It's the most wonderful time of the year! To celebrate the ooky-spooky season, the Brides are coming at you with THREE episodes this month! And we we had to start with a trip to Haddonfield. That's right, today we're celebrating the Daddy of slasher pics, John Carpenter's Halloween! We discuss what makes this movie so good (a holy combination of acting, directing, and Debra Hill), how every victim in this film is totally likable, the ways Carpenter honors the pagan roots of Halloween in his storytelling aesthetic, and why the Rob Zombie 2007 remake ruins what makes The Shape so scary. Plus, did they really think they would get away with having Pasadena, CA, stand in for late-autumn Illinois, and does it really matter? Because this movie is AWESOME.

Halloween, 1978. Directed by John Carpenter. Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Nick Castle, PJ Soles, and Nancy Kyes.