For all the on-screen blood and gore of horror film Halloween, the scariest part behind the scenes was perishing pumpkins, says the set dresser for the franchise's latest offering.
Slasher movie specialist Missy Berent Ricker said her biggest challenge for this year's Halloween movie was keeping the set's festive decor alive in the cold.
This included the hundreds of pumpkins that were trucked in to the South Carolina location, and carved into jack-o'-lanterns that decorated the porches across the fictional town of Haddonfield.
"Everyday we had to throwaway pumpkins, they were perishing so quickly," Ricker told Dezeen. "We were so scared that we weren't going to have any by the end of filming."
But the team came up with a solution to preserving the orange vegetables, which involved submerging them in bleach baths. Halloween 2018 follows character Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) as she awaits the return of masked madman Michael Myers (main image)
This was one of many tricks that Ricker used while filming the movie ? the eleventh in the franchise, which is intended as a direct sequel to the 1978 original.
Set 40 years after the first, on 31 October 2018, the plot follows character Laurie Strode as she awaits masked madman Michael Myers' return to the town, and his killing spree that ensues.
"We tried to stay true to that homey, low-budget kind of vibe," Ricker said. "For the most part this was a really classic horror film, like the original...