Eddie Schmidt

**Eddie Schmidt**, also known as **Eddie Sawyer** or just **Eddie** is a recurring character from *Halloween Horror Nights*. Eddie was created to be the icon of *Halloween Horror Nights XI* in 2001, however his role was scrapped due to the 9/11 terror attacks whose first responders Eddie was interpreted as baring a resemblance to. Because of this, the first HHN icon Jack the Clown was used as icon instead and later became Eddie's canonical brother.

## History

### Background

#### Origin

Eddie and his older brother John "Jack" Schmidt were born in the Shadybrook Asylum during the late 19th century. Also born in this asylum was Jack's brother, Eddie. Jack and Eddie's family was extremely abusive, and Jack would run away while leaving Eddie behind. At some point, Jack orchestrated a riot which he used to escape from Shadybrook, abandoning Eddie.

Eddie appears to have an extended lifespan, though its origin/nature is unknown. After Jack left, Eddie wound up living in a trailer-park. When Eddie tried turning his trailer park into a haunted house, teenagers set it on fire and caused Eddie's face to become disfigured. Eddie then covered his face with a muzzle-like mask to hide his disfigurements and by the late 20th century, developed an obsessive love for horror movies, particularly *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre* (1974).

Eddie would become a serial-killer himself with his weapon of choice being a chainsaw. It is noted that Eddie has an enhanced sense of smell and can detect the scent of any open wound in the room with him, which instantly drives him into a killing frenzy.

#### RUN

In the year 2000, Universal Studios reawakened and released Eddie's brother Jack, who was now "Jack the Clown", a murderous undead clown bound to a supernatural jack-in-the-box. In 2001, Jack assisted Eddie in running the murderous gameshow/business, "RUN" in which Eddie and his goons would hunt down and murder live contestants. This business was shut down in the December of 2001, which Jack would mock Eddie for.

#### Horror Nights Nightmares

**Note**: *The year setting of this haunted house is unknown, but it came out around 2004 so may be set around that time.*

At some point, Universal Studios did production on a film based on the, "Halloween Horror Nights" incidents known as, "Horror Nights Nightmares", produced by L. Surphlis and R. West, co-produced by W. Robinson, while written by K. Babel and M. Aiello. Both Eddie and Jack the Clown were actors in this film and it was noted that Eddie's scenes would be very closed set with no crew-members allowed to have wounds and being instructed to "Run like hell" if they did.

On the thirteenth day of filming, October 13th, a VIP tour group was allowed onto the closed set and were attacked by Jack the Clown as well as the other horror nights icons allowed on the set which also included Dr. Albert Caine/The Caretaker and Paulo Ravinski/The Director.

#### Run: Hostile Territory

In 2005, Eddie brought back his "RUN" business as "Oddfellow's Ultimate Ventures" with the slogan "Catering to the rich and Adventurous". This version was a black-market form of live snuff entertainment where the wealthy would pay large amounts of money for Eddie to murder people in his RUN games, only for Eddie to turn out the lights and murder his patrons as well. The name for his businesses seemingly came from Doctor Rich Oddfellow, an immortal occultist businessman who was the owner of Jack the Clown's original circus as well as the one who had murdered Jack. On the August 16 of 2005, Eddie made several weekly rentals of torture equipment for RUN.

#### Twenty Years of Fear

Eddie was seemingly present when the entity Fear was released for his twentieth cycle. In this incident, Jack was serving as Fear's Herald of Carnage, attempting to free the god and cast the world into fear.

#### Eddie's Revenge

Envious of the attention which his brother received, Eddie plotted to get revenge (possibly around 2021). This revenge involved orchestrating a horror film inspired by the Halloween Horror Nights incidents, with real monsters and murderers on the cast and crew. Jack, and Jack's partner "Chance" would make appearances on this set, seemingly on October 13th.

### Development history

Eddie would have been HHN's second original icon. He was made for *Halloween Horror Nights XI* in 2001. Eddie's role was scrapped due to the 9/11 terror attacks whose first responders Eddie was interpreted as baring a resemblance to. Eddie's original name would have been Edgar "Eddie" Sawyer (after the Sawyer family in Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and he would have used his "Chainsaw Drill Team" to wage war on Jack the Clown and his clowns. While not used as an icon, Eddie did however continue to make some Halloween Horror Nights appearances.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Body Collectors: Recollections

Eddie and Jack made cameos as babies in the Shadybrook Asylum.

#### Halloween Horror Nights XI

Eddie was originally intended to be the icon of this event.

##### RUN

Eddie was original main-antagonist of this attraction, and still identified with it in the lore.

#### HHN Icons: Captured

A cell with Eddie's name on it appeared in the asylum scene.

#### Horror Nights Nightmares

Eddie was the fourth icon who attacked guests.

#### Lights Camera Hacktion: Eddie's Revenge

Eddie was central character of this scarezone.

#### Run: Hostile Territory

Eddie was main-antagonist of this version of RUN.

#### Seeds of Extinction

A non-canonical easter-egg promoted " Jack & Eddie's Sunwear" in reference to the Schmidt brothers.

## Trivia

* Eddie was not present in the *RUN: Blood, Sweat and Fears* haunted house of 2015.
* Eddie and Cindy Caine are both HHN original icons from the early 2000s who were scrapped and then retconned into being family-members with the icons who replaced them.

## External links

* *Eddie Schmidt on Halloween Horror Nights Wiki.*