🌟 Our heroes outrun the boogeyman with Halloween, John Carpenter’s genre-defining slasher that birthed a thousand nightmares 🎃🔪👻

Andrew and Greg rewind to their first encounters with the film, and compare it to how this rewatch feels now 📽️😱 Greg schools Andrew on ’70s horror, highlighting Carpenter’s minimalist score, his pitch-perfect direction, and how he turns simplicity into terror. Andrew, meanwhile, wants to talk about sex, specifically the movie’s pulse of sex and death, and the genius of Michael Myers as “The Shape," a motive-less evil that seems to target teenage desire itself (yeah, Michael’s got issues with kids sneaking off to hook up).

Greg spotlights how Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode became the blueprint for the "Final Girl," dissecting fear, innocence, and the primal will to survive the night. Together, our heroes illuminate why Halloween still cuts deeper than its imitators and what keeps it enduring nearly half a century later.

So lock your doors, check your closets, and get ready to light up the dark… one creepy William Shatner mask at a time 🔦🎬💀

Email us at [email protected] with any questions or comments and we'll respond on the show! 📩 Light Up the Dark — A Movie Podcast will return next week with: The Shining.