.
"Wait, that's 'Halloween'? Hayden's been so hyped about this movie" Sherman said, finally realizing what he watched.
"I kinda wanna see it now" said Penny, expressing some interest in the film.
"And I love how they got Jamie Lee Curtis back for this new one" Carl said.
Question Time
The original 'Halloween' came out forty years ago. And it was one of the cheapest horror movies ever made. It grossed $70,000,000 worldwide on a very low budget of just $300,000.
"I guess you can do a whole lot with very little. Especially when it comes to slasher movies like this" Hayden said.
"It really made all that money on such a tight budget? Wow, must have been a real success for the box office that year huh?" Penny asked in amazement.
"I applaud John Carpenter and Deborah Hill for doing a fantastic job on this movie. Memorable plot, characters, and the soundtrack was incredible too" Mr. Peabody said, his head filling with memories about when he went to see the first 'Halloween' back in his Harvard days after his roommate dragged him out of their dorm to see it.
"This is the film that defined the slasher genre. Even though we've had movies like 'Black Christmas' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' come out four years before that, this was the one movie that TRULY started the slasher craze" said Mason.
"This movie looks really good. I actually wanna watch the original before asking Mr. Peabody if we can go see this new one" Sherman said.
"Michael Myers always has been the one original slasher movie villain. Leatherface, Jason, Freddy, they all bow to this guy. They'd be nothing without 'Halloween'" Carl pointed out.
The film was shown at Toronto International Film Festival and has been given spectacular reviews. Many claim it's the best movie since the original 'Halloween' and that John Carpenter created another memorable soundtrack for the film. Does that amp up your hype for this film?
"Um... yeah!" Mason said.
"I am dying to see it even more now. I kinda wanna go to the theater on opening night dressed as Michael Myers. Blue coveralls, William Shatner mask, the whole shtick" said Hayden.
"Very impressive. Especially since every 'Halloween' movie since the original one weren't all that impressive. I mean, the first movie was a piece of art, you just can't top it. But to know there is a movie that actually gets favorable reviews from audiences, critics, and even fans? That should seal the deal as to why you should see it" Mr. Peabody explained.
"I originally had very low expectations, since 'Halloween' was ruined by those Rob Zombie remakes and how he tried to humanize Michael Myers and how the second movie was too much like a heavy metal music video on acid. But when you hear something like that, it's worth seeing. Absolutely" Carl said.
"Makes me wanna put all my allowance money into buying tickets to opening night actually. Maybe even buy a costume to go to the theater with as well. I'm sure Hayden's gonna do the same thing" Sherman answered.
"I'm sure my dad's gonna wanna see it. He's a horror fan, just as big as Hayden. And I'm sure he's gonna want to take me, to pass it on to the next generation or something like that" Penny said.
In 2006, the original 'Halloween' from 1978 was selected for storage United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Do you believe it deserves such an honor?
"Absolutely, yes" Mr. Peabody said nodding his head.
"It's a national treasure. Yes, it does deserve this" Hayden agreed.
"Yeah. It's a movie that inspired a generation of slashers" Mason said.
"Okay, now I HAVE to see the original" said Sherman.
"I suppose. I don't really know unless I actually watch the movie" Penny said.
"Yes. It's a sin to not have this movie stored in the National Film Registry" Carl concluded.
A/N: And there you have it! The entire cast of 'Mr. Peabody and Sherman' reacting to the long awaited return of Michael Myers. I'm really excited about this new Halloween, even my folks are as well. Hope you enjoyed the newest update. Please review, thanks!