Satanic ritual? Check. Haunted house? Yep. Circus of rats? Sure thing.
Welcome to the Chicago of the late 80s. Credit to Dan Dinello of Media Burn Archive for restoring and piecing together the content of this film. And thanks to Block Club Chicago for posting about it, which brought it to our attention!
From the Media Burn description:
Break out the candy and grab your favorite mask because it’s almost time for Halloween. To celebrate the spooky holiday, we dug into the archive and found some fascinating, and entertaining, Halloween footage from across the years. Dan Dinello’s Chicago Halloween showcases the 1988 celebration of the spooky holiday with a costume contest judged by Freddy Krueger, Rat Girl’s troupe of acrobatic rats, and more. We also found clips of a Halloween wedding, trick-or-treaters with a former First Lady, and even some dancing skeletons.
