Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Halloween originally ran as part of our countdown of the top 50 horror movies of all time. The film that started a long run of slasher...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Halloween originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. In many ways, Halloween is something of an odd duck in Carpenter’s filmography. While it’s easily his most renowned and well...
Movie Meltdown – Episode 587 – Halloween Ends Join us for our annual “spooky soiree” as we discuss the usual seasonal fun as well as our take on David Gordon Green’s Halloween Ends. And while we try to decide just what...
Title: Halloween Year: 1978 Director: John Carpenter Cast: Jamie-Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Nick Castle, Tony Moran Synopsis: Fifteen years after murdering his sister, the deranged Michael Meyers escapes from the sanitorium, returning to his hometown where...
Lincoln is joined by Rachel Riendeau and Matt Woods to discuss the new Halloween. What worked, what didn’t, and what they dream may come from the potential sequels.
The very first scene of Halloween works prep the audience for a gritty, stylized psychological thriller placed in the framework of the 1970s teen slasher. In the scene, two podcasters are being led through a Stanley Kubrickian asylum, where Michael...
