Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Joey Keogh, this week with special guests Niall Glynn and Richard Drumm, 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 Ends.
In the aftermath of his second brutal massacre, Michael Myers has disappeared. He has retreated into the memory of the suburban town of Haddenfield, leaving only open scars in his wake. The survivors, like Laurie Strode, have done their best to move on with their lives in the wake of unimaginable tragedy, but there is something stirring beneath the surface of Haddenfield, just waiting to bubble up in the right circumstances. Evil is stirring. Evil is growing. Evil is waiting, but not for long.
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 26th 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.
- Halloween Ends at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Buy Taking Shape by Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins at Amazon.com.
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- 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.
- Jason Blum talks to /film about the decision to shoot Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends separately, January 2023.
- David Gordon Green talks to The Wrap about the various alternate endings that the team considered for Halloween Ends, October 2022.
- David Gordon Green acknowledges to Empire that the ending of Halloween Ends was changing “every day” during production, August 2022.
- David Gordon Green talks to Entertainment Weekly about how the ending of Halloween Ends changed in response to test screenings, October 2022.
- David Gordon Green talks to Forbes about the importance of test screenings for movies like Halloween Ends, October 2022.
- David Gordon Green talks to Forbes about how he appreciates test screenings for horror and comedy films, October 2021.
- Jamie Lee Curtis talks to The New York Times about being finally finished with the Halloween franchise, October 2022.
- Dominic Griffin at The Baltimore Beat considers how the reaction to Halloween Ends was shaped by how the movie was sold, November 2022.
- The first trailer for Halloween Ends, July 2022.
- Theatrical poster for Halloween Ends, August 2022.
- Lee Freitag at Comic Book Resources reports on the petition to remake Halloween Ends, October 2022.
- Mary Beth McAndrews reports at Dread Central on Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton’s reaction to Halloween Ends, October 2022.
- Jamie Lee Curtis acknowledges to NME that Halloween Ends will “make people angry”, October 2021.
- David Gordon Green talks to The Hollywood Reporter about resisting the urge to make the same Halloween movie three times, October 2021.
- Adam Howard at NBC News reports on the misogynistic backlash to Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters, May 2016.
- David Gordon Green talks to Comic Book Movie about the decision to open Halloween Ends with the same title font and colour as Halloween III: The Season of the Witch, October 2022.
- David Gordon Green talks to Happy Sad Confused about his feelings concerning the reaction to Halloween Ends, October 2023.
- Daniel Wenger at The New Yorker considers the long cultural shadow of the school suicide of Jeremy Wade Delle, February 2016.
- Corey Graves at Central Track considers the various artists and creators who existed in the orbit of Jeremy Wade Delle’s suicide, November 2018.
- David Gordon Green talks to MovieMaker about his thoughts concerning Jeremy Wade Delle, October 2022.
- Halloween Movie Source provides location snaps of missing person posters on the set of Halloween Ends, March 2022.
- Ike Oden at Bloody Disgusting reports on the novelisation of Halloween Ends, October 2022.
- Jacob Dressler at ScreenGeek makes the argument that Michael Myers has as many on-screen kills in Halloween Ends as in the original Halloween, October 2022.
- Halloween Movie Source compares Michael Myers’ screentime in Halloween Ends to his screentime in Halloween, October 2022.
- J.R. Forasteros at Tor.com onsiders the relationship between Michael and Corey in Halloween Ends, October 2022.
- Judy Greer talks to ScreenRant about how Karen’s death in Halloween Kills was a deliberate homage to Psycho, October 2021.
- Nicholas Brooks at Comic Book Resources considers that Corey Cunningham owes as much to Norman Bates as to Michael Myers, October 2022.
- David Gordon Green talks to Empire about the influence of John Carpenter’s Christine on Halloween Ends, November 2021.
- William Jones at Comic Book Resources argues that Halloween Ends is a “a love letter to John Carpenter”, October 2022.
- Matthew Jackson at SyFy considers how close John Carpenter came to makin Firestarter during the eighties, May 2022.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the remake of Firestarter as an example of Hollywood’s renewed interest in John Carpenter, May 2022.
- Wesley Stenzel at Entertainment Weekly considers the allegations against Bryan Fuller, October 2023.
- Tatiana Siegel at Variety reports on Warner Bros.’ upcoming Salem’s Lot remake, October 2023.
- Dave McNary at Variety reports on plans for an adaptation of Tommyknockers from James Wan, March 2018.
- Yohana Desta at Vanity Fair celebrates the Stephen King renaissance, April 2017.
- Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline considers the current boom in Stephen King adaptations, July 2017.
- Randall Colburn at The Outline considers how a generation that grew up on Stephen King is taking the writer as a key influence, July 2018.
- Eric Eisenberg at CinemaBlend reflects on the influence of Stephen King on Halloween Ends, October 2022.
- Jesse Hassenger at GQ considers the “folkloric quality” of David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy, October 2022.
- Witney Seibold at /film considers how David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy “pays homage to the entire franchise”, October 2022.
- Umberto Gonzalez at The Wrap reports on the bidding war over the rights to the Halloween franchises, October 2023.
- Shari Hirsch at MovieWeb reports on A24’s interest in the rights to the Halloween franchise, September 2023.
- One Take News reports on rumours that Malek Akkad wants to produce a television show based on Halloween III: Season of the Witch, September 2023.
- Ryan Scott at Fangoria reports on how Halloween Ends almost closed with a reference to Halloween III: Season of the Witch, October 2022.
- Peter White at Deadline reports on the upcoming Crystal Lake television show from A24 and Bryan Fuller, October 2022.
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