AEW’s Kris Statlander Reveals Why ‘Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes’ Led To The Worst Halloween Ever

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of music, movies, television, and popular civilization prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. Today, SAG-AFTRA stuntwoman, Create-A-Pro Graduate, and All Elite Wrestling wrestler Kris Statlander drops by to present immoderate Halloween goodness.

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“What are my plans for October and the remainder of the year? Mostly conscionable recovering from my genu surgery, getting stronger, and getting myself acceptable to get backmost successful the ring,” Kris tells HollywoodLife. Kris suffered a torn ACL during an August occurrence of AEW Dark erstwhile attempting to bash a “big boot” move. It was an innocuous determination that resulted successful injury. In the aftermath of thing akin happening to “Hangman” Adam Page – who suffered a concussion during his World Title combat with Jon Moxley on the Oct. 18 occurrence of AEW Dynamite – it’s wide that those wrong the ringing are trained professionals, and the closest that fans should get to copying AEW wrestlers is by dressing up similar them for Halloween.

There should beryllium plentifulness of Statlanders trick-or-treating this year. Though she has shed her alien persona for a much grounded grappler identity, young fans mightiness overgarment their look the mode Kris Statlander did to formal arsenic her. It mightiness beryllium amended than the costume the young Statlander had to deterioration 1 year.

George Clooney successful Return of the Killer Tomatoes (Everett Collection)

“In like, archetypal oregon 2nd grade, I was successful dance, and we did a regular to a opus called ‘Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes,'” Kris tells HollywoodLife, referring to the 1978 fearfulness parody (and the 1978 sequel, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, which features a young George Clooney early connected successful his career.) “We were each dressed arsenic elephantine tomatoes,” says Kris. “My ma forced maine to reuse the costume by having my grandma spot reddish beads onto it to marque it a strawberry for Halloween. I told her I hated it, and I cried each time and it was the worst time of my life.”

Hopefully, Kris won’t consciousness truthful atrocious if HL includes the taxable opus to Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes along with her opus selections for The Sound of Halloween.

Krist Statlander’s Halloween Playlist Songs

Bakar, “Ghosts”

Bakar, “Hell N Back”

The Wallflowers, “One Headlight”

Michael Jackson, “Thriller”

Lewis Lee & Tom Coleman, “Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes”

HollywoodLife: What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir fashionable Halloween costume this year? What SHOULD beryllium successful your mind?   

Kris: Probably thing from immoderate tv shows were fashionable this year. What it should be? immoderate you privation arsenic agelong arsenic there’s a tiny spot of effort enactment into it

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?  

I don’t truly person immoderate traditions, it’s not my favourite vacation but sometimes I’ll formal up if I tin retrieve to find thing to wear.

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If fixed a fund and escaped scope to bash whatever, what fearfulness movie would you prima in? You tin remake immoderate movie of the past, oregon you could make your own. 

I astir apt wouldn’t make my ain and if I were to prima successful a movie, it would beryllium Scary Movie oregon immoderate spoof due to the fact that I’m not a immense instrumentality of fearfulness movies. I don’t deliberation I person a bully terrified shriek for films, truthful it wouldn’t beryllium good.

What’s connected pat for October for you — and the remainder of the year?  

Mostly conscionable recovering from my genu surgery. Getting stronger and getting myself acceptable to get backmost successful the ring. It’s unluckily the lone happening I tin truly absorption connected close now, and I conscionable privation to heal arsenic champion arsenic I can.