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Halloween Unmasked

John Carpenter Calls Action | Halloween Unmasked

Halloween Unmasked

The Ringer

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How did four friends make a slasher classic? By accident. Join Carpenter and Co. on their stumbling path to the 'Halloween' set, where these goofy kids inadvertently became horror legends. Credits: Halloween Unmasked is a co-production of The Ringer and Neon Hum Media, it was written and hosted by Amy Nicholson Our Producers are Jonathan Hirsch, Zach Mack and Greta Weber Production assistance from Kaya McMullen and Karan Nevatia Additional support and a special thanks to Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Juliet Litman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, high school girl Lori Strode will have to fight for her life.

0:07.0

She's going to get attacked by the murderer Michael Myers and she's going to find out that she too is capable

0:10.9

of picking up a knife.

0:12.9

Tonight her life is going to change forever.

0:15.1

But for now, Lori's just in another boring English class,

0:17.8

doodling in her notebook, half listening to the teacher,

0:20.5

so innocent she doesn't even realize her killer is studying her outside.

0:24.0

You see, fate caught up with several lives here.

0:30.0

No matter what course of action Collins took he was destined to his own fate his own day

0:40.7

record with himself Then Lori looks out the window and sees a man in a mask. The man is so strange that she can't stop herself looking again.

0:58.0

He's still there.

1:00.0

So staring.

1:01.0

Answer the question.

1:02.0

Oh, um, Kostain wrote that fate was somehow related only to religion, whereas Samuels felt

1:09.4

that, well fate was like a natural element like earth, air, fire, and water.

1:13.4

That's right, Samuels definitely personified fate.

1:17.2

In Samuels writing fate is immovable.

1:20.2

Say from the teacher, Lori looks out the window again.

1:23.0

The man in the mask is gone.

1:25.0

Fate never changes.

1:27.0

Lorry's drood has no idea what's coming.

1:37.0

And you know who else has no idea what's coming?

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