![]() Spoopy movies embrace macabre aesthetics, without being too graphic, and tell scary stories, without being too traumatizing. The term captures the nostalgia-tinged Halloween of childhood, filled with trick-or-treating, buckets of candy, and movies that tickled that holiday itch (but were not traumatically scary). Eventually, the term became associated with Halloween, specifically the part of Halloween that indulges the fun and spooky, without ever being too scary. Instead of the word “spooky,” skeleton bones spelled out “spoopy.” The goof blew up, with other users sharing their own spotted misspelled Halloween phrases. ![]() Spoopy originated from a (now-defunct) Tumblr post from 2011, which aggregated an even older Flickr photo of a misspelled Halloween sign. ![]() But as much as we like being scared, there’s another staple of the Halloween movie canon to consider: the Spoopy Movie. With Halloween just around the corner, many are on the hunt for the perfect horror movie to usher in the spooky season.
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