If Halloween 4 squeezed the last viable juice from the Michael Myers lemon, Halloween 5 rubs the pulpy rind in the viewers’ eyeballs.
Author: Dan Stalcup
The subtitle “The Return of Michael Myers” works on three levels.
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
I’ll start with the obvious.
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Emma. (2020)
So witty and utterly beautiful as an Austen adaptation that all the rest look a bit stiff by comparison. Anya Taylor-Joy is spellbinding as the title character; Mia Goth is possibly even better. A thrill and a joy, especially the production, especially especially the costumes.
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Halloween II (1981)
Despite its cliffhanger ending, Halloween doesn’t really suggest an obvious sequel story.
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Suspiria (1977)
You learn a lot about a person based on their reaction to Suspiria.
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Halloween (1978)
I’m not sure that there’s a specific name for the recurring cultural phenomenon that I have in mind.
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Suspiria (2018)
The Suspiria remake seems to have been pitched with the logline, “What if instead of being a nightmare about nothing, Suspiria was a nightmare about 14 different things?”
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is and always will be a distant second place in my book behind A Charlie Brown Christmas.
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September 2022 Recap
Fall is officially in full swing. Here’s a look at my movie watching and reviewing in September, when I caught up on a bunch of 2022 films.