‘Hocus Pocus 2’s Doug Jones Unleashes Frights & Delights With His Exclusive Picks For ‘The Sound Of Halloween’

Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of the music, movies, television, and popular civilization worlds prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. For this installment, histrion Doug Jones – the antheral down the disguise of specified iconic characters arsenic Abe Sapien successful Hellboy, Pale Man successful Pan’s Labyrinth, Baron Afanas successful What We Do In The Shadows, Saru successful Star Trek: Discovery, and Billy Butcherson successful some Hocus Pocus movies – joins successful connected the fun.

(Bruce Smith)

For an histrion who spent a sizeable magnitude of his vocation down a mask, Halloween hits a spot antithetic for Mr. Jones “When I’m location successful Los Angeles during Halloween, I emotion attending the lavish costume parties thrown by assorted carnal effects companies I’ve worked with,” helium tells HollywoodLife about his October traditions. “I can’t compete, truthful I conscionable deterioration thing silly with a punch line, similar the clip I sewed an American emblem down the broadside of a metallic leotard, made a crude aluminum foil eagle for my head, and called myself a flagpole. At my skinny height, it got an contiguous chuckle retired of everyone.”

Chances are that Doug Jones volition beryllium portion of your Halloween. Appearing successful specified films arsenic Legion, Ouija: Origin of Evil, The Bye Bye Man, and the works of Guillermo del Toro, chances are that Mr. Jones volition popular up during your fearfulness movie marathon. He tin besides beryllium portion of your Halloween party, with his picks for The Sound of Halloween playlist.

Doug Jones’s Halloween Playlist Picks

Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers, “The Monster Mash”

Doug: It has nostalgia for maine arsenic 1 of the archetypal songs that ever made it into my idiosyncratic Halloween play with spooky giggles arsenic a child.

Michael Jackson, “Thriller”

I was lone a mates of years younger than MJ, and we each wanted to sing and creation similar him backmost then. Little did I cognize that watching his translation into a werewolf successful that euphony video would foretell the vocation I had up of me. Add Vincent Price‘s dependable to the mix, and that opus ever marks the chill of the season!

Bette Midler, “I Put A Spell On You”

I had the privilege of being successful the country erstwhile Bette [Midler] filmed that signifier show successful the archetypal Hocus Pocus movie, and it has go the astir fun, toe-tapping opus with blessed memories to people Halloween play for maine ever since.

(Editor’s Note: Since Bette’s rendition of the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins opus wasn’t included connected the original Hocus Pocus soundtrack oregon such, it’s not disposable connected streaming arsenic of October 2022. To fulfill Mr. Jones’ petition — astatine least, until Disney decides to enactment the opus connected Spotify/Tidal — we’re including “The Witches Are Back” from the Hocus Pocus 2 soundtrack, and a mentation of Bette’s rendition, done by resistance performer Ginger Minj.

HollywoodLife: When idiosyncratic says “Halloween,” what’s the archetypal happening that jumps into your caput from your past?

My archetypal instant representation is trick-or-treating astatine astir property 6, steaming up the wrong of a plastic, store-bought look disguise with an elastic drawstring astir the backmost of my caput and a baggy, silky costume tied astatine the backmost of the cervix that went implicit my ain clothes.  I deliberation I was a lion, and I loved the thought that nary 1 successful the vicinity would cognize it was maine arsenic I gave my small lad “Rawrrr” similar I owned the jungle.

What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir fashionable Halloween costume this year? and what SHOULD be?

Well, this twelvemonth with the merchandise of “Hocus Pocus 2” I deliberation radical costumes arsenic the Sanderson Sisters and Billy Butcherson volition beryllium everywhere.  And since I played Billy connected film, I’m definite hoping for this.

Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions? 

When I’m location successful Los Angeles during Halloween, I emotion attending the lavish costume parties thrown by assorted carnal effects companies I’ve worked with.  The costumes and make-ups that travel successful a country similar that are usually originals done by the astir talented artists successful the world. I can’t compete, truthful I conscionable deterioration thing silly with a punch line, similar the clip I sewed an American emblem down the broadside of a metallic leotard, made a crude aluminum foil eagle for my head, and called myself a emblem pole.  At my skinny height, it got an contiguous chuckle retired of everyone.

(Bruce Smith)

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.

Well, my reply to this 1 really came true! I ever wanted to play the classic, hideous vampire Nosferatu, and it really happened successful a remake that combines the archetypal soundless film’s backdrops and sets with america caller actors digitally added successful with dialog and sound. It is dreamy for maine to cheque this disconnected my bucket list, and it should beryllium released to the nationalist soon, earlier the different precocious announced Nosferatu with Bill Skarsgard comes out. This could get confusing due to the fact that the spot is successful the nationalist domain.

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

This Halloween play and astir until Christmas, I’m successful accumulation connected play 5 of Star Trek: Discovery arsenic Captain Saru, and besides returning for a mates much episodes of What We Do In The Shadows as Baron Afanas, truthful I’ll beryllium successful costumes and make-ups each month, but without the reward of candy.