The Rewatchables ·
Overacting Award
The hitchhiking religious man
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:04:20
Van Lathan: Myers is called the hero: a natural-selection force removing foolish victims.
Chris Ryan: If this were the final Halloween, it would rank second; Jamie inheriting evil is a strong ending undermined by the fifth film.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:31:18
Bill Simmons: Do not publicize adopting the killer’s niece; avoid adopting her or move her away with a new identity.
The film
Directed by Dwight H. Little · Horror
88 minutes
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Roof battle, trick-or-treat night and gas station are distinct final favorites.
The Halloween music
Gas pumps, cash registers, vigilante mobs, no cellphones and the sheriff’s daughter are offered; the daughter is favored.
The sheriff’s daughter
A new hall of fame is proposed and the sheriff’s daughter is immediately inducted.
Vigilante mobs deepen the town story and Loomis’s strategy, though the all-white lynch-mob imagery draws an objection.
Myers killing the golden retriever is disliked and explicitly appears in both aging categories.
The repeated no, no, no
Myers collapsing into the sinkhole; the rocking-chair deep-focus composition
The abandoned gas station and attached bar with Lincoln pictures are nominated.
Kelly’s six huge cups of coffee
Abandoning Dr Hoffman midway
Loomis
The script is said to have been rushed in13 days before a strike, explaining thin family-story decisions.
The forehead finger kill, Brady’s jaw crush and the truck driver’s face being torn off are separate favorites.
The hitchhiking religious man
Kelly, acting in a sex comedy while everyone else faces Myers
Back for More Cash and Ten Years Later are proposed; the latter is not necessarily better than Return of Michael Myers.
Kelly’s warning to wise up to what men want is the favorite quotation.
Myers is called the hero: a natural-selection force removing foolish victims.
Pleasence is reported to have four marriages and five daughters, to drink two bottles of wine before a scene, and to be described as impaired in the S&L oral history (observed transcription); these allegations are unverified.
Carpenter’s script with Joe Dante attached was reportedly rejected; Carpenter and Hill sold their ownership, with later involvement and payment uncertain.
No: a Black family would leave Haddonfield, and a comic departure scene is imagined.
Bo Starr as the sheriff
The sheriff’s daughter is favored; observed Richard Stay as Wade, aggressively flirting in the store, is another candidate.
Jennifer Connolly is suggested as a more famous replacement for Ellie Cornell.
The prompt produces impressions, with Ryan Rucco explicitly selected again.
Salt Lake City replaced Pasadena, imported leaves and squash supplied autumn, and George P Wilbur wore hockey pads.
“Cops Do It by the Book” shirts; Kinmont (also offered)
Elderly Cruise as deranged Loomis
No firm choice: The Shape, Haddonfielders, Haddonfield Horrors, or Cops Do It by the Bookers
Children knowing Jamie’s uncle, local adoptions and undeveloped town dysfunction
Most options have already been tried, leaving prestige TV available.
Byron Mayo could interrupt the love triangle with suggestive advice; Robert Loggia would also improve a role.
Tentatively, the score; probably nobody
Why Jamie was not made the fifth film’s killer is questioned, with New Nightmare and Scream3 as later experiments.
Halloween5 supplies the continuation: Myers survives the collapsed dynamited shaft, floats away, recuperates and kills his helper; Jamie’s mother survived and Jamie becomes mute in an institution.
The Cops Do It by the Book shirt
Do not publicize adopting the killer’s niece; avoid adopting her or move her away with a new identity.
Two Myers choices, one Harris choice and a later music choice; no unanimous winner.
The invited producer finds this a natural follow-up to Halloween1 and enjoys the holiday-horror atmosphere and approachable kitsch.
