Let’s Scare Michael to Death

EVIL HAS BEEN MOMENTARILY CONTAINED TONIGHT! Join us, dear listener, as we complete the Halloween series with Halloween Ends (2022). We end with our rankings of the whole series and a preview of coming attractions.

"Haddonfield, a simple town where nothing exciting ever happens." Halloween Kills (2021) but it sure as hell doesn't slay, honey. Join us as we probe the Halloween series' take on contemporary populism, mob violence, and the oeuvre of country/adult contemporary icon Anne Murray - wait, sorry. What? Meet in the hospital parking lot? Bring our firearms and our children (in order of importance)? Evil Dies Tonight? FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!

At last, we've reached the final stretch of our Halloween miniseries. Join us as we contemplate Laurie Strode's trauma, Michael Myers' side career in set decoration, and our disdain for podcasters. Wait.

As we prepare to enter the final stretch of our Halloween series next week with the first movie in the David Gordon Green trilogy, it's a good time to revisit our first episode in the series on Halloween (1978) to see - to borrow a phrase from a meme whose day has already passed - how it started and how it's going.

Your soundtrack is Foghat but your iconography is Goldfrapp. Join us as we tackle the strange amalgam that is Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009). Highlights include Joe's genuine tears and Michael's tangents on early sound film acting, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Best Supporting Actress lineup of 2011.

Dear listeners, Halloween Resurrection nearly had the opposite effect on us. But after our little hiatus, we are back with the next iteration of the Halloween franchise: Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007).

Woof.

After Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), there was nowhere to go but up! And, indeed, Halloween H20 (1998) was just solid enough to keep Michael Shetina from ragequitting this podcast. Join the Bros. Shetina, Laurie Strode, and the disembodied voice of LisaGay Hamilton in sunny California on the night that he came home once again!

"If there is intention here, I don't like it."

*deep sigh* Well, tie a flannel around your waist and fanboy over your favorite shock jock because Halloween has gone totally nineties! Join us as we delve into Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), a movie that somehow makes Halloween 5 look accomplished by comparison. This one nearly broke us, dear listeners.

"Michael Myers should not kill people in ways that I would kill a person; I shouldn't be watching a Michael Myers kill and go 'Oh, I could do that!'"

Well, Michael Myers is back (again) and our Michael is vexed about it. Join us as we parse the fifth installment in the Halloween franchise.