Hello and welcome to a bonus Halloween episode of Slate Spoiler Specials.

I am Sam Adams, and today we're going to spoil the Halloween sequel starring Jamie Lee Curtis, which was written and directed by David Gordon Green.

This is the 11th installment in the Halloween franchise, although it is in some cases

the second because it throws out the nine sequels that have been made before it.

And it basically sets up a rematch between masked knife-wielding stalker Michael Myers

and his victim from the first movie, Jamie Lee Curtis, playing Laurie Strode.

Joining me to talk about it is Jeffrey Blumer, who is a senior editor at Slate.

Hi, Sam.

And Christina Cotaric, who is the staff writer.

Hi.

Hi.

So let's start off.

Let's establish our bona fides right off the bat.

Have you seen the original Halloween, any of the nine movies in between that and this one, and what is your

general attitude towards the franchise? Jeff, you want to go first?

Yes, I think I'm probably the fanatic of the groove. I've seen all the sequels multiple

times, including the Rob Zombie Remakes.

Oh, my gosh.

I've always, I have from a very young age, my mother might have shown me the original

homie when I was nine or ten, and it was very formative, getting me into movies. It's, it's an

important movie to me, and then the sequels are just fun. I think we could talk about it more later,

but they're generally not, there's none that are unwatchable, except maybe the one with Paul Rudd. Otherwise, they're like pretty okay, and I've

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