Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Joey Keogh, this week with special guest Jess 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, Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween: Resurrection.
After his final confrontation with Laurie Strode, serial killer Michael Myers returns home to Haddenfield. However, the murderer is shocked to discover that an enterprising television producer has decided to set a reality show within the old Myers homestead. Streaming live across the internet, Dangertainment discovers that it has quite the killer show.
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 5th October 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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- Oumar Saleh at Little White Lies makes a defence of Halloween: Resurrection, October 2021.
- Mike Barnes at The Hollywood Reporter reflects on the life and career of Larry Brand, February 2019.
- CK Kimball at GameRant considers the legacy and reputation of Halloween: Resurrection, June 2021.
- Timothy Donohoo at Comic Book Resources argues that Halloween: Resurrection is inherently sympathetic to Michael Myers, October 2023.
- KJB at IGN reviews the script and production rumours around Halloween: Resurrection, March 2001.
- Busta Rhymes and Sean Patrick Thomas talk to MTV about working on Halloween: Resurrection, June 2002.
- Eric Walkuski at JoBlo considers the troubled development and production history of Halloween: Resurrection, September 2023.
- Vanessa Willoughby at Tadum writes about Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a critique of influencer culture, March 2022.
- Tom George at Vice considers the wave of modern horror movies about making influencers suffer, October 2022.
- Karina Wilson at LitReactor writes about whether vampires are still “the ultimate zipless f&!k”, November 2011.
- Paul O’Brien at Rebel.ie writes about vampires as a metaphor for class, October 2020.
- Maebh Ritchie at Channel 4 considers the zombie as a metaphor for working class anxieties, March 2013.
- Zachary Crockett and Javier Zarracinaat Vox consider the zombie as a metaphor for consumerism, October 2016.
- H. Perry Horton at Film School Rejects considers the connections between Halloween and It Follows, May 2017.
- Mark Kermode argues at The BBC that It Follows marks John Carpenter as horror’s new “year zero”, March 2015.
- Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant considers the death of Laurie Strode in Halloween: Resurrection, April 2020.
- Brooks Vernon at ScreenRant considers the four alternate endings to Halloween: Resurrection, March 2021.
- Judy Berman at Time looks back on how reality television has reshaped American culture, August 2022.
- Josef Adalain at Vulture reflects on the first boom in reality television, September 2015.
- Guy Adams at The Independent considers how CSI conquered American pop culture, December 2006.
- Alessandra Stanley at The New York Times reports on how CSI profoundly influenced American television scheduling, December 2006.
- Chris Murphy at Vanity Fair reports on the “psychological warfare” behind the scenes on America’s Next Top Model, April 2022.
- The Seattle Times considers whether shows like America’s Next Top Model are exploitative, June 2007.
- Alex-Abad Santos at Vox considers whether Tyra Banks was always the villain of America’s Next Top Model, May 2020.
- Evan Nicole Brown at The Hollywood Reporter looks back on how millennial television embraced African American audiences, February 2022.
- Mackenzie Nichols at Variety puts together an oral history of Scary Movie, July 2020.
- Dave Schilling at Vulture reflects on the trend of gearing existing concepts and properties towards African American audiences in the wake of Scary Movie, February 2018.
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