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...
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.
This week we hang out in the spooky outdoors as we reminisce about some of our favorite Halloween costumes, collecting VHS tapes, the first time watching a horror movie and even trying to make our own movies.
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...
It was recently announced that NBC will air an animated special featuring David S. Pumpkins, the delightful Saturday Night Live phenomenon of last Halloween. It will air as The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special on October 28. The story is...
JOHN CARPENTER HALLOWEEN, THE THING, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK One of the most important figures in modern horror and science fiction, John Carpenter made some of the most influential and copied films in the last...
