& #SixDegreesOfMMO

***This Episode Should Be Listened To No Matter Your Likes or Dislikes of Spoilers***

We do #SixDegreesOfMMO followed by a beefy production profile & then a full plot breakdown. So sans warning music, this episode has a spoiler section.

#SixDegreesOfMMO Challenge 3 Recap/Winner - 1:05

Our Answers - 4:55

Round 4 Challenge - 8:55

MMO Does Halloween Introduction - 12:00

Halloween III: Season of the Witch Review

Non-Spoilers

Cast & Crew & Surprise Cameos - 15:08

Movie Specs (who is Dino De Laurentis?) - 19:32

Production Notes (why is Dino De Laurentis?) - 23:40

Spoilers

Plot / Premise - 27:11

Worst Scenes - 30:12

Best Scene Disguising As A Worst Scene - 43:48

Actual Best Scenes - 45:37

Where H3 Fits in the Halloween CU - 53:01

Serious Cinematic Subtext That Actually Exists in This Movie - 55:50

Outro / Longview of our Halloween Rewatch Series - 58:13

Great job with the #SixDegreesOfMMO round 3 submissions. We had a difficult time choosing a winner because of all the fun you had with them and of course, all the fun we had reading them. This episode begins as we pick the winner of the round followed by our own Six Degree answers, and then we choose a “Halloween” inspired round 4 challenge.

The bulk of this episode kick starts our re-watch of the Halloween franchise, a series of films sacred to Mike 1 and irresistibly critique-able AND appreciate-able for Also Mike. We’ve had some fun recordings over the last year plus. Though let it be known!!...this goes down as one of our instant favorites.

Although we don’t have a spoiler warning dance music interlude in this episode, you can easily parse between spoilers and non-spoilers if you’re allergic to the former. Though we do encourage you overcome your allergy and just keep listening because this is one of our better discussions.

Our format for these Halloween franchise movie reviews opens with a production profile of cast & crew, specs, & behind-the-scenes information. We enjoy comparisons to The Conjuring Universe pods (episodes 96, 98 & 99), mention the high school days of John Carpenter, and differentiate between the narrative through lines of the series at large as only an authority like Mike 1 could give.

The plot is simple on the surface, but as we break it down via a marvelous litany of worst then best scenes (most of which could be described as best worst), there’s a ton of ambition and complexity on display from the powers that be. Legendary producer Dino De Laurentis, legendary stewards of the franchise like John Carpenter & Debra Hill, and of course, the filmmakers both credited and uncredited all have an impact on the story, and we relish every minute of this discussion.

If this episode is any indication, we shall thoroughly enjoy this rewatch series on the Michael Myers slasher films to come. So stay tuned as we’ll work our butts off to get you reviews of all these movies building up to the movie event that is 2018’s Halloween coming out on October 19th.

We’ll also be interweaving Oscar coverage. Go back to our previous episode (105) for a preview of all the terrific films coming out in this loaded month of October, and do listen to our massive back catalog of episodes for our full coverage of the Oscar Sprint. We feature OSPs (16 & counting thus far in this year after total coverage of last year’s awards season), retrospectives on seasons past, and plenty of wonderful divergences into the realms of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Mission Impossible films, and of course, The Conjuring Universe.