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I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest

Wharwolf Barmitza Edition. It's Wednesday October 31st 2018,

who's spooky. On today's show, Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Lori Strogg, a bogeyman magnet in an updated version of the 1978 horror classic Halloween.

And then Shirley Jackson's haunting of Hill House is now a multi-part net flicker.

Okay, you may be sensing a theme here.

Our third topic in keeping with the other two.

Why are so vanishingly few horror movies directed by women. We discuss a very good

provocative essay about that subject. Isaac Butler is joining me. Isaac you're a

theater director, you're a writer, you're a mench, you're a dad, you're everything really and now you're a writer, you're a mens, you're a dad, you're everything really, and now you're a co-host on the Slade Culture Gap

Festival welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me, Stephen.

The only thing about you, though, I will say, is not to, I pumped you up up now I'll diminish you a little bit your feet

look tiny in Julia Turner's shoes. That's true that's true they are gi enormous

gi enormous shoes and I am but a little little person.

Yes, do your best to walk in them.

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