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  • HALLOWEEN unmasked

    HALLOWEEN unmasked

    A good podcast from the AV CLUB on Michael Myers and the enduring influence on our pop culture.. crime scene.. and life..

    John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 film Halloweenreconfigured the horror film genre, inspiring multiple sequels and remakes, including a new installation in the franchise due out this month. In episode three of the eight-part podcast Halloween Unmasked, host Amy Nicholson takes a deeper look at the horror masterpiece and develops a psychological profile of Michael Myers. Here she’s joined by Dr. Anthony Tobia, who teaches college classes that examine the mental illnesses of killers from classic slasher flicks. Taking into account the mental state of the movie’s masked killer, Tobia suggests a diagnosis, and even calls into question the methods of Myers’ movie psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis (played by Donald Pleasence). By looking at the origins of the phrase “serial killer”—which wasn’t coined until afterHalloween was released—real-world serial killers, and less grounded explanations of Myers’ murderous impulses from the franchise and its novels,Halloween Unmasked is the perfect podcast to listen to leading up to Halloween, and even better for augmenting your marathon-watch of the original movie series in preparation for the release of the newest Halloween.

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  • Star of the New ‘Halloween’ Says He Got Murder Tips from an Actual Hitman

    Star of the New ‘Halloween’ Says He Got Murder Tips from an Actual Hitman

    Star of the New ‘Halloween’ Says He Got Murder Tips from an Actual Hitman:

    James Jude Courtney told Vanity Fair in a new interview that he met a former contract killer through a mutual friend back in the early 2010s. The man was allegedly freshly out of prison and wanted Courtney to help him write his life story, so they wound up living together for a while. At one point, Courtney took the guy to see the Cuba Gooding, Jr. movie The Hit List, and he was less than impressed.“We walked out of the screening, and he said to me, ‘Jimmy, it’s a really nice movie, but that’s not how you kill people,’” Courtney explained to Vanity Fair.According to Courtney, the guy promised to “show” him how actual hitmen work—but since the guy was seemingly retired and had already done his time, this probably didn’t mean literally bringing him around on hits. It probably (hopefully) just involved some advice and conversation. But in any case, it sounds like it really helped Courtney get into the mind of a murderer

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  • Nick Castle, the original Michael Myers, puts on his ‘Halloween’ mask once more

    Nick Castle, the original Michael Myers, puts on his ‘Halloween’ mask once more

    Nick Castle, the original Michael Myers, puts on his ‘Halloween’ mask once more:

    While actor/stuntman James Jude Courtney is the main man in the mask now, handling the role’s physical rigors, Castle cameos as “The Shape” (how Michael was billed in the 1978 film’s credits) in a crucial scene where Laurie finally sees him again in an upstairs window, on the prowl. She shoots the window out, but it turns out she just saw his reflection in a mirror, which shatters.

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  • HALLOWEEN promotion continues, this time in Entertainment WEEKLY

    HALLOWEEN promotion continues, this time in Entertainment WEEKLY

    JAMIE LEE CURTIS.. the scream queen. Back on the cover of Entertainment WEEKLY thanks to the John Carpenter re-imagining re-make re-creation of the original 1978 classic HALLOWEEN..

    The movie has some hoping for a $65 mil opening weekend.. or more?? $80 Mil? One prognosticator who clearly is in camp Carpenter wrote that the movie has the chance on scoring a cool $100 mil..

    But one question may be this: How fun will HALLOWEEN be?

    The original was cutting edge. It’s tough to be cutting edge with 40 years of horror creations that have attempted to duplicate the efforts of Debra Hill and John Carpenter on a low budget with a piano in the 1970s…

    This from the EW story is interesting:

    Green insists Halloween lovers need not worry. “We’re really trying to honor Carpenter’s vision,” says the filmmaker. “Danny said a really smart thing: ‘Until there’s killings, there’s no jokes. Let’s not give anybody anything to laugh at until we’ve scared them s—less.’”

    Humor free.
    no frills.. no fun. just kills and runs..

    Time will tell if these efforts to play to the darker side of Halloween lure will be fruitful in the form of dollars and cents. And sense.

  • THE HALLOWEEN SOUNDTRACK FOR 2018!

    THE HALLOWEEN SOUNDTRACK FOR 2018!

    John Carpenter is back with H40 .. and with a new grittier soundtrack for the newest installment of Halloween where Jamie Lee Curtis, after all this time, take so Nick Castle as the Shape..

    And a soundtrack sample is adding to the flare of the season.

    Without further delay.. John Carpenter 40 years after 1978’s SHAPE debut:

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epqHXzFCZiA]

  • Halloween 40 reviews continue to trickle.. and they become more positive about the performances..

    Halloween 40 reviews continue to trickle.. and they become more positive about the performances..

    This is how Germain Lussier writes his review on the new HALLOWEEN:

    The latest entry in the Halloween franchise is both a dazzling tribute to the original film as well as a unique, standalone story. It’s filled with deviations from the familiar slasher formula, but it also carefully incorporates an adoration of its predecessor that feels respectful but not overpowering. By balancing these two seemingly divergent concepts, director David Gordon Green has made a truly special horror sequel.

    Set exactly 40 years after the John Carpenter original, this new Halloweenpretends none of the other sequels happened (sorry, Josh Hartnett). What did happen was, in 1978, a man named Michael Myers killed a bunch of kids, leaving behind a lone survivor named Laurie Strode. Strode was deeply traumatized by the experience and spent the next four decades preparing for what she believes is Michael’s inevitable return.

    People who have seen the film or speculated on it say that Jamie Lee Curtis, without her Activia,  displays a gritty performance.. someone who has had a life ruined by the events now 40 years previous in this fiction world…

    We are told that this film will include references to previous HALLOWEENS, a disposition of back stories since Michael’s 1978 escape,

    Lussier concludes:

    Halloween isn’t just a really great horror movie, it’s a great movie, period. It’s rough around the edges at times but wins you over with its passion, its originality, and its excitement. Ultimately, it makes you hope we don’t have to wait another 40 years to see the continuation of this version of Michael Myers’ story.

  • Three charged with kidnapping of HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION actress

    Three charged with kidnapping of HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION actress

    Prosecutors allege Keith Andre Stewart, Johntae Jones and Amber Neal went to “Halloween: Resurrection” actress Daisy McCrackin’s home in L.A. on May 3, where they say Stewart pistol-whipped a man in the home, identified as Joseph Capone. The three placed bags over the two victims’ heads and drove them to Jones’ home in Compton, prosecutors said.

    Once they were at Jones’ home, the suspects forced Capone to strip naked and held him in a bathtub for 30 hours without food, prosecutors allege.

    Investigators said Jones and Neal took McCrackin’s car and drove her to several different banks while demanding she pay $10,000 for Capone’s release. She was forced to write a $10,000 check to Neal, prosecutors said.

  • When we will see the HALLOWEEN 40 trailer?

    When we will see the HALLOWEEN 40 trailer?

    Jason Blum revealed June will be a a “happy time” for Halloween fans at what I can only surmise is the hint of a trailer for the upcoming horror flick.

    Jason Blum

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    And while I’m twittering as opposed to “tweeting” I want to assure fans that we hear you. We have read your comments. And I can assure you that early June will be a happy time for you or perhaps I should say for most of you. xx
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    Recently the film has undergone some reshoots as fans who saw it in test screenings plain out did not like it, or how it ended…

    A finished product is set for mid-October, as the Halloween season approaches.

    Meanwhile, we will watch for the trailer …

    The synopsis from the movie’s official website reads,

    Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

  • H40: THE NIGHT HE STAYED HOME

    H40: THE NIGHT HE STAYED HOME

    DANNY MCBRIDE, WRITER OF HALLOWEEN 40 YEARS ..

    “We’re kind of ignoring all the films past the first one,” McBride confirmed. “It picks up after the first one, but it’s sort of an alternate reality.“
    “It’s as if the first Halloween ended in a slightly different way,” McBride added, suggesting the new film may rewrite even the events of the original.
    “I just hope that we don’t fuck it up and piss people off,” McBride also noted during the chat. “This is such a diehard fan base. You don’t want horror fans being your enemies because they show up at your house with masks on. We are diehard fans of Halloween. We’re watching all the sequels and where things have taken left turns here and there that maybe bites for fans, and at least trying to deliver what we would have wanted to see. Hopefully that will line up with most fans.”
    “I think you should be very scared. I mean, this isn’t a comedy at all. I think there was, like, maybe one joke on the page, but the rest is straight horror. So hopefully it gets in people’s heads and keeps them up late at night.”

  • A very merry Trump Halloween

    A very merry Trump Halloween

    Pictured here is a very real photograph of the White House during their Halloween event yesterday–the first Halloween of the Trump administration..
    While politics may not necessarily be the forte of this website, we do occasionally mention it because of how so often the paranormal coincides with the politics.. As Clyde Lewis coined, the ‘para-political.’ 
    So when I saw this image of the White House adorned with horrific and ghastly spiders and cobwebs, it was interesting to note how the same day–Halloween time in D.C.–Robert Mueller decided to file the first charges against officials with the Trump Administration concerning the Russian/2016 election connection.
    The White House could not have looked better for the occasion….