Doug Plomitallo of Scared Stiff Films@scared_stiff_films has started an GoFundMe campaign to help fund Halloween Candy 2 (2026) Anthology Horror Film. The sequel to the cult hit film Halloween Candy (2025) (watch below)!
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“Halloween Candy 2” will be produced by Scared Stiff Films and is set to go into production this summer with an anticipated release in 2026. Scared Stiff Films is a small production company created in 2008 that has produced and released over 80 short horror films on their ScaredStiffTV YouTube channel. The films were all shot on a shoe-string budget and were created by a small team who all have a true love of the horror genre. After over a decade and a half of short form, the team went forward and produced their first ever feature-length film.
We released the first “Halloween Candy” film this past March through Terror Films Releasing. The film can be seen on Tubi, Amazon Prime and many other streaming platforms. We are looking to continue the Halloween Candy saga and tell a much bigger story with “Halloween Candy 2”! The first film was independently financed by writer/director Douglas A. Plomitallo, and we stretched the small budget as far as we could and left every penny on the screen. With “Halloween Candy 2”, we would love for YOU to be a part of it and help bring this new film to the next level.
The money raised will go towards every aspect of the filmmaking process, including; Cast, Crew, Permits and Insurance, Equipment Rental, Props, Catering, Transportation, Practical Effects, Soundtrack, Audio Mixing, Wardrobe and Location Rental.
Over the years, we’ve worked hard to develop a team and workflow that allows everyone to have input on the filmmaking process and gives actors the freedom to bring their creativity to the table and let them develop their characters. Everyone involved has a passion and a true love for filmmaking and we strive hard to make that passion translate on-screen. We have an incredible cast on-board for “Halloween Candy 2”. Fan-favorites from the first film will return mixed will a talented crop of new actors telling a story that we know horror fans will love.
We are looking to up the scares, up the thrills and up the kills with practical effects like the ones we all grew up loving. Also coming back for “Halloween Candy 2” is the mysterious and brooding clown, Tiny. We introduced Tiny in a series of short films starting back in 2009 with “Tiny’s Halloween” and continued his adventures with four sequels. Of all of the movies that we’ve made over the years, Tiny, is the one character that people gravitate towards the most, so we introduced him to a larger audience in the first “Halloween Candy”. We truly believe that Tiny has the potential to become one of the next crop of horror icons.
So please join us in bringing “Halloween Candy 2” to the big screen. We are so excited to share our vision with horror fans and we appreciate you helping us in making that a reality! Please take a look at our perks to see how you can be a part of “Halloween Candy 2”!
Happy Pride Month! Even though this movie is kind of homophobic.
Once Bitten (1985) is currently streaming free with ads on Tubi, Pluto TV and YouTube. It's not Jim Carrey's first film but it is his first lead starring role. The vampire teen horror sex comedy underperformed at the box office in 1985, but it has since become a cult classic.
IMDb.com SYNOPSIS: A vampire Countess needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall.
STORYLINE: The Countess has a problem. She is a 400 year old vampire who will cease to look young unless she is able to feed on a virgin three times before the upcoming Halloween, a week away. She sends Sebastian, her servant and all of her lesser vampires out to find one. Finding a virgin is difficult in 1980s Los Angeles. Mark has a problem. He wants to 'do it' with Robin in the worst way, but she wants to wait. Jamie and Russ, Mark's goofy friends convince him to go to a Hollywood pick up spot where Mark meets the Countess, on the prowl. Robin's not going to understand this.
Once Bitten is the directorial debut of Howard Storm from a screenplay written by Jonathan Roberts, David Hines, Jeffrey Hause and Terence Marsh, it stars Lauren Hutton, Jim Carrey, Karen Kopins, Cleavon Little, Thomas Ballatore, Skip Lackey, Richard Schaal, Peggy Pope, and Megan Mullally as Suzette.
Filmed over the course of 45 days in and around Los Angeles and was released on November 15, 1985, on 1,095 screens, opened at number one at the U.S. box office, grossing $4,025,657 for the weekend. It eventually earned around $10 million in the United States and Canada.
Jack-O's Review: "Cheesy 80's vampire sex comedy with poorly aged homophobic gay jokes. Some scenes show the crazy funniness of Jim Carrey in his later films but he mostly plays it straight in this film with a few funny lines. Michael J. Fox was the first choice to play Carrey's role but the producer disliked the idea. Karen Kopins is cute and Lauren Hutton is hot. Hutton's role was originally written for Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira but she turned it down. I think I would have liked the movie more if it starred the Mistress of the Dark. Great 80's music, fantastic 80's Halloween decorations and costumes at the high school Halloween Dance. The dance off is my favorite scene, love how Carrey plays his leg like a guitar. I didn't even recognize that was Cleavon Little who was also in Blazing Saddles, he plays a gay character so well." ★★★ = Good @trickhorrortreater
More Reviews:
"...Once Bitten is just spectacularly unfunny most of the time, trading on supposed double entendres to work up fitful humor...it’s notable that the film pretty much jettisons the vampire angle in its closing moments..." ★★★½ Blu-ray.com
"...affects a glossy, sophisticated look that does little to upgrade the film’s adolescent humor. As directed by Howard Storm, it has a lot more stylishness than wit. Miss Hutton looks great in black, but her predatory vampire grows tiresome very quickly, as do all the Bloody Mary jokes." NYTimes.com
"...not as dumb as some but still kind of dumb." John Stanley, Creature Features
"LAUREN HUTTON has a space between her fangs as the vapid vampiress of Once Bitten, a sappy, sophomoric sex farce in which the supernatural's answer to Mrs. Robinson sucks the blood of virgin boys. Well-preserved for a 400-year-old who never gets any sun, the aging fiend must nonetheless feed from the thigh of a virgin teen to retain youth, beauty and that Cover Girl look. But life in the fast vein isn't what it was in the Dark Ages (or even the '50s), when uninitiated males did not have access to MTV—thus there was still a chance they'd remain chaste till the wedding night. Her gay valet—a tiresome role for Cleavon Little—consoles her with a tumbler of blood garnished with a celery stick. She moues thoughtfully. 'I came out of the closet centuries ago,' he minces, uttering one of the movie's many dated inanities. (The writers still think 'What's your sign?' is a good joke.)." WashingtonPost.com
"Lauren Hutton stars as a 400-year-old vampire only slightly older than the jokes in David Hines, Jeffrey Hause and Jonathan Roberts' screenplay, based on a story, such as it were, by a fourth party, Dimitri Villard." (Our drunk uncle review) Daily Record, Morristown, New Jersey; 20 Nov 1985 Liner-Notes.com
"Every season it appears that Hollywood has truly and finally run out of comic things to say with coming- of-age scenarios, and every once in a while it's demonstrated that the genre simply needs intelligent handling. Once Bitten is one of the better things to happen lately to adolescent sex comedies simply because it isn't gross; because it isn't mean-minded; because Jim Carrey has a way of pouting that makes him look like he has buck teeth." Globe and Mail, Canada; 27 Nov 1985 Liner-Notes.com
"Hutton has appeared in more prestigious pictures, but none so liberating as this unpretentious comedy, which allows her to slink and vamp with much good humor. In his first major screen role Carrey proves to be an important discovery, who also seems to know how not to take himself too seriously. And Kopins is another revelation, so deceptive is the primness of her first scenes. Thomas Ballatore and Skip Lackey are Carrey's pals, as funny as Little is in support of Hutton." LAtimes.com
"Once warned you won't want to see 'Once Bitten,' a thoroughly dumb teen-age sex comedy that's filled with stale gags, hokey gimmicks and attrocious acting. Its 2.2 laughs are spread evenly throughout a tame and extremely tired plot that seems as endless as a vampire's life is eternal." ★★ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 15 Nov 1985 Liner-Notes.com
"Scenes of Carrey and Hutton enacting sexy blood transfusions are more sensual than funny and disrupt the more flippant moments that make this film work at all." (For all their implied superiority, it's amazing how many reviewers couldn't even get a vampire pun right.) Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; 19 Nov 1985 Liner-Notes.com
"In 1985, American cinema struck it big with the release of cult classics like The Breakfast Club, Back to the Future, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, and Weird Science. But in between these gems was a hidden jewel called Once Bitten starring a very young Jim Carrey and sultry model-turned-actress Lauren Hutton as the bloodsucker seeking her next big score." SYFY.com
"Carrey's knack for comedic timing is perfect, even back in 1985, as he commands every silly scene he's in. When Mark becomes to the victim of a vampire (played the gorgeous Lauren Hutton), and gets bitten, he finds his world turned upside down, and begins to act different than he typically does, leading his girlfriends and friends to try to figure out what's wrong with him. It's a hilarious film." IconsOfFright.com
"The film does have some really good humor in it, and good ideas. It's never ridiculously funny, but there's a sort of charm I found and would definitely pop this one in again sometime." ★★★ WhySoBlu.com
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