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Strangers in the Alps: A Movie Podcast
S03E22 - Halloween 2007
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Halloween is comin' early this year for the Strangers! This episode, they tackle the not-at-all controversial and universally loved Rob Zombie remake of 1978 horror classic "Halloween" starring Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif and Danielle Harris.
"Halloween" is available to stream on Tubi!
Nearly two decades after being committed to a mental institution for killing his stepfather and older sister, Michael Myers breaks out, intent on returning to the town of Haddonfield, Ill.
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And welcome to another episode of Strangers in the Alps, a movie podcast, where every week we discuss movies. And now we're doing themes. And our theme right now is This month we're doing remakes.
SPEAKER_01But what makes it special is that it's not just any remakes, it's remakes of movies we've seen previously. So we highly encourage everybody to listen to our other ones. To our previous podcast.
SPEAKER_05We never did the original of the city. We never did the original of this. As far as they know, yes, we did. We didn't do the original of this one. We did.
SPEAKER_01But then, however, with this one, we want to talk about um the remakes and the other ones we'd seen and then not the audience in suspense.
SPEAKER_05My name is Dan.
SPEAKER_03My name is Travis. Sam. My name is Frank, and I was good to you, audience.
SPEAKER_04I'm audience, I was good to you. I was good to you.
SPEAKER_05Travis, I know there's no way that you actually are ready to read the back of the VHS.
SPEAKER_04No. Well, can you I don't need to. I can just describe the whole movie. This okay, go for it. Sha for shot. In three sentences, please. Oh. Rob Zombie remakes Halloween. White trash.
SPEAKER_05There we go. So the movie we're covering today is uh Rob Zombie's Halloween, a remake of the original Halloween. Which was what year? 88?
SPEAKER_04No, no. No, earlier, 84. 78. 78. Oh, 78.
SPEAKER_05Oh my gosh. Oh, you're right. It was 78. Okay.
SPEAKER_01And this one was 2007.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Dan. You don't remember your 40s? Wow. So, wow. I guess, I guess we should start with pre-thought.
SPEAKER_04Are you forgetting again where you were on her?
SPEAKER_05Do we have enough? Do we need to do a bigger stroke on the plot? Are we just good because it is a remake of the original? I'll go with that. Enough people know the original that they know basically. I mean, there are differences, obviously. Yeah, yeah. That can be part of our discussion. Well, there's a big difference, but it's still the original Halloween.
SPEAKER_01We can make that part of our discussion. We don't need to make it. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_05So then let's go ahead. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04I was gonna say, no, I we'll say it after the pre-thoughts.
SPEAKER_05Let's do pre-thoughts. I will start. I had heard of this movie, surprisingly. Um, I used to listen to a morning show called Mark and Brian. They were on KLOS from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. or 6 to 10. And they would have Rob Zombie on.
SPEAKER_01He was awake early.
SPEAKER_05He was he was one of their guests. He was a very glib, very entertaining, really good interview. You know, very, very entertaining, fun guy. But so I remember him talking about the making of this movie. The remake. And all everybody, you know, and of course Mark and Brian were very supportive and excited about it. But then I remember hearing Effort Open that it was not considered to be very good. Now I wouldn't have gone to it anyway. I did see the original Halloween, which I really, really liked. But I would have never gone to this, but uh and then I heard it wasn't good, so anyway. That's my pre-thought. That's as far as I got with it. Until you guys made me watch it. Go ahead, Travis. I You probably saw in the theater. You're like 16 when it came out.
SPEAKER_04No, you want to know something crazy? Oh. I do. Make it really crazy. No, I hadn't seen it until like we did this podcast.
SPEAKER_05You're serious? I've never seen it. But you never saw it? No, never saw it. So what was your pre- then give me let's roll back to 2007. What what why didn't you go see it? I'm shocked.
SPEAKER_04I I don't know. That's the thing. I've I was in 10th grade. Okay. I was in 10th grade when it came out, and I had actually visited the set of this movie.
SPEAKER_05Where?
SPEAKER_04Uh North Hills. Okay. Um, because uh someone I knew, friend's dad was working on the film, so he took us to the set of the movie. Oh nice and no, it was fun, it was a lot of fun. Um the hospital that this movie was filmed in was actually an abandoned mental hospital. So a lot of the stuff, the stuff was just left out, like everyone left. So my friends and I decided, oh, let's go like urban explore it in the sections they weren't filming in.
SPEAKER_02Nice.
SPEAKER_04So we were going in, walking, and this is the first time I thought this was just in movies, where we had a flashlight and we'd shine it across and you couldn't see the end of the hallway. And we decided, let's split up. So we split up, we were walking, we all got lost.
SPEAKER_05Sounds like the movie.
SPEAKER_04And then we w and then it was funny because I ended up just being like, you know what, I'm just gonna go to the roof. So I went to the roof, we were going, and my friends, we all met up there, and then we opened the door to leave, and right when we opened it, my friend's dad jumped out and scared all of us.
SPEAKER_01How is this the pre-thoughts?
SPEAKER_04My pre-thoughts were even though all this aside. No, all this aside scarier than probably what you saw in the movie. My thing is I remember that I just you know me, I'll watch sequels to anything. I'll watch it.
SPEAKER_05This is what shocks me because Halloween is such a huge movie. It's just And you probably saw all the sequels up until then.
SPEAKER_04I've seen every Halloween movie except you have this one and the I just never had an interest. Okay.
SPEAKER_05Um was this his first?
SPEAKER_04No, his first one was uh House of a Thousand Corpses from like 2001 or two. Okay. He had done a few before this. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03And then he did Devil's Rejects in 2005, I think. Yeah. That was not very good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I heard that's the best movie.
SPEAKER_01I I feel like a thousand corpse. Anyway.
SPEAKER_04Um two very kind of different movies.
SPEAKER_05This was his third, this was 2007. So Sam, what are your pre-thoughts? When did you see it originally? Like yesterday. Well, last week and then Wow, so this is your first viewing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I had Frank this will be, hold on. This will be I had a journey with this movie, if I may go on a tangent.
SPEAKER_05Please, please.
SPEAKER_01So last week, right, watched it, I actually forgot about it that we were doing a podcast. Tuesday, watched it, and then things got cancelled. So I was like, great, I turned it off, went to bed, and then I watched it. I tried watching on Sunday, fell asleep. Tried watching it yesterday, fell asleep. And then today, I was like, no, I have to watch this, like I have to. And then I turned on beep and it just wouldn't work. And I was like, thank god.
SPEAKER_03It's a sign.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, maybe it'd be really fun if I just go to the podcast and be like, hey, I only saw an hour and nine minutes of this, tell me the rest. Oh. But then that didn't happen. I finished it. Okay. Um, but my pre-thought story was that I heard about this and I kept forgetting about it, and then here we are. Okay.
SPEAKER_05Frank, you've seen it, I'm sure, 15 times.
SPEAKER_03Seen it tw two or three times.
SPEAKER_05Sit down, watch, or background doing other stuff. I know you.
SPEAKER_03Sit down and watch what the first time I saw it was to like get it over with. Band-aid. Because I I knew that it had a reputation I didn't see it in theaters. And the second time I was like, you know what? Maybe I misjudged it. Let me see. And then the third time was for this podcast.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03So nobody has a real deep dive on this movie.
SPEAKER_05Meaning, like, have seen it so much that there's a lot of things. Dan, I think so too.
SPEAKER_04Oh, sorry.
SPEAKER_05No, that's it.
SPEAKER_04I think it's reputation too, because for me, I think it kind of came out. I was 16, so I didn't see it in theaters. And I don't think at the same time I also had much interest. But I think, like I said, I had heard it was kind of like brutal, and because of that, I just kind of avoided it and then I heard everyone said, Oh, the sequel was awful. So I was like, Why do I even want to watch the first one? And then I think with them He did Halloween too as well, right? Yes, and then I think and then I think with the David Gordon Green, those ones from like 2018 and on, I was just like, Well, if this is just completely like non-canon anymore and anything, like, just why does it matter? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01What was the reputation? That it was gory?
SPEAKER_04That it was just kind of brutal and just kind of like nothing, yeah. And and we discussed why it's brutal though. Well, and I think one of the main reasons too was because people had talked about it, it was more like, oh, well, we're gonna show Michael Myers in his childhood and show him why he is the way and I was just kind of like the origin story, the origin story, and I'm just like, I guess, I don't need to see that. Like, I I like how in the original movie it's a two-minute scene, the fur the POV shot with him walking up, putting the mask on, it explains everything.
SPEAKER_05I don't need to know the less you know about his background, the scarier he is. It's like strangers, whatever that movie is, where they just show up to the house and why why are you killing us because you answered the door? That's that's way scarier than oh, I got a whole reason why. I don't care.
SPEAKER_04And and and that's the thing. Now, seeing this one, like I paused it after he gets arrested. Michael gets arrested, and that whole thing is about 30 minutes. Oh god. It takes 30 minutes. Um, but I think even with the explanations, it's just kind of like Michael had a bad childhood. That's why it's evil. It's like okay. And then Loomis writes the book, is like, this boy is the embodiment of evil, his the antichrist. I'm like, why? We don't see much. I mean, I'm not trying to discount, like, yeah, he like killed his family. Like, that's bad, that's evil. But I'm like, in what uh is there something they're not showing us?
SPEAKER_05Right?
SPEAKER_04But I think it's because Dan, do you know the backstory behind?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_04But do you know the original like pitch for this whole movie?
SPEAKER_05This this particular version was like.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so what Rob Zombie wanted to do was he always wanted to do two films, Halloween and Halloween 2. But the first film was supposed the ending was supposed to be him escaping the hospital. So Lori Strode, the whole first movie would would actually be the second movie. Okay. So that's why I feel like maybe stuff got cut because I think my main thing with the difference the differences with the movies, even the way they're structured, was I feel like the second once we are introduced to Lori and her friends, and we get into the remake of Halloween, right? It's the most rushed movie I've ever seen in my life.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you were right that it was like it goes by fast.
SPEAKER_04Well, it's like it's to me to me, to me, it's sped up, and I'm like, okay, cool. And and then I don't blame I almost can't blame the acting for why I didn't like it because I'm like, well, I also don't know any of these characters besides them just kind of talking a bit and their conversations, but other than that, I'm like, I don't know who any of you are.
SPEAKER_05Well, acting I don't think was the reason why this movie has issues. I want to tell a quick story whenever about the versions that I saw and didn't know. So I originally was trying to get it, I I couldn't get it to stream on on beep, but I was so I said, Well, I gotta watch it. This is when I thought, you know, what we're gonna be talking about tomorrow. Three weeks ago. So I got on YouTube and s and I could f and I found it and I started watching it. And I got about maybe 15, 20 minutes into it, and I looked up in the corner of the YouTube and it said, fan edit. Oh, oh, this is not actually the direct this is not a studio release, this is a fans edit. So I looked at the length and it was like 20 minutes shorter than the actual length of the movie. So I said, Well, I can't watch this. So I dumped it and I went back and I, okay, okay, I found it on beep, and I I just start watching it. Well, the fan edit literally starts when he's sitting out in front of the house with his mask and he goes in and kills his family. And that that's where the movie starts. So all that stuff that leads up to that moment, gone. Not in it. It starts there. Now, having watched the movie, I was talking to Frank the other day, and he actually said, Oh yeah, you you actually watched the what version did I watch?
SPEAKER_01Unrated.
SPEAKER_05The unrated? Yeah, I saw the unrated version.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, which is 20 minutes longer than the version I watched. It's about 15 minutes longer.
SPEAKER_05I I don't know. I mean, I I I'm I'm sure you're right, but I don't know what I saw that you didn't see.
SPEAKER_04I can tell you one big scene that's cut. Um, so there's a scene you I haven't seen it, I just know about it, so you're gonna have to explain in the not in a detailed. It's a very important scene, Den. It's very important to the plot. It's it's a scene like why they cut it. I guess when his escaping the hospital, I guess there's like a rape scene. Yes. That's not in the theatrical version, like that's cut entirely. I remember that. So I don't think.
SPEAKER_05So how does he escape then? Well, he Because that he escapes in that scene.
SPEAKER_04Well, how he escapes is they're they take him into the double door and he just kind of slides out, stabs the person.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I remember that. Okay. Right, okay, I remember.
SPEAKER_05Oh, she was a patient. Wait a minute, she was a patient, and you saw that scene? Yeah, you saw the same version I saw. Yeah. You saw the when we when we realized that you watched the unrated. Were those two goofball first of all, you guys are not hired in any institution in America. So I don't even know who you fing are. As soon as that kind of crap happens, I go, What am I watching? Okay, so let's go there. Then what they were doing didn't make any sense. Like you want to rape the girl. Oh no, you want him to what what are we doing here? Right. It was just a whack. And then of course, you're sitting there, like most of the movie, pardon me. You're sitting there going, all we're doing is structuring scenes for Michael Myers to do something gruesome. That's all we're doing. Every especially after we got into it. Every scene is just a set uh a circumstance to have a killing. That's all we're I know I'm jumping really fast, but that is really what the movie It's like that from the get-go, yeah.
SPEAKER_01From the young Michael Myers all the way through. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So who which was it the two guys that were in like the break room?
SPEAKER_05I don't remember the break room.
SPEAKER_04No, it's the part where they're there and they're like, oh, we gotta transport this prisoner, and they're like, oh yeah, I got it.
SPEAKER_05I don't know, they get the girl out of the cell and say, Oh, we're gonna take her in there. Like I said, this character. This is disgusting.
SPEAKER_04This girl or character is not even in the cut that I watched. That's why I'm like, I don't know when this happened. You never need to see it. Exactly. No, I don't. I don't. That's why I was like, hey, don't, but I didn't know it was the version we owned. That's why I said, oh, like, guys, do not watch the unrated version. There's it's 20 minutes longer. There's a big scene that's not needed.
SPEAKER_01You know what's funny? He said that, and then he won't tell us what was the unrated thing. If I if you would have told us, I would have been like, oh yeah, I'm not gonna watch that. Be like, I'll just tell you on the podcast day. So you made me sit there and watch it.
SPEAKER_04I thought you had already seen it. That's why. No, you told us last week. I thought you had already seen it.
SPEAKER_03No, I'd already seen it by proxy.
SPEAKER_05I was already deep past that movie before when I found out Frank that I watched the movie.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. But aren't you glad that you got all that context? All that really important context.
SPEAKER_05That explained Let me get to my notes here.
SPEAKER_01I remember do I remember seeing the opening scene first or once because you guys had shown it to me because you guys were making fun of it or something. Like, oh, you have to see the opening scene.
SPEAKER_05Oh, the the white trashness of it all? You mean with the drunken stepfather and the and the trashy daughter and the trashy stripper mom? That's Rob's Rob Zombie's wife, Sherry Moon. I actually I mean, that does not make a Michael Myers. Those circumstances do not a Michael Myers make. And I remember stupid.
SPEAKER_01When they played it, I was like, But you don't understand.
SPEAKER_03His his childhood was fucked up. That's what I'm Go ahead, Sam. Sorry.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but I remember watching it and being like, oh, this is like this is the embodiment of like Rob Zombie's work. It's just trailer trash.
SPEAKER_04It's trailer trash? It's trailer trash. People yell, people yelling at each other. It's just so people yelling at each other, using slurs.
SPEAKER_01Like, I'm like, why do I and then just like the really oversaturated whatever sepia. I don't know. And yet I still like his music.
SPEAKER_05Well, I don't know it well, but I mean that's I did know that's where he came from. Yeah. You know the song Dragula, probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I I I don't know it well. I mean, I know I've heard I just want to say at the point we're talking about right now, that whole opening, I actually made a note. Dan's the Dan meter is low. Very low. I mean, I'm watching this going, crap. This is the first 15 minutes of the movie. Oh man. Yeah. And it's two hours live. I am not up for this.
SPEAKER_04You know, it's I it I it's coming back to me. You wouldn't believe that they shot this whole movie in a week ago. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01What? Let's come back to me.
SPEAKER_04I think I had seen some of that. Yeah, when we did that's why, from this opening, that's why I wouldn't watch the movie.
SPEAKER_05Um why was why was the daughter fingering a bagel? Um, because it's edgy, Dan.
SPEAKER_01Don't enticed the stepdad, I think.
SPEAKER_05Okay. I just needed to ask.
SPEAKER_01You know?
SPEAKER_05I found myself doing a lot of staring at this movie. Uh-huh. And I would see things happen.
SPEAKER_03I would just stare and I'd go, oh my god. You don't remember the scene in the original when Jimmy Lee Curtis fingers a bagel? I did not remember that. No. Oh.
SPEAKER_05She fingered a pumpkin. Or was that a donut hole that she was?
SPEAKER_03No, no, no. I'm thinking of her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Go to an Oscar for it. With her big wiener, with her big hot dog fingers.
SPEAKER_01Her big wiener.
SPEAKER_05And the bagel of nothing. There were a lot. And I probably mm perhaps know this more than you guys do, but there were a lot of semi-celebrity people all through the stuff. Yeah, I can I can name them. I can name them. Okay. D.
SPEAKER_04Wallace was the mom in the what famous movie?
SPEAKER_05You got it.
SPEAKER_04And then you had um you also had the the trucker, the one that that that owns the truck that Michael Myers kills in the bathroom.
SPEAKER_05And he was in what?
SPEAKER_04He was in original Dawn of the Dead. Ken Forey. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I was thinking of the other guy. Wait, wait, wait, wait. He's the guy that's got shit on his pants because he didn't finish shitting. That's right. And put the So the whole movie, Michael Myers is walking around killing people with shit in his pants. Exactly right. Which is disgusting. Smelling like a freaking pants. Because he was on the shitter and he wasn't done. He wasn't done, man.
SPEAKER_05He pulled his knife out. He wasn't done, and then Michael Myers just beat the crowd on the shit.
SPEAKER_03He put it all back on to like confront Michael.
SPEAKER_04He had his taco special, remember? It's like I just had a taco special. And then you had the well, you know who the sheriff? The sheriff is Brad Doris. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Who was in what?
SPEAKER_04Well, I know him from Chucky. He plays in Child's Play.
SPEAKER_05He was actually in the uh Academy Award-winning uh One Floor of the Kook. That's what I was gonna say in the world. Lord of the Rings 20 ended up in the show. Danny Trejos was in this movie.
SPEAKER_04Danny Trejos. Treyos.
SPEAKER_05World famous toilet seller. Yeah. He was in Taco Coffee. He played the nice janitor guy. He was good to you, Danny. But the one that really blew my mind is Mickey Dolans of the Monkeys. Yeah. He was in one of the gun shop. He was the gun shop owner. And that just blew my mind. I went, oh my god, that's one of the monkeys.
SPEAKER_04And then his he wasn't famous then, but you know who Tommy Doyle was, right? You told me, but I forgot. No, I didn't tell you about it. Tommy Doyle, which one was he? The kid, the kid in the movie. He was uh in Superman. He was Jimmy Olson Olson in Superman. When this is the most recent one? Yes. Oh that's cool. Yeah, and he was the guy, Jimmy Olson and Superman. He's also the in Book Smart Skylark. That's him. Good for him.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. And of course. Malcolm McDowell.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_05And we could give at least a five-minute conversation. We have to give him five minutes.
SPEAKER_04One more frame.
SPEAKER_05He's in a different campy movie, but he's so good. He walked on the set of the wrong movie. I I firmly believe he. He said, I'm hungry.
SPEAKER_04Apparently. What do we have?
SPEAKER_05When's this farce getting started?
SPEAKER_04I'm just here for the orange juice.
unknownGod.
SPEAKER_04He well, I mean, you two haven't seen it, but we also had an alumni from previous Halloween movie. Oh yes. Is um Jamie. Yeah, the friend. She was in um she was in Halloween four. She was the little girl. Oh, I have no idea. You wouldn't know that.
SPEAKER_01I didn't know.
SPEAKER_04Daniel Harris.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, Daniel Harris. I think we covered all the celebrities, though, right?
SPEAKER_04There was a lot of alumni, because there's also Sid Haig was in it. Oh, I'm not telling solemni.
SPEAKER_05I was alumni. That's a good word. Captain Spawnman.
SPEAKER_04I thought that solemni. What was he? He was the coroner, the guy. Oh, who did this shit? Like with like the grave when it's dug up and there's like the squirrel thing.
SPEAKER_01I might have been asleep at that point.
SPEAKER_05Adrian Barbo was asleep. No, I I have to tell you, I I I have so much respect for you. If you could fall asleep in that minute, I was just staring at the end. I never fell asleep, though. I wish I would have.
SPEAKER_04Your favorite actor was actually. The movie too. Clint Howard. And Clint Howard.
SPEAKER_05I forgot to write that just. Ron Howard's random.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. What was he?
SPEAKER_05He's always in Ron Howard movies.
SPEAKER_01Well, and then I I What was he in the movie?
SPEAKER_05He was just one scene. He was um Forgive me, Frank.
SPEAKER_04Frank, forgive me because I don't know. You're forgiven. Udo Kidir? Like, what's it what's Udo Kier? Yeah, he's in the movie too. Yes, he is. But apparently in the theatrical version that I saw, he's only in like one shot, but he has a couple scenes in the unrated version. Oh, then we must have seen him. And Bill Mosley, Chop Top from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is one of the security guards.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_04From the original Texas? From the original Texas. I think I gotta watch this movie all over here. So Rob Zombie dipped into the slasher world and brought all these guys for his own fun and amusement. Not exactly because a lot of these people in the movie are like Rob Zombie alumni. Like they were also in Devil's Rejects. Some of I don't know, like he just has a lot of people. Well that's what he's trying to do. All it he wants to just create the movies that he would see at like a drive-in in like the 70s.
SPEAKER_01You would not be seeing this in the 70s.
SPEAKER_05The thing that's rated X interesting to me about and since we're doing sequels as our theme this month.
SPEAKER_04Remakes.
SPEAKER_05Yes. Remakes, sorry. The thing that's interesting to me, and I was talking, I think, to Travis about this, there's like a handful of movies. That look, and everything's fair game. So I'm not saying you can't make a remake, but there are a handful of movies that you just should not remake. Because you what are you doing? Yeah. The original Halloween. Regardless of being one of the top, I would put top 5'10 maybe of slash of the genre ever made, is that you just don't touch it. Because what are you doing? Because what are you gonna do? And how and you learned absolutely nothing from John Carpenter in this remake you made. Nothing. Because he did not have all this blood, he did not have all this graphic violence, he scared the crap out of you. It's a scary frickin' movie, but it's not it's not gruesome. No, it's just at the time it was thought to be scary.
SPEAKER_04So much so that John Carpenter, who directed Halloween 2, turned it down so many times. He didn't want to do it. He didn't want to apparently he said he only got through the movie because he wrote it drunk. But it was to the point too where it was the sequel? Yeah, the original Halloween, like you said, then had zero blood in it, was not I mean, it's credited as being a slasher, but you're not seeing a lot of people getting gutted. No. And and apparently what they wanted was so after between Halloween and Halloween 2, a movie comes out called Friday the 13th.
SPEAKER_03You've never heard of it.
SPEAKER_04And um, so what happened was that, you know, like you said, slasher, people getting hacked, so the studio then wanted Halloween 2 to be similar to that. Right. So if you ever watch Halloween 2, it's a straight up slasher. Right. It's brutal, it's a lot different. But I agree with Dan. It's like I like it, but I I agree where it's But we're talking about Halloween, the original. No, if you touch, and I agree, if you touch Halloween, what are you gonna do differently? Like, I'm not totally against remakes. Like, I feel like there are some you can still touch, like Kate. So there are movies you can remake. Take a lesser-known franchise, like, I don't know, if you want to do like maybe Black Christmas, prom night. Sure.
SPEAKER_05There's a bunch of movies you could probably even make better than the original. Christmas Evil. But it's it's like it's like Psycho. They did do a remake, and what a ridiculous disaster that was. Well, they realize you can't do anything to it. In the original film, it's like you're not gonna make it any better. It's not possible. So just leave it alone. The Wizard of Oz, not a slasher movie. You're not gonna make it better. So just leave it alone. And there's some movies, just you just leave them alone and let them exist in their classic world and not there's there's one way you can remake Wizard of Oz, though, and it's already been done.
SPEAKER_04Call it Wicked? No, it's called You Just Play Dark Side of the Moon while while Wizard of Oz is playing. There you go.
SPEAKER_05I actually tried that once. I got about halfway through it. It does work. It actually does match up. I just got bored.
SPEAKER_04Well, that's the thing. But it's I'm not saying it's something different. You know, it's like, oh, there's a cool experience.
SPEAKER_03You can try watching it with your eyes closed. That's different. There you go. Then you don't have to turn the movie on. Just listen to the dark side.
SPEAKER_04I I um okay. So what were we saying? Um I need to look at my notes. I didn't even write notes. Well, we're we're still kind of talking about actors, right? So many loves.
SPEAKER_05You fell asleep and you didn't make it. I love that.
SPEAKER_04I wish I would have done both. What did we think, though, of the use of the theme in the original versus this one? The music theme? Yes. Oh, the theme song? Yeah. Hello.
SPEAKER_05This was just hammering you over the head.
SPEAKER_04Well, I think to me, like I said, I think this was used more sometimes as like a like a little nudge. Like it's the scene where I feel like it's the little things building up where like I think at one point he's just walking in the hallway. It's like, it's the Halloween theme because it's gonna be Michael Myers. I'm like, okay, like it's it's not but it would be like Go ahead, finish now. But I'm just saying, is like I I feel like the first film was a little more subtle with it, and you had a lot more your like your music cues that tied with the score, and there was not any of that in this one.
SPEAKER_05It would to me, it would be like if you made a Mission Impossible movie, you know how they always have like they had the whole cold opening, which usually lasts like 15 minutes, and then it goes right to the It's always with the reveal.
SPEAKER_03But it's with the reveal, but it then it doesn't play for the rest of the movie.
SPEAKER_05Yes, like every time they got to a climax, they would start again. And you can't do that.
SPEAKER_04It'd almost be like if they were playing the theme over like the studio logos as the film's coming in. It's like okay, like that's the thing.
SPEAKER_05It was very self-conscious. Every time the theme of Halloween came up is very quick.
SPEAKER_03Because Mission Impossible is very like remember, remember that ultimately as the theme, baby.
SPEAKER_04Because yeah, no, I I agree. I agree. That's but a lot of it too, I mean, I don't know. I don't maybe I just wasn't paying attention enough. Did what did the theme sound different in this movie?
SPEAKER_05It just sounded more like cross way more produced. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Like bigger and because I I will say though, the one thing I did I'm I'm interested, Dan, in your fan edit that you watched. Because I actually didn't know. I didn't get that far into the I think it probably would have made it a cool opening was where you watched it where he walked out. Because I did I kind of liked the scene where he's waiting outside and it kind of goes sepia and it's showing like the court story, and it's kind of like showing footage uh and like like news, core. I actually kind of like that. I was like, that actually probably would have made for a good opening of a remake. Yes. Because it's like, you know, it's something from them, but we're seeing it differently. It's like, hey, like it it it almost kind of is like the Superman movie that just came out, where the beginning is like you get your text and then Superman crashes. It's like we don't need to see that origin, it's he just killed everyone. Let's go.
SPEAKER_05Right. So you do that, he gets arrested, and now we need to jump ahead to adulthood. We don't need all that crap of him being a kid and being examined by awful Malcolm McDowell.
SPEAKER_04Well, my point is.
SPEAKER_05I mean, straight up, and I have so much respect for his career, his early career. He's a really fine actor, but man, he was male in that one in.
SPEAKER_04Well, uh apparently I don't know, I don't know how I don't know how true this is, but apparently Malcolm McDowell ruined a lot of takes in this movie because he was just making people laugh. Like purposely.
SPEAKER_01So I think that'd take a joke somewhere.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but he's a really fun character in two. He was just collecting a check. Yeah, so like I don't I I don't imagine we're covering it on the podcast because reasons. But in a two is is not a remake of of so starts off looking like it's a remake of two in the hospital, but then they they're like, actually, it's just a dream, and then the rest of the movie it's a completely original story. Uh, and in it, um, Loomis comes back as like a celebrity writer who's like super obsessed with himself. Oh gosh, and like a total dick. And um, it's actually a much more interesting like character arc as far as like care like he and Lori are completely different characters.
SPEAKER_04Well, we didn't get much of a character of Lori in this first movie. You you don't get the same Lori in the sequel either.
SPEAKER_05No, you got plenty of a dick too in this sequel. You got boob baby. You got boobs everywhere you turn. You got boobs. Hey, hang on, boob, murder, boob, murder.
SPEAKER_04I remember, no, I remember. That's a clip. We're clipping that one. I remember when Sam's Oh, there's some boobs.
SPEAKER_05Okay, now when some of it must die.
SPEAKER_04When the movie wasn't working for Sam, I texted Sam. I was like, Sam, what part are you on? She's like, I think there's like a sex scene. I was like, that's half the movie. Giving some context.
SPEAKER_01I was like my other friend, and he's like, Oh, how's it going? Like, there's people just having sex. He goes, That's the whole movie. Yeah. Just sex.
SPEAKER_05So was Donald Pleasance in the sequel of the original movie. He was in like five of them. He was in a bunch of them.
SPEAKER_03He was in the first six.
SPEAKER_05And then yeah. Remind me where I'm wrong. Every time. Michael Myers, and don't quote me exactly, but I remember him laying dead at the bottom of the window, her looking back out, and he was gone. Yes. And then Donald Pleasant says you can't kill the boogeyman. Yes, that's correct. That's the end of the movie. Yes. So how did he end up in a asylum in the second movie? No, no, no, no. He didn't. Oh, I thought you said in the second movie he was in asylum.
SPEAKER_04No, he said hospital. So basically in the second, the second movie of Halloween 2 is the same night. So after the police leave, Lori gets taken to the hospital to get examined. You know what's going on? And then Michael follows Hall.
SPEAKER_03Oh, he'd never he just shows up. Okay. So the there's a storyline in this one that they play out in the in the original, it's not there, and it's the uh Lori being uh Michael's sister. So that wasn't in the Is that in the original? It's not in the original. It was a retcon that they meant.
SPEAKER_05Was it in the sequels of the original? Yeah. Original sequels?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. So the for for Halloween 2 at the hospital, part of the reason why they play around with that is that um they give the the motivation that he's after her because she's his sister. But that wasn't in the original. In the original, it was just crazy guy goes out and you know, obsesses over the first thing he sees.
SPEAKER_04Is it just me or was it kind of over the top? I was d I think that's where I was kind of done with this movie, is when he pulled out the photograph? No, no, right after that, where Lori gets knocked out. When Lori gets knocked out and then she wakes up and you're in like it almost seems like you're in like a Halloween horror nights made like the Judith Myers, the gravestones, and then a pumpkin. The gravestones in the attic with the pumpkin. I was like, And then another naked person, another boob, the friend, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Not having sex system because she's dead.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, I was just like, are we doing this gravestone like horror night?
SPEAKER_05They tried. I'm gonna flip this for a second.
SPEAKER_04But another thing too let me know if I'm let me know if I miss something. Because I know you have to have your suspension of disbelief, but this one I was like, where did this come from? So it's the scene where Okay, so Michael Myers escapes, and he we don't even want to talk about he has this whole thing in this movie when he's a kid how he likes to make masks. Yeah, and then his asylum, he has like masks, and Danny Trey Danny Trey Hill's like, oh don't touch his mask, he doesn't like that. And then so basically, we know the origin of the mask in this one is the sister's boyfriend had it because he likes but then the Captain Kirk mask. Yes, but then suddenly when it's like 20 years, 17 years later, he goes into the attic and he just pulls up a floorboard and he pulls the mask out. Yes. Wait, what about it?
SPEAKER_05You didn't miss anything. Where did that come from? Who knows? It bothered me. You missed nothing too much.
SPEAKER_01Out of everything that bothered you?
SPEAKER_05I understand because I get stuck on things like logic things, and it bothers me, but I'm I I can't help you on this one. Why?
SPEAKER_04Why is that under the floorboard? Like what?
SPEAKER_05Because before the boyfriend died, he put it under the floorboard, nailed it down, and then died.
SPEAKER_04I have no idea. That was the thing I was like, you couldn't. I don't know.
SPEAKER_05Like you couldn't just break into a Halloween shop and grab a Captain Kirk mask and continue on.
SPEAKER_04It's like they do this whole thing with him, with him wanting to make a few.
SPEAKER_05I don't even care where he found the mask.
SPEAKER_04No, that's what I'm saying. It's like you have the whole thing of him wanting to make masks, and it's like, and then he just finds one in the floorboard.
SPEAKER_05Look. Why Captain Kirk? Is there some reason why that was the mask picked in the original Halloween? Probably because it was like it was low, like budgetary. Yeah, budget reasons, probably. I've never really looked at it. It'd have been so cool if it was like a Nixon mask. That would be uh point break. Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_03Um yeah. What were we talking about? Oh yeah. Um just Malcolm McDowell. Loomis in the original versus Loomis in this one. Oh, Donald. Donald Pleasance was great.
SPEAKER_04I shot him six times.
SPEAKER_03I feel like you you you felt that he gave a shit.
SPEAKER_05This one's more like uh but it was written so it was so much better. Again, I don't blame the acting in this movie. I I mean, except Malcolm McDowell was just over the top. Evil has come to your little town, Sheriff.
SPEAKER_01It was like look at the cover.
SPEAKER_04I remember and that's the thing, is I feel like a lot of this movie too is just like assumptions like and then this happened. You never see because it's like so I like the idea when I actually I thought it was a good scene when when they're with with the I keep saying the orange juice. When the orange juice is on the table, when Michael's a kid and Mag McDowell, when they first meet and they're talking, and then he goes, and then Michael McDowell's like, Oh, you know, you don't remember anything about that night, you don't know what happened. He goes, Nothing happened that night. And he keeps saying, Oh, can I like see my family? So it introduces this thing, it's like, oh, like his perception is different. So it goes from that to then he kills the nurse, and then his like, oh, Michael hasn't talked to me in 15 years, but I read this whole book about him, and I did this whole thing where I can't help you anymore. Everything it's like, how did anything progress when you guys never talked and you just sat there? And you wrote this whole book calling him the Antichrist. It's like I can't help you anymore. I have to move on.
SPEAKER_05It's like But you haven't. I want you to remember this conversation. So when I launch into a logic thing, you're you can't say to me, Dan, you just gotta accept it. You just gotta go with it. Because I agree with you. Oh, you know what? You are right, but you never do this. You know why you never do this because it bothers you. Always accept it. Fight. Because it bothers you. No, but you know what I'm saying? You never go through this. This thing you're doing right now, I was I I agree with you. But you always accept stuff. And this one you're not.
SPEAKER_04I do it a lot because it bothers you. I do it a lot because it bothers me. Well, you do what? I like I just say, Dan, just forget I I agitate you.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Because I agree. I mean, but that's because this is a really, really stupid bad movie.
SPEAKER_04I and like I said, I'm okay.
SPEAKER_05Now listen here. Let's get down to the brass tacks. This is not a good movie.
SPEAKER_01And I'm not What, you didn't like it?
SPEAKER_04Oh I'm not gonna say I didn't like it. I'm not saying it would be a better movie if he got to do what he wanted, but I'm just very interested because it would have been a better movie if it hadn't been made. Well, I well, all I'm saying is at least at least if if Halloween, I'm gonna call it Halloween Year One. If Halloween Year One, this whole thing with him being in the hospital, at least if we got a whole movie with that, while you know I could say it wasn't a good movie, it would have been something different. I was like, I would like to.
SPEAKER_05No one wanna see that movie. You've got no killings, you've got no mass murder, no one wants to see that movie. I don't know. This is not one through the cuckoo's nest. This is a movie slasher or more. One flew over the pumpkin. That's what's so weird that they spent so much time in the hospital. I think it's because who cares? Let's get to it.
SPEAKER_03I think he was kind of obligated to remake the exact Halloween one movie, but I just don't feel like he wanted to. I feel like he did it just because that's what was expected. Because from what I've read, the stuff that really is most interesting to him is the stuff before.
SPEAKER_01But even then that was boring.
SPEAKER_03I mean, yeah, no, that's fair.
SPEAKER_05The thing is, once we got to the original hunt, once he got to the remake, which you're saying he didn't want to make, yeah, that makes sense to me because he didn't. He didn't remake it. All he did was all he did was come up with circumstances for Michael to kill somebody. Yeah. There was no storyline going on, there was no thread going on. It just became a series of killings that were just like, oh, now we're alone in this house. Okay, you're gonna get killed. Now we're you know, it was so stupid.
SPEAKER_04And no, Dan, and and that's what I'm kind of saying too is is while I I I agree with you that the first half in the hospital isn't great, it's surprisingly to me minus lively, minus the beginning with him at home. It's to me, and okay, I I did kind of like the scene too where he like followed the bully out and he had like the branch. Yes, yeah. Um, my with that scene and on, like I said, even though it's not great, Dan, I think it's the more interesting part of the movie.
SPEAKER_05I agree. I agree. Um I it wasn't well done, but it is the more interesting.
SPEAKER_04No, and and some more, some more compliments so bad. Some more backstory. Apparently, Rob Zombie, because like I said, all the interference with the studio, he said that he hated making this movie. It was horrible, it was terrible. He didn't want to come back for a sequel, but they he decided to come back, and the problem is, is I think the studio with the wine was kind of contradictory. Where now, when he did the sequel, the studio was mad because they're like, Everything is the same now, like it's it's the same as the other movie. I want to do something different. And he was like, Look what I was trying to do with the hospital. That was stuff that was different, and they're like, So apparently he didn't he said he even had a worse time making the second movie.
SPEAKER_05I don't feel bad for Rob Zoom.
SPEAKER_04I don't either. Um he cried all the way to the bank.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, I think he actually enjoyed making the second one because he got the studio to agree to let him do whatever he wanted.
SPEAKER_04Oh, see, I guess my story wasn't true then. How was the first movie?
SPEAKER_05Um, how how did it do in the box up?
SPEAKER_04It did well. The budget was 15 million. Oh, wow. And I think it did like 80 million? I think it did about 80, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Dan, you know, I I think what you really need to do to truly understand this movie is to watch the making of documentary. It's on the um special features of the collector's edition. It's a four and a half hour documentary. Uh, and if you sit down and actually watch it, I think maybe you can pull your head out of your ass and enjoy how much of a masterpiece this really is.
SPEAKER_04Dan, Dan, you just got Dan, you just gotta accept it. You just gotta let it be.
SPEAKER_03You just gotta let it be. You just gotta accept it. I'm trying to help you through this.
SPEAKER_04I don't know. I've actually okay, I will say I actually have seen some of the behind the scenes like of the process. I feel like it'd be way more interesting. It's way more interesting. It's actually it's it's it's pretty cool. It would have to be. It's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_03Um I don't know how they get off on making a four and a half hour documentary on this movie.
SPEAKER_05It's crazy.
SPEAKER_03Where where is it? It's on the special features. It's on the special features, but I I may I may it's let you borrow it. It's on YouTube as well.
SPEAKER_01Oh, is it I I have I have a question. How I might have missed this, but how did he know where Lori was? And how did he know that's his sister?
SPEAKER_05You asked good questions.
SPEAKER_04Well that okay, so Science. So here's the thing. You're right. Thank you guys. This is DNA. This is and I heard he plays a bigger part in the sequel. So the sheriff. So Brad Dorf. Brad Dorf. So what we know is I guess he knew. Yeah, Lori actually.
SPEAKER_05Because she was adopted. Yeah, because he was the one.
SPEAKER_04Lori was the, as we know, the younger, the baby in the beginning. And I guess he said that, like, when the murder, when the mom killed herself.
SPEAKER_01No, that I understand, but how did I say I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I'm saying, point is somehow when he saw her walking or something, he's like, Oh, this must be like. Well, no, they did smell. They did hold.
SPEAKER_05Remember when he did that big sniff, and I went, Oh, he's smelling.
SPEAKER_04He knew from that, and it's like it's somehow a photo.
SPEAKER_05Do you remember that shot? So like one quick shot where he goes, Michael Myers. Like a fucking dog. Michael Myers does that, yes. Uh look back in the movie. He does it. And when I and he did that, I went, Oh, this has to mean something. Oh, God. I didn't connect it yet. And then later I went to the scent of a baby. The scent of a sibling crazy people. Okay, now you're being regular, Travis. Now you're now you're connecting dots that don't exist. I'm just joking. He does that a lot.
SPEAKER_04That was a joke. But okay, so going back. We keep bringing up Danny Trejo's character. Danny who? Danny Trejo. I will say Trejo's. I will talk about Tacos is Tacos. I will, I will, this is the thing I'm gonna say about his character. Oh wow. I didn't know anything that needed to be said about it. Okay, if you were Danny Trejo in this movie and you clock off from your shift and you see something weird going on, first off, I would say I'm out of here. Second of all, if I walk in, I think people are dead. I see dead bodies, and Michael Myers walks up to me, and especially would you say, okay, let me put the handcuffs on you.
SPEAKER_05Oh, come on, come on, Michael.
SPEAKER_04Let me let's go back to your room. I would say bye. Now we go. I'm out of here. I I would leave. What would you do in that situation?
SPEAKER_01I wouldn't even be there in the first place.
SPEAKER_04You would have been home already.
SPEAKER_01I'm leaving early. Which is fine.
SPEAKER_05There's no logic to almost anything that goes on in this movie. It's just there for another killing. He has to kill Danny, so Danny has to be there.
SPEAKER_04It's me seeking answers and hoping There are no. It's me hoping that since your version was 15 minutes longer, I don't imagine what that is. Oh well.
SPEAKER_01Hey Ronald.
SPEAKER_03Because it's trying to make order out of chaos.
SPEAKER_05It's just it's just It's a Again, I it became clear to me so early on. We're just doing little murder vignettes. How can we get somebody else in a place where we can kill them? That's all it was.
SPEAKER_01And honestly, that's how his movies are.
SPEAKER_05Well then I don't ever see another one of his movies. That's stupid.
SPEAKER_04I mean, you see the thing? Well, you don't even want to see monsters.
SPEAKER_05Did he make this monsters? He remade the monsters. Which one? I might have seen it.
SPEAKER_042023.
SPEAKER_05It's the one that looks like it was made by Party City. By Spirit, yeah, I think it's crazy. I think I saw it. Yes. It's on like Netflix or something. Yes. I think I saw it on Halloween one year. Oh lord. Wait, who plays Herman Munster? It's somebody. Obviously. Wow. Wow, Travis. That was rude.
SPEAKER_04No, um.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna look it up while you're talking because I don't listen to you anyway. Okay. I think it is a somebody. It is somebody. It's like it's this really random somebody.
SPEAKER_04This is what I'm gonna say that it's it's interesting how this is a formula. Like I said, I'm usually defending it. I don't mind because especially in the 80s, that's what a lot of these slashes were, and that's what a lot of Friday the 13th movies are. Because I will say, like, the drawback of Friday the 13th movies is a lot of them you're just kind of waiting for the next scene and it's just moving characters and they're boring. But for whatever reason in this movie, I don't know if it's just because it seemed so rushed that second half. I was I just at one point I just I was losing interest.
SPEAKER_05Oh my gosh. Absolutely. Okay, 2022. Yeah. Share uh sharing zombie, Jeff Daniel. Alright, Jeff Daniel Phillips. Daniel Wait a minute, is this right? It is right, but I I don't it's de- is it Jeff Daniels who plays.
SPEAKER_04No, this is a different guy. It's not that one. This is the one I think he was also in. He was in Halloween. I think he was one of the orderlies.
SPEAKER_05I saw part of this movie as much as I could stand watching.
SPEAKER_03I heard it's horrible. Didn't it look like they filmed it like in an afternoon?
SPEAKER_04It looks like they're like somebody's DSLR video at the party city community. It honestly looks like a party city commercial.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's really stupid. Um I didn't hear what you just said, but I'm sure I agree with you. You went through a whole thing.
SPEAKER_01You said you watched the second time because you were like, oh, maybe I do like it. Maybe it's better than I thought.
SPEAKER_03I watched the I'll let you infer, but I watched it once in 2020, 2009, and then I watched the second for the second time in like 2011. No, no, no, 20, 2013.
SPEAKER_00Sorry.
SPEAKER_03And then I watched it again for the podcast. So that should let you know what I thought of it the second time.
SPEAKER_04Did you see the second one in theaters?
SPEAKER_03No. I think the second one had already come out um before I watched it the first time. So because that one was 2009. 2009, so that's probably when I watched it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no, they they cashed in on it fast.
SPEAKER_01Was that also the same, like do people like that one?
SPEAKER_04No, I heard some people say the second one's even worse.
SPEAKER_03It's it's kind of like um the ones who who enjoy it say that it's definitely a better film. Which but it's still it's still tragic.
SPEAKER_04Which is weird because it's like I feel like yeah, like I said, I feel like it's very polarizing because I was looking on Letterboxd, some people that I follow that hated this one liked the second one, vice versa. And then some people but some people just straight up hated it too. But I think it's because like spoiler, they bring back Sherry Moon, and she kind of plays like like a dream. She's like in like his dreams. Yeah, like something like and then it's like, isn't there like a unicorn or something in the movie?
SPEAKER_03Okay, so the they what would then this is the I actually did enjoy this part of the sequel. Um, so when Lori comes out of this movie, she starts the sequel with PTSD, and it's like really like heavy. She's having bad dreams, she's like uh isolating herself from everyone, she's doing all those like edgy teen things, and the movie plays with the idea that she's kind of touched by the same insanity that um Michael is. So throughout the movie, um Michael actually has a lot of um moments where he gets these like delusions of seeing his mom at the end of like a long white hallway wearing a white dress and uh like holding like a horse. I don't know if it's a horse or a unicorn, but it's it's like it's big like on symbolism and basically angelic. And then towards the end of the movie, Lori starts having those same um those same like delusions, and it ends with her like um it ends with I think the sheriff's shooting and killing Michael, and she kills one of the sheriffs, and she ends up in a mental institution.
SPEAKER_05No, they don't. They don't kill Michael.
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say, did he have plans to do it?
SPEAKER_05They actually chopped him up and burned him in Halloween ends, and I still think they're gonna make another Halloween movie with Michael.
SPEAKER_03Oh, of course they will, but Halloween ends is actually not that bad.
SPEAKER_01Contractually, we're obligated to make a Halloween ends. They transferred it to the other the other guy. They literally burned it down. They put him in a thing and burned it. They did transfer it.
SPEAKER_04They did the Halloween three.
SPEAKER_03So just going based off of Rotten Tomatoes, it does seem like this movie has higher like a higher score. Um so Halloween 3.
SPEAKER_05It gets 11%.
SPEAKER_03Halloween 2 had 25% critic rating and 44% audience rating. And what did one? Whereas this one had a much higher 28% critic rating and a 59% audience rating.
SPEAKER_05So they really liked this one.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, this was a this was a hit. This was a hit.
SPEAKER_01What do they call it? Hit hit. Hit hit uh Halloween 2.
SPEAKER_03Fucking insane. But I think it has better um cinematography than Why do they keep bringing this back?
SPEAKER_04Well, so they they keep trying different things because so John Carbon, like I said, he never wanted to do a second movie, ever. So when he did the second movie, Michael kind of dies in an explosion, the hospital blows up. So they then went with the third movie, they said, you know what, like Michael Myers is done. Why don't we just franchise the name Halloween and make an anthology? That was the original idea. That was the original idea was that every movie, every movie now would take place on Halloween, but you'd have different events, different stories. So they did Season of the Witch, very underrated movie. But the thing is when it came out, when it came out, people didn't like it because they're like, you made off where's Michael Myers. So it did horribly. So then they came back and they did, oh, okay, we're gonna do Halloween for The Return of Michael Myers. He's bad. Which I it's I'm not gonna spoil it because I think it actually I like the fourth one.
SPEAKER_05You can because I'll never watch it.
SPEAKER_04But I want Sam It's got a great ending. I want Sam to see it.
SPEAKER_05Can I just watch the ending?
SPEAKER_04Yes, then I think the fourth one is the fourth one. I think the problem is just like I said, everyone's and then you do the fifth movie, which is completely Oh, please God, don't walk us through every freaking movie. The sixth one is where it really is No, and then I think it's just because they keep trying different approaches. With the sixth one, they kind of do what Oh my god, you are walking us through every movie. Paul Rodson's. You know what's really funny is you asked why do they keep remaking when I'm telling you different approaches, and then you get aggravated that I'm answering your question.
SPEAKER_05I I would just love the big broad stroke.
SPEAKER_04Mike. We all do.
SPEAKER_05How many have they made, Travis?
SPEAKER_04Uh they did six, and then they did Resurrect no Six H2O, Resurrection, and then they did two Rob Zombies, and then they did three. Yeah. They've done a bit. They've done like 12.
SPEAKER_05And made 12 or so.
SPEAKER_04I think they've done like 13.
SPEAKER_05And Halloween Ends was the last one, right? Yeah. Which I was so lucky to see. That was our very first podcast. No, no, our first one was Halloween.
SPEAKER_03I actually genuinely enjoyed it.
SPEAKER_05On retrospect. The movie or the podcast? The movie. The movie's okay. It's okay. I thought it was okay. What ends? You know what? It's okay. I think it didn't really do much for me one way or the other. I didn't like dislike it, but I also didn't go, wow, this is like amazing.
SPEAKER_01A decline. Because the first one was so good, I was like, oh great, we're back. And the second one back. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Back from the very first one.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the the new first.
SPEAKER_04That's a real that's a real world back. Yeah. The beginning, the beginning of the H40 trilogy.
SPEAKER_01And then like, right, the second one sucked because it was like, what? Friggin' a mop a mopsy.
SPEAKER_03Okay. If you take out all the evil dice tonight stuff, because I recently watched it and I was like, yeah, I get it. I I get I get what's going on.
SPEAKER_05I had a problem with the young guy and Michael Myers like teaming up. Corey.
SPEAKER_01That's the third one, right?
SPEAKER_05I didn't really know it's Halloween ends. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the third one. You know why? I I think it's because it's such a departure. It's such a departure from what what nodding to the two to the uh Velasco Raptors.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, we're together on this.
SPEAKER_04What it was, it was them trying to do experiment. It was try it was them trying to do Halloween three and Season of the Witch. Yeah. Because even the opening titles are the same thing. Yeah. So it was them trying to for those titles, yeah. Yeah. It was them trying to do a little bit.
SPEAKER_03If it had been a separate movie about just Rory Corey. Rory, Cory, Bory, Dory, whatever. Go ahead. Whatever his name is. Um there you go. Corey Cunningham, right? It's gonna bother Trinity. There you go. Um keep changing his name. If it had been a separate look, whatever Ronan did, um Clory. If McClury had just driving nuts in the middle, I don't keep it.
SPEAKER_04I haven't corrected him once.
SPEAKER_05Yes, you did.
SPEAKER_04You want to.
SPEAKER_05So no, I don't care.
SPEAKER_03All I'm saying is that Jordan's rampage in this movie was exactly what I feel like a Rob Zombie movie, if it had been done in the style of um the originals, would have looked like. It was gory and brutal, but it still had the feeling and that atmosphere and that like presence of being a Halloween movie without being white trash.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So like I feel like I feel like that's mainly what's and it sucks to say it because I know it's his thing, but I feel like just Rob Zombie's style is is just a little too like much. Like this isn't Friday the 13th. Halloween is very specifically about the evil of the unknown, and like, you know, too much. Yeah, you're you're like, we don't need to know that stuff. It's not important. Michael Myers is not a character. Michael Myers is a name, it's a shelf or evil in general. It's a thing. It's a thing, yeah.
SPEAKER_05I mean, I've only seen the original, the uh Halloween ends, and this. And I don't feel I don't feel compelled, I gotta see any Halloween movies. I mean, again, the original is a great movie. Yeah, why do you keep looking at me? No, because you and I have talked about it. It's a great movie. I'm not talking about a great slasher. Yeah, it's in itself is a it's a classic standalone movie. Now, do they need these sequels? Whatever. Hollywood loves sequels. They love to keep cashing in. But uh, it's just you know, it's like chase, it's like chasing that high, man. Yeah. They've been chasing that first movie ever since they came out.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna tell you this. I'm surprised you have not said Jaws 2. Well, second story.
SPEAKER_05I actually when you were saying that that Carpenter resists and resists, resists, I was gonna say, well, why didn't he just do what Spielberg did? And say, I ain't doing it, because it doesn't need to be made. And just don't do it. He wants the money because he wasn't Spielberg who was gonna do close encounters after that.
SPEAKER_03Well, and and he's an artiste. Artiste. Well, I see.
SPEAKER_05I loved Ur John Carbon has made some really good movies.
SPEAKER_04I mean, the thing is a great, another great Halloween was also Halloween was also not a it's an it was an independent film, so I don't know if it was like a rights thing.
SPEAKER_03It was made on like ten dollars and a cheeseburger.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I don't know if it was a rights thing. I I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Oh we can all agree that John Carbon had a window, and he was really making some movies. Yeah. So the movie was gonna be made with or without him because the the deal that they struck with making the first one is that when the Akkads agreed to fund the movie. The who? The producers. The producers, the ones who like fronted the money. I think the agreement was just you ha you have to keep making more movies. So they were gonna I think they owned the rights to the franchise. They did, yeah. And it would whether he was a part of it or not, they were gonna make a sequel anyway.
SPEAKER_05He meaning zombie?
SPEAKER_03He didn't have to do it, he didn't have to do it, but I think it was more of like a hey, well, like we made this thing, we don't want to see anybody ruin it, so let's try. And then when in the process of trying, they're like, Yeah, no, we're done.
SPEAKER_05Well, and and what's funny or John Carpenter. No, John Carpenter. Because I mean that's you could yeah, and okay. I hear you, but again, it doesn't matter. I don't think it's a good thing. I would abandon a baby right away if I didn't want to do it. It didn't hurt John Carpenter's career that he made Halloween 2. He went on and made a lot of good movies. Oh, yeah. I would argue that it probably wouldn't have probably hurt Fieldberg's career, but made Jaws too. I think for Fieldberg it was more like there is literally no logical way this movie can be made. And it was proven by when it was made. And they made three more. And it wasn't there was no logical reason why any of those were made. It was ridiculous. Halloween's a little different. Except he was dead at the end of it. No, he wasn't dead. He disappeared at the end, so we he was still alive. Evil never dies. I can't kill him. Are we good for wrap-up? I'd love a wrap-up. Um that's what she said. Who would like to start?
SPEAKER_01I'll start because mine's very short.
SPEAKER_05Mine's not long and I wrote it. How about that? I'm what short?
SPEAKER_01My height.
SPEAKER_03My film was bad.
SPEAKER_01I watched film. Film bad. Film bad. Score. Film bad. Actually. Yeah, I didn't like this movie.
SPEAKER_04Alright, now I'm gonna go.
SPEAKER_01So how many times are you gonna rewatch it? Um three thousand times. So I'm giving it a one bloody boob out of five.
SPEAKER_03Do you have any any any other thoughts?
SPEAKER_05Not much. But a little bit.
SPEAKER_01I didn't see all of it because I fell asleep a little bit.
SPEAKER_05Do you have any other thoughts? One boob, one boob. Yeah, you must have fell asleep for a long time because there were a lot of boobs in this movie. It was just gratuitous booby. It would have been.
SPEAKER_03She at least saw the first 15 boobs. She missed the others.
SPEAKER_04Alright. Um, I'm gonna go. If you Okay, bye. I said everything I need I said everything I need to say. Yeah, I don't have to say. Just just listen. You can go back, listen to it again if you want. I wouldn't advise it.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'll tell you it to you right now again.
SPEAKER_04Um, but that mine's actually a little higher than Sam's. Uh mine's four. No.
SPEAKER_05How many times have you seen it again? Three? No, this is only I only saw it once. Oh, that's right, right, right. Oh, I love that. Go ahead. I should listen to this podcast.
SPEAKER_04Um, I'm gonna have to me, it's just it's a thing. It's like I don't think it would have been, but it's it's the first half I enjoyed way better than the second half, and that's saying that. I agree. I don't disagree with you. I'm not. I don't like the stories that much, but I agree with you. Um this one I'll give like the highest I can ever give it is a two. Nice.
SPEAKER_05Wow, that's high.
SPEAKER_04Out of five, uh uh, and I'm just a thing I keep saying, uh cups of water.
SPEAKER_05That's still a C. Is it? 2.0 C average. It's about a C cup a yeah. You're giving it a C. That's a C cup. There were a lot of C cups. There were a lot of C cups in this movie.
SPEAKER_04Okay, I guess I gotta give it like a 1.5 then.
SPEAKER_05Ooh, that's more like Al's. If you're going I made him go down because it did sound good.
SPEAKER_03You made him go down a size.
SPEAKER_05Thank you for saving that.
SPEAKER_03What comes up must go down.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_03It's not getting better. Nope. I want to save yours for last. So we're all pretty flaccid on this movie, so.
SPEAKER_01Uh go ahead. That got Dan. Go on, Frank. I'm gonna give him a second to recover.
SPEAKER_04No, in the original, and I was like, ding, go, Frank.
SPEAKER_03Good on the case. I don't have much to say about the movie.
SPEAKER_05Wait, what was it? 1.5 what? Oh, cups of orange juice. I like that.
SPEAKER_04If you don't like it, items. I don't know what you're talking about. Wow.
SPEAKER_01I want everybody else make sure. Clip in that one too.
SPEAKER_05Oh, it's so funny.
SPEAKER_03Go ahead. This movie's a failure as far as like being a Halloween movie. It has none of the essence of it. Um, except for the music, which it also overuses.
SPEAKER_04It was like in d it's like let's make it more industrial sound then. Yeah. It just felt so overproduced.
SPEAKER_03Overproduced.
SPEAKER_01New metal.
SPEAKER_03I think the sequel has a better, like, um like um I it sequel has lyrics in the game side.
SPEAKER_04I I think it's better. Michael Myers, Michael Myers, Michael Myers.
SPEAKER_03Oh no, no, the sequel was nice. It the sequel does have a theme song, and it's Love Hurts.
SPEAKER_04Love it. Oh, because that was it. That was in the first one. Yeah, it's in the I forgot about that when Michael Myers like when he doesn't go trick-or-treating.
SPEAKER_05They sing Love Hurts.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, I I I've only seen this movie three times, and I don't think I'm gonna see it many more times. This year.
SPEAKER_05Sometimes I I would suggest listening to this podcast every time you want to watch the movie again. Yeah, as a reminder.
SPEAKER_03This is how you know that you know that scene in in The Simpsons where like uh he's got all of Maggie's pictures and it says do it for her. That's my it's gonna be this podcast fucking stop right now. That's that's my lock screen at work.
SPEAKER_04Is it really? No, and then I had it, and one of my coworkers walked up and they were like, Travis, are you gonna be a dad? I was like, No, and they were like, Why do you have it?
SPEAKER_03I was like, because I don't know, I like Um So I'm just gonna give this movie and you dare give it a three. I was gonna say a three-point game. I will literally take that sound bar and shove it up your ass. My score was sagging, but then I had a little bit don't be at four?
SPEAKER_05What the hell are you about to do?
SPEAKER_04It's gonna be the music.
SPEAKER_03The music is really lifting it up a lot.
SPEAKER_05Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_04You can watch the original movie and hear the same sound too.
SPEAKER_05Exactly. And it sounds better. Eight.
SPEAKER_03Nine two out of five. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_052.2? That may be one of your lowest scores ever.
SPEAKER_03Yes, it's 2.5. Loud themed songs. 2.5? You said 2.5?
SPEAKER_05Is that what you said 2.5? No, two. Oh, two out of five. Period. I remember the first time I I don't know where it is in the movie, but I remember when the theme hit the first time. I went, whoa.
SPEAKER_04It's when he was walking. I think it's when he was walking at the school. Like after he got like detention or something like that.
SPEAKER_03Like it was around. I remember when when it was really like obnoxiously like, oh, this doesn't belong here. It's it's it's when he after he kills Judith. Or before he kills like nothing is happening. Wait, Judith's sister? His sister at the very beginning, like she's like walking away from the room, and the music's just playing, but like the the the the energy of the scene is very like not exactly where the music is. Yeah, and it it like it's playing like a chase scene, and nothing's going on.
SPEAKER_04Well, you know what? And they did good. Frank, I say though, I'll I'll hear I will hear out of place music because it's something I didn't bring up. I'm gonna say, then the dialogue. I hated the dialogue in this movie. I was like, every single, every every conversation they had, all the friends, everything, every conversation in this movie, horrible.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it wasn't bad acting, it was really bad dialogue. And there's nothing like the dialogue. You didn't like bitch, I will skull fuck the shit out of you.
SPEAKER_05I don't think that there's an actor who can say those words and not sound stupid. Yeah, it's funny they didn't. That that uh Michael Myers with the um with the Captain Kirk mask on twice. Yeah they did it when he was a kid, and he did it again to a naked girl later in the movie. The exact same thing. So they didn't he couldn't even do original stuff. He kept repeating No and then regurgitating his own freaking stuff. Okay, I gotta go.
SPEAKER_03We didn't even wanna he didn't even want to do that stuff in the first place, so it's like kind of like forcing someone to not to to to like be creative in a space they don't want to be in.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Honestly, I kind of questioned if he really wanted to remake a Michael Myers movie in the first place. I don't know why he did it.
SPEAKER_05Nobody nobody made him do it. Um I was gonna do a whole thing about content when I first made my notes, but I'm not gonna go through that because we all agree the content was not good.
SPEAKER_04You know, sometimes I had sometimes I had stuff that I was gonna talk about and I was like, it's not even worth it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Sometimes we get you can like, oh, I really like the music, and I thought the camera was really good and the lighting was really good. And my thing is, but if the content, if this is not good, who cares? I mean, ultimately, you can so I'm not gonna go through all that. I was gonna this is what I wrote. This is a soulless, lame remake. Wow, the writing is so bad that the actors just look silly trying to make it work. The original Halloween should have never had a remake. And to me, this movie is untouchable. I mean, that movie is untouchable, and Rob Zombie proved it that he shouldn't have done a remake because he did make a remake. He, in fact, by making it proved it should have never been remade. That's my drop the mic. My biggest project. Drop the microphone. He hasn't made a remake since proved it shouldn't have. So I'm gonna give it a generous 1.3 stupid Halloween remakes out of five.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Wow. Tell us how you really feel.
SPEAKER_05Uh I think that's really vulgar, Dan. I thought the movie was really bad.
SPEAKER_01So soulless in that.
SPEAKER_05Really bad. And I think soulless is the way I felt at the end. That's a great word for it. There's no soul. Not that slashy movies have heart, but you need to at least care about something that's going on. When you're scared in a movie, you're scared because you're having an emotional reaction to what's going on. When you're not scared, I didn't never scare in this movie. Yeah. I was grossed out in this movie, but I I just stopped looking when I knew the bad stuff was coming because it was just okay, we're just gonna get really sloppy and bloody here for a second.
SPEAKER_03Yum. Yum. Alright, see y'all next week.
SPEAKER_05So that was fun. What are we doing next week in our in our remake? The Rob Zombie documentary.
SPEAKER_04The Rob Zombie. No, no, no. The Rob Zombie remake of Battle Royale.
SPEAKER_05So, Dan, you're about to get sick. Oh man, can you imagine he remade that movie? And they're all white trash.
SPEAKER_01Hey, we are watching Quarantine. Oh. The remake of Wreck.
SPEAKER_05Oh, the remake of Wreck. That we saw the Spanish version. Called Wreck. And now we're actually gonna watch the right version. I mean what? So a f a friend of mine who we all know, not Brian, but we still know this guy, and I'm and I'm I'll bring him up when we next week when we do the actual podcast. He actually talked about the American version, the English version, to me after we when I when we did the um the Spanish version. So I remember the conversation and I'm looking forward to seeing it actually. I hope I feel the same way after I've watched it.
SPEAKER_03Alright, bye. I think I got you to w watch the remake after after we talked about it, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and now I just gotta watch it again. I recently watched Rec 2.
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01Really good. I forgot how good it was. I haven't made a sequel to it. It's right after the first season.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's like the Halloween 2 of Rec. Same night.
SPEAKER_05Is Michael Myers in it? Yes.
SPEAKER_01If you slow down, you will see him in the background for sure.
SPEAKER_00Love it.
SPEAKER_05Before I flip out, where does Michael Myers uh uh show up in the scary movie movies? He doesn't. Why? Which is interesting, though. That's so obvious.
SPEAKER_01They were just more focused on Scream. Yeah. Ghostface, yeah. I don't think they ever did like the classic flashers.
SPEAKER_04They had like they made it. Yeah, but like having but they they would like to do that. Because it made fun of like no, they they never had Michael Myers.
SPEAKER_05Interesting. I thought it was a I thought they were taking off on all scary movies.
SPEAKER_01I think it was just at the time, whatever was popular at that time.
SPEAKER_03They they j they they were really they started off with like the the the 90s slashers, and then from there they jumped onto the uh Signs. Like yeah, like signs and and um the J Horror American remakes, and then they went somewhere else. I don't know where they were.
SPEAKER_04Well, and then you had uh second scary movie, which was The Haunting and It was The Haunting and I think a little Hollow Man, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Wasn't the first scary movie rated R, and then after that they're all PG 13. The first two, yeah.
SPEAKER_04And then with the faint because the first two were Wayne's brothers, then three and four were the Zuckers, and I never saw the fifth one.
SPEAKER_03Me neither. Me neither. Oh, the Zuckers did something.
SPEAKER_04They did three and four. How were they? The third one's funny, the fourth one's horrible. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Who are the the Zuckers?
SPEAKER_03They did airplane, naked gun. Yeah. They were really funny. That's true. The third one was decent. It wasn't as good as one and two, but it was not bad.
SPEAKER_01Charlie Sheen came in pictures.
SPEAKER_03Yes. That's the one that did signs on the grudge.
SPEAKER_05I love I love the first two. I love the cooking the uh the bacon and the eggs on her. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right, well. This was fun. Out of context. I mean, fun, you know. As it could be. As fun as it could be when you watch a really bad movie. But that's what we do here. It's uh Strangers in the Alps, a bad movie podcast. But um uh please follow us, share us, recommend us, review us. Like, subscribe. Uh join our our our our Patreon. No, I'm kidding. We don't have to set up. Our OnlyFans don't say it. I just said it, so there's nothing I can do about it. Our OnlyFans.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's that's where we sell, we sell uh turbines and fans.
SPEAKER_03Only the summer's coming. Yeah. Sometimes I twirl.
SPEAKER_05I don't know what we're doing.
SPEAKER_03Because I'm the only fan. Alright, bye.
SPEAKER_05Next week we're gonna have a great time with a remake of Wreck, and I'm not done. We're not gonna do that. I know, I was like so. Put your headset back on, dipshit.
SPEAKER_04You made you say you were so done with this 20 minutes ago.
SPEAKER_05He was good to you, I was good to you!
SPEAKER_04I was good to you, I'm taking mine off.
SPEAKER_05All right. All right. Join us next week for another episode of Strangers in the Elves, the movie podcast. I'm Dan. Travis.
SPEAKER_01Sam.
SPEAKER_05And we are good to you out the out of the way.