There's trouble in the suburbs.

A teenage girl named Lori Strode crosses a quiet street toward an ordinary house to find her friends.

But Lori doesn't know that her friends are dead and she doesn't know that she's

walking right toward the mass killer Michael Myers. The audience is losing its

mind. Halfway through the walk across the street a woman stood up in the middle of the theater and screamed out loud

Don't go in there

The movie is Halloween. And Halloween just it was like a it was a breath of fresh putrid air. I mean Michael Myers Halloween is iconic. He's a pure unknowable evil.

I'm film critic Amy Nicholson and this is Halloween unmessed a podcast series from the

ringer celebrating the remarkable and terrifying rise of America's most revolutionary horror film.

Halloween is a superb exercise in the art of suspense and it has no socially redeeming value whatsoever.

Halloween's plot is simple, a guy, a mask, a knife, but the story behind it isn't.

John Carpenter was inspired by the evil he saw around him, real life serial killers, racism, an inmate he met at an asylum.

He looked like he wanted to kill me and eat me. They looked like a murderer.

Evil is real. real.

We're all born capable of being serial killers, but we get a mate.

Starting October 1st, we're going to spend eight episodes talking to everyone who made Halloween and everyone who loves Halloween to understand how this cheap horror movie captivated audiences and changed a genre.

Nobody knew Halloween was going to become what it has become.

Subscribe on Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast

to Halloween unmasked and watch your back.

I think the scariest part was that he doesn't die at the end so when you're 10 it's like that guy's still out there we can get him.