The Halloween Tree gets a painted-background appreciation on Channel Awesome

Doug Walker revisits Hanna-Barbera's Ray Bradbury adaptation, with Leonard Nimoy voicing its mysterious guide.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The Halloween Tree - Nostalgia Critic

Eleven uploads, plenty of scares. Channel Awesome filled its week with animated autumn atmosphere and Are You Afraid of the Dark? retrospectives, while Doug Walker also made room for a documentary detour.

The biggest new audience gathered around "The Halloween Tree - Nostalgia Critic," which reached roughly 157,000 views. A Blair Witch Project parody featuring Tamara Chambers opens the review, but Walker soon finds something worth pausing the jokes for: the animated film's richly painted backgrounds. "The backgrounds in this are freaking gorgeous," he says.

The 1993 special adapts Ray Bradbury's novel, with Bradbury himself narrating and Leonard Nimoy playing Mr. Moundshroud, the guide taking children through the history behind their costumes. Walker singles out Nimoy's performance while finding Bradbury's narration dry. Beneath the review, viewers recall the story's unusually serious bargain about friendship and the value of a year of life; others request Scary Godmother's sequel.

Midnight Mania supplied much of the week's continuing rhythm, revisiting enchanted lockers, darker fairy tales and a movie theater showing a dangerous version of Nosferatu. Its newer "The Tale of the Dark Dragon - Midnight Mania," about a popularity potion turning insecurities monstrous, currently draws the most daily views of any upload on the channel. "Three. Hours. Long.," Walker's review of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary, is another active draw.

Subscribers held steady, and daily views are running below their usual level. Even so, Channel Awesome added about 1.7 million views over the week, a substantial audience among nearby film-commentary channels. RedLetterMedia had a particularly busy week, while Channel Awesome's own schedule kept returning to the Midnight Society's strange little world.

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The videos drawing views on Channel Awesome right now

Three. Hours. Long.61,413 views · 2026-10-16 The Tale of Locker 22 - Midnight Mania38,212 views · 2026-10-16 The Tale of the Midnight Madness - Midnight Mania37,517 views · 2026-10-15 The Tale of the Pinball Wizard - Midnight Mania36,726 views · 2026-10-13 The Tale of the Final Wish - Midnight Mania33,796 views · 2026-10-14 The Tale of the Dark Dragon - Midnight Mania27,098 views

The numbers

Here is how Channel Awesome's viewing and subscriber totals moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

RedLetterMedia

3,586,881

Channel Awesome

1,719,110

Mr Sunday Movies

1,441,252

The Hollywood Reporter

1,126,166

Lindsay Ellis

647,729

Hello Future Me

535,075

Mashable

454,469

Fandom Entertainment

367,665

Thomas Flight

352,684

subscribers

1,430,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,325,780,976

views per day

193,047

typical day: 303,570

first-day views of each video posted this week

The Halloween Tree - Nostalgia Critic

109,999

Three. Hours. Long.

38,510

The Tale of Locker 22 - Midnight Mania

32,042

The Tale of the Midnight Madness - Midn…

31,367

The Tale of the Pinball Wizard - Midnig…

29,857

The Tale of the Final Wish - Midnight M…

27,995

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

RedLetterMedia

1,620,000

Fandom Entertainment

1,500,000

Channel Awesome

1,430,000

Mr Sunday Movies

1,420,000

The Hollywood Reporter

1,360,000

Lindsay Ellis

1,340,000

Thomas Flight

1,310,000

Hello Future Me

1,240,000

Mashable

1,180,000

As of October 20, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.