Halloween Nostalgia | The 1990’s and Early 2000’s

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Over the years, Halloween has changed for many of us. But, we always end up looking back on some of our fondest memories of ones that have come and gone.
Why is it that we do that? And what about the 1990s made Halloween so special?
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[@Josiah729]

“It was a long time ago, longer now than it seems” such a nostalgic sound..🎃

[@Derek032789]

That quote is so true.

[@FloridaJit434]

Goosebumps and Scary Godmother are the best

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@FloridaJit434 YES

[@LukeDodge916]

Halloween has always been special to me, but i dont know what it is today but a lot of us seem way more nostalgic for Halloween than anything else. I mean, for 31 days in October I'm just completely in Halloween mode! It has consumed me the past 7 or 8 years now, especially since/during the pandemic... It just the greatest time

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@LukeDodge916 I hear you! It’s a switch we should never turn off

[@squeeps5765]

I remember Job Bob Briggs Monstervision and seeing all the crazy ads for Fear Fest man it meant the world. Every year I still religiously watch Halloweentown and Scary Godmother

[@letstalkmoviespodcasts]

Okay, but why is this like my favorite video of yours? Lol 100% agree, man. Halloween and Christmas both just hit different as a kid. What a vibe.

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@letstalkmoviespodcasts thank you man ❤️

[@DaRichMan]

I never really changed the way I celebrate. I mean, I guess I did, but I never stopped watching all those kids things and if I could I would still trick-or-treak. To quote Grandma Aggie from Halloweentown "Being normal is vastly overrated." Plus, it's a nerdy holiday. Cosplay. I never really grew up, though.

[@Evanthemovieguy]

9:20 Fear Fest is still around. I watched it every year up until very recently (I've fallen out of love with cable).

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@Evanthemovieguy I had no idea! I don’t use cable anymore lol

[@mr219gip5210]

To say Halloween in the 90's was amazing, is an understatement

[@brianperry9895]

I'M 52 YEARS OLD AND IN THE LATE 70S AND 80S HALLOWEEN 🎃 WAS THE BEST TIME EVER. I REMEMBER WATCHING HALLOWEEN BACK IN 1979 ON HBD AFTER O WENT TRICK OR TREATING .

[@jfp17]

I’m 50. The city where my brother lives does Halloween the Saturday before Halloween, and it’s a huge deal. Lots of houses go all out and hundreds of kids. I love it! 🎃 Twenty-eight days until Halloween, Halloween….Silver Shamrock 🎃

[@Bigbob750]

I remember AMC fear gest vividly, I also remember the Halloween the aired the walking dead. Also all of the live ghost hunting specials. Those were good times

[@browneyemastermind]

Oh lord, that year was traumatic for 13 year old me, tons of things stick out, but the walking dead premiere I had to sneak around to watch is a good memory and always will be.

[@collecticus]

Disney's Halloween specials seemed to play a crucial role in my love for Halloween.

[@kristinamarrie13]

Halloween as a kid was truly the best! I remember going to school in costume and one of the things we’d do is trick or treat up and down the hallways and each classroom would be decked out. After we’d have a Halloween party in our classroom. Getting home was so exciting. I’d turn on Disney channel and watch any Halloween specials that were on. My parents would always order pizzas for dinner and then we’d go out trick or treating and we would be out for hours. We’d even take pillow cases so we could get more candy. I remember one of my favorite costumes as a kid was when I was Glenda the good witch from Wizard Of Oz and I think I was even one of the pink lady’s from Grease one year because I was obsessed with that movie even as a kid. It’s memories like that that I wish I could go back to it during this time of year because it was so much more magical. As an adult though it’s also fun to make new memories and take it all in.

[@jumbome7420]

As an 80’s kid growing up Halloween was amazing. I remember watching the Halloween safety videos in school on joe to be seen and not run out infront of cars. Definitely remember having a Halloween party the day of in school. Don’t remember what we watched in school. But I remember having all the cousins come over and mom and dad would get pizza before we all went out. I remember watching Garfield’s Halloween and Charley brown as we sorted all our candy. I don’t miss the the 89’s crappy costumes

[@Derek032789]

I agree with you. Late 90s/early 2000s halloweens were awesome. I watched Halloween for the first time on October 31, 2002! I was 13.

[@myleymckay]

Scary godmother was the best thing to watch for Halloween as a kid I absolutely loved those specials

[@gregmartin114]

Always a good time of year growing up since my birthday is two weeks before Halloween. Kicked off the whole remaining part of the year of fun times and holidays

[@tylerbrittan593]

The decorations were the best back then too! Killer shirt by the way! 🤘🏻

[@denny720]

I love this video it’s so well done and it brought back so many childhood memories Thank you.

[@freezhollywood]

Who would’ve thought. I prefer Halloween season over Christmas season now. And I still go to Halloween parties.

[@Josiah729]

Excited for the annual collection vid Nick!

[@galesbangs]

Goosebumps was my everything and my DVR is full of AMC horror films from like the last 3 years 😂

[@n3rdy97]

I remember dressing up as Yugi Moto/Atem at one point and ghostface a lot. I love Halloween. I also watched a good bit of what you mentioned. Recently, I’ve been going through KZbin and found a lot of nostalgic movies for me. Halloween really has changed for me over the years 😅

[@Derek032789]

Mountain Dew Pitch Black is available at Speedway and 7-11 stores this year, according to an article that I’d read. It’s in the fountain machines only.

[@JayRayHizay]

“You only have 31 days.” Brother, Halloween season starts September 1st.

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@JayRayHizay you right lol

[@Robx-gx8zy]

Only you can stop yourself from being a power ranger Nick…and prevent forest fires

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@Robx-gx8zy I WILL NEVER STOP

[@plynch113]

The 80s were amazing too!...monster squad, garbage pail kids, cheap ass drug store costumes, trick or treating when it was actually dark out, staying up late watching rated r slasher flicks hoping to catch a boob shot!....the good ole days

[@acimagination7982]

yay a new memory lane video! in power rangers ninjastorm one of the male characters was the yellow ranger. it worked. but anyways ya I remember when I was a kid during one halloween when I trick or treated it was chilly and I had to bundle up while wearing a mask. Also remember a mcdonalds happy meal toy during october was a plastic looking mcnugget and could put a halloween costume on it.

[@michaelloon9142]

I feel you bro, something just isn't the same as it was! My go to was the "Scariest Place on Earth" show. I look every year for it to come on

[@Ka_Five]

That no mask rule sucked lol. I was born in 1990 and I got to experience Halloween full force! The Halloween ads live rent free in my head, especially the Pizza Hut ones.

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@Ka_Five THE PIZZA HUT ONES WERE GOLD

[@TroyGrubbJr]

AMC Fear Fest is still around it felt more special in late 90’s to early to mid 00’s

[@LukeDodge916]

Really great video man. 2 👍

[@MichaelWard-i2f]

Only real ones remember Spookly The Square Pumpkin 🎃

[@robwinsor4619]

I am in my fifties and Halloween is the best time of year.!!!! Fear Feat is still on and it’s still wall to wall horror except only problem they show Halloween out of order but hay at least it’s still on!!! Plus the decorations now are cool as hell we Neaver had any of these animatronics makes Halloween that much more fun.!!!

[@vhsdinosaurgo]

oh wow I always went to the Kings Island Fear fest and Halloween Haunt too. I got season passes just for the halloween stuff

[@native_earth916]

It's up to us to uphold the traditions, as a millennial we are now the ones who have the ability to create culture and steer consensus, I say bring late 90s halloween back! I do the same types of halloween I had as a kid for my kids the more we do that the more people follow suite

[@paramoosestudios]

It always baffles me that some people’s parents don’t celebrate Halloween because they’re super religious when my mom is extremely religious and Halloween is her favorite holiday, every year she goes all out with decorating the house with witch decorations and she creates elaborate Halloween parties every year because she loves the holiday so much

[@jahimjauh-hey5653]

Remember in 1997 everyone was the Scream killer?

[@jesseparrish9198]

Are you afraid of the dark was my jam

[@Derek032789]

Nickelodeon had good Halloween specials as well. For example, in October 2000, I remember watching a Nick movie called Cry Baby Lane. I remember thinking it was a little creepy (I was 11 at the time) but good overall. After that airing, the movie wasn’t seen I think again until a Reddit user who recorded the airing found the videotape in 2011.

[@JohnKramerRules]

Yeah Halloween was different back then. I remember being at school on Halloween and it was just fond memories for me seeing everyone dressed up and getting excited about trick-or-treating later that night! It was great. My day care held a contest for best or scariest costume and I remember I won and got a full box of the big candy bars lol. I dressed up as Billy the puppet back when SAW III just came out so the hype was real. My day care also had a haunted house and it was actually pretty good. They had sheets covered in blood hanging as walls and scare actors everywhere yelling and screaming and fog with the strobe lights. I mean as a kid I thought it was pretty scary lol. I also remember my neighbor who was a practical effects worker for the movies went all out at his place. I mean this guy had it all and he was easily the scariest house in the neighborhood! He had huge loud speakers playing creepy music and so many props and lights. I just remember I went trick or treating with my friends with pillow cases full of candy and we ended the night with that last house which was a banger! For me the candy I miss is the body parts gummy’s. It was a pack of gummy’s that had a bloody finger and an ear with an eye ball and a brain. I loved those as a kid and I freaking miss those! If they still make them idk where to get them but I would love passing that out to trick or treaters so they can experience that candy as well. I loved that popcorn ball too lol. It was a different time back then for sure but I will say this, Halloween is still great now. Trick or Treat Studios makes extremely accurate masks and when I was a kid the masks we had were good but not screen accurate or anything. I think today’s kids don’t realize how awesome the masks they have are. If I had a reverse bear trap mask from trick or treat studios when I was a kid that would have been insane!! I still own it now as an adult which is really cool but that’s what I mean. Kids today have stuff that I never had so I think Halloween is different nowadays but still great!

[@larsmarcon2652]

I'll be 50 in one month and yes Halloween used to be so cool now not so much unfortunately 😢

[@LukeDodge916]

Im 47 and I agree. Halloween in the 1980s is just something so perfect that there's nothing really like it today, is there? Even in the early 1990s (and I'm sure the '70s before it) was this perfect time for this incredible holiday

[@jahdorose8659]

Nice

[@xxGothrd]

As a single mom in my mid 30s who grew up in the early 2000s I can tell you I do NOT miss any of it. I did what I did and I dont live in or miss the past. I must've not had the childhood people around are always "missing" or being nostalgic for because I actually enjoy my HALLOWEENs more as a mom. I have more fun and in our house Halloween is every day 😂😂😂 I bought fake blood the other day and sprayed it on my arms like a serial killer lol. Someone said "getting ready for hallowen I see.." I said "Oh no this is just how I always look." 🤭🤭🤭😇

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

As a single dad, I get it, I do! Lol. I guess I just revert to my childhood and pine for simpler times lol

[@MarkMacKaye]

Great video! Took me down memory lane...strange question. Are you from the Uneeda Horror podcast? If not the guy from that sounds just like you.

[@AmericanGypsy206]

I remember Halloween as a kid in the 90s they would have school parties and on Halloween night. I would go trick-or-treating and then by 1997 I stopped trick-or-treating and then Halloween just became another day on the calendar but in the 2000s there was a resurgence me and my cousins started going to haunted houses. Then when I became 18 we went to a nightclub in San Francisco Halloween night of 2003 then five years later in 2008 we went to a rave in my hometown of Seattle.. a year later and 2009 Halloween just been dead. None of my cousins even hang out anymore. I barely see them some of them I haven’t talked to in over a decade and Halloween is pretty much dead for me… but in 2021 on Halloween morning I had sex with a beautiful Korean woman. It was amazing and later that day I smoked a bunch of pot and got some little Caesars pizza and went over to my brother-in-law’s house and we watched some scary movies. To me, the spirit of Halloween is just gone, but I try to think of some interesting things I could do on that day. All of my childhood friends became really lame and they flake out when it comes to doing fun things so I don’t rely on them anymore. I just try to enjoy the day for what it is….

[@superpug666]

Purple and yellow? Means you LOVE easter loll

[@legendarypsychomike4309]

I never dressed up as a power ranger. But I did batman,jason and michael myers.

[@ChristopherR11]

Holidays are more exciting when you're a kid

[@mistermakebelieve]

I never understood nostalgia. South park's "memba berries". In the early 80s, we went trick or treating all night, alone. There were much less Halloween specials, so it was a huge event when you got one. But kids today have the same thrill and excitement in a different way. Things change. It wasn't better "in my day", it was different.

[@TheStormBolt-gf8qi]

Think u a little confused amc fearfest was monster fest first it’s been amc fearfest since 2008 and it’s still on

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@TheStormBolt-gf8qi well in 2008 I was 14, and that’s when I was watching!

[@TheStormBolt-gf8qi]

@@TheLostRiverDriveIn nice I was 5 lol

[@gregmartin114]

6 o’clock? We went right from school

[@MeloMVP100]

I live 5 mins from kings island homie 🤞🏻

[@DustinSteckler-lh6cb]

No offense but you must be WAY younger than me. Either way. I love Halloween man.

[@superpug666]

Cant relate for.the candy, as i an well...quite older than you loll. And im in canada.

[@NotIfICU1st_]

Monstervision

[@jpshorrordungeon]

Bring back nick r’ treat

[@gregmartin114]

Reese’s not reesies. For some reason a top pet peeve for me. I mean they say it in the commercials

[@TheLostRiverDriveIn]

@@gregmartin114 REE SEES

[@-Rottenapple-]

It was even better in the '80s.