STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — For Staten Island filmmakers Jason and Michael Leavy , Halloween is a production unlike any other.

The brothers — co-founders of Fuzz on the Lens Productions , the Staten Island-based production company behind “ Screamboat ,” “ STREAM ” and the wildly popular “Terrifier” franchise — transform their parents’ house every October into a sprawling, movie-quality spectacle known as Nightmare at 25 Steele.

“It started when me and my brother were little kids. My mom was a huge fan of Halloween alongside my grandfather,” Jason told the Advance/SILive.com. “Each year, we’d build one life-sized horror icon with him, and it kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.”

When their grandfather died in 2005, the brothers decided to keep the tradition alive.

“We wanted

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