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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Joey Keogh, this week with special guest Luke Dunne, 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, Joe Chappelle’s Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.

It has been years since Michael Myers mysteriously disappeared from police custody with his niece, Jamie Lloyd. In that time, both have found themselves in the custody of a mysterious cult. When Jamie escapes with her newborn son, Michael is unleashed as well. Haddenfield is unprepared for the madness coming towards it. The town’s fate lies in the hands of Michael’s psychologist Samuel Loomis, Loomis’ superior Terrence Wynn and one of Michael’s survivors, Tommy Doyle.

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 28th 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.
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Read Luke’s work at Film in Dublin.
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• Buy Taking Shape by Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins at Amazon.com.
• Buy Taking Shape II: The Lost Halloween Sequels by Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins at Amazon.com.
• Mike Holtz at Bloody Disgusting surveys the pre-Scream horror movie landscape, November 2021.
• Edison Smith at VHS Revival considers how dramatically Scream changed the game for nineties horror, August 2021.
• Bradley Knight at Vocal ponders whether Alien is a slasher movie, 2020.
• Matt St. Clair at Awards Watch considers the debates around whether The Silence of the Lambs is a horror film, February 2021.
• Padraig Cotter at ScreenRant considers John Carpenter’s plans to send Michael Myers into space, December 2022.
• Michael Christopher at Ultimate Classic Rock considers the rights around New Line characters like Jason Vorhees and Freddy Krueger, October 2023.
• Quentin Tarantino talks to Consequence of Sound about his unmade Halloween movie, December 2019.
• Jason Jenkins at Bloody Disgusting considers the unrealised Scott Spiegel version of Halloween 6, October 2020.
• Seth T. Miller at The Horror Syndicate reflects on the version of Halloween 6 that almost happened, September 2019.
• Daniel Farrands talks to Halloween Daily News about his “bible” for the Halloween franchise, October 2014.
• Angelo Delos Trinos at Comic Book Resources considrs how test screenings led to the restructuring of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, September 2021.
• Jack Wilhelmi at ScreenRant considers the last-minute reshoots on Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, January 2020.
• A. Michael Lerner talks to Halloween Daily News about working on Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, December 2018.
• Meagan Navarro at Bloody Disgusting reports on the troubled production of Hellraiser: Bloodline, November 2023.
• Alex DiVincenzo at Bloody Disgusting considers the alternate cuts of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, October 2022.
• Danielle Harris talks to IGN about her memories of working on the Halloween franchise, October 2007.
• Rob Ó Conchúir at HeadStuff considers Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, October 2023.
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, June 1948.
• Brandon Zachary at Comic Book Resources considers how The Simpsons created a guest character specifically for Tom Cruise, July 2022.
• Francis Fukuyama ponders “the end of history” in The National Interest, Summer 1989.
• Charles Krauthammer argues for “the unipolar moment” in Foreign Affairs, January 1990.
• Joseph S. Nye Jr. ponders President Bush’s “new world order” in Foreign Affairs, Spring 1992.
• David Maraniss at The Washington Post considers Hillary Clinton’s allegations of “a vast right-wing conspiracy”, January 1998.
• Sean O’Neal at Texas Monthly considers the legacy of the Kennedy assassination, November 2023.
• Rosie Fletcher at Den of Geek considers how Clueless turned Paul Rudd into a heart throb, Septmber 2022.
• Meagan Navarro at Bloody Disgusting considers the Celtic mythology that underpins the Halloween franchise, July 2021.
• Alan Yuhas at The New York Times looks back on the “satanic panic” around “satanic ritual abuse” during the eighties and nineties, March 2021.
• All Things Considered traces the roots of moral panics about children from “satanic ritual abuse” through to “QAnon”, May 2021.
• Peter Ray Allison at the BBC looks bac on the moral panic around Dungeons and Dragons, April 2014.
• Clyde Haberman at The New York Times considers the publicity and panic around the McMartin preschool trial, March 2014.
• Mike Ryan interviews Neill Blomkamp for Uproxx, August 2023.
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