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6.5
The Spirit of Halloween
2026
84 minutes
Director
Jeff Beesley
Cast
Meghan Ory
Kevin McGarry
Valentina Capetola
Description
Brilliant bridal designer Everly Stone has absolutely no patience for Halloween, thanks to a humiliating experience at her hometown's annual fire-station Halloween bash. Unfortunately, avoiding the holiday becomes a little more difficult when her late mentor appears with a mysterious warning and sends three mischievous spirits to give her a supernatural reality check.
Taking a page from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Everly is whisked through Halloween Past, Present, and Future, where she discovers the happiness she's left behind, the people she's pushed away, and the future she might miss if she continues hiding behind her work. Along the way, she reconnects with longtime friend Beau Madison, a firefighter who may have more than just a few sparks left for her. Everly must decide whether Halloween is the night that broke her heart or the one that finally helps her find love again.
Professions
Bridal Designer
Firefighter
Settings & Cities
A fictional small town in the United States.
Ontario, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
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The Spirit of Halloween
Three ghosts, one reluctant Halloween enthusiast, and a whole lot of unfinished emotional business.
Apparently, Charles Dickens didn't have a monopoly on ghosts showing up uninvited to fix someone's life. In The Spirit of Halloween, Everly Stone has managed to turn her dislike of Halloween into a full-time personality trait. Unfortunately, her late mentor has other plans and sends three supernatural visitors to remind her that being permanently grumpy isn't exactly a winning life strategy.
Borrowing heavily from A Christmas Carol, Everly gets the full ghostly treatment as she's dragged through Halloween past, present, and future. Along the way, she revisits old memories, reconnects with a handsome firefighter, and discovers that maybe the problem isn't Halloween after all. Perhaps it's just her attitude. Therapy would have been cheaper, but considerably less entertaining.
With charming romance, spooky shenanigans, and enough Halloween decorations to make a pumpkin jealous, this is a fun seasonal addition to the Hallmark movies collection. It's also a nice change from Hallmark holiday movies, where three ghosts usually aren't required to convince someone to fall in love.
A sweet, predictable Halloween romance that proves it's never too late to change your ways, embrace the spooky season, and finally stop being the person who turns off the porch light on October 31.