The Curse of Bridge Hollow

The Curse of Bridge Hollow is a 2022 American supernatural comedy horror film directed by Jeff Wadlow from a screenplay by Todd Berger and Robert Rugan. Starring Marlon Wayans, Priah Ferguson, Kelly Rowland, John Michael Higgins, Lauren Lapkus, Rob Riggle, and Nia Vardalos, the film was released by Netflix on October 14, 2022. Plot Sydney Gordon is a brave, adventurous girl who believes in ghosts and has a strained relationship with her science-obsessed father, Howard. When the Gordon family moves from Brooklyn to a small town called Bridge Hollow (a thinly veiled real-life Sleepy Hollow), Syd is intrigued— and Howard uneasy —about the town’s obsession with Halloween. Syd meets her new school’s Paranormal Society: nerdy Mario, quiet Jamie, and the Society’s goth girl leader, Ramona; the Society inform Syd that she now lives in a house generally perceived to be haunted. When Syd attempts to contact the ghost who supposedly lives in the house, she finds a strange, shriveled Jack-o-Lantern in a treasure chest in the storage room. Despite Howard’s clear contempt for Halloween, his wife and Syd’s mother Emily interests herself in making vegan snacks for the local Stingy Jack festival, and Syd rebels against her father by putting up Halloween decorations, lighting the lantern she found, and dressing up like a witch. However, when Howard attempts to put out the lantern, red light spreads from the lantern and turns a bat prop in the trash into a real bat with glowing red eyes that taunts Howard and Syd before flying away and spreading its curse to witch decorations, which come to life and fly into the sky. Syd witnesses this, and tries to tell Howard, but Howard insists there must be a logical explanation, even when he witnesses Syd and their neighbor, Sully, fighting off a group of prop zombies that have also come to life. Syd learns from Sully that the descendant of the woman who died in the house is still alive and elderly in a nursing home, and she takes Howard to discuss the lantern with the woman, who tells them that when lit, the lantern unleashed the curse of Stingy Jack, who will then take a soul at midnight to take his place so he can “make every day Halloween”.