14 DAY TRIAL // Perhaps a more awesome video than Guillermo del Toro’s “The Simpsons” Halloween opener is a video with the opener and all the horror references included in it named on-screen, because, this way, you get to see if you guessed them right the first time.
Check out the video below for the opener for “The Simpsons” 24th annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween anthology series, with the references, thanks to Movie Pilot.
I have to admit, some of the smallest hints, such as a painting or a sculpture, went completely by me because I didn’t even know I was supposed to be paying attention.
Speaking of why he wanted to direct the opening sequence on an idea he came up with, the esteemed director said that it was an opportunity he simply could not let slip.
“The Simpsons titles are so iconic and yet they’ve never been riffed in this vein,” he added. Indeed, they never were, not like this.