A Really Haunted Loud House
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A Really Haunted Loud House is a live-action made-for-TV Halloween film based on The Really Loud House.
Plot
It's the day before Halloween in Royal Woods as Lincoln and Clyde are preparing to go trick-or-treating to get all the best candy in town while at the same time, the Loud family are preparing for the annual "Shroud House Spooktacular", where they would dress in frightening costumes while performing a life stage act and finishing it up giving out candies to all the people who came to see them. A test run happens where Lynn and Lucy scare the mailman, and Lori (who has come home from college for the Spooktacular) inspect the scare reaction as Lucy appeared and informs that this will be the scariest event in Halloween history.
After Lily arrives and scares Lincoln and Clyde with fake monster hands, the other siblings prepare for the Spooktacular, which includes...
- Luna trying out a theremin for the Spooktacular as she is the musical director
- Luan constructing a Frankenstein's monster-esque giant marionette version of Mr. Coconuts
- Leni and Lola creating the costumes (with Lincoln as the model)
- Lisa creating a large pumpkin for the decoration for the Spooktacular (which she has named "Esmeralda" and Todd has developed a hatred towards)
- Lori, who is in charge of the event, asks Lincoln about the finale of the Spooktacular, which he says is a secret as he does not want to ruin the surprise, much to her frustration.
- Lana setting up a Candy Cannon to fire candy into trick-or-treaters' bags
- Lynn is trying to rack up more scares than Lucy, with Lucy determined to retain her record.
- Rita is the Chief Candy Officer, having the kids taste-test some candy. She also discovers a reminder labeled "Durblish Point Sent", and has no idea what it means.
- Lynn Sr. is not involved with the festivities, having not slept for three days due to Lynn Jr.'s constant attempts to scare him.
Lincoln and Clyde leave the house to embark on a practice trick-or-treating route. Just then, Rita realizes her reminder is actually for a dental appointment, and drives the Loud kids to the dental office. There, Dr. Miller and his nurse, Barbara, check on the kids' teeth, but Dr. Miller is knocked out after Lynn scares Barbara, causing her to accidentally stab him with a needle meant for Leni. Lisa discovers that all the kids have cavities, mostly due to Rita having them gorge on candy and them having poor dental hygiene care. As the Louds leave the dental office, Lincoln runs into Xander Coddington, a new kid who has just moved to Royal Woods and throws cool parties. Despite today being the only time the dentist can see him, Xander does not want to go to the dentist, but Lincoln informs him that Dr. Miller has been incapacitated, earning Xander's respect. Lincoln invites Xander for a trick-or-treating round, but Xander refuses, saying trick-or-treating is lame.
Bad Qualities
- This film was directed by the same director who directed A Loud House Christmas, which is already a red flag.
- Lincoln and Clyde became selfish in this film, after making the final decision to skip the Spooktacular and head to Xander's Halloween party which disappoints his family.
- Xander, the new cool kid whom Lincoln and Clyde initially try to gain favor, only to realize he's a bully? Sounds an awful lot like Chandler McCann from the animated series.
- The premise of this film is similar to the Casagrandes episode "New Haunts", as they both involve the main characters deciding whether to spend Halloween with their family, or at a party hosted by a popular student.
- The subplot about Lincoln hoping to attend Xander's party further has a similar premise to that of "The Waiting Game", as Xander is portrayed as a foil to Chandler in this film.
- The costumes that Lori, Leni, Luna, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, Lily and Rita (Except Lincoln, Clyde and Luan) wore in this film are different from the costumes they wore in the original cartoon in the episode "Tricked!”.
- This is the first film to not include a variant of the original cartoon's theme song.
- This is the first film in the franchise where Howard, Harold, Scoots, Sam, Gayle and Rip Hardcore do not appear, and the first to not have Catherine Taber as part of the cast. However, Clyde does mention his fathers.
- This is also the first film in the franchise where Bobby Santiago does not appear, although the film does have a different character named Bobby.
- Charlie Uggo, Lincoln's ex-girlfriend who appeared in The Really Loud House, does not appear in this film and she is not mentioned by Lincoln.
- A few of the special effects are really unrealistic, such as the various stuff Lana shoots with her cannon or the drone parade, are very obvious CGI models.
- During Lynn Sr.'s "transformation" into a werewolf, he gets glue on his face and then lands face-first onto a furry bean bag. His attempts to remove the fur from his face are shown in shadow, with his howling at the moon completing his "transformation".
- The first sign of Lynn Sr.'s "transformation" into a werewolf is that he ravenously devours Luan's sandwich with no regard for manners.
- Zach, Liam, Rusty and Stella are dumb in this movie, for mistaking Lynn Sr. as a werewolf.
- Too much toilet, and gross-out humor.
- Speaking of toilet humor, a flashback shows Rita reminding her kids to floss their teeth. Cue all eleven of them, even Lucy and Lisa, doing the floss dance, leading to them all getting cavities.
- As the spooktacular starts, Lana tries to tell Lori that their mom is replacing the candy with toothbrushes, but Lori brushes her off. She tries again at the end, when cued to release them, only to give up when Lori doesn't let her finish.
- Both youngest child Lily and second-oldest Leni are subject to this when the family is trying to determine who stole Esmerelda. Lily saw Lincoln and Clyde sneak inside the large pumpkin when Xander stole it, and says "Lincoln in pumpkin" twice, both times being ignored. Leni comes across a live stream of Xander bragging about his plans to crush the pumpkin, which is at first brushed off before she explains what it is, at which point Lily speaks up again, and the rest of the family puts two-and-two together.
- Continuity Errors:
- Like in "The Blemish Dilemish", Stella's surname is misspelled Zhou in the credits.
- Lynn Sr. manages to roll a shopping cart far beyond the boundaries of a store. In real life, shopping carts usually have automatic locks on them that stop them from rolling if taken beyond the parking lot of the store they're designated to.
- This could be justified in that the shopping cart is from Flip's Food & Fuel, and Flip is known for his rather lax and unprofessional attitude.
- While Brian Stepanek has been credited as Todd in the animated series and The Really Loud House, he isn't credited as Todd in this movie and is only listed as Lynn Sr. The actor playing Mrs. Wright isn't credited either.
Good Qualities
- Xander and his friends got what they deserved at the end of this film, just like in the original cartoon in the episode "Tricked!".
- Lincoln, Clyde, and Luan are the only characters to wear the same costumes they wear in "Tricked!". Lynn dresses up as a skeleton in this film, much like how Luna does the same in that episode. Similarly, a giant marionette version of Mr. Coconuts dressed as Frankenstein's monster appears as a decoration in the film, coinciding with how Luan dresses him up as Frankenstein's monster in that episode.
- Lana's mummy outfit is likely a reference to her dressing up as a mummy by using toilet paper to scare Lola in the pilot short.
- This is the first film in the franchise to feature Todd, Zach, Liam, Rusty, Stella, and all characters who debuted in The Really Loud House, and the first live-action film to feature Flip.
- The song "I Want Candy" sung by Sophia Woodward, with backup from the rest of the cast, was great.
- One of the final shots of the film depicts Lincoln and Clyde eating candy on the Loud house's front porch, just like the closing shot in "Tricked!".