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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

If Halloween 4 squeezed the last viable juice from the Michael Myers lemon, Halloween 5 rubs the pulpy rind in the viewers’ eyeballs.

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

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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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?”

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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)

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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Madagascar (2005)

When I was sixteen years old, I went on one of my first dates ever.

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Adventureland (2009)

Adventureland is at its best when it’s just vibin’.