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🗓️ 31 October 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
In this spooky Halloween episode, we consider the politics of horror by looking at the ultimate slasher film, John Carpenter's classic HALLOWEEN (1978). We discuss the way that the horror genre has traditionally served as an outlet for society's fears and traumas, and how this suburban horror story in particular articulated a certain post-'60s, pre-Reagan reactionary current in America. Don't worry, we like this movie, we promise we won't ruin it for you. PLUS: eve-of-the-election punditry and childhood Halloween memories.
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0:00.0 | The Welcome to Michael and Us. I'm Will Sloane here as always with. |
0:18.0 | Luke Savage. Hey everyone. We're recording this a day before Halloween. It will hopefully be posted on Halloween or |
0:24.0 | before Halloween maybe you'll hear a little bit about it after but there's a real |
0:27.7 | monster this Halloween season and he's in the White House. |
0:31.3 | Yeah so we do have a very topical film, maybe topical to the point of fault, I don't know, |
0:38.0 | for this week's episode. |
0:39.0 | But before we talk about that, I mean, we are recording this episode a few days before the US |
0:44.7 | presidential election so I mean some rank punditry is probably called for so I got |
0:51.6 | my election map worked out and I think every state is going blue from east to west, |
0:57.6 | see to shining sea. It's just going to be a big blue wave. And I'm hoping this prediction will go viral I think we can make it |
1:04.8 | happen well you you joke but I have seen a couple versions of that from who's the |
1:10.0 | guy that actually owned us all really hard last time is it Bill Mitchell. |
1:14.0 | Guys like that. I don't I haven't seen Bill Mitchell recently but guys like that the |
1:19.4 | sort of like I don't know mega sort of alt media types like doing these maps that are just |
1:24.3 | completely improbable where like Trump flips New York red or something like that |
1:28.6 | then similarly you have you know they're like you know once you uncuck the polls like this is what you |
1:33.5 | get or whatever and then you know similarly the I think the Krasinsteins themselves |
1:39.1 | are banned from Twitter but you know their spiritual equivalents I've seen versions of it where yeah it's like the |
1:44.5 | projection you just gave but unironically like it's a Reagan style sweep except you know |
1:49.8 | Trump only wins Alaska or like you know something like that it could be a somewhat |
1:54.7 | close election you know we all know what the polls suggest there's going to be a |
1:57.7 | kind of moderate to possibly considerable Democratic victory I mean |
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