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WHAT WENT WRONG

Halloween

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Flop, Film, Film History, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, History, Tv & Film, Movie, Directing, Hollywood

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Paint your leaves yellow and orange and scatter them across the yard, because it's springtime in Pasadena and Halloween is coming to town! Chris & Lizzie plumb the depths of the real Michael Myers, how John Carpenter's career was saved by UK audiences, and why you should never show anyone your movie without music.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

Kahn Kahn Hello and action.

0:34.5

Hello and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens

0:39.6

to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a genre-defining

0:46.0

slasher made by a Renaissance man who can be behind the camera and behind the keyboard.

0:53.6

As always, I'm your host, Lizzie Bassassett, here with my co-host, Chris.

0:57.8

And Chris, what do you have for us on this Halloween?

1:03.9

I have Halloween.

1:10.1

Somehow, the first movie ever called Halloween,

1:14.6

which is crazy when you really think about it.

1:17.2

And the filmmakers were as surprised as anybody.

1:19.7

The name was available, as we will get to.

1:22.5

It is a classic Lizzie, as you mentioned.

1:24.8

You know, credited in large part with revitalizing the slasher subgenre

1:28.5

of horror. I am assuming you had seen Halloween before. And this is perfect to culminate our

1:35.0

spooky months with Halloween, only four days from Halloween. What are your thoughts upon watching it

1:40.6

or rewatching it for the podcast, how has this movie evolved with you?

1:44.7

Tell me, walk me through it.

1:47.3

I love this movie.

1:48.9

I had not seen this movie growing up because my parents were just very averse to the idea of a slasher.

1:55.9

And it was just not, that was not the kind of horror that they enjoyed.

1:59.7

They were much more psychological and or religious horror.

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