Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Joey Keogh, this week with special guest Doctor Bernice Murphy, 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, Rob Zombie’s Halloween.
One October, the small town of Haddenfield is shocked by the brutal murder of young Judith Myers. The culprit? Her younger brother Michael. Committed to a psychiatric institution under the care of Doctor Samuel Loomis, Michael escapes fifteen years later to continue his reign of terror. This time, he has got young babysitter Laurie Strode in his sights.
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 17th August 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 at the Internet Movie Database.
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- Joey writes about Rob Zombie’s Halloween for Wicked Horror, August 2022.
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- The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture by Bernice Murphy, October 2013.
- Bernice reviews Rob Zombie’s Halloween for The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, November 2007.
- 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.
- Laura M. Holson at The New York Times looks back on the troubled relationship between Miramax and Disney, March 2005.
- David Carr at The New York Times looks back on the business dealings of the Weinstein company, October 2007.
- The Associated Press reports on the death of Moustapha Akkad, November 2005.
- Anna Gorman and Elaine Dutka look back on the life and career of Moustapha Akkad, November 2005.
- Kara Hedash at ScreenRant looks back on the plans to make Halloween: The Missing Years, November 2020.
- Padraig Cotter at ScreenRant looks at the aborted Halloween: Asylum pitch, December 2021.
- Brett Gallman at Secret Handshake considers the Children of the Corn franchise, October 2021.
- Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant considers the eternal Hellraiser franchise, November 2019.
- Riley Presnell at Collider reports on the aborted crossover between Halloween and Hellraiser, October 2023.
- Jon Condit at Dread Central looks back on the Dracula 2000 sequels, July 2005.
- Keith Phipps at The Ringer considers the wave of twenty-first century horror remakes, October 2018.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the wave of horror remakes spawned by the success of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, October 2023.
- Aubrey Carr at Collider looks back on “the New French Extremity”, August 2021.
- Rob Sheffield at Rolling Stone reflects on the popularity of nostalgia for the nineties, December 2018.
- Brian Raftery at Wired considers the 2000s as the end of nostalgia, May 2017.
- Paul Constant at Business Insider considers the popular reappraisal of Guy Fieri, July 2021.
- Kurt Andersen at Vanity Fair considers the possibility of the nineties as a fixed point in culture, January 2012.
- Jason Farago at The BBC argues that modern art is still stuck in the nineties, February 2015.
- Emily Bootle at The Indepedent considers the modern wave of nineties sitcom nostalgia, October 2022.
- Rob Zombie talks to Stereogum about deciding to make a Halloween movie, March 2021.
- Rob Zombie talks to NoiseCreep about putting his own stamp on the Halloween franchise, October 2009.
- Rob Zombie talks to Halloween Movies about his approach to Halloween, 2007.
- Rob Zombie talks to Cinema.com about finding a new angle on the Halloween series, 2007.
- Hannah Verdier at The Guardian considers the exploitative nature of the “true crime” genre, April 2021.
- Phoebe Lett at The New York Times considers whether the obsession with “true crime” does more harm than good, October 2021.
- Jeff Grabmeier at Ohio State News considers the sympathy afforded white male mass killers, July 2018.
- Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin cat The New York Times reflect on how the media covers mass murders, March 2021.
- Anthea Butler at The Washington Post considers the racial double standard at play in how the media covers white mass murderers, June 2015.
- Malcolm McDowell talks to The Los Angeles Times about working with Rob Zombie and Stanley Kubrick, August 2007.
- Brad Miska at Bloody Disgusting reports on John Carpenter’s attitude to remakes of his films, October 2017.
- Rob Zombie talks to Revolver about his relationship to John Carpenter, October 2018.
- Rob Zombie talks to Female.com.au about making Halloween in the shadow of John Carpenter, 2009.
- John Carpenter talks to The Guardian about his opinion of Rob Zombie’s Halloween movies, September 2016.
- Richard Newby write at The Hollywood Reporter about the Rob Zombie Halloween duology, October 2018.
- Richard Harrington at South Coast Today considers Halloween as a Rob Zombie movie, September 2007.
- Michael Koresky considers Rob Zombie’s Halloween at Reverse Shot, October 2007.
- Rob Zombie talks to MTV abouthis plans to avoid the Halloween theme song, March 2007.
- Malcolm McDowell talks to MTV about his take on Samuel Loomis, March 2007.
- Malcolm McDowell talks to Halloween Daily News about joining the Halloween franchise, April 2016.
- Rob Zombie talks to MTV about the level of gore in his Halloween remake, March 2007.
- Empire ranks the Halloween movies, April 2023.
- Kira Cohcrane at The Irish Times considers Eli Roth’s treatment of female characters in Hostel: Part II, June 2007.
- Rob Zombie talks to Total Film about the leaking of a script for Halloween to Ain’t It Cool News, March 2007.
- Garth Franklin at Dark Horizon reports on the leaking of a workprint for Rob Zombie’s Halloween, August 2007.
- Umberto Gonzalez and Tim Molloy report at The Wrap on the allegations against Harry Knowles, September 2017.
- Luc Cohen at Reuters reports on the “hush money” case involving Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, March 2023.
- Martin Pengelly at The Guardian reports on E. Jean Carroll’s accusations of sexual assault against Donald Trump, August 2023.
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