Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Joey Keogh, this week with special guest Billie Jean Doheny, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This year, we are running a season looking at the films in the Halloween franchise. So this week, Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II.
In the immediate aftermath of Michael Myers’ brutal killing spree, the lone survivor is rushed to hospital. As Sam Loomis searches desperately for the monster stalking Haddenfield, Laurie Strode makes some startling discoveries about her own family history that suggests the violence of the evening was not as random as it initially appeared to be.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 13th September 2023.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- John Mulligan at The Irish Independent reflects on the legacy of Xtra-Vision, July 2021.
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- Bret Easton Ellis talks to The New York Times about American Psycho, March 1991.
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- Peter Sobczynski at The Spool offers a brief history of Halloween II, October 2021.
- Beatles Guy animates David Lynch’s account of declining to direct Return of the Jedi, April 2016.
- Tommy Lee Wallace talks to Horror Bid about his involvement with Halloween II, February 2011.
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- John Carpenter talks to The Twilight Zone Magazine about The Thing and Halloween II, November 1982.
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- Roger Ebert reviews Halloween for The Chicago Sun Times, October 1979.
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- Roger Ebert reviews Halloween II for The Chicago Sun Times, 1981.
- Courtney Helm at Wicked Horror considers the complicated relationship between feminism and misogyny within the “final girl” trope, September 2020.
- Graham Connors at HeadStuff considers the voyeuristic gaze of the modern slasher film, October 2016.
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- Jamie Lee Curtis talks to The Mike Walsh Show about being a “scream queen”, 1980.
- Rose Knight at Nerdist looks back on how Twilight affected Comic Con, November 2020.
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- Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant looks at how Night of the Living Dead accidentally entered public domain, November 2019.
- Dick Warlock talks to Halloween Daily News about playing Michael Myers in Halloween II, March 2021.
- Adam Chitwood at The Wrap considers the evolution of the Michael Myers mask over the course of the Halloween franchise, October 2021.
- Sam Stone at Comic Book Resources reflects on how the Michael Myers mask changed over the decades of the Halloween franchise, October 2018.
- John Carpenter talks to ComicBook.com about the big reveal in Halloween II, August 2019.
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