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John Carpenter - Halloween (1978)
🕑 Added 2025-10-20 06:21:31 +0000 UTCDeath has come to your little podcast, Redshirts...
Halloween has come early, which is only fair as two of us are coming very late to Halloween, John Carpenter's genre-setting 1978 teen slasher classic.
The adults are all busy at boring grown-up parties, the teens are constantly on the phone and swapping houses, and Michael Myers - inscrutable killer, embodiment of evil, and provider of cheap Halloween costume options for several generations - has been to the hardware store and is ready to work.
Let us know what you think of this episode in the comments!
Our October John Carpenter series:
Dark Star - 6/10/25
Assault On Precinct 13 - 13/10/25
Bonus - The Fog - 15/10/25
Halloween - 20/10/25
Escape From New York - 27/10/25
Bonus - Prince Of Darkness - 29/10/25
The Thing - 3/11/25
Comments
Antonio Ruiz
coincidentally, i watched the cabin in the woods for the first time a couple days before watching halloween, and it ended up being a great complement to it. spoilers for anyone that hasn’t seen it, but i think it fits perfectly in the conversation about horror movie tropes (which it plays on in a similar way to scream, while taking it farther), especially that of “punishing the youth for being young” and explaining why many slasher movies play out the way they do, especially when it comes to the idea you guys mentioned of “have sex and you die”
Anthony Le
I don't know what it is, but now I want a cigarette.
