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Halloween
🌟 Our heroes outrun the boogeyman with Halloween, John Carpenter’s genre-defining slasher that birthed a thousand nightmares 🎃🔪👻Andrew and Greg rewind to their first encounters with the film, and compare it to how this rewatch feels now 📽️😱 Greg schools Andrew on ’70s horror, highlighting Carpenter’s minimalist score, his pitch-perfect direction, and how he turns simplicity into terror. Andrew, meanwhile, wants to talk about sex, specifically the movie’s pulse of sex and death, and the genius of Michael Myers as “The Shape," a motive-less evil that seems to target teenage desire itself (yeah…
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