Halloween (1978)

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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"He's gone! He's gone from here! The evil is gone!" In which Sarah and Alex head back to a 1978 Haddonfield, Illinois, by was of John Carpenter's Halloween. Check out A Massive Seance, which is coming to Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles!https://linktr.ee/amassiveseance (https://linktr.ee/amassiveseance)Check out Magpie Cinema Club's fabulous version of Season of the Witch:https://linktr.ee/magpiecinemaclub (https://linktr.ee/magpiecinemaclub)Check out Carolyn Kendrick's new track Leela (which came out TODAY!) and pre-order her record Each Machine:https://linktr.ee/carolynkendrick (https://linktr.ee/carolynkendrick)Come to Alex's zine label launch show in Los Angeles on October 30th (Carolyn will perform!):https://partiful.com/e/jYijXpWoby9fzcxQoSP4 (https://partiful.com/e/jYijXpWoby9fzcxQoSP4)This episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus.https://www.patreon.com/youaregood (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood)You can subscribe to Alex's zine here (https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture)!https://www.patreon.com/HighOccultureMerch inspired by our Don't Tell Mom... episode can be found here (https://www.bonfire.com/dont-tel-mom-you-are-good/)!You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt (https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/) DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here. (Liz Climo designed our logo!)You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here (https://www.pcrf.net/).https://www.pcrf.net/ (https://www.pcrf.net/)You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Patreon and Apple Plus.Miranda Zickler (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster) produced and edited this episode!Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.

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0:00.0	Hello you are good of feelings
0:04.0	podcast about movies today we're talking about Halloween
0:07.0	the 1978 John Carpenter's Halloween of course it's John Carpenter in
0:11.9	Deborah Hill's Halloween.
0:13.2	It's often stylizes John Carpenter's Halloween.
0:17.8	There's this whole interesting story about it, about how he got his name above it,
0:21.8	if you've ever seen documentaries about this.
0:24.0	No guest today, it's just Sarah and me.
0:26.4	You're listening to You Are Good a Feeling's podcast about movies where we are not critics.
0:30.2	We are not here to speak about the movie critically necessarily. We might say some things that have some critical weight here and there, but that's not what we are here for. We're here to talk about how these movies make us think about how we relate to the world, how we relate to ourselves, how we relate to dynamics that come up in just being alive in the world today.
0:47.8	We're talking about movies as a means of understanding ourselves,
0:51.6	and we're doing that today by talking about Halloween.
0:54.8	And Halloween, of course, is the 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by
0:58.9	John Carpenter who co-wrote it with producer Deborah Hill.
1:02.3	It stars Donald Pleasant,
1:03.6	Jamie Lee Curtis, PJ Souls, and Nancy Loomis. There are like 400
1:08.9	Halloween movies that come out after this. That's not true. At least 10.
1:12.1	Maybe 12. I don't know. There's a lot. We love Michael Myers. Actually, people listen to the show and
1:18.0	know that I'm friends with Eve Lindley, who's been on a number of times and our friendship started because we both loved Halloween ends in a way that many other people did not. That's how we came together. So thank you David Gordon Green for making Halloween.
1:32.0	You are good if feelings podcast about movies is made possible with and by your support.
1:36.7	Thank you so much to everyone who supports us on Patreon and Apple Podcast subscriptions.
1:40.0	We make the show because you make it possible.
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