Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Joey Keogh, this week with special guests Charlene Lydon and Bren 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, David Gordon Green’s Halloween.
It has been forty years since the night that Michael Myers came home. The killer is in custody and Haddenfield has seemingly recovered from that horrific crime. However, not everybody has been able to move on from those events. Laurie Strode is still haunted by the horrific attacks, convinced the serial killer is lurking in the darkness, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
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 16th 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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- Joey Keogh reviews Halloween for Vague Visages, October 2018.
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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.
- The Los Angeles Times covers the announcement of Halloween 3D, August 2009.
- Nikki Finke at Deadline reports on the box office triumph of Final Destination 3D over Halloween II, August 2009.
- Nikki Finke at Deadline reports on the Weinstein Company halting pre-production on Halloween 3D, September 2009.
- Hugh Armitage at Digital Spy reports on the cancellation of Halloween 3D, March 2012.
- Francesca Bacardi at Page Six reports on Ice Cube’s account of the Weinstein Company’s release of Janky Promoters, January 2019.
- David Segal at The New York Times reports on the financial challenges facing the Weinstein Company, August 2009.
- Nikki Finke at Deadline reports on the financial woes of the Weinstein Company, June 2009.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on the actors and directors who claim to be owed royalties by the Weinstein Company, April 2018.
- Michael Cieply at The New York Times reports on the cashflow issues facing the Weinstein Company, December 2015.
- Padraig Cotter at ScreenRant writes about Stefan Hutchinson’s planned Halloween trilogy, January 2022.
- Padraig Cotter at ScreenRant discusses the aborted Platinum Dunes reboot of Halloween, December 2021.
- Jason Blum talks to The Guardian about his approach to making movies, July 2017.
- Todd Cunningham at The Wrap reports on Blumhouse’s first-look production deal with Universal, July 2014.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on Jason Blum’s experiences working with Harvey Weinstein, July 2018.
- Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline reports on the budgeting of David Gordon Green’s Halloween, April 2019.
- Angela Dawson at Front Row Features reports on how Jason Blum convinced John Carpenter to return to the Halloween franchise, October 2018.
- Scott Mendelson at The Wrap discusses Universal’s sizable investment in The Exorcist, October 2023.
- Suzanne Rowan Kelleher at Forbes writes about how important the theme parks are as a source of revenue to Universal, October 2023.
- John Carpenter talks to Billboard about composing the soundtracks to David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy, October 2022.
- David Crow at Den of Geek considers It Follows as an homage to John Carpenter, October 2018.
- Adam Wingard at Simon Barrett talks to Grantland about the cinematic influences on The Guest, September 2014.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on the influences on Jordan Peele’s Get Out, December 2017.
- Niall Murphy at Scannain reports on the schedule for the Venice Film Festival, 2018.
- Drew Novak at Paste Magazine reports on John Carpenter receiving the Golden Coach award at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2019.
- Mike Flanagan talks to Bleeding Cool about trying to develop a pitch for a Halloween film, December 2019.
- Jonathan Barkan at Bloody Disgusting reports on plans for Jay and Silent Bob to cross over with Dimension’s movie monsters, July 2015.
- Ben Sherlock at GameRant wonders why so many comedians are making horror movies, March 2022.
- Ari Aster talks to The Irish Times about pivoting from horror into comedy, May 2023.
- Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek argues that Hereditary is a comedy, June 2018.
- David Gordon Green talks to Texas Monthly about his life and career, October 2022.
- Ron Dicker at The Huffington Post reports on Jamie Lee Curtis’ comments about selling “yoghurt that makes you sh!t”, October 2021.
- Jamie Lee Curtis talks to Variety about returning to the role of Laurie Strode for David Gordon Green’s Halloween, June 2018.
- Ryan Faughnder at The Los Angeles Times reports on the massive commercial success of IT, September 2017.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes reports on the massive box office success of David Gordon Green’s Halloween, October 2018.
- Sarah Whitten at CNBC reports on the “new era of blockbuster horror”, October 2018.
- Matt Singer at Screen Crush welcomes “the age of the legacyquel”, November 2015.
- Brent Lang at Variety considers “the rise of the nostalgia sequel”, November 2015.
- Zoe Rose Bryant at Loud and Clear Reviews considers the history of the horror legacyquel, April 2021.
- Danny McBride talks to Entertainment Weekly about almost pitching back-to-back Halloween sequels, June 2018.
- Josh Grossberg at SyFy reports on plans to shoot the two sequels to David Gordon Green’s Halloween back-to-back, July 2019.
- Andi Matichak talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the decision not to shoot the two sequel to David Gordon Green’s Halloween back-to-back, March 2021.
- Dave Grohl talks to Nerdist about how John Carpenter became involved in Studio 666, February 2022.
- The Shape Lurks produces a supercut of Jamie Lee Curtis talking about “trauma”, October 2021.
- Jamie Lee Curtis talks to Entertainment Weekly about how David Gordon Green’s Halloween resonates with the #metoo moment, September 2018.
- Jess Joho at Mashable considers David Gordon Green’s Halloween as a slasher for the #metoo era, October 2018.
- Bryan Bishop at The Verge considers David Gordon Green’s Halloween as a slasher movie with something to say, October 2018.
- J.R. Forasteros at Popular Culture and Theology considers gender as a liminal space in David Gordon Green’s Halloween, October 2020.
- Clark Collis at Entertainment Weekly considers the plans to kill off Doctor Samuel Loomis in the opening scenes of David Gordon Green’s Halloween, October 2018.
- Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter discusses how the iconic opening scene of David Gordon Green’s Halloween was a late addition, October 2018.
- A deleted scene from David Gordon Green’s Halloween reveals what happened to Cameron, October 2018.
- Ryan Turek talks to ScreenRant about the role of Doctor Sartain in David Gordon Green’s Halloween, January 2019.
- J.R. Forasteros at Tor considers the evolution of “the final girl”, January 2022.
- Hannah Verdier at The Guardian ponders the ethics of true crime podcasts, April 2021.
- Phoebe Lett at The New York Times writes about the modern “true crime” boom, October 2021.
- Christopher Nelson talks to Collider about the importance of getting the mask right in David Gordon Green’s Halloween, January 2019.
- Kalyn Oyer at The Post and Courier considers the use of Charleston, South Carolina as the shooting location for David Gordon Green’s Halloween, September 2021.
- John Staton at The Wilmington Star News reports on Wilmington, North Carolina’s appearance in David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills, October 2021.
- Kelly Kazek at It’s a Southern Thing reports on the use of Savannah, Georgia as a location for David Gordon Green’s Halloween Ends, July 2022.
- Andrea Mandell at USA Today reports on the premiere of Halloween at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 2018.
- Nate Jones at Vulture reports on how Green Book got all the way from the Toronto International Film Festival to the Best Picture Oscar, February 2019.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist argues that David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy is about the threat of fascism encroaching in America, October 2023.
- Jason Bailey at Vulture considers the use of Man’s Search for Meaning in David Gordon Green’s Halloween, October 2018.
- Mattie Kahn at Vox considers the complicated legacy of Man’s Search for Meaning, November 2022.
- Richard Fausset writes a sympathetic profile of a neo-Nazi in The New York Times, November 2017.
- Louis Nelson at Politico reports on the controversy generated by the sympathetic profile of a neo-Nazi in The New York Times, November 2017.
- Eli Rosenberg at The Washington Post reports on criticisms of NBC for “sanitizing” white supremacy, October 2018.
- Laurel Leff at Tablet Magazine reports on the sympathy that The New York Times had for the Nazis, June 2021.
- Laura Bradley at Vanity Fair considers the emergence of “elevated horror” during the 2010s, December 2019.
- The film critics at IndieWire debate the merits and the nightmare of “elevated horror”, March 2019.
- The shooting script for David Gordon Green’s Halloween.
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