 DATE: The movie is specifically identified as taking place on  Halloween (October 31), but opens with a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball  scene. Even if the visiting "New York" team is the Yankees, making  it a World Series game, it would have to be earlier in the year than  that; no World Series from 1913 through the 1940s ran later than  October 16, and in fact it was not until 2001 that the Series ran as  late as October 31.