Fan CastingThe Road to Halloween (1986)

It's October in Chicago, a favorite time of year for teen horror fan, Cameron Ferguson (Christian Slater). A loner who's an aspiring actor like some of his heroes, Jeffrey Combs, his grandfather Orson (Harold Ramis) and Robert Englund. However his older sister, Penny (Molly Ringwald) is perturbed by some of her brother's activities such as doing monster makeup and those alike. Ferguson's an outcast in his school aside from his best friends such as local bookworm, Lance Ackley (Zach Galligan), wrestler and horror nut, Cass Underwood (Christine Elise) and heavy metal lover, Zack Thomas (Judd Nelson). Despite still dealing with bullies and some are friends with his sister, especially Brody Turner (Thomas F Wilson). Later on after coming home from school, the teen needed to spend some time with his grandad after having the rough day since Penny was busy being on the phone with her friends. Later that night, Cameron had a dream about a dream deity that gave him inspiration for the spooky time to make his own horror film, but along the way comes a storm of trials, errors (aside dealing with bullies). However after a long reflection from Penny after being distant from her brother and letting her friends pick on him and his friends and soon after, she wasn't going to let her brother feel alone anymore. The time Halloween came, so far things were going very smoothly after some of Penny's former friends came to visit. Cameron had a surprise waiting for him.