Serif Gothic Heavy. According to Ta-Ke-Shi at WTF Forum, original Serif Gothic has this rounded E.

Thanks Ryuk. Yes it sure is, but my question was if there was a digital version that anyone might be aware of that features it?

Although it looks a lot like Serif Gothic, I think it was probably custom, at least for the "HALLOWEEN" part. The weight is somewhere between Serif Gothic Heavy and Serif Gothic Black, and the serifs are larger.

Serif Gothic does have a set of alternates that haven’t been digitized yet, at least not commercially.

Yes, although it didn't have a "W" like that. I suspect what they did was start with Serif Gothic Heavy, clipped off the center stroke on the alternate "W", made it bolder (using an optical effect, analogous to adding a stroke to a digital font), and touched up the serifs to make them more pronounced.

Here is a related Post about the very cool alternates for Serif Gothic. http://www.typophile.com/node/1745 I was just wondering if in fact someone has built the font for the alternates yet, but it sounds like not to this point in time, bummmmmer.

ITC (now part of Monotype) has re-released some of its classics with the alternate characters restored, but not Serif Gothic yet.

thanks Mark, good to know, I'll keep an eye out. However, is it on their to-do list?

No idea. You might try writing to Allan Haley at ITC. His email address is on this page:

http://www.itcfonts.com/About/Submit.htm

The W might have been made from flipping the M and spreading the arms. The rounded E can be made using the C. The N is another matter. I also notice that the font Liberty has some of these features already, but would need bolding with added stroke. In many ways Liberty's letters are closer shapes than Serif Gothic for the HALLOWEEN lettering, but JOHN CARPENTER does look like Serif Gothic, with that R.Another possible alternative: Xavier Serif Black, with some serif tweaking (at least for the letters except E).

- Mike Yanega

I thought of those, too, Mike, but I still think it's most likely that it was based on Serif Gothic one way or another.