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The way that you somehow found a way to bring up Glee here is crazy work.
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By 2002, putting ordinary people in front of cameras had already become a business model.
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The house could become a television set, its occupants could become celebrities, and audiences could follow strangers' lives from their own computers.
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And for a horror franchise built around someone watching from the shadows, that opened up another way to bring the audience inside.
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Rick Rosenthal, who directed the series' first sequel in 1981, returned to the franchise to tell a story that brings cameras into Michael Myers' childhood home.
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Buster Rhimes and Tyra Banks play the entrepreneurs behind the internet broadcast with a group of college students supplying the on-camera talent.
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Their assignment is to spend Halloween night exploring the house and searching for something that might explain the man who once lived there.
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This entry marks the closing of the franchise's original run before Rob Zombie restarted the story, leaving behind a particularly divisive chapter associated with internet cameras, reality show ambitions, and Michael Myers countering kung fu moves.
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This week we're commemorating the night he came home with Halloween Resurrection.
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Spooky season, greetings and salutations, and welcome to Hacker Slash.
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If you're joining us again, welcome back.
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If this is your first time listening, welcome to the party.
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We are a horror movie review podcast dedicated to telling you whether a movie is a hack.
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Total joke, a waste of time.
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Or a slash.
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Totally killer, pun intended.
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My name is Chris.
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I'm your friendly neighborhood slasher enthusiast.
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This week I'm joined by the classic horror connoisseur Sean.
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Trick or treat, motherfucker.
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And the paranormal paramour, Binx.
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Looking a little crispy over there, Mikey.
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You're tuning in to Halloween Resurrection.
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And if you support the show, you'll also get to hear our B-side at the end of this episode where we get into creating some of our very own horror reality shows.
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We're gonna have a lot of fun with that B-side, but first up, who's seen this one before?
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Yeah, I famously have not on the show.
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If you've been listening for some time, you know that there are a multitude of Halloween movies I clearly have not seen.
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And this one was one that the listeners were really pushing for.
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So I finally have watched it.
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Thanks to you all.
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Amazing.
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Quite a ride.
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You guys definitely promised that and delivered.
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It was quite something.
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I didn't really know what to expect.
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If you listen to our Halloween H2O episode, you'll hear that I had some predictions.
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I won't spoil right now what you know what those are or whether I was right or wrong, but let's just say it was pleasantly surprising for me.
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I had such a blast.
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We actually filmed that watch along, and that's available over on Patreon.
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So if you want to experience Binks experiencing this movie for the first time and learning a lot of Halloween resurrection trivia along the way, that is a great place to check it out.
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That's awesome.
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I can't imagine watching this for the first time again because it's I've definitely seen it a bunch of times over the years.
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I think the biggest question, maybe going into this movie, is whether, you know, if you haven't seen it or you haven't seen it in a while, is if it's whether it can follow Halloween H2O in a satisfying way, because it does take kind of a legendary horror villain and follows up the one of the series' most emotionally satisfying endings, I would say, and turns the next movie into this reality TV show like haunted house experiment, which I think is definitely an interesting play.
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Yeah, I have seen this movie millions of times, it feels like obviously not literally millions, but I watched this when it first came out.
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I've rewatched it many times since, and I was so happy to get to re re-experience this film through Binks' eyes with a first-time viewer, is just such a fun time.
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Listen, this movie gets a lot of hate.
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People say this is like the the pit of hell for this franchise, and I simply could not disagree more.
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This is early 2000s, it has an unexpected ensemble, but also makes sense, I guess, in retrospect, what the early 2000s were.
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And you have Rick Rosenthal back at the helm after Halloween 2.
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And Halloween 2 is one of my favorite Halloween movies.
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So this movie is filled with Easter eggs galore.
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And I was actually really excited to get back into this.
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And when we think about even our Discord community, this movie has become such a staple and has become such a community treasure, especially because there's like basically a cult for Buster Rhymes in our Discord community.
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And I think it's because this has such strong rewatchability.
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Yeah, there's a lot of this movie that's super unserious, 100%, but that makes it really fun.
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I think what this film had working in its favor, with me at least, in terms of my experience and just impressions initially, is that I actually like early 2000s movies as bad as they are.
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Maybe I I'm a 2000s kid, not necess necessarily, right?
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But like that's my era from when I was a kid, a teen.
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I love the aesthetics.
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I think it's ridiculous.
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So I was excited to see the credits and the musicians that cross over into the film and the Microsoft Word presentation of it all, like all of it is just so 2000s, and I love that stuff.
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So I think it's definitely got to be for a specific demographic.
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If you don't like that era, then sure, you're maybe not going to enjoy it.
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But for me, the ride was quite the ride.
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The Busta Rhymes cult, again, delivered.
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I was very surprised by how much fun I had.
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I thought it was hilarious.
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It was like energetic.
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Again, that watch along, I really can't recommend it enough because the commentary was just A1 from me.
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I think it's like a time capsule.
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I really had a good time.
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And there are some moments here that absolutely floored me.
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I really didn't know what was going to happen next, especially like in the first maybe 15 to 20 minutes.
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I was like, wait the hell a second.
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Again, those predictions, throw them out because I really didn't know what I was going to be walking into, which is at least something that you're hoping for when you're going into a movie.
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It kind of, you know, subverts your expectations, at least in that way.
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Listen, where else can you get a movie that has Jamie Lee Curtis, Bustin Rhimes, Tyra Banks, Katie Sackoff, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Ryan Freaking Merriman in it?
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Amazing.
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What?
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Like that's crazy.
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Those all of those names in one sentence, I don't even know what I'm picturing, but it wasn't Halloween Resurrection until I've seen it now, and I've seen it actually play out.
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And it's like, okay, guys, you guys just don't want to have fun, do you?
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You don't want to have a good time.
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You don't want to be here for the laughs and the sillies.
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This is the whimsy of the Halloween franchise, I think.
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I 100% with you on that.
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It's also the internet material that's prompted from here.
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I can see it now.
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I can see the memes.
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I understand our Discord a lot better now.
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I finally get it.
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I really do.
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I think it's wild that this movie gets so much hate.
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There's so many bad reviews for this movie, but it it is something I get it.
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Like at one one aspect of it, the film makes some different choices.
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It's definitely bringing into like a new generation.
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It's playing with the early 2000s and the internet being like something that fairly new this concept of streaming stuff and all of that that could frustrate some longtime fans.
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But I I think that it just has a very different personality from the earlier films.
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And I think that despite it not having the kindest ratings over the years, I think it it definitely has a charm to it.
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Like it is just a fun movie to watch.
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Just like Chris said, I don't understand the hate for this movie.
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It's pretty wild, to be honest.
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When Binx and I wrapped up the watch-along for Halloween Resurrection, we actually spent a little while looking at all the letterbox reviews, and I read a bunch of them out loud.
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And the goal was to see how far you could get before you got to a single compliment.
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Folks, it was a while.
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I was scrolling for a long time before I could find anyone saying anything nice about this movie.
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Are the people that are giving reviews online, are they just like so serious?
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Like they have to have like a like it has to be like an Oscar-winning horror film.
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Like, are we but to do here's the thing, and tell me when I'm telling lies here, but horror fans want a good time, right?
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Like you want to have a fun time.
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It doesn't all have to be super serious.
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We want some of the funny,
silly campiness.
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Like that's part of the charm is to have a bee horror movie kind of concept, right?
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Not that this is even a bee horror movie, but you gotta say that you go out there and watch horror movies, you don't want something extremely serious every single time.
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And so why can't you just have fun with some of these movies?
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Or why can't you just admit that you're having fun with some of these horror movies?
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Because maybe you're just putting up some fucking keyboard warrior shit.
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I don't know.
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I've never been more seen by that sentiment and more aligned.
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I'm gonna say something crazy.
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I hope I don't get canceled.
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But what I'm what I'm trying to without being an asshole about it, it's like I just don't understand why people would approach a franchise such as this or Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street, thinking that this is supposed to be like very serious, again, Oscar-worthy type performances when there are like 25 movies.
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I'm sorry, but no franchise, to me, I I personal opinion, if a if a franchise has 25 movies, you actually think that every single one of those movies are going to be serious pieces of art that are in the Louvre, get out of here.
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I think that's ridiculous.
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What makes these franchises so fun are that they are campy, they're fun, they they're experimental.
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That's why there's 25 of them.
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Every single movie, sure, there's a through line, but the aesthetics and the vibe and the genre or subgenre specifically changes.
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If you walk into a theater thinking that this is going to be like a very serious think piece, I think you're walking into the wrong theater.
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That's impossible.
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That's just me.
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There it could be that the first movie, again, is, and I actually feel this way about Halloween.
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The first movie is incredible.
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I think the same way about Friday the 13th.
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But as you guys know, uh by the 14th movie, I'm like, okay, this is ridiculous.
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We have Jason punching somebody's head off.
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Or in Michael Myers, I mean, well, he keeps coming back to life in 55 different ways.
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I don't even know why.
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It's just, I just don't understand how people take these things so seriously.
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Chris is a great example of someone who, like, to me, understands the franchise.
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You're not like a dick about it.
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Personally, Chris, I think so.
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Like you're a mega fan, but I think you understand what you're walking into.
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I feel from the way that you talk about these movies, I've I feel like you're a mega fan that understands what they're a fan of and not putting these insane expectations, thinking that they're gonna get, I don't know, like possession or you know, Japanese horror and all these other like autour horror films.
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That's not this genre.
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I appreciate that, Binks, so much.
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I do take Halloween very, very seriously.
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And I love that you say I'm not a dick about it.
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Hopefully, you still say that next year when we do Rob Zombies Halloween films.
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What I will say is the first movie in this franchise is so foundational and pivotal to what horror has become.
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And there's a lot of seriousness in that movie.
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I think people generally take it pretty seriously.
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If you're watching Halloween for the very first time and you are under the age of maybe 25 years old and you're just getting into horror, you're not going to be wowed by the original Halloween, probably.
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You might find it, arguably, a little bit boring.
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Some people might get there.
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But there's so much to love or even dislike within this franchise.
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But what I would what I would say to you is there's a lot of things in life that you should take seriously.
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A hundred percent.
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There's a lot more stressful shit in the world than what even the dumb shit from like Halloween 5, the cops having their own goofy fucking clown music.
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There's a lot of things that you can look at in this movie or in Rob Zombies movies or the franchise as a whole and be upset about.
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However, invite some joy into your life because we get some shit in this movie that is undeniably fucking hilarious, actually.
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When you look back to where we all were in the early 2000s, and I think within our age bracket here, we were catfishing people with ASL and chat rooms and AOL.
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You can throw me in there.
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Absolutely.
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That's okay.
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Yeah.
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It's when the internet was a playground, and before, like I think people knew oh, this is dangerous, but it was before anybody was really doing anything about how
dangerous it really was.
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What we're living in today is what this movie aspired to have: a world in which you could be internet famous.
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And I think that's so much of what works in this movie.
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There's the the entire webcast premise adds a lot of intrigue, the mixed camera perspectives.
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I think Buster Rhymes adds a lot of charm into this movie.
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I think it just all adds like so much to the movie.
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Like when you think of the the time frame in which this movie comes out, a lot of what they did to bring it, it's kind of exactly what this movie did for the 2000s for a younger generation.
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It really is, but I think yes, this movie can be silly in so many places, but I think you also have to give it credit for what it does really well because this is an inversion of War of the Worlds.
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And this movie, while yes, shadowed in humor and silliness, and maybe some things and some choices that really upset a lot of like really hyper, hyper fixated fans of Halloween, uh myself included, for all that it does that is in that category, it actually does some things that are really smart and really big commentary on where technology and where society was headed.
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This movie was both ahead of its time and of its time.
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I can see definitely this idea of like sensationalism and just like chasing the dream, all of these kinds of elements that we already have in place in society, just with the added touch of technology.
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And again, that's like the thought-provoking part of this film that I thought was kind of interesting.
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It's just mixed in with a lot of humor and what's wrong with that.
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I think that that's actually when it works its best, right?
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Because it's not taking itself too seriously, but it still has something to say.
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There's still themes to it.
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Now, I will say that perhaps some areas that maybe are not going to be everyone's cup of tea.
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I'm not trying to say that I don't understand why people don't like the movie.
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I think that being so like bashing it and like just trashing it the way that they do is maybe a bit extreme, personally.
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But yes, I'm not going to say that the acting is incredible.
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Some of it's early 2000s for sure.
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The dialogue, a bit cringe.
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Kind of love it personally.
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Others can't.
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There's certainly some things here that I can see why people are upset and I can see why it's just not their cup of tea.
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But I go back to if that's not your subgenre for early 2000s and that sense of humor is not for you, then of course it's a given.
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Other than that, though, I mean some of the decisions here, survival decisions, or just like storyline perspective, I was shocked by.
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I don't know if it's necessarily that it doesn't work for me, but I was just really shocked by it's gonna be a hit or miss.
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Yeah, I think the reality, folks, is you have to follow H2O.
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And there are consequences to following H2O, and there's a lot of decisions that happen in this movie as a consequence of that.
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This movie is kind of the fallout of that of that.
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However, what I will say is that when you learn more about the movie and what was happening behind the scenes, that has eased a lot of that for me, knowing that some things that are specifically decided and the things that happened early in this movie were decisions that were made by multiple people and aligned on by multiple people.
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Again, we'll talk about that in the spoiler zone, but it's the only thing that allows me to just be at peace with it and move on and let me enjoy the rest of the movie.
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Yeah, it is interesting.
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I think that's one of the things that can you can go back and forth on.
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Like I think it's the approach to continuing that story after H2O.
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It just may be a sticking point for fans.
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I think if you like wanted a more satisfying continuation or something along those lines, you were talking about the tone of the movie, and we're talking about is it just leaning into kind of the the jokes or the campiness?
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And I think the movie kind of plays around with both sides of that because what does end up working is some of the familiar atmosphere with Michael with the mask.
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You've got some dark interiors, you've got some stalking sequences, and they can deliver some moments of tension throughout the movie, but then it also definitely finds moments where it leans really heavy into the campiness or the silliness of the jokes and things like that.
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So it kind of plays on deciding whether it wants to be genuinely a frightening slasher film or more of a campy slasher type film.
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And so it kind of goes back and forth.
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So it depends on what kind of vibe you're in.
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But also at this time when this movie came out, I don't know about any of you, but like I was looking for campy movies, like I was looking for movies that
had silliness into it.
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I wanted to see slashers that were filled with one-liners and fun like little things like that.
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So I think it just speaks to the time.
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And I what I do think, and it a thing that works really well is just its decision to kind of you know bring that reality TV premise into the mix because for a 2002 horror movie, using an internet reality show as the setup was really kind of a fresh idea.
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And so, you know, having a group of contestants, you know, spending the night inside of Michael Myers' house or childhood home with cameras and all that stuff is really awesome.
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It's like a it's a actually kind of a fun idea to think about.
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And so I had a great time with it.
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I think it combines the slasher genre genre with the reality TV craze of the early 2000s when shows were like built around surveillance and strangers living together and all of that kind of stuff in mainstream entertainment.
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So it's cool because it makes it makes this different play of like the audience becomes part of the concept in a way.
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Which I really love because this really is a time capsule for what it felt like when even just those shows were really emerging.
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The real world, the real world, absolutely.
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I also want to give this movie credit for one more thing.
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I want to point out that by this time in the franchise, we had a gothic Myers house and we had a bunch of shitty masks.
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H2O, for all it does really well, it also still had a shitty CGI mask, or you could see straight through Michael's eyes.
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And I will say that I think the design in the Myers house, and then even Michael's mask as a whole, is one of the better in the franchise.
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So you get a lot of things in here that actually did it, at least for me, put it over the edge of there's way more good in this movie than there is bad.
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Which I think brings me to the fact that if you're open to having fun with a Halloween movie, and maybe you didn't love the the Thorn trilogy, I think if you grew up with those, you may be less likely to like Halloween Resurrection.
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But if you're finding your own way in the franchise and you can look at the the camp of it all, you can find the whimsy of it all, then I think this is gonna be a Halloween movie for you.
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If you are a diehard fan of the Halloween franchise, or you wanna you are just someone that has to be a completist and you wanna, you know, you have to watch all the movies like we often do every year, like this is definitely something that you have to include, and that's just a given, right?
00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.440
You can't just skip things if you're completing the franchise.
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But I think like if you if you like movies that don't just do the same thing over and over again and try to give you something fresh, if you like early 2000s slashers, if you like the early 2000s kind of vibes, I think there's a lot here that you can either be a longtime Halloween fan, you can be an early 2000s horror fan, you can be someone that just likes kind of a fun, silly time in horror and still really like this movie.
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Something that you said earlier, I definitely think is something to reiterate, which is sometimes you just kind of want a good time, a good laugh, a good campy film.
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I was thinking when you said that this is 2002, it just finally hit the light bulb, which was like, man, this is post-9-11, still to the, you know what I mean?
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In in the essence of like, we were in the trenches and scared as a country.
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Why not have a good laugh?
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With the with the whole surveillance of it all, which is still very relevant considering the time, I find that like Buster Rhymes really does bring the levity.
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You know, there's a lot of good humor here.
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So if you don't want to watch something that's too serious and you just want a good laugh, I would recommend this.
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And also, it could also be a matter of maybe you just need to watch this movie with a couple friends.
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Cause I also feel like having watched this with Chris and like doing the watch along, the way that our community talks about this movie, you know, that builds up the excitement and that definitely does create the like the ambiance for everything.
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So we've talked about that sometimes in the Past.
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I'm sure I wouldn't love Ginger Dead Man had I not watched it with a friend of mine, right?
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And had a good laugh with it.
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So a recommendation if you do want to, of course, be a completionist, but change it up if you uh maybe don't like this movie as much as you have in the past.
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Change up the environment, see how it goes.
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Well, it sounds like we've spoken pretty highly about this movie so far, but I cannot wait to see how this actually translates into some scores.
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Before we get there though, Sean, how would you describe the gore score?
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Yeah, Halloween Resurrection, I think it delivers a kind of a middle-of-the-road slasher experience when it comes to gore specifically.
00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:46.960
I think there's like enough
blood and physical violence to satisfy someone who's looking for maybe a conventional slasher film, but it isn't especially graphic or extreme by any modern horror standards.
00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:55.920
So I think the important distinction here is that it's more about Michael Myers hunting people than showcasing elaborate gore effects.
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So if you're watching for outrageous practical effects or gruesome dismemberment or stomach turning kills or anything like that, it's probably not going to be the entry that satisfies you the most as far as gore.
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But I think this one still kind of earns this medium gore score territory.
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What about the animal report?
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Unfortunately, vermin are not doing so hot in this film, so we are not safe here.
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Let's go ahead and get into our ratings.
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Halloween Resurrection from 2002, one of the most critically panned movies in the franchise.
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Was it a hack or a slash?
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Alright.
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Well, first I'm just gonna kick this off because I just want to start this or end this trend, you know, rather, of the um terrible reviews that this movie has, because I think Halloween Resurrection is one of these movies that I secretly enjoy.
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And I don't even say secretly as it is a secret, I just enjoy the movie.
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Even though I know a lot of Halloween fans would rather bury it in the backyard and pretend it never happened.
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Here's the thing did it resurrect the franchise?
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Maybe not exactly, but having grown up with this one hitting theaters during my teenage years, there's a nostalgic soft spot that makes it hard for me to hate.
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I think the reality show concept, the contestants stumbling around the Myers house like they're filming the world's like worst home invasion livestream, and Buster Rhymes being in this one at all.
00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:17.680
Like it was just amazing, and I think it just provides plenty of ridiculous entertainment.
00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:29.519
I think just watching Buster Rhymes square off against Michael Myers in that over-the-top showdown that we get is kind of absolutely bonkers, and it's the kind of decision that makes this movie completely memorable.
00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:42.480
I think it's a cheesy movie sometimes, it's campy at times, it's not particularly the scariest in the franchise, and it does make some choices that I think have some Halloween purists, you know, sharpening their knives a little bit.
00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:50.559
But between the kills, the early 2000s, nostalgia, the sheer audacity of it all, I still have a damn good time watching this one.
00:24:50.720 --> 00:25:10.799
So grab your webcams, fire up your dial-up internet, lock the doors, because I think Michael Myers is back in this one, and I think this time he's coming for your stream, your subscribers, and your life, because Halloween Resurrection may not have brought the franchise back from the dead, but it did remind me that sometimes a movie doesn't have to be amazing to be a bloody good time.
00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:20.960
And if the Halloween fan police, as it were, come knocking, tell them Freddie Harris sent you, because around here we're giving this one a slash and we're not apologizing for shit.
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All right.
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I'll go next.
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I feel like I don't have an insane amount of things to say here because I feel like a lot of it was, you know, definitely said in detail in the watch-along.
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So I really do encourage that if you guys are able.
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I just feel like my sentiments around this franchise have been well known in the past couple episodes that we've done on this and conversations I've had with listeners and you guys.
00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:51.759
I know that I maybe seem to be a franchise hater, I guess, which is crazy.
00:25:51.839 --> 00:26:04.160
I I Nightmare on Elm Street is one of my favorite things of all time, but I just am critical of when fandoms take it a little bit too far and ruin the fun for everybody else.
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And I say this specifically because as someone who actually likes more serious horror, I don't always want to have a good time.
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Horror is my way to unpack a lot of my own trauma, my own things, and I just love to be philosophically challenged through horror.
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So I seek those things out more often.
00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:37.519
But I say that because doesn't mean that when I'm brought a fun, good time, that I'm not going to expect, again, philosophical thrillers and horrors and challenging.
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I was looking forward to it because I knew Buster Rhimes was going to be in it.
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And I've, again, had seen the memes.
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I wanted to be in on the joke so bad.
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I knew that anything goes when it comes to this kind of franchise.
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So my predictions were all over the place, that's for sure.
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And I feel like what I got in return was not for anything, but a pleasant surprise, not just in story, but also in production value and the way that it was filmed.
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:14.000
I thought that it was really cool with the difference of technology that was used, the different cameras, the experimentation of found footage with just regular, you know, filmmaking.
00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:14.960
That's awesome.
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:20.559
I wasn't walking into a Halloween movie
thinking we're just gonna test things out.
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Now, that being said, 2002, I get it.
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:25.759
That was a wild year for horror.
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.240
Some of my favorite horror movies of all time came out in 2002.
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The Ring, specifically, okay?
00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:34.960
Juan's the Grudge specifically.
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Like 28 days later, that's a crazy year.
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Signs.
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I mean, 2002 was crazy.
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It was incredible, and I understand that when you put this movie against those, well, yeah, it probably seems like it's ass.
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I get it.
00:27:53.519 --> 00:28:02.319
But much like Resident Evil, that also came out in 2002, this might be a new guilty pleasure for me that I'm not so guilty about.
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:09.200
Like you said, Sean, I feel like sometimes everyone just wants to hate one thing and it's like a hive mind mentality.
00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:12.640
And maybe unfortunately, Halloween resurrection became that thing.
00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:15.200
But in this household, guess what?
00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:22.079
We also ride for Halloween Resurrection at Dark and Buster Rhymes, You're Incredible.
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:24.240
So it's definitely a slash here.
00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:28.240
I'm so excited to hear that you've both found so much love for this movie.
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:30.720
Banks is gonna fucking roast me for this.
00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:35.680
Seven years after this movie came out, a little hit show called Glee hit the airwaves.
00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:37.279
I knew you were gonna say that.
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:44.079
And Glee, in our time now, in the year of our Lord 2026, was just announced to have a reboot on the horizon.
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:49.519
The way that you somehow found a way to bring up Glee here is crazy work.
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:50.880
Are you not filled with glee?
00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:53.200
Anyway, just really kick off my scoring.
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:59.200
I want to throw this back to season one of Glee and really quote Rachel Barry in the vitamin D episode.
00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:08.400
She says, We have chosen a selection of songs that speaks of the nation as a whole during these troubling times filled with economic uncertainty and unbridled social woes.
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:12.960
Because if there's two things America needs right now, that is sunshine and optimism.
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:26.160
Well, I think my version of sunshine and optimism in these troubling times, filled with economic uncertainty and unbridled social woes, is a busta rhymes, round house kicking Michael Myers.
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:33.759
Because this movie is filled with so much nonsense that I love unapologetically.
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:45.759
It captures the early 2000s, but it it captures the little pockets of joy for me that I had in the early 2000s, while also finding an inventive way to put Michael Myers back on screen.
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:53.519
And I don't think it's so bad it's good really is just it does justice to what is great about this movie.
00:29:54.319 --> 00:30:03.680
There are specific ideas, scenes, and filmmaking choices here that I do think really work, especially with how much substance its exploitation angle actually gives us.
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There's room for sure to revisit this movie now and appreciate how much it offers.
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The internet stuff has become this ridiculous little time capsule.
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The webcast gives us really creative suspense, and Boston Rhimes as Freddie gives us someone to laugh with and cheer for.
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Sometimes getting together with your friends and having a fucking blast watching a slasher in these times counts for a lot.
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I had a great time doing that with Binks, and that is what keeps Halloween Resurrection slash.
00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:40.400
And with that, Halloween Resurrection has thus far earned a universal slash.
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00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.640
Welcome back, folks.
00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.599
You're now entering the spoiler zone for Halloween Resurrection, which has earned a universal slash.
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:54.160
Now, from here on out, we're discussing the whole movie, including Lori Strode's fate and Michael's latest trip back to the crib.
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:56.160
Let's kick things off with that sleigh-by-slay.
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All right.
00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:57.519
Well, here's the thing.
00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:21.519
This isn't a movie that's trying to gross you out with elaborate gore, as I said before, but it's interested in Michael stalking his victims, catching them off guard, and delivering some memorable slasher moments because there are about 10 and a half kills in this movie, and we're going to give a half kill, you know, credit for the paramedic as we recap the end of H2O and get more of that story.
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So we got 10 and a half kills, and then we have another technically implied but not counted death with the coroner at the end of the movie.
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:33.599
So we've got like a an interesting kind of sleigh by sleigh in this one.
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:38.079
Plus, we also have a couple of deaths that are in deleted scenes.
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So if you happen to be able to find the deleted scenes of this movie, maybe you have the DVD, you know, maybe you have some extras, the content there.
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There's some fun deleted scenes in there, including Freddie Harris himself getting strangled to death, and technically Michael Myers getting axed in the face.
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Well, damn.
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In the face.
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In the face.
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:02.400
Okay.
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:06.000
Well, that would have really solidified that gore score there.
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That's a shame.
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Damn.
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:16.960
You bring up the paramedic, and I just I want to jump right into it because that's really where things turned for me and the predictions basically went out the window.
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:19.519
For everyone, yeah, it's not just me, of course.
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:21.679
I can yeah, I can see that.
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:23.760
But I mean, oh man, I don't know.
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:32.000
I I will say my initial reaction, like the words that came out of my mouth when that happened was, Are you fucking with me?
00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:36.719
Because I couldn't even believe that they would have the audacity.
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.280
And I feel like everybody shares in that sentiment, right?
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:43.039
I just, what do you even mean that they decapit that it's the wrong person?
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:44.000
What do you even mean?
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:52.320
Would it be better for it to be the wrong person, or would it be better for Michael Myers to just somehow show back up after being decapitated?
00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:52.880
Okay.
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:54.239
So let's get into my prediction.
00:34:54.400 --> 00:35:05.920
I mean, you're right, because if I was right about my prediction and he was indeed a zombie-looking thing, or like revived by Haddonfield's whatever the fuck, right?
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:07.440
Like zombie Jason.
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:08.960
Yeah, basically.
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:14.559
I just I can see why now we're entering unforgivable camp territory.
00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:15.920
So that's fair.
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:19.679
I just I can't be too critical of that specifically, because you're right.
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:30.320
It was either have a zombie and this movie is ridiculous to a degree that maybe I wouldn't have liked it, or this where it's highly improbable, but improbable enough.
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:36.400
So I think one of the things to acknowledge here is why this even happened in the first place.
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And that was because Jamie Lee Curtis's terms and conditions, but because she was about to walk from H2O, was that she wanted the story to end.
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She wanted to kill Michael.
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:47.760
Uh uh.
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Mustafa Cud and the rights holders were like, we need to leave a clear door for Michael to be able to return, you're not gonna kill him.
00:35:56.960 --> 00:36:05.039
So Kevin Williams' idea and compromise was to stage this body swap situation as a backdoor.
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And as long as Jamie Lee Curtis felt that the audiences could watch the H2O thinking, yes, it's definitively over, then that was enough of a win.
00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.360
But she then wanted to die in the next movie.
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:37.679
And it wasn't it wasn't the decapitation switch up that got me, it was actually the fact that we cut to, you know, Michael in the paramedic suit or whatever, just like walking or whatever he was doing, just walking through where all the cops are and stuff, just casually, I think still with a knife in his hand, from what I saw.
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:45.679
And I was like, okay, well, that's the one that got me because this guy is just casually walking through the crowds, like he's just like no one knows that he's there.
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:50.320
So that means that Michael Myers has a face card.
00:36:50.480 --> 00:37:05.760
He is not so grotesque and gruesome enough with the eye
swelling from the original movie, or however he has groomed himself over the years for anyone to be outwardly concerned by his at least neck up appearance underneath that paramedic garb.
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:14.559
I mean, after all of the stuff that he goes through in each movie, he probably has to take like a nice vacation, do some day spas, some treatments, you know.
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Do you think he does face masks?
00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:17.440
Absolutely.
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:18.719
He's the man of masks.
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:23.119
I wonder if like he has like a model face that would be like an Abercrombie or something like that.
00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:25.519
Imagine if he was just like really good looking.
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:28.159
In the original Halloween, he was really good looking.
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:33.280
We just when we see him, he has a swollen eye from having the finger poked into him.
00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:41.280
But also, there is a a lot happening right now with how good looking he is in the Halloween video game.
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:47.440
Because he has by John Carpenter's design, he ha he's supposed to look cherubic and angelic in a way.
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That's the that's the point that this perfect looking person could be so evil.
00:37:54.960 --> 00:38:00.880
But in the video game, his face is blurred, so you can't actually see what he looks like.
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:04.960
But of course, people got around that and they think he's really hot.
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They've also modded him to not have a shirt and they still think he's hot.
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:09.119
That's true.
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:09.920
That's true.
00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:12.239
Yeah, but yeah, I'm with you on the paramedic.
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:13.280
It's a bit unfortunate.
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:21.440
Now, I mean, Lori, however, I was floored by I think everyone was at the time, no?
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.639
No, I mean, hello, what is Halloween without Lori?
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:26.559
I certainly wasn't prepared for that.
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:28.719
I didn't know the context, though, of course.
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:30.159
The Chris had mentioned that.
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:37.119
So it gives me a little bit more like comfort and solace that it was her decision and she wanted out on this franchise.
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:39.599
God knows I don't blame her, even though she came back.
00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:41.119
Anyways, but whatever.
00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:42.480
They always come back.
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:48.800
I just feel like damn, what what do I even know to expect now?
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:54.079
That was a massive curveball, a huge curveball that I didn't see coming.
00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:59.199
I will say, like, she gave she gave it her all, you know, she put in that effort.
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.719
I commend her for being resilient.
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:12.159
I think that it was unfortunate, but I could only imagine how people must have felt when this came out and they saw that happen without the context.
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:13.840
Maybe they didn't know at the time, right?
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:19.280
I can tell you when I first saw this, that was the sh most shocking kill for sure.
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.840
Like I just never thought that that would happen.
00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:29.440
Yeah, I remember vividly watching this in theaters and being so upset and so shocked and so mad at the time.
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:31.840
I know I was talking about, how are you taking this so seriously?
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.559
Also, I was 12, so fucking kick rocks.
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:45.760
I was so upset when Lori died, and then I had a really time hard a really hard time after that caring about any of the people in the house.
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:55.840
So even our final girl that we get in this movie, I could never really latch on to because I was still emotionally reeling from Lori's death.
00:39:56.159 --> 00:40:02.960
But you get that on the rewatch, I think, and on the few rewatches after where like you've you've kind of like distance yourself from the pain.
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:03.920
That's for sure.
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:04.719
Yeah.
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:11.440
I mean, it helps now having you know Halloween 2018 and the David Sherry Green trilogy and and knowing that she gets her lick back.
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:12.559
We were fine.
00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:14.320
I've healed, I've moved on.
00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:15.840
It's never really over.
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:23.119
It's never, I mean, watching it back, it's still kind of like every time I even though I know it's coming, I'm still like, oh my god, I can't believe it's gonna happen.
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:33.920
There was something that I had said in the watch-along that I feel like really resonated with the sentiment, and both from like myself, but also what I would imagine you guys must have experienced.
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:36.480
And it was The Last of Us Part Two.
00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:39.760
If you haven't played this game, pause the show, play the game.
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:47.360
But the Last of Us Part Two, when you're playing the game, a major, major character dies very early on in the game.
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:51.599
And the same you see it in the show as well, if you've watched season two, like huge.
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:56.239
And that was like a deal breaker for a lot of people.
00:40:56.559 --> 00:41:02.400
I think it's a choice that's pretty bold and it's definitely a big swing.
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:05.599
It could ruin you or it could actually be helpful.
00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:08.239
I think in The Last of Us Part Two, it was successful, actually.
00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:16.880
And in this one, again, because it's not a serious film, I feel like that's why it's probably wasn't
everybody's cup of tea, just in general, for that kind of choice.
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:26.480
But I I'm with you that I could see how if I was a little bit more invested in Lori because I've watched all these movies growing up and all of that, I would be freaking furious.
00:41:26.639 --> 00:41:30.480
Luckily for me though, since I haven't, I just like was like, oh shit.
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:32.639
I even I still felt like what?
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:37.119
Like kind of hurt by this, but I was still open to see where this was gonna go.
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:39.679
I just was like, wait a minute, we still have an hour and a half left.
00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:40.960
Think about this, right?
00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:46.480
You got through Halloween one, Halloween two, no Lori for Halloween four, five, six.
00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:49.599
She is allegedly dead in part four.
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:54.400
Then we finally get our girl back in H2O, and she overcomes so much.
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:55.599
She's so traumatized.
00:41:55.679 --> 00:42:10.000
And it's not just the literal death of Lori Strode that really hurts in the beginning of this movie, it is the death who she could have been, and the absolute robbery that we've had of her victory, seeing her relegated to a sanitarium just like her brother.
00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:11.760
Also, think about this, right?
00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:25.360
Like it's the last movie before we get into the Rob Zombie Halloween, and then we get kind of the like reboot type scenario with the new the newer Halloweens of the Halloween ends trilogy and all that.
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:36.800
And so when you think about that, technically there hasn't been an there hasn't been a uh a Halloween that moves on from Lori Strode because Rob Zombies brings back Lori Strode as a character.
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:42.159
Lori Strode comes back in the new Halloween trilogy, the latest Halloween trilogy.
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:46.719
So technically, we don't know if the franchise can go on without Lori Strode.
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:47.440
We haven't seen it.
00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:50.000
We'll see what happens as they decide what they're gonna do.
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:59.920
Because remember, we did have a TV show for Halloween that was in development and they scrapped the plans and all eyes are on, I believe, 2028 when we'll have a milestone anniversary for the film.
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:06.079
With all the success of these recent shows, I feel like somebody has to be like, yes, we gotta figure something out for Halloween for sure.
00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:09.599
They changed their minds and hopefully they change it back.
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:16.320
Because listen, if we can get a Paddenfield Crystal Lake experience, I'd be super fucking down for that.
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:17.440
Be amazing.
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:20.400
All right, but listen, the tripod kill.
00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:24.400
My favorite fucking death in this movie, and it's very personal for me.
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:26.320
Yeah, let's talk about it.
00:43:26.719 --> 00:43:45.199
I have used tripods for so much of my life, having fucking worked in media production, and I specifically remember, and this is like one of the little things that brought me joy, seeing that because my mom had a photo camera tripod when we'd like put the camera on the yard that had like the spiky little feet at the bottom.
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:48.719
And I always remember being, why the fuck does this why is this a thing?
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:50.480
Like this feels dangerous.
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:54.559
So seeing that and being validated in that in the 2002 film, incredible.
00:43:54.880 --> 00:44:09.840
Every single time that I had to carry a tripod, I'd always be reminded of the Movie because seeing that sharp pointy tip go into Charlie's neck, yeah, 10 out of 10.
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:21.280
The way that they filmed it, the way that they used the reality show premise in a way that feels specific to the movie and used it against, like, the you know, Michael just using the tools that he has around him.
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:22.159
It just great.
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:23.360
It was a great kill.
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:25.360
An innovator, truly.
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:35.599
Also, this kill in particular, being that we get to see it from the camera's perspective, makes me want a found footage installment of Halloween even more.
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:39.840
Yeah, like a true, fully found footage film.
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:42.159
That would be insane.
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:43.039
Insane.
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:44.559
Who would be really good for that?
00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:44.880
Dang.
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:46.719
Would it be like Rob Savage or something?
00:44:46.880 --> 00:44:48.079
I gotta think on that one.
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:48.800
That would be fun.
00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:53.679
But honestly, Charlie was also just like, well, I kind of feel this way about a lot of the characters.
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.480
Charlie was kind of annoying in that sense.
00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:03.679
There's also, well, I'm gonna skip ahead a moment and talk about Nora because everyone in the cast is kind of funny.
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:07.039
I'm not like insanely invested about anybody in particular.
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:15.760
Tyra Banks, though, really thought that this was gonna be her golden light, you know, and her time to shine in a new capacity, like Brandy.
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:18.079
And I still know what you did last summer.
00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:20.639
And sadly, we didn't even see that kill.
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:24.400
I feel like Tyra Banks deserved a little bit more, you know, in that department.
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:28.159
You know, like we get a we should have got a much more elaborate kill scene.
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:37.440
Yeah, that definitely feels oddly specific to leave out,
especially because of what we see of her body strung up when we eventually stumble upon it later.
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.760
It's like, damn, she probably went down fighting.
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:47.280
I will I would like to think that she wasn't oblivious as she was when she was making her drink and Charlie was being murked on the cameras.
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:48.639
You never know though.
00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:52.719
But it was, yeah, the bot like her body found hanging from the ceiling with blood all over.
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:53.519
I mean, come on.
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:55.840
There was definitely something to see there for sure.
00:45:56.159 --> 00:46:00.079
I also really loved when Rudy gets pinned to the door.
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.480
It's super exaggerated, but multiple knives pinning to the door and like just coming off of Bing.
00:46:04.559 --> 00:46:07.599
So I don't know if you know, but I finally played the Halloween game.
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.960
So like being able to pin people to the walls and stuff.
00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:11.360
Yeah.
00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:12.159
Amazing.
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:13.760
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:15.039
So you gotta love those moments.
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:15.840
Oh, definitely.
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:16.960
So satisfying.
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:25.679
Also, though, the other really big kill, we have Katie Sackoff's character Jen getting decapitated at the top of the stairs.
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:35.199
One plain knife swipe, and that's the moment because they've all now realized that Freddie is dressing up as Michael and the whole thing is a sham.
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:40.320
But this is the moment that the rest of them figure out that Michael's actually in the house.
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:41.360
What a moment.
00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:43.119
The dummy head looks incredible.
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:44.960
And I mentioned this during the watch-along.
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:46.320
I'll mention it again now.
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:56.639
If you have not watched Katie Sakhoff's reaction video while watching Halloween Resurrection for the first time since she made it, you're missing out on your life.
00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:57.760
She is hilarious.
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.719
She gives so much behind-the-scenes knowledge and information.
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:02.719
I think she even tried to keep her head.
00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:03.679
Oh, that's awesome.
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:06.639
She had like hilarious commentary on the entire thing.
00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:08.559
So I'll drop a link in this episode for it.
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:10.079
That's such a good idea.
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:15.119
If you're ever in a horror movie and you die by decapitation, find a way to keep your head.
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:17.039
That's such a great idea.
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:18.480
Keep the head.
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:19.760
That's so sick.
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:25.360
No, listen, this decapitation is a hard one for them to explain away.
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:25.760
Okay.
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:34.400
This is one where if they found a way to retcon this decapitation, that would be ridiculous to another degree.
00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:39.519
I was really surprised by this one, and I agree that the effects were great.
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:41.199
For the time, hell yeah.
00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:42.800
That's a cool freaking head.
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:43.440
100%.
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:50.880
There's one that I think, I don't know, maybe some people will like and not like, but it's when Jim's head gets crushed by Michael's bare hands.
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:52.719
And here's the thing with why I like it.
00:47:52.880 --> 00:48:12.159
One, technically, it's probably one of the more brutal kills in the movie, but it's it's the one that this film displays Michael's physical strength, like the ability to overpower somebody and just how disturbing it it is and how effortlessly he just overpowers someone and just crushes somebody's head like that.
00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:18.960
Yeah, it's also very Halloween four when he crushes essentially Brady's head.
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:32.559
But any moment that we get just the power of Michael's hands, it goes enough to show you and pretty much remove any of the fucking plausible deniability when we think about like how much force it can take to pin somebody up with just a knife.
00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:36.159
Those are the little fun moments where it's like, oh, this is a monster.
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:38.159
Is the monster in man form?
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:53.760
I will say the one thing that I feel like I would praise the most in this movie is literally the ability to bring this Myers house to life and the atmospheric design of this movie.
00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:04.639
I think there's clearly an effort to make the location feel like a decaying piece of Halloween history rather than just another generic house where teenagers get murdered.
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:12.480
I think it was a really awesome choice to bring us back to the Myers house, but bring us to a house that is basically condemned.
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:17.280
Like no one has been living in it, so we think, and all of this stuff, right?
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:27.440
And I think the irony is that the movie's most distinctive technical idea, the the live internet broadcast, I think also creates one of its biggest weakest weaknesses, but that's no neither here nor there.
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:31.280
But I think just the look of the set was fantastic.
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:45.679
It really was, and again, I'm just so thrilled that we've gotten so much closer to the original Myers House design and construction versus like the gothic cathedral style house that we got, even just like a movie or two before.
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:53.440
I love the way this house looks, especially well, I mean it does
go a little crazy when it gets into like a sewer.
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:58.000
Like the fact that next to an underground tunnel, okay, Michael.
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:01.039
Is that well, they should have tied this into the new trilogy, right?
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:04.159
Like they should have because he, you know, he lives in the sewers and stuff, right?
00:50:04.239 --> 00:50:07.599
He's got his little hideout in the sewers, it should have connected right to the Myers house.
00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:14.960
Who's to say that the sewers wasn't a little throwback to Halloween 6 and Halloween insurrection?
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:17.440
Now that we're thinking of it, it probably is, you know?
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.320
It's like the teenage mutant ninja Michael Myers.
00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:25.679
One of the things I love most though, and I mentioned earlier, I really want to found footage Halloween.
00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:31.039
I love the way this movie mixes its conventional footage.
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:41.920
Like we have this traditional like narrative style, but then the webcast and actually seeing like seeing things happen from the perspective of the cameras in the house.
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.920
There are points where we use that even to transition between locations.
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:52.320
So from the Myers house to the party where Deckard is watching, and we actually just get to see what the feed looks like.
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:54.559
I absolutely love that.
00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:56.639
It's it's an honestly an incredible feat.
00:50:57.039 --> 00:51:00.800
I own a physical version of this movie on the DVD feature.
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:09.599
There is the outtaker essentially like a 40-minute compilation of footage that was shot from those cameras that were actually working on the set.
00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:14.320
So imagine watching this movie just completely from the perspective of the cameras.
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:24.719
It inspires me to think of for me, I'm just really impressed by the attention to detail to bring this like 2000s era to life.
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:31.920
Like again, I think sometimes the choice to keep the time period a little ambiguous makes sense.
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:38.880
But there's the little things that really reminded me, like, okay, this is early 2000s, 2002, you know, specifically.
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:49.760
Some of the things that I had thought of in the moment with the camera and just the presentation of the reality show and the way that Buster Rhymes talks and stuff.
00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:52.960
It reminded me of MTV's Bands in a Bubble.
00:51:53.119 --> 00:52:04.400
This was later on, this was 2007, but Cartel was being watched in this bubble at 24-7, 365, or you know, whatever, until they finished this album.
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:07.199
Of course, Big Brother, I've never seen it, but I've heard of it, right?
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:09.599
It's similar premises, and I think that that's fun.
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:20.639
But it's also, like we said earlier, the chat room culture and showing that, the old phones, the idea of like the costume party and what they're wearing in the in terms of costumes at the party.
00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:22.719
It's just all of it seems so fun.
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.440
It seems so like, yes, I know what this is.
00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:31.679
It's a time capsule, I can go back into that era so easily, both from the aesthetics of the set designs as well.
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:33.280
Like we were talking about the house.
00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:37.039
It's so starkly different than the house where the Halloween party's at, right?
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:42.400
Again, it feels very rich, feels like there's a lavish little library that's massive.
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:46.000
But I again, it's the little details that I found it to be so fun.
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:53.119
I think that those things usually get sacrificed for like a quick and easy horror franchise, right?
00:52:53.360 --> 00:53:01.039
But I really enjoyed that I could not only enjoy the kills and everything else and those kinds of practical effects, but the other details too.
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:01.760
Yeah.
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:06.880
Speaking of that office though, why was this like monitor so far away from the desk?
00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:07.760
It just seemed weird.
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:11.519
I had does anyone have a setup like that where your monitor is like across the room?
00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:16.239
Richer people who use TVs as their screen.
00:53:16.480 --> 00:53:16.719
Absolutely.
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:18.400
It just feels awkward, you know?
00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:19.679
Really good eyesight.
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:20.079
Yeah.
00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:20.960
Who knows?
00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:25.599
Well, they probably have the display settings set in such a way that uh you can see everything pretty clearly.
00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:47.840
Here's the reality: the reason why that monitor was so large is because that person was clearly not doing anything fucking scandalous or sketchy, or had not yet realized the depths of depravity that could exist on the internet because not only is it on a wall so large, it's also the wall that you see when you enter the room.
00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:49.360
So there's no hiding anything.
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:53.840
If you do anything in that browser, it is visible to the rest of the house.
00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:54.719
That's true.
00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:56.000
Must be nice.
00:53:56.159 --> 00:53:57.039
That's crazy.
00:53:57.360 --> 00:54:00.960
I think the opening of the movie was a standout for me.
00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:18.719
I think just having Jamie Lee Curtis kind of bringing the emotional weight of Lori Strode's return into the movie, and you know, seeing her like in basically the psych ward almost, and she's just maybe at first gone mad dealing with all of
this, and she's not doing okay.
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:30.880
But nonetheless, Lori, you know, we see that she's getting this medication, and then we find out that she's not taking the medication, and then she's just such a badass, you know, she's just ready at all times.
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:34.719
Like she just knew that Michael was coming, and she was ready.
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:36.079
You can't take her down.
00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:39.519
Well, I guess you can, but not yeah, but you know what I mean.
00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:41.519
With honor, she went down with honor.
00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:42.320
100%.
00:54:42.800 --> 00:55:02.880
The thing that kills me is this is exactly why it hurts so much that in the 2018 reboot we robbed so much history from Lori because her being committed or paranoid based on what she experienced in the last movie and the movie before that, etc., that all makes sense.
00:55:03.199 --> 00:55:16.880
But the fact that we got Terminator style Lori in Halloween 2018 based solely off of the lore of Halloween 1978, I think it it just hurts.
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:19.440
I do love that she set a trap for him.
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:21.519
I do love that she played him like a fiddle.
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:27.840
It's really cool to see it her hearken back to okay, Michael spending years confined staring out the window.
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:33.199
But what kills me and where this scene loses me, it lost me then, it loses me now.
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:41.519
Michael breaks into her room violently, follows her onto the rooftop, and she still feels the need to check whether she has the right person.
00:55:41.679 --> 00:55:42.800
I assure you, ma'am.
00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:49.840
Like in Halloween H2O, you were the aggressor who stole the ambulance and drove off.
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:52.719
We see that there's plausible deniability here.
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:55.440
There'd be an opportunity for it to not be the right person.
00:55:55.760 --> 00:55:57.840
But this man was literally chasing you.
00:55:58.079 --> 00:55:59.679
This man was literally chasing you.
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:01.360
I promise you, you have the right guy.
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:02.800
We didn't need to unmask him.
00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:04.880
Also, how does she know what he looks like?
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:05.360
Right.
00:56:05.599 --> 00:56:06.400
Even if you did.
00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:07.360
That's so true.
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:12.960
She remembers him from 1978, but she didn't see him unmasked in H2O.
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:13.840
That is true.
00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:15.280
You broke my brain with that one.
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:15.840
But you know what?
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:16.639
Here's what I'll say.
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:18.320
We're just here to have a good time, you know?
00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:21.440
Don't make me think too much on it, or I'm gonna take back my slash.
00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:34.400
The other thing that I had a lot of fun with is the entire assembly of people watching the show from that Halloween party, particularly because every single time we cut back to it, there's more and more people there.
00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:36.719
I love this part of the movie.
00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:44.239
I mean, real murders are happening inside of production, and that production is already lying to the audience, so there's a lot of layers here.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:58.880
The fact that the participants have a reason to distrust what's happening just reinforces why nobody watching it thinks it's real, and that's where it really harkens back to the story's intention to be like an inversion of War of the Worlds.
00:56:59.199 --> 00:57:03.679
In War of the Worlds, real people listen to a fake thing and thought it was real.
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:07.760
And in this, people are watching a real thing, assuming that it's fake.
00:57:08.079 --> 00:57:12.320
Because of fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:17.119
Could you imagine making Halloween resurrection now with deep fake technology and AI?
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:22.400
Nobody would assume that any of it's real, like you wouldn't even have Deckard probably thinking that it's real.
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:29.199
And I love this so much because there's so much misunderstanding, and it becomes a communal experience.
00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:33.280
It really just goes to show like where we are now of oh no, totally fake.
00:57:33.360 --> 00:57:34.880
She's such a good actress, etc.
00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:36.320
Yeah, it's terrifying.
00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:53.440
That moment, too, in the movie, or the that part of the movie, it's also leads to the whole the whole thing where Sarah's communicating with Deckard through text messaging or whatever, and like the and it it was just kind of a cool play within the movie.
00:57:53.679 --> 00:58:08.400
An online friend watching the broadcast who helps her figure out like where Michael is and how to avoid him through texting, I think was a really fun addition to the movie and and added into the theme, which I think was really creative.
00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:14.079
I really liked how that felt almost like we were in a video game to an extent.
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:20.639
Like Deckard was a player, and every decision that he made impacted then the video game as well.
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:25.840
I that's at least how I was interpreting it, or just kind of like what it reminded me of.
00:58:26.079 --> 00:58:30.079
Again, I go back to it's so similar to reality TV shows even now.
00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:42.559
I mean, there's plenty of reality TV shows where you're prompted to vote on certain things, who gets eliminated, who doesn't, and you have control over what happens in these environments, and that's also very scary.
00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:45.760
Binks, it's also the Hunger Games of the Halloween franchise.
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:48.559
Oh, yes,
yes, absolutely.
00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:57.199
Could you imagine if like a live streamer, like you can obviously like give them bits or whatever the hell, give them follows, etc.
00:58:57.679 --> 00:59:06.639
Imagine remaking this now centered on Twitch, or you could have some kind of sponsorship deal where you actually get a package sent in like the Hunger Games.
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:09.199
I feel like this movie's ripe for remaking.
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:10.000
That's just me.
00:59:10.159 --> 00:59:13.039
Yeah, it definitely could be get a fresh take on it.
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:14.719
Wow, now you've got me thinking.
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:23.440
If we do that, I want Freddie to come back because every moment with him was just show stealing, show stopping.
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:33.519
First, when we have the reveal that there are two Michaels because we have Freddie walking through the house, then real Michael walking behind him, him noticing that he's there.
00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:34.639
So good.
00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:43.519
For whatever reason, Michael deciding he's just gonna let that one slide also and just walk away was amazing, absolutely priceless.
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:48.159
Michael has never been reprimanded at work, so it was very alarming to him.
00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:49.599
Yeah, he's like, what is this?
00:59:50.000 --> 01:00:04.480
But that moment in the movie is filled with such audacity and absurdity, and it makes it even better the fact that we establish Freddie's interest in martial arts and kung fu ahead of time, and then he fucking roundhouse kicks Michael out of the window.
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:08.320
I know that this is a controversial moment because people hate it.
01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:16.960
People say you should not be able to roundhouse kick Michael between this and being electrocuted in the balls, it kind of weakens Michael.
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:19.360
He's the boogeyman, he shouldn't go down like this.
01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:21.519
I think Michael can be a good sport about it.
01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:31.199
I get both sides of that, but I also think that this whole Freddie Harris versus Michael Myers thing is one of the scenes that defines the movie's reputation for better or for worse.
01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:35.280
I think I have a lot of fun with this whole concept.
01:00:35.519 --> 01:00:37.440
Listen, I wanted to be very clear.
01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:44.880
If it was not for Freddie, I really feel like I wouldn't have liked this movie as much as I did.
01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:46.719
He is the comedic relief.
01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:48.800
His one-liners are hilarious.
01:00:49.039 --> 01:00:49.280
Right.
01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:53.920
I mean, he is the literal catalyst to the situation and the environment itself.
01:00:54.159 --> 01:01:00.320
And there needs to be a level of like grandiose, like performative nature to make it successful.
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:05.920
He's literally a TV host who's very self-centered, you know, just in it for himself.
01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:11.199
You need that kind of charismatic energy to sell it, in my opinion.
01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:20.559
And the kung fu of it all, I think, is also hilarious because it's it's like the quirk to this very charismatic, self-centered person.
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:26.079
Even the most like cynical, worst kinds of people have the weirdest little quirks to them.
01:01:26.159 --> 01:01:28.719
And I find that to be like disarming.
01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:30.559
I thought it was hilarious.
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:37.599
I was ready at any point in time for this kung fu that we had been building up to actually go into effect.
01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:48.000
And at the end of the day, dude, I understand Michael Myers is like this unstoppable force and literally a shape, ghost, whatever he is.
01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:49.119
I don't really know anymore.
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:53.119
But the point is that we would not have a movie if you couldn't at least beat his ass a little bit.
01:01:53.199 --> 01:01:54.559
We gotta beat his ass a little bit.
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:55.360
Like, what?
01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:56.239
This is crazy.
01:01:56.559 --> 01:01:57.119
I liked it.
01:01:57.280 --> 01:01:58.320
I thought it was fun.
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:02.400
I don't, I'm not mad at the fact that he was able to roundhouse kick Michael Myers.
01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:21.360
I also think it's kind of like, I don't know, this kind of like fun connection because I know Buster Rhyme's not officially a member of Wu Tang or anything, but a frequent collaborator with Wu Tang, and Wu Tang was famously like always into like old Kung Fu movies and stuff, and they brought a lot of that vibe into you know some of their music and stuff.
01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:25.760
So I just think little callbacks to that kind of stuff, little nods to fans, things like that.
01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:27.199
I thought it was a fun time.
01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:28.239
I liked it.
01:02:28.559 --> 01:02:29.039
Yeah.
01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:35.679
And I think it's just such a testament to his character overall, being to you mentioned that he's the catalyst for all of this.
01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:38.880
He is the one who created the situation that endangers everyone.
01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:44.239
And I appreciate the redemption of him being instrumental and at least Sarah surviving it.
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:56.960
He has such comedic confidence, and I I think it is this movie's success hinges upon his ability to spark a little joy and create a little absurdity.
01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:10.480
I think for all of that, for as funny as he is, for sure, I think where he ends up as a character is actually one of the more serious parts in the movie, and it's more of like a squint just right and you'll see it.
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:18.000
But there's a lot of tension between his role as an exploitative producer and then his eventual role
helping Sarah.
01:03:18.320 --> 01:03:24.079
And at the end, he gives this final speech that condemns the very exploitation that he helped create.
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:28.559
So there's a lot of remorse there, and there's some regret there, clearly.
01:03:28.719 --> 01:03:34.480
And I think it's interesting that he's able to cast that light, but he does make that remorse very clear.
01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:52.079
And I also think like there is a good balance between you know Buster Himes as Freddy and Sarah as a character because I think her vulnerability contrasts nicely with Freddie's kind of showmanship in the movie and her communication with like the online friend and the internet concept.
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:53.440
It helped build suspense.
01:03:53.679 --> 01:03:56.159
I don't super love Sarah.
01:03:56.320 --> 01:03:58.639
Like she's fine, I'm glad she survives.
01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:04.480
But this is a movie I have always felt where Jen should have been the final girl and not Sarah.
01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:15.840
I think it would have been more interesting that way because what we get from Sarah is just I guess she's a spiritual successor to Lori, but she doesn't feel super compelling, for at least for me.
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:23.920
Yeah, we spoke a little bit about that in terms of some of her decisions that she made seemed a little reckless.
01:04:24.159 --> 01:04:30.400
And I guess we could argue you're panicked, you're freaking out, you've never been put in this situation, sure.
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.159
But at some point you need to like turn on the brain.
01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:35.280
You need to survive.
01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:39.840
And I don't know if I necessarily felt that entirely about her.
01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:47.039
I will say the thing about Jen, though, that sells it and has me like kind of agreeing with you, Chris.
01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:51.440
And I'm sure we did talk about this during the watch long, was it's really her attitude.
01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:56.159
Like her personality is very likable, and you can gravitate towards it because she's a jokester.
01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:58.079
She's got a little bit of spunk to her.
01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:08.559
So I think that charisma can help substitute maybe for like, all right, if I were looking at a character trait here, we've got a charisma's very maxed out.
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:17.760
Survival skills seem like they maybe would be a little bit at the medium side, but overall we have a more robust character here where I'm willing to start off with her.
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:22.400
Whereas maybe Sarah doesn't necessarily have every trait maxed out.
01:05:22.719 --> 01:05:25.920
Let's just take a second and look back at the final girls of the franchise so far.
01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:28.480
We have Lori Schrode in Halloween one and two.
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:29.199
That's it.
01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:32.559
Halloween four, we have Rachel and Jamie.
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:43.920
And Rachel, in comparison to some of the other teenage girls in the movie, is more mild, a little bit more timid, very responsible, etc.
01:05:44.719 --> 01:05:54.480
And part five, we have Tina, who is the free spirit, almost like denies her intuition because she wants to be a little less responsible.
01:05:54.719 --> 01:05:57.280
Rachel ends up dying, so we don't have her very long.
01:05:57.440 --> 01:05:59.039
But Tina also doesn't survive.
01:05:59.199 --> 01:05:59.760
Tina doesn't.
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.400
Doesn't make it in Halloween six.
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:09.760
We have another, again, a mother figure who is very Lori Strode coated, very responsible, very meek.
01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:11.679
Again, more of a quiet person.
01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:24.960
Up until this point, after you know, until we got Laurie Strode again in H2O, we don't have anyone who's a final girl who really breaks the mold of who Laurie Strode was in 1978.
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:27.280
Everything just points back to her.
01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:32.079
And Jen would have been such a refreshing moment to give us what we almost had with Tina.
01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:35.360
It was interesting to completely abandon Lori's son.
01:06:35.519 --> 01:06:39.760
Like we get that character in H2O, and then we don't mention that character again.
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:42.719
Well, no, we do have a photo of him in the room.
01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:43.760
We sure do.
01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.800
I said, that's the man right there, Josh Hartnett.
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:47.519
Hot as hell.
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:56.559
I will say that despite that though, he wasn't exactly the most pleasant in H2O, so I'm not exactly too mad about that.
01:06:56.639 --> 01:06:58.159
And let's be also honest.
01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:00.719
At the end of the day, Lori Shroud was leaving.
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:02.400
So put her son in the mix.
01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:04.320
What he what would he have actually done?
01:07:04.559 --> 01:07:08.320
Didn't seem like a very big go-getter, you know, like that's true.
01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:10.320
Yeah.
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:16.239
I don't know if you could really incorporate him into the story of this movie per se, but it was just always interesting.
01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:20.159
You have such a central character piece and then all of a sudden disappeared, no mention.
01:07:20.559 --> 01:07:24.480
Not for anything, but Josh Harden had a he had a very busy string of years.
01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:32.239
And that year, instead of doing Halloween resurrection, he chose to do another rom-com endeavor, we could argue.
01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:34.079
40 days and 40 nights.
01:07:34.239 --> 01:07:35.119
That's a choice.
01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:36.400
That's polarizing.
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:41.679
He would have either been lollygagging around with Michael Myers or well, lollygagging.
01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:44.000
We'll leave it at
that if you haven't seen that movie.
01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:45.599
Quite something.
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:47.440
Yeah, busy schedule for sure.
01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:49.039
Busy schedule.
01:07:49.519 --> 01:07:53.280
Where do we feel like Michael Myers lands from this movie?
01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:57.039
Like, are we thinking like from a character standpoint to the mask?
01:07:57.119 --> 01:07:58.880
Where are you putting this, Michael Myers?
01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:01.039
Upper 50% for me.
01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:01.519
Yeah.
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:05.199
I can't contribute too much until I've actually watched all of these movies.
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:08.320
But I will say that I kind of dug his look.
01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:12.559
I thought he was quite the Kool-Aid man when he's like busting through walls and shit.
01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:13.920
I'm like, okay, I forgot.
01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:14.480
That's right.
01:08:14.639 --> 01:08:19.840
He actually has insane strength for some frickin' reason, unknown to me.
01:08:20.079 --> 01:08:23.039
But I feel like the design and everything's pretty good.
01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:28.640
I mean, we had been looking at some other Michael Myers looks from movies that I haven't seen yet.
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:32.720
And in comparison, boy, wow, those are something.
01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:35.439
There's definitely been some interesting looks for sure.
01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:38.960
But yeah, I think this Michael Myers was pretty solid for sure.
01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:43.039
I don't know where I'd put like from a mask standpoint, maybe in the middle of the road.
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:46.800
He's above four, he's above five, he's above six for me.
01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:49.199
He's above honestly, even H2O.
01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:50.800
H2O was goofy.
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:52.399
He still looked too goofy.
01:08:52.479 --> 01:08:52.720
Yeah.
01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:57.439
I'd go Halloween, Halloween 2018, Halloween 2, Halloween Kills.
01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:01.680
And then Halloween ends, then Resurrection.
01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:02.319
Okay.
01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:03.520
So that's the middle end.
01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:05.840
Okay, we need a whole separate episode for this.
01:09:06.079 --> 01:09:07.840
We need it, we need a separate episode for this.
01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:09.680
I also feel like I'm listening to Star Wars.
01:09:09.760 --> 01:09:10.479
I don't know the names.
01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:19.279
So you just rattled off all kinds of Halloween names, and I was trying to make sense of which one I was actually thinking of, like what Michael Myers I was imagining in my brain.
01:09:19.439 --> 01:09:21.359
Boy, there's so many of them, man.
01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:22.239
It's crazy.
01:09:22.399 --> 01:09:23.760
13, I know, or right?
01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:26.319
14, something like that, but it's still feels like a lot.
01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:29.199
Then you also have the different mask variants within each movie.
01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:30.720
So we need a separate episode for it.
01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:32.319
There's masks within masks.
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:35.199
Not like canonically, but production-wise, yeah.
01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:36.800
We all wear masks.
01:09:37.119 --> 01:09:38.000
This is too much.
01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:44.319
I think the toughest thing for me in this movie will always be Lori Strode going down.
01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:46.159
That's just always a tough one for me.
01:09:46.319 --> 01:09:47.520
Not that it ruins the movie.
01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:49.840
I think it's a very emotional impact of the movie.
01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:55.279
I think it probably did a huge wow factor for a lot of fans when first watching this movie.
01:09:55.439 --> 01:09:57.279
So I respect what it did.
01:09:57.520 --> 01:10:02.880
But if I had to pull something out that I just didn't have fun with, it was probably that.
01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:04.159
I I agree.
01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:06.640
The objective worst part of this movie.
01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:09.680
Objectively speaking, you don't get much lower than that.
01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:14.319
And I still think Trick-O-Treat motherfucker looking a little crispy-fried motherfucker.
01:10:14.479 --> 01:10:18.079
Or both moments are 10 times better than Lori dying.
01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:19.760
It is such a bummer of a time.
01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:28.319
I think the third worst part is I remember being so excited watching this in the theater, seeing Michael open his eyes at the end of the movie, and then we never got another continuation of it.
01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:31.439
Rob Zombies is shortly thereafter, I guess.
01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:33.199
But we didn't continue this story.
01:10:33.359 --> 01:10:37.760
So I was so excited, thinking like, oh my gosh, I can't wait to see what happens next.
01:10:37.920 --> 01:10:45.279
And then all of a sudden, five years later, I'm in the theater excited to go see Halloween, and then oh, that's what it was.
01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:48.560
Listen, I feel like we talked about it already.
01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:59.039
I will make amends with it in terms of Lori's decision making specifically, and those last final moments of hers, and just like the switch roo of it all.
01:10:59.279 --> 01:11:01.600
Because you guys made me think that, yeah, you're right.
01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:07.119
It what alternative would have been better, you know, like zombie Michael, that would have been ridiculous.
01:11:07.279 --> 01:11:08.720
So that's fine.
01:11:09.039 --> 01:11:19.680
I just feel suddenly so protective of Lori in a sense after watching this, because it's like, man, I I don't want it to make it seem that she's an idiot.
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:20.560
You know what I mean?
01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:24.239
Like, how could she have not realized that she wasn't killing the right person?
01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:26.800
But then even up in the rooftop, right?
01:11:26.960 --> 01:11:29.920
Like she had actually trapped him.
01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:37.119
Like there was a moment where maybe you actually could have won, or it felt that way, at least to me, and then it didn't actually end up happening.
01:11:37.439 --> 01:11:42.560
It's just like, uh, it's frustrating, but we're 15 minutes into the beginning of the movie.
01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:44.239
Like, of course that's not gonna be the case.
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And how many, like, oh, we killed him, but I guess we didn't kill him.
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Things are we're gonna do in one film.
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I understand, but you can't help but feel frustrated and protective over Lori.
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That's an icon, but oh well, it is what it is.
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Is there any room there for us to have still gotten the mo opening that we got, but she does kill him, and then when his body is carted off and buried, then we somehow get the magical dog piss or the electricity.
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I feel like they would have just needed like the opening just to explain why he still has a head, and then he can get resurrected later.
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Yeah.
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What a fucking bonker.
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Just somebody needs to re-write that fanfiction and just see how it plays out.
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Oh my gosh.
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But regardless of how I feel for uh the opportunities the opening of this movie provides, this is still so much fun to watch.
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I watch it every single year and I watch it while being engaged.
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I watch it happily, I watch it with enthusiasm, and I cannot wait to meet more people who haven't seen Halloween Resurrection so I can re-experience what I did experience with Binks.
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That was a magical time.
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Like I said, I mean, I really recommend watching these movies with somebody because I feel like that's when you get the most commentary and joy and just kind of let loose with them with the insane antics that happen.
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And granted, if we were to rank between the three major franchises, right, who has the craziest, silliest ones, Halloween is last to me, I think.
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And I haven't even seen a lot of them, but just from the ones I've seen, I can confidently say that Nightmare on Elm Street is through the roof in terms of silly bonkerness, but that's because he is like that, right?
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Freddie's like that.
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But this one is a little bit more on the tame side, but still things to enjoy and laugh about and be like, oh shit, what's gonna happen next?
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And the commentary's gold.
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So I absolutely would re-watch this.
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I really hope that I can like participate now in the memes and in the insider jokes and the cult of Buster Rhymes that we have in our listenership.
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:50.399
Yeah, a hundred percent.
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I always have fun watching this one, but I always remember having a good time with this one, so it's always something I revisit at some point.
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Well, clearly we'll have to revisit it again in the near future, but for now, there you have it, folks.
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Halloween Resurrection has earned a universal slash.
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Now, if you want to see how Binx reacted before she had any time to process any of this, our Halloween Resurrection watch along is available on Patreon.
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It's her first viewing with both of us on camera, so you can watch along with us and catch every reaction as it happened, every moment of shock, joy, and what the fuck.
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You can check that out at patreon.com slash hacker slash.
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And we also want to know what you think.
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What did you think about Halloween Resurrection?
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Did you hate it?
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Or do you secretly enjoy it as much as I do?
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Let us know.
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Thanks for spending at least part of your spooky season with Hackerslash.
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We'll see you next time, folks.
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And remember, never underestimate the effect of a poor diet.
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Happy fucking Halloween.
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So naturally, when you have a found footage Halloween movie and you have the danger tament of it all, it does beg the question: what other horror reality shows could you conjure up?
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I'm gonna say something insane.
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What if we had a horror dating show?
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Okay, like Love is Blind or something like that.
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Or like Love Island was just about to say.
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Exactly.
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But couple up or cut up.
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Exactly.
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You know, look listen, love is blind and you end up being blind.
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I don't know.
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I just I think it would be insane.
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Imagine Freddie Krueger on the other side of the wall in Love is Blind, Macing it up to you, and then just like permeates through the wall or in your dreams that night.
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I I I would tune in.
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I think if we did that, we would need fame lesbian Elvira to be the host for sure.
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Yes, I think at least Dracula macking it up about crossing oceans of time to find you.
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I think we need Tiffany.
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I think we bride Frankenstein.
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Okay.
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Who else?
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Oh, we need Candyman.
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Oh my god.
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Well, his voice.
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We also need Ghostface.
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Ghostface will probably text you and call you, but never actually live up to the plans.
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Right.
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An actual ghosting.
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Oh, jeez.
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He's gonna be the villain in the new season.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Prompting situationships.
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Ah, God.
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Yeah, you gotta see which one would plan the best date.
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My problem is that I can't imagine a lot of this though, because I I don't watch dating reality shows.
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I feel I can come up with like the people, but I don't know what the activities would be.
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Listen, my experience here is one season of Love is Blind and one season of The Love Island.
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I don't know any of the other shows, but what I've seen off of those two things, I'm envisioning something.
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I can see it.
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With Love Island, they do like these challenges.
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So I'm imagining like these horror icons, you know, having to do the most insane gross challenges and then just like killing people because they just don't want to do them, you know.
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Goodness, it would just go crazy real fast.
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I just thought the a twist on like if we were to bring something like the amazing race, but actually make it like a final destination amazing race.
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So like the contestants have to like do they have to race across the country and complete challenges while they're like faced off against these elaborate, like freak accidents, and like they receive clues about their own deaths and have to figure out the only way to advance is how to avoid those deaths, would be a wild twist on the amazing race.
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Yeah, but you see, Michael Myers would never be able to get to the finish line.
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It would be more of like a it wouldn't even be like horror icons doing it, it would just be a a like a horror-themed version of the show.
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Right.
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Yeah Chris, you're about to tell me that Are you about to tell me that Michael Myers actually walks fast?
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I want to remind you that this motherfucker drives and he stole enough cars to track down Lori in California.
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Oh fair.
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Fair enough, fair enough.
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Yeah.
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One that could be really fun, and I don't have it like fully baked yet, but I love shows like Chopped and MasterChef.
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So imagine like a Hell's Kitchen, but it's a cooking show with horror icons.
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Imagine Hannibal Lecter as the host, because I feel like it's unfair if he actually competes.
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I think we could do Annie Wilkes.
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I think she cooks in that movie.
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We can do Sebastian Stan's character from Fresh.
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Yeah, it's from Fresh.
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That's what I was gonna say.
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Yep.
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Who else?
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Um Ray Fines from Menu.
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Dang Leatherface.
01:18:45.439 --> 01:18:47.600
Oh, I think you got all of those.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But Hannibal Lecter would be, I agree that he would be the host for sure.
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The host, yeah.
01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:53.920
But Leatherface, absolutely.
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You said Leatherface, and can I just say I ended up watching for the first time the Matthew McConaughey?
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Oh my god.
01:19:01.039 --> 01:19:01.279
Yeah.
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Or Renee's all you're there.
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Yeah.
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Guy.
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Unhinged.
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Unhinged.
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Matthew McConaughey's best performance ever, I think.
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Almost too good?
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Question mark, question mark.
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Too good for that movie for sure.
01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:14.720
Something's a little too a little too good there.
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Also, Leatherface, the best leatherface I've ever seen.
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That's a diva right there.
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That leather face, listen, we stand.
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Dinner scene, incredible.
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Anyways, I say all that to say that you were talking about Leatherface being a participant of that show, and I want that specific leather face.
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I want her outfit, and I want everything about that diva on that specific reality show.
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That's insane.
01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:40.319
Okay, hold on.
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There's something else here.
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It's at the tip of my tongue.
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We have Kyle Richards in the original Halloween, and then Halloween kills, Halloween ends.
01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:49.039
Yeah.
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She's actually a real housewife.
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So what if we did have the real housewives of horror and you had Tiffany, Pamela Voorhees, Margaret White, Bride of Frankenstein, Samara Weaving's character from Ready Or Not.
01:20:03.760 --> 01:20:06.720
Would it be fair to have no, because she's not married, right?
01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:09.199
The girl from You're Next, another one?
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Wouldn't it be great?
01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:11.840
No, she's not married.
01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:12.319
Damn.
01:20:12.479 --> 01:20:13.520
Well, I mean, who knows?
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Maybe I guess Pamela Voorhees now we know was married.
01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:16.960
Oh wow.
01:20:17.279 --> 01:20:18.560
Jennifer Czech wasn't married.
01:20:18.880 --> 01:20:19.840
Margaret White was.
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Bride was forced into it.
01:20:22.479 --> 01:20:22.720
Yeah.
01:20:23.039 --> 01:20:24.880
There's gotta be some other wives that I'm missing here.
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Let's see.
01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:27.439
Um well you have Pearl.
01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:28.880
Oh, Pearl, yes.
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Pearl, you're right.
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I mean, Anna in possession is just kind of crazy.
01:20:32.800 --> 01:20:35.279
I don't know how much she would actually contribute on that one.
01:20:35.520 --> 01:20:36.960
Well, she can have a little cameo.
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Morticia Adams.
01:20:38.720 --> 01:20:40.159
Oh, good one.
01:20:40.399 --> 01:20:40.960
Oh my god.
01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:44.000
And she should be like the main.
01:20:44.399 --> 01:20:45.039
Oh my gosh.
01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:52.079
She is like maybe like the housewife from the previous season that was like top charting, was incredible.
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She finally comes back as the reboot comes in.
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It's like, oh my God, everyone's freaking out when she arrives on set because she's just like gonna cause a scene.
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I can see it now.
01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:04.000
I really like this idea.
01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:12.960
There's also, I think, would be a fun trivia, a trivia show with Ghostface as the host, and it just, you know, who wants to be a final girl?
01:21:13.279 --> 01:21:15.279
Sean, that's a good one.
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:16.640
Trivia on everything.
01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:31.119
Well, it would have to be final girls that are contestants, and then they have to answer questions about like best survival tactics, love interest questions, you know, like, oh, that would be fun.
01:21:31.520 --> 01:21:32.479
There could be a twist.
01:21:32.560 --> 01:21:36.000
There could be like one contestant is secretly working with Ghostface.
01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:36.560
Yeah.
01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:38.640
You know, may not be the only killer.
01:21:38.880 --> 01:21:39.199
Ooh.
01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:44.960
It sounds like this is what we have to do in our 10th anniversary season uh next year.
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Because for our 200th episode, we did do horror trivia where I got kidnapped and my co-host had to answer horror trivia and they let me die by Ghostface hands, and then Paris was revealed to be Ghostface.
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Yes.
01:21:59.920 --> 01:22:00.800
Yes, that is true.
01:22:01.600 --> 01:22:02.079
That is true.
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It was a fun episode.
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Okay, yeah, I do like that.
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I do oh, better start gearing up now.
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Uh oh.