Join Robert Black of the Groundhog Day Project as he stalks the people of Haddonfield and explores the details of the Halloween franchise, one minute at a time. Episodes Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
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how to fix #HalloweenKills and #HalloweenEnds by combining them... maybe; the enda prologue, the #thorncult, and making sense of corey. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Recorded while watching #HalloweenKills a second time but edited down for your enjoyment. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Kills Review - "I think Danny McBride and David Gordon Green fundamentally misunderstand this franchise"
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Firefighters responding to no call, just going home, being Enda, characters lacking arcs or personality, dumb chants, and so much more wrong with #HalloweenKills. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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The credits end, the screen goes black, the music fades, and The Shape is captured behind the Elrods' house. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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End credits, one final IMDb goof, the Halloween II novelization, the nature of evil, and a part of Michael Myers we weren't supposed to see. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 89 - "a dream about his vengeance on a Druid girl who had not returned his love"
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The film proper comes to an end, with looks back into the novelization, into Chaos Comics, into Michael's childhood and ancestry, and a look forward into Halloween II ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Alan Sanders of The Wilder Ride is with me again as Michael falls, Loomis can't really see the lawn below, and Laurie magically knows that the boogeyman isn't really dead. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Alan Sanders of The Wilder Ride joins me (sort of) as Loomis arrives just in time to recognize and shoot Michael Myers. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Laurie sends the kids to the MacKenzies, 3 years later in Halloween 2 the dialogue is just slightly different, and outside Loomis' "evil radar" has failed him. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 85 - "Loomis is crazed, unhinged. In the novelization, he’s running on some sort of evil radar right now… because that’s normal."
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Michael's supressed sexuality, Loomis' madness, and the stupid mistakes that reviewers, writers, filmmakers, and fans make. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 84 - "like he was flailing uncontrollably a moment ago but knows exactly what he’s doing now"
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Minute 84 takes place entirely in a closet, lights flicker, hangers fall, and a door is broken. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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In the novelization, Laurie listens for the Shape's sounds downstairs; in the film, she gets the kids ready to make a run for it; and the bogeyman arrives to foil those plans. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Loomis' evil radar isn't working, Brackett is useless, but oh, is that music setting the mood. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 81 - "she wondered what grades your teachers gave you if you died mid-term; she wondered what they'd dress her in for the funeral"
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Laurie is in her head in the novelization as she waits for Michael to strike. He strikes, she strikes back. He falls to the floor. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 80 - "these are probably names of people who tried to be whistleblowers and had to be silenced"
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From flying geraniums to flightless astronauts, matching phones to mismatched houses, as a teenage girl's mind is broken when she realizes the phone doesn't work. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Front yards, back yards, duplicate doors, falling down, picking yourself back up, and screaming for help, only to lose your keys. Don't be Laurie Strode if you can help it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 78 - "Finally, she notices the stunt glass and, SECOND 46, she breaks it with both hands. And, we get another IMDb goof"
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The Shape gets his arm stuck, Laurie can't get out of the Wallace house, and when she does, she goes the wrong way. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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In the novelization, the bodies are more damaged, and Laurie fights back a little more, but the film has two iconic visuals inside one minute. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Laurie approaches the master bedroom in the Wallace house, punctuated by some great Carpenter score, and she finds... well, we all know who and what she finds there. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Another slow walk, as Laurie approaches and starts up the stairs in the Wallace house, with some wonderful John Carpenter music scoring the tension. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Nitpicking the whole "filmed in Pasadena" thing, talking about unlikable characters, and Laurie can't seem to find her friends in the Wallace house. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Laurie arrives at the Wallace house, geography is a little screwy, and is Laurie a feminist Final Girl? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 72 - "Welcome to Michael Myers Second, where we delve into the 1978 horror classic Halloween's Minute 72 one second at a time"
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Laurie crosses Orange Grove, crosses the Rubicon, crosses the Styx, and I'm talking about lighting, I'm talking about dogs barking, I'm talking about will o' the wisps, about music, about shadows, and about the power of suggestion. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Loomis has located his stolen station wagon and Laurie heads to the Wallace house, and I discuss Carol Clover's take on the Final Girl. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 70 - "attuning himself to the vibrations of evil in the air and trying to get a fix "
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As Laurie checks on the children, Loomis wanders the streets in search of a feeling. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 69 - "The girl danced madly in his clutches, biting, kicking, wriggling, scratching, pounding, pulling, striking"
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Lynda's struggle ends and I explore the timing and the sounds as Laurie realizes that something is very wrong tonight. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Rotary dial phones, "The Shape Lurks" musical cue, and famous squealing. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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The orgin of bedsheet ghosts, some more of the history of trick-or-treating, Bob's a punk, and Michael is Bob. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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An extra laundry closet, a dying Bob Simms, Michael Myers pinning people to walls, and if not my last IMDb goof rant, maybe my biggest. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Bob goes to get some beer, leaving Lynda to get comfortable. He arrives in the kitchen and finds some peanuts to go with the beer, and he hears a noise--someone is nearby, but who? Also, this episode is gimmicky as can be. And it might have taken you longer to read this description than to listen to it. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…
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Post-coital cigarettes are smoked... and that's about all for Minute 64. And, oh, Michael's watching. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Misplaced jack o' lanterns, awkward strip teases, and why I should never record audio books with sex scenes in them. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Tommy mansplains, Laurie lies, and IMDb goofs wrong as usual as Lynda trips. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Making out at the Wallace house, jack o' lantern carving at the Doyle house, and Halloween 2018 is too "slasher". ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Michael Myers, Barry White, Lynda and Bob sitting on the couch, K-I-S-S-I-N-G ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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A scene from the Halloween II novelization sheds new light on Doctor Loomis, and Lynda and Bob bring us to Love's Baby Soft, Pretty Baby, and 70s perversion. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 58 - "Something that had no name, something hideous, something that now had a human form"
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Stefan Hutchinson's "Sam", Joe Blevins' theory on Doctor Loomis as the real bogeyman, projection, pranks, moments of darkness, and looking past the wall. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Alyson Grimm of The Room Minute is with me again to talk Haddonfield palm trees, pervy Doctor Loomis lurking, Cal Worthington and his dog Spot, attorney Edgar Snyder, and the houses of Halloween. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Alyson Grimm of Potent Podables is back to talk corpse juggling, mysterious voices, bell bottoms, The Real Ghostbusters, and Michael Myers' hygiene. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Alyson Grimm is with me to talk who's luckier--Paul or Danny; possession by Celtic boys, "real" fans of the franchise, retcons, and psychosexual fury. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Michael cleans the Wallace living room, Annie gets a phone call from her father about being safe, then proceeds to get into a car with the boogeyman. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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This episode is mostly just me obsessing over the geography of the Wallace property, and wondering how Annie ever even found the garage in order to die there. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 52 - "you sound so disappointed that they'd get high instead of having an orgy"
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Rick Ingham of Mad Max Minute is with me to talk time compression, side characters in a lived in universe, awful pet names, and the legwork involved in being a murderer. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Sean German and Dave Pallas of Groundhog Minute are with me one more time to talk IMDb goofs, the ease of babysitting Lindsey Wallace, daylight savings time, getting behind on Netflix, and the problem with Michael Myers crouching. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Sean German and Dave Pallas of Groundhog Minute are back with me to talk misplaced phones, borrowed shirts, age differences, and motivations, as Annie talks to Paul. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Halloween Minute 49 - "this could just be avoided by if they had microwaveable popcorn in 1978"
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Sean German and Dave Pallas of Groundhog Minute join me to talk nightmares, corpse disposal, inconvenient laundry sheds, and hoarding plants for winter. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Talking Halloween night at Sugarmynt Gallery, dressing up as death, Lindsey Wallace's alien leadership, and not wanting to be interrupted while watching a movie. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Talking Annie Brackett's laundry competence, bluing, The Streets of San Francisco, novelization vs film, and I hope you have an appropriately horrifying Halloween. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Talking misidentification, laundry room locations, and panicking on the inside. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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Harper W Harris of The Thing Minute joins me to talk The Thing from Another World, The Thing, , costumes, remakes, sequels, franchises, perspective, Quentin Tarantino, and John Carpenter. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★由lemming drops studio
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