Extrapyramidal symptoms comprise a group of movement disorders of dystonia, akathesia, tardative dyskinesia and parkinsonism. Drug induced extrapyramidal symptoms are known for decades yet the use of these drugs still prevail with the adverse effect skipped or looked over. Presenting a case of an eighteen year old male hailing from a low socioeconomic status brought with complaints of fever and was diagnosed to have meningitis. He was sedated with one stat dose of haloperidol for MRI brain, following which he developed acute dystonic reaction that was relieved after prompt treatment. This case illustrates the affluence with which extrapyramidal side effects following treatment with haloperidol, which may be ridiculed in complicated medical cases.