This man's outrageous collection of Hollywood horror props draws a crowd of 8,000 each Halloween

“When people are scared they laugh,” says Rich Correll. “They come in here and scream, and then they laugh and laugh and laugh. And I love sharing that with people.”

What Correll loves sharing is his collection of Hollywood horror and sci-fi props — one of the largest such holdings in the world — which he pulls out of storage and puts on public display in his Los Angeles home every October, in honor of Halloween.

And the items — including dummy from The Exorcist with the spinning head, just about every Predator suit that was made, and many Alien creatures, including the original from the first Sigourney Weaver film — do not disappoint.

“How much have I spent on it? I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t want to think about it too much and I don’t want my wife to think about it too much, because it’s a very expensive hobby.” He’s spent up to $80,000 or $90,000 on a single item, Correll admits, and says his entire collection, which he’s been amassing for 58 years, is insured for $13.5 million.

“Most people now consider to be the most complete Hollywood memorabilia collection in the world,” he says, noting that it “started years and years ago,” when he was getting his start as a child actor on the classic TV show Leave it to Beaver. (Correll is now an accomplished TV director, currently for Fuller House on Netflix). One day he asked the makeup person if he’d take him up to the lab, which he did, and “I was shocked at the stuff they were throwing away,” he recalls. He asked if he could take the trash he found to be treasures, and happily got permission.

These days, he’s got over 3,100 items in his collection, and hauls out a big portion of it each year in honor of Halloween. “It’s a normal house for every month of the year except October,” says Correll, who said he started the public display tradition in 1993, and that it kept getting bigger and bigger. “We have 8,000 people show up on Halloween,” he says of what’s become a local phenomenon. “And it’s fun, but it’s so much work, one year we decided we weren’t going to do it. People freaked out.” He felt guilty, “kids were crying,” and now it’s back on, he says.

Now horror-obsessed director’s got his sights set on starting a 14,000 square-foot Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Hall of Fame, “hopefully in Times Square.” Talk about scary.

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