SLASHERS Pt 5: Halloween (1978) Feat. Chris Hewitt
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2017
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
This week Mike is joined by Chris Hewitt and Jacob Stolworthy to discuss all things HALLOWEEN! We take an in-depth, spoilerific look at John Carpenter's classic 1978 masterpiece and look at the legacy it left behind (i.e. 7 awful sequels and 2 awful remakes). Chris also discusses why John Carpenter is one of the most beloved auteurs in cinema history.
Chris Hewitt is host of the world's biggest movie podcast the Empire Podcast (and associate editor of Empire, the world's biggest selling movie magazine). Find Chris on twitter (@ChrisHewitt).
Jacob Stolworthy is a culture critic and journalist for The Independent. Find Jacob on twitter (@Jacob_Stol).
Mike is a producer, podcaster and film journalist. Find him on twitter (@TheMovieMike).
He also co-hosts another movie podcast with Rhianna Dhillon called Back Row (https://backrowpodcast.net). Find Back Row on Twitter (@BackRowFilms).
Halloween (1978)
Dir: John Carpenter
Courtesy of Compass International Pictures / Falcon International Productions.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Dir: John Carpenter
Courtesy of the CKK Corporation
The Thing (1982)
Dir: John Carpenter
Courtesy of Universal Pictures / Turman-Foster Company
Christine (1983)
Dir: John Carpenter
Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Corporation, Delphi Premier Productions, Polar Film
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The 1978, Hadnfield, Illinois, Halloween Night. |
| 0:25.0 | After discovering all of her friends dead mutilated corpses in the house across the street |
| 0:30.6 | and surviving a vicious attack from an escaped mental patient wearing a white |
| 0:34.8 | mask, 17 year old Lori Strode looks up at Dr. Loomis and asks, |
| 0:40.3 | What's the bogeyman? |
| 0:42.3 | Loomis replies, as a matter of fact, that was. |
| 0:46.0 | As matter of fact, it was. |
| 0:48.0 | And so begins one of the most successful franchises in slasher history. |
| 0:53.0 | Over the last few weeks, we've introduced some of the key movies that worked as forerunners to the slasher sub-genre, |
| 1:02.0 | all introducing various elements of what we now know and love |
| 1:06.4 | as the slasher. |
| 1:07.8 | But it took one visionary director to hone all of these ideas and strip them back into one perfect scary movie. |
| 1:17.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the Slasher movie and review John Carpenter's monumental masterpiece, Halloween. Those and the heavens of witches with all their hosts |
| 1:34.0 | You may think they scare me you're probably right |
| 1:37.0 | Larkouts and goblins on Halloween night. |
| 1:40.0 | Checkers to you! |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome back to the podcast, my name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're |
| 1:45.9 | joining us for the first time then welcome please do subscribe on iTunes go back |
| 1:49.5 | and listen to the previous five or six episodes that we've already got. They're all |
| 1:53.1 | fantastic. Basically we are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of |
| 1:57.6 | the slasher. Previously we've talked about all of the movies that kind of are |
| 2:01.6 | generally considered the forerunners so |
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