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Welcome back to conspiracy theories on popular culture. I’m your host, Isaac Weishaupt. Today, we’re going to talk about the greatest horror film of all time.

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Arguably,

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we’re talking about Halloween from 1978, the John Carpenter classic about

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slashing murderer, Michael Myers.

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We’re gonna go through the entire film, loaded down with all the fun facts you could ever want. We’re gonna go through the historic cast and all the things that they’ve done since this film, we’re going to go through the actual film, then we’re gonna talk about some symbolism.

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There’s some symbolism to consider here.

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That mask Why do you think the mask is so iconic? Because it resonates on the subconscious level of the occult manifestation of

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you know what it is the subconscious. We’re gonna get into that. And after we go through the film, because I want to refresh you on the film, we’re going to talk a little bit about the pagan holiday of salween Salin, Sam hain, as they call it in Halloween, too.

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And then I’m going to flood to you a theory, a theory that I came up with Michael Myers, I believe, is an alien and Dr. Loomis is really the bad guy.

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That’s right. We’re, it’s all happening today. Because you know, every year, I like to do a little special Halloween show. All right.

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And I thought, why haven’t we covered this film?

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And it’s because this podcast is all about

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the occult symbolism within films, and the esoteric practices and the Illuminati and all this stuff, and where it meets pop culture. And for a while, I thought, well, it’s not really a illuminate confirmed kind of film.

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But I think we can make some things work, right. So let’s just have a good time today, because this show is going to be a love letter to Halloween from 1978. Now, as I do with every film that we analyze here,

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let’s do a little preamble. Should you watch this film, if you are one of the six people on earth that have not seen Halloween from 1978?

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I don’t know what to tell you.

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If you like horror, you’ve already seen it.

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If you don’t like heart, this might be one of the greatest of all time. It’s definitely the best slasher of all time.

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Now, as far as my personal favorite, I think night round on the street gets the edge there.

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Just on personal preference, but it doesn’t matter. Some days I prefer one over the other. They’re all great. But yes, you should watch it. How long is it you already know the perfect length?

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91 minutes of the full run time that includes the credits. John Carpenter, why are you so good to us?

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Why so good to us?

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Who’s in it? And this is going to be a long section here, it’s going to be much longer than usually than we usually do. I am going to go through the cast.

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It’s of course directed by John Carpenter, a legend that needs no introduction. If you picked up my book, aliens UFOs and the occult use your allusion to that’s the second book where we talk about films and the occult symbolism of the phenomenon within them. We went through the John Carpenter Apocalypse trilogy.

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Right, we went through, which is not Halloween, it is the thing, Prince of Darkness and in the mouth of madness. And I dedicated a whole section to John Carpenter.

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So we’re not going to dig too deep on that right now.

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But the iconic soundtrack that John Carpenter provided is what makes this film so great. And you’ll even hear that on the directors commentaries. I actually watched this film. To prepare for this show. I watched the film twice. I watched every single Halloween movie and made a ranking on my letterbox. We’ll talk about that at the end.

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Like to give you a nice little sales pitch to go follow me on letterbox at the end.

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And then I also watched the director’s commentary version of Halloween.

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All right.

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And then I read some stuff online.

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But even on the director’s commentary, and the document there’s documentaries about it there’s a show on Netflix the movies we love there’s I mean it goes on and on and on right.

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They were saying that they were doing a showing without the music and it was not received well was not scary. But then carpenter added the music and boom classic

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And they mentioned one of the actors mentioned that when they would screen this thing in the theaters, they would notice that some of the people watching the film instead of covering their eyes would cover their ears. They would keep watching but they would cover their ears because it freaked them out, you know. And when you watch the first Halloween 1978 Here, they dropped these nasty little stingers here and there.

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That’s what they called in the biz, stings stingers.

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But carpenter I found an interesting, carpenter had the whole music, the whole score in his head before they even filmed.

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And he said he owed it to Dario Argento Suspiria. And the Tubular Bells from The Exorcist. Both classic films of course, as well. In fact, we talked about Suspiria on this very podcast already.

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The 2018 Luca Guada, Nino remake, I believe I did a show on that one.

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Anyhow.

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But it’s not only John Carpenter on this thing. It’s co written and produced by Deborah Hill. She also she worked with John Carpenter many times she worked with him on the fog, as well as the Escape from New York escape from Los Angeles, Halloween to Halloween three, and a whole bunch of stuff.

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She’s got quite the resume. She also produced other classics like clue.

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And adventures in baby sister, baby sitting. I was thinking about my sister and I said it. Shout out sister wise up. We used to watch that movie as kids all the time. Yeah, adventures and babysitting includes she also produced sadly, she died in 2005 from cancer. So rest in peace, Deborah Hill, then we’ve got the mysterious Mustafa Akkad.

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This is a guy back when the story is that John Carpenter was in England. And Mustafa cod was like, hey, I want to make this film.

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And

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John Carpenter was actually offered 300,000 by a guy named Irwin. Yeah, blondes to make the Halloween movie, but he called it the babysitter murders, which you’ll hear referenced if you watch the 2018 Halloween film that was supposed to be sort of a sequel to the original 1978 Halloween film. If you’re into Halloween. You’ll know the storyline is completely butchered. It’s a total mess. Every film seems to ruin it a little more.

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nother conversation for another day.

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Enya? corporator was like I got a better idea. Let’s go with a Halloween themed movie instead of just murder and babysitters.

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We’ll come back to that later. But even with this whole cast and crew and the people responsible for Halloween,

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were all very interesting. Even Mustafa Akkad. He actually also like, was a Deborah Hill, Deborah held in 2005. He also died in 2005.

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But the way he died, him and his daughter were killed in the Amman bombings, apparently.

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But he was the only producer to work on the first eight Halloween films, and then I believe his son continued to work on them. You’ll notice in the credits, there’s a different Akkad I didn’t write his name down.

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Anyway.

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But if you try, if you want to squeeze some more occult symbolism into this episode, it appears that a cod Mustafa Khan was producing a film starring Sean Connery in in 2005 when he was killed. All right, and this film was about Salatin and the Crusades. And this is a reference to Salonen is the secret society known as the assassins

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that had these occult mysteries and allegedly taught them to the Knights Templar. So if you’ve been with me for a long time, you know, we’ve talked about these subjects many many times.

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We also have the famous Jamie Lee Curtis she plays that Laurie strode

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and that named Laurie strode allegedly the name of one of John Carpenter’s girlfriends.

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But this was her actual film debut. And I recall during the director’s commentary, she mentioned that she was getting ready to give up acting and then this one had begun boom

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major A plus actor right.

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And John Carpenter actually didn’t. He originally wanted the daughter of June Lockhart from Lassie. If you’re not an old turd like me Lassie was this old black and white TV show.

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About a what kind of dogs

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I don’t remember it doesn’t matter. It’s an old dog show.

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And that’s what John Gardner wanted the daughter from the June Lockhart from Lassie on it, but then they opted for Jamie Lee Curtis. Her mother was in psycho. Her mother was Janet Lee, which I don’t believe was the character that got the infamous shower slashing scene.

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We also have the great Donald Pleasance, who plays Dr. Loomis, arguably the character that makes the whole Halloween franchise, I would argue.

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We talked about Donald Pleasance again in Aliens UFOs, and they call it huge allusion to because he’s in many carpenter movies, including the apocalypse trilogy, we talked about him.

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We talked about his amazing life story. And he’s featured in a ton of irrelevant films when you get into the occult.

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Film Studies here Thx 1138 by George Lucas, he was in the 1984 TV version. He was in You Only live once You Only Live Twice the James Bond film where he plays Dr. Evil basically as inspiration for Dr. Dr. Evil.

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And according to the documentary I watched called unmasked about Halloween, this 1978 movie, and he didn’t die until like 2000 Something

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that this was his 108 the parents, he was on a ton of stuff. This guy was so busy. I think he was even reading a kid’s book. I mean, this guy didn’t stop.

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Now carpenter originally offered the role of Dr. Loomis to Christopher Lee.

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And he passed on it and later Christopher Lee regretted it. And supposedly I heard in one of the documentaries that carpenter also offered it to Peter Cushing. You know, both of those guys are very famous with the the Hammer Horror stuff, right.

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And Christopher Lee infamously studied the occult, ya know,

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we also have PJ souls playing the role of Linda. She was in carry rock and roll High School stripes, and the devil’s rejects Yes, Rob Zombie. We love Rob Zombie here on the podcast.

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She was also in the 2018. Halloween, which again, that was the

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the sequel, the remake of the sequel, and of course, Rob Zombie did the two Halloween movies. not well received. Most people hate the Rob Zombie Halloween. I think they were great. But don’t listen to me.

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Huge Rob Zombie stand right here. So yeah, but she was in the devil’s rejects.

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Also Nancy Loomis

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plays Annie. Her real name is Nancy Kai’s. I guess her state her acting name was Nancy Loomis, which is very confusing. You may think that Dr. Loomis name has something to do with Nancy Loomis being in it but it’s not. Dr. Loomis. His name comes from the name Sam Loomis, who was Janet Lee’s boyfriend in psycho. And of course, we already said Janet Lee is Jamie Lee Curtis his mother.

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Anyway, Nancy Loomis. She was in the fog. She was in Halloween two she was in Halloween three. On Halloween three she played

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Linda chalice

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there’s a character played by Tom out if you haven’t seen Halloween three seasons of the witch? It’s a great one. It has no it’s the only one in the franchise without Michael Myers. But it’s arguably maybe even the best one you could say. But it centers around the main character played by Tom Atkins. He’s this. He’s this doctor. He’s a womanizing doctor. And his ex wife is Linda, Linda chalice played by Nancy Loomis. And you’ll find in these Halloween movies.

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They insist on showing us how the medical industry is full of scumbags. And Tom Atkins character. Dr. Charles is a total scumbag, right.

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Anyway, Nancy Loomis. At one time she was married to Tommy Lee Wallace, the director of Halloween three and the guy who directed Halloween three also directed it the series on TV from the 90s and he was one of many to don the shape mask from Halloween which was, you know, created from what’s the dude Star Trek, man? Why am I not remember the guy from Star Trek?

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Almost did a show with him too. What’s that guy’s name? Man my brain is mushy today. I’m

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the most famous guy.

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The most famous guy.

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Boy

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This is really embarrassing everybody.

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Hey talks Captain Kirk Right? What’s Catholic Kirk’s name? You guys are William Shatner. Holy crap. You should just turn me off fire me now.

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William Shatner almost got to do an episode of the unexplained with William Shatner. I was this close.

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But then, you know things happen. So that’s how the entertainment biz goes, you know it giveth and taketh, gets you excited and pulls the rug out.

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Anyway, Nick castle, he plays Michael Myers, aka the shape the column the shape, often when you get into this Halloween dissection, right.

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Tony Moran Tommy Lee Wallace, they each had the mask on as well. But Nick Castle is mostly credited for being Michael Myers and the first one cow Richard stars as Lindsey Wallace. Now, Kyle

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nowadays you think of a guy punch drywall wearing a

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monster cap? That’s not it

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is a chick and she’s in her 50s She looks great. But she was in Little House in the prairie.

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But she came back into the Halloween franchise to do Halloween kills and Halloween ends. The you know 2022 final installation of Halloween. Yeah, right. Now something interesting I did not know about Kyle Richards. She was also a reality TV star. She was in Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She was also in the New Celebrity Apprentice. And oh, by the way, her Wikipedia also claims that she is a capitalist, a follower of the esoteric Hebrew mysticism known as Kabbalah. We talked about it on the show all the time.

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Oh, and guess who her niece’s are? Paris and Nicky Hilton.

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Or should I say, Nicky? Hilton Rothschild? Yes, she married into the Rothschild family. Again, one of the suppose Illuminati Bloodlines, it means red shield and German.

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I mean, why did we pick on the Rothschilds? Because they established the banking industry in Europe. And of course, the banking industry was the idea of such a thing was given to us by the Knights Templar who were taught the occult secrets by the assassins and Saladin, which we already talked about how Mustapha cod was making a film about that subject when he died, just saying.

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But this Meyer M Shell Rothschild in the 1760s started these banks. They’re one of the wealthiest families in the world. They’ve got their fingers in a lot of pies. Okay.

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And the theories are that Meyer Rothschild secretly ran

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the Illuminati. No evidence though, but that’s another topic for another day. Brian Andrews plays Tommy Doyle. Now the character Tommy Doyle, that’s the kid that Laurie strode is babysitting.

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Tommy Doyle is actually an homage to a Hitchcock film called a rear window, which ironically, I’ve watched the first half of. It was very interesting, and then they removed it from whatever streaming service I was watching. So I got to finish it someday. Now Fun fact, Brian Andrews was in three o’clock high, which was shot in Ogden, Utah, my backyard,

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which is also where they film Halloween four, five and six. As well as The Sandlot.

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Shout out to Victor played Timmy Timmons, he’s, he’s listening right now guarantee and

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now, Tommy Doyle in Halloween. Six the curse of Michael Myers, is played by Paul Rudd. Don’t ask if you haven’t made it that far down the Halloween rabbit hole. You’re gonna be disappointed because once you get past three, it gets really rough. You’re in for a rough ride.

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Peter Griffith plays Morgan strode that’s Lori’s father, the realtor. Very minor role, right? Why are we talking about him? Because again, like everyone else involved, very interesting. He would have some kids. One of those kids was Melanie Griffith.

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Melanie Griffith would also have some kids. And that included Dakota Johnson who was in the 2018 Suspiria remake.

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Which was very odd. Because John Carpenter was so inspired by Suspiria that’s what inspired his music.

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Strange, right? Strange connections.

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My goodness, okay, what’s this movie about? Because we’re gonna we’re gonna go through the film right now. So if you haven’t seen it, I don’t know why you haven’t. I would advise you to do so. If not, that’s fine. Come along for the journey.

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It’s the Official Plan. The plot is the plot from Wake up.

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To The plot centers on a mental patient Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night, when he was six years old. 15 years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.

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It’s so good. All right, so without further ado, let’s get into the film. Halloween from 1978.

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Halloween night

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a small American town

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15 years ago

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Michael

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All right, right off the bat, we’ve got it’s a the credits itself are great. It’s got the pumpkin with a slice that goes it’s a jackal and carved out of a pumpkin. It’s got a slice running from his nose to his to his mouth.

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A see for effort. Good try everybody. The eyes and the mouth are crooked. I mean, it’s wild, right? Low budget. This was the low budget stuff. And I’m gonna put the photos on my Instagram. If for all the things that we’ll be discussing today. instagram.com backslash Isaac Weishaupt link in the show notes as always.

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Now I’ve heard that that the reason the opening credits shows the jack o lantern with the connected mouth to nose slice

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was done on purpose.

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You could argue it’s the curse of thorn, which comes up in Halloween six. I don’t believe that though, because this is way before that.

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But yeah, I heard it was put there on purpose. I don’t know if that’s true. I think they were just being being very efficient with their time.

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Now the first scene, we’re in 1963, it’s Halloween night. We see a house. It’s got the Jacqueline on the porch that’s not crooked Jacqueline lantern. And we’ve got a young man trying to get it in. He’s got a clown mask that he wears for a split second takes it off. And we’re watching this through the point of view of a person, right? Someone’s watching through the windows.

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Right and this is a jallo technique. From the you know, talking about Dario Argento, he was one of the godfathers of jello where they would go around and murder people and you would witness the murders through the point of view of the murderer sometimes.

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Well, we see that this person, they washed into the windows that go into the house, and just that fast. The young man he got it in and he’s done already. I mean, it was 15 seconds tops.

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And so he leaves the house,

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the POV camera, it’s gone upstairs and it sees this new girl she screams Miko because he’s got a big old knife and he proceeds to stab her and he kills her. Now of course, this is the young Michael Meyers fun fact that this is the only nudity in the first film. Plus, the actress who gets murdered as Sandy Johnson. She was Playmate of the month in June 1974, four years before this film. She had gone to get a PhD so good for

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so young Michael, he stabs up this woman he leaves the house that’s a sister by the way. And the parents seem they seem standing there with a clown outfit.

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He’s got the bloody butcher knife, and he was apparently wearing the clown mask that the you know boyfriend was messing around with.

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Now this camera technique John Carpenter use was called panel glide. It was inspired from Hitchcock because the movie had to be simple in order to work.

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And when they talk about this on the director’s commentary, this iconic opening scene, there was actually a whole crew inside the house like turning lights on turning them off, as the point of view camera was moving around, because the the lighting changes the focus of the camera and the lens.

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And they said this was actually the last day of filming because they had to, they had used this busted up old house, the Meyers house throughout the whole film, but then they cleaned it up so they could film this last shot.

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And that free shot of the parents. Finding Michael a six year old boy standing there with a bloody butcher knife is amazing, right?

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Now we go over to Halloween, October 30 1978. All right, we’re talking 15 years later, Smiths grove.

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Again, another terrifying iconic scene. We’ve got a nurse and the unhinge Dr. Loomis driving in a car and it’s raining and we’re introduced to Dr. Loomis.

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He kind of keeps it together a little bit. They’re headed to the hospital to pick up Michael Myers because he’s been locked up in an insane asylum for 15 years. It hasn’t spoken a word. And Dr. Loomis, who is Michael Myers, psychiatrist has zero compassion he calls Michael It

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is pra though

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Matt Dr. Loomis makes the show. So Loomis he’s, he’s he’s riding shotgun and he and he looked picks up a pack of matches. And it gives them pause and says rabbit in red. And the camera focuses in on this like it’s some kind of important part of the storyline. Some kind of intriguing thing and they never really address it. We don’t really know what it is.

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If you watch the Rob Zombie Halloween remakes, he asserts that it’s a strip club

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is so that must mean ipso facto, the nurse driving the car is a stripper. Which would explain why when Loomis looks at the matchbook, he gives a sort of judgmental look, right?

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Anyway, we’re watching through the windshield, it’s dark, it’s rainy, and boom, there’s these figures standing all over the road like cattle and the nurse slams the brakes. Loomis gets out to inspect one of the one of these nuts that crawled the back of a car, they attack the nurse. She gets out the the patient gets in and takes off in her station wagon. And you know, Loomis is he’s panicking, right? He’s like, Oh, my God is gone. He’s gone. That even was gone. He’s screaming, you know, like a psychiatrist would totally unhinged.

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And it’s and that’s obviously Michael Myers. Now, in the director’s commentary, we find out that the guy climbing on the car as Michael Myers was, of course, Nick castle, he said it was freezing that night they were hosing them with cold ass water. He said it was a total nightmare.

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But he was actually trying to capture a form of mental illness when he was doing his movements as what they call the shape.

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Now, we move on to another scene in Haddonfield, Illinois, which is a fictional place. The name comes from Haddonfield, New Jersey a real place which is where Debbie Hills High School was growing up.

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You might say well, did they film it in Haddonfield? New Jersey? No, they filmed it in Pasadena, California.

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Which is they had to dodge palm trees. You can see how everything is green they filmed it in May they filmed it in like you know spring

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but that’s how good they did you have no idea.

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It was daytime.

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And Laurie is she’s walking she’s taking the key over to the Myers house. Cuz she’s gonna leave a key for someone who apparently wants to buy the house we find out that her dad is a realtor. We confirm that in Halloween two more.

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And oh, we see the shape. Michael Myers. He’s staring at Laurie. Was this the catalyst?

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Lori going to the Myers house to leave the key? Is that what’s pissin like off so much.

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Next, Laurie is in school. And they’re talking about a book about a guy named Collins meeting his own fate and they talk about castagne and Samuels view of fate. The teacher can be any snark here by the way. And she says stuff like fate never changes. It’s the last thing we see. And this is a sort of common trope you’ll see in a lot of these these horror movies where they’ll have a classroom scene we sold A Nightmare on Elm Street. But you know there are many Lego but this one is ours. Take a lesson and book and but what Samuels is really talking about here is fate.

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You see, fate caught up with several lives here.

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No matter what course of action Collins took. He was destined to his own fate his own Dave

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person

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with how to say

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costing wrote that fate was somehow related only to religion. Whereas Samuels felt that well if it was like a natural element like earth, air, fire and water, that’s right Samuels definitely personified fate. In Samuels writing feat is immovable, like a mountain. It stands where a man passes away. Fate never changes. So we’re here to talk about fate and how fate is immovable. It never changes. And they actually revisit this idea in the I believe it’s the 2018 Halloween, there’s another classroom scene where Laurie strobes granddaughter is in class and they’re talking about fate as well. And guess who’s outside her window staring at her?

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Your boy Michael Myers.

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So we’re introduced to Tommy Doyle, he’s getting bullied, and Michael Myers he’s hanging out by the schoolyard and he’s like, You know what, I hate this kid too. I’m gonna get some bullying into and he started stalking Tommy. Probably because he saw Tommy hanging out with Laurie strode earlier because Laurie is his babysitter.

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Then flat let’s catch up with crazy Dr. Loomis. Dr. Loomis. He’s on the phone

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at a payphone morning Haddonfield

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about Meyers

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being

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headed headed their way. And it kind of doesn’t make any sense.

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Because not to nitpick, right? It kind of doesn’t make sense because

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outside the mental hospital, Michael Myers steals the station wagon. Dr. Loomis is there at the same time Michael Morris takes off in the station wagon that night. It’s now morning time. And I guess maybe the idea is Dr. Loomis has walked to a payphone I don’t know.

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But it was what I want you to listen to his carpenter does this weird thing with these annoying sounds again to support the idea that the soundtrack is what makes the movie he does these things with these uneasy sounds like like you’ll listen Dr. Loomis is on the phone and there’s this train like it’s like you won’t hear the world’s most annoying sound. Here comes this train ticket. Listen. You’ve got to believe me officer he is coming to Haddonfield.

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Because I know him.

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I’m his doctor. You must be ready for him.

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If you don’t It’s your funeral.

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Now this scene doesn’t make any sense. Lumas again sees the matchbook

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above the red rabbit that the nurse had there’s a dead man next to the matchbook. Next to a broken down truck. Loomis apparently doesn’t even see the dead body.

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Why would Michael Meyers kill him and leave the matches I mean that’s kind of the implication is that Meyer is on his way to Haddonfield was like almost get out and bust this dude up and he dropped the matches I guess I don’t know answers given we don’t know.

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Back in Haddonfield, Laurie she’s walking with her two friends Annie and Linda.

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Again, they see Michael Myers the shape stalking them in the station wagon. He’s driving down the road all creepy. And he yells Hey, jerk Speed Kills.

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And Michael bars he locks up the brakes.

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Terrifying, right?

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And then he takes off and Lori’s like, hey, any you’re gonna get us on deep trouble, foreshadowing of the fate that will chase them down.

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Fun fact the station wagon Michael Myers is driving was rented for the film. But then when they were done with the film, they sold it.

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And it sat in a barn for decades.

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It was later refurbished and they show it at

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like horror conventions. I’m going to assume in New Jersey. It’s the only place that loves horror enough to have a whole convention about it.

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But yeah, that things still exist, right.

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So Laurie, Annie Linda, they’re walking around this neighborhood the lawns are absolutely amazing. I mean, every every dad is decked out in the hottest new balances, keeping their grass on point.

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And we get the infamous Michael Myers hide behind the hedges seen. He’s peeking behind a bush all creepy style

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And of course, they got up to the bush and he’s gone.

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Well, Laurie Meyers. She finally makes it home. And we get another iconic shot of her looking out the window, and they had laundry clotheslines.

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And Michael Meyers was like standing amongst the close and then he disappears again, right? Well, she gets a phone call from Annie. And also by the way, in the scene, you’ll see a Raggedy Ann doll. I don’t know if that’s connected. Maybe to Annie’s right.

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Also, when they’re Another fun fact, when they’re walking down the street, you’ll see the sign Genesee Avenue

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and that is if you look at where they filmed

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in West Hollywood, where they filmed Halloween, it’s on the corner of day long prey and Genesee Ave? Well 1428 North Genesee Ave is also where they filmed Nightmare on Elm Street, small world.

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Anyway, back to the movie and one of my favorite scenes to showcase how insane and savage Dr. Loomis is.

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Dr. Lewis goes to a cemetery. And a caretaker is going to escort him to the location of Judith Meyers tombstone. Now, Judith Myers was the Playboy model killed at the beginning of the show in 1963, by Michael Okay, Michael killed his sister. They go to the headstone

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and it’s gone, right? It’s missing. But what’s so great is that

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the caretaker, he’s just trying to make a human connection. He’s down the story to Dr. Loomis. And Luiz is so irritated he’s like Cool story, bro. Like he might as well call him a mouth breathing hijk or something like that. Take a listen.

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Judith Myers Myers,

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row 18 Glock 20.

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You know, you know every town is something like this happens.

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I remember over in Russellville or Charlie bones about 15 years ago.

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One night he he finished dinner and he excused himself from the table. And he went out to the garage. He got himself a hacksaw

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and then he went back into the house and he kissed his wife and his two children Good bye. And then he proceeded

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right over here.

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And my students My eyes hurt remember her? Couldn’t believe sitting young boy

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lost

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Why do they do it? God damn kids

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do anything for Halloween

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was greater than

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1819

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Judith Myers

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came home

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So Lori and Annie they’re smoking the grass. They’re listening to a little blue Blue Oyster Cult don’t fear the Reaper.

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The bean tailed by your boy though.

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They come up on Annie’s dad. He’s a semi creepy comp.

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And we find out someone had broken into the hardware store and stole a mask and some knives and you know it’s the William Shatner mask right? This is where the mask originally comes into play. Also, here comes loom has finally made it finally made it it’s been like two days of Meijer stalking and bullying everybody in here comes Loomis finally.

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Blue Oyster Cult so don’t fear the Reaper.

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One of John Carpenter’s favorite songs. You will also hear it in Rob Zombie’s Halloween film. You will also hear it in the stand the TV series from the 90s also filmed in Utah at Dugway which is where area 52 allegedly is.

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Just fun facts to have fun.

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So Annie, she goes to the house she’s going to babysit. Right? And there’s there’s Michael Myers. He’s creeping behind the trees and all like that meme that dude behind the train trees rubbing his hands.

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Well, Loomis and the cop, they’re now teamed up they’re investigating and we hear about how the Meyers house has been abandoned since the killing in 1963.

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Also, we hear Michael Myers ate a dog. So there’s that that you know that’s why

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Boom, this is so crazy. That’s not mine. That’s pure Eva.

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He’s doing the haters ball. You know, he’s kicking them while he’s down.

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So they’re investigating this busted up old house

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and a piece of like gutter smashes into the window for no reason. And Loomis he shook, right? He’s like, Whoa,

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he’s social. He pulls a strap, you know, because he’s a psychiatrist. Of course, he’s got a gun on him. And the cop was like, bro, you’re scared Mo. And Louis goes out. He describes his past with Michael Myers. Again, calling him purely Imagine having he’s calling him pure evil. Imagine having a psychiatrist that drags you this hard, like, you know, like, you know, on some level, like, look, I’ve got a counselor I’ve seen for 10 years. I know on some level when he goes home, he’s got to tell his wife some of this stuff, right? He probably keeps it anonymous. I’m sure he’s a professional dude.

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But I mean, come on. These are juicy stories. Right? Like maybe.

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So anyway, doctor, Dr. Loomis. He’s, uh, he’s going in on Michael Take a listen

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standing on the loan, he could have seen inside

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you must think me, very sensitive doctor.

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I do have it.

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Seems to me you’re just playing scared? Yes. Yeah, I am.

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I met him 15 years ago, I was told it was nothing left. No reason. No conscience, no understanding and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death of good or evil, right or wrong.

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I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face and

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the blackest diet.

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The devil sighs

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I spent eight years trying to reach him. And then another seven tried to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply evil.

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What do we do?

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He’s been here once tonight. I think you’ll come back. I’m going to wait for him. I still think I should notify the radio until now. If you do that, they’ll see him on every street corner. They’ll look for him in every house. Just tell your men to keep their mouths shut and rise. Oh.

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I’ll check back in an hour.

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Now on fact, John Carpenter actually went to a mental asylum while he was in college on a field trip. And he used that experience to build up these characters Dr. Loomis, and Michael Myers and all that.

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So Laurie, she’s babysitting Tommy. She’s reading King Arthur and Tommy’s like now, I want the science fiction comics, right? Because you know, science fiction is actually going to play a critical role when we get into this idea that Michael Myers might be an alien. All right.

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Meanwhile, Annie, she’s babysitting at another house. And she’s preparing to food she gets it on her shirt. Oh, no. So she completely stripped down to her panties. And of course, you know, Michael Myers, he’s watching through those windows.

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And then he kills the family dog for good measure as to dead dogs thus far.

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And we now noticed that on the television sets because back then you have to understand back in the 70s and 80s that everyone would watch whatever was on the TV at the time that it was on right there’s no DVR there’s no internet. You either caught the thing when it was on or you did it, which was a magical time.

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And on the TVs everyone is watching Howard Hawks the thing from outer space. And you know, Laurie and Tommy are obviously watching. And you see this in multiple scenes, you see the UFO specifically.

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Carpenter love the thing. That’s why he redid it in the 80s. We’re gonna come back to that.

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So Annie’s kids, she’s babysitting, they’re also watching the thing. And you’ll see the scene where they’re standing in a circle, trying to like figure out the shape of this thing, right?

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Now, this is all very curious, because if you read my alien books, aliens UFOs. And they call it user illusion. Two, we talked about how this circle shape is also depicted in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, as well as John Carpenter’s The Thing. But now we also see it in

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Halloween, which kind of makes sense, because they call Michael Myers the shape. And in the thing, they say we are trying to figure out the shape of this thing.

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Just a little more fodder for this idea that maybe Michael Myers is an alien.

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So Annie, she takes her kid over to Laurie. She’s like, look, I want you to watch this kid too, because I’m about to get in. And you know, there’s a price to pay for that kind of naughtiness.

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And of course, the price gets paid, and he goes to her car. After dropping her kid off to Laurie, it’s locked. So she goes to get the keys and comes back. And if you want, it’s a very subtle thing, but you’ll notice the windows are now fogged up in her car.

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And she gets in and you already know what’s going to happen. There’s Michael Myers in the backseat and gets her

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first kill. We will second kill the movie technically, but anyway, I think he chokes her.

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So crazy Dr. Loomis. He’s stalking around Handfield looking for Meyers with the cop and he sees some kids sneaking around the mayor’s house and he scares the absolute shit out of them.

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And even the cop was like, Well, what are you doing man? And he doesn’t he doesn’t know Dr. Loomis is crazy yet. Okay.

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So Linda she shows up at the now empty house that Annie was babysitting

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as she starts to make out with Bob like her boyfriend

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is there a visitor lurking in the shadows? Absolutely. You know there is

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so Linden Bob. They’re making sexy time in the master bedroom at the Wallace residence.

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They are drinking beers. They’re leaving beer cans all over the floor.

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It’s it’s the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen

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in the in our bedroom that couldn’t even have the decency to do it in a different room. There’s even a jack o lantern on the nightstand lit which makes no sense. Like what is going on in this house.

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Bob last exactly five pumps. Linda thinks it’s fantastic. So she starts smoking. All of this in the poor Wallace bedroom and on their bed smoking and everything. Oh, my God.

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Well, Bob, he makes himself right at home. And he’s like, I’m gonna go grab a beer from the Wallace fridge.

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Comes down there. Here comes Michael out of the pantry. We’re like please, Michael, make this debauchery stop. It’s so bad. And he’s like, I got you fam. So he holds Baba by the throat and shoves a butcher knife in his torso hanging them up like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And Michael does this iconic thing where he tilts his head and stares in the eyes of Bob as he dies right? Very inquisitively.

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Now the reason this happened John Carpenter told Nick castle, the guy playing the shape to tilt his head and look at the corpse of Bob as if it were a butterfly collection. Nailed it right.

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Now Bob has another fun fact. Bob was actually supposed to be played by Dennis Quaid, who was married to PJ Sol the actress who plays Linda in the movie.

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Now in a very unexpected an out of place twist. Myers

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puts on a sheet

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cuts holes in the eyes

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and puts bombs glasses on

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and goes into Linda’s room. She thinks it’s Bob playing a joke on VHS

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and proceeds to trash talk him

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before picking up the phone to call Laurie strode.

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But here comes Myers who Laurie think who

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Linda thinks is Bob. He comes in the room he chokes her while she’s on the phone with Laurie.

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She’s gyrating and moaning and groaning and anything so

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are Lori know who she Cullen Annie. She thinks that like they’re making sextile but she just called for fun, I guess.

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And finally, at this point, we see the the iconic Myers mask get put back on right? Because you’re like, why would he? Why would Michael Myers go through he kills Bob. Then he goes through this hassle of putting the sheath on. It just doesn’t make sense. It’s like he’s

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there’s a trace of tom foolery involved all of a sudden it’s very strange. I mean, it’s iconic and it’s terrifying.

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So things are heating up. Dr. Loomis finally spots the station wagon. Took them long enough took them like well feels like forever.

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Laurie is snooping around. She’s looking for Annie and Paul and Bob and Linda. Right but they’re all dead except for Paul.

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Inside the Wallace house, the lights are all off.

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And in this we get another weird scene. Annie is actually lying dead in that say Wallace bad. Wallace bed.

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The whole mattress is going to need replaced. This thing is a wreck. And we see Judith Myers headstone at the top of the bed.

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And Lori’s like, whoa, like it’s finally hit her something’s going on something really bad.

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And she screams and then she sees Bob’s body swinging and Laurie is all cooped up like it’s a haunted house walkthrough. It’s a real mess. Michael Buster the room he slashes at Laurie but misses.

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They play a bunch of cat and mouse. It’s horrifying. All you see is the creepy mass with a coveralls just calmly yet urgently chasing her.

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Laurie runs out she runs to a different house. Screaming for help pounding on the door. They look out the window at her.

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And then they turn off the porch light.

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Wow, man, they’re cold blooded.

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So Laurie, she goes back to Tommy’s house. Finally. She forgot her keys. What is it with the keys in this film? Everyone’s forgetting their keys. Tommy? I mean, at the beginning, Laurie had the key she was dropping off at the house and then any frat or kids with a car that got her killed and now Lori forgot the kid she’s about to get killed.

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But then Tommy’s in there Thank goodness Tommy takes his absolute sweet time to open the door man just to get it unlocked just in time for Laurie to get in there. But guess who else found a way in? Michael Myers Come on. Laurie actually

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stabbed him in the neck with a yarn needle.

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Do you know that that’s not it, Chief. You know you need more than that from Michael Myers.

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But she thinks she’s done she stabbed him in the neck. She takes a sticks a little break on the couch to regain her composure as one does.

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And she has the knife but she throws it down. She’s gonna catch a little nap real quick or whatever. She’s exhausted. I mean, she ran across the street and everything right?

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And it’s funny because in the director’s commentary, Jamie Lee Curtis said that the shot actually didn’t really capture what was going on. She was actually disgusted to be holding Meyers knife. That’s why she threw it down.

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Take that for what it’s worth.

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Meanwhile Dr. Loomis he’s barking orders he tell him the cop what to do.

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He orders the cop look around for Meyers while he he’s he’s walking around in his trench coat like he’s the real psycho. He’s got the peace in his hand.

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Laurie she finally wakes up from little slumber and she’s okay, I’m gonna go upstairs and grab the kids. But guess who else is up now Michael Myers and he shows up. He’s about to ruin this little party. Lori she’s hiding in the accordion door closet.

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Michael tracks her down. He has the hardest time with this flimsy little closet door to open but he finally makes it work. But guess what Laurie stabs him in the eye with a wire hanger. He drops the knife she grabs it. She stabbed him in the gut with it this time. Finally, he’s dead. Right?

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sprawled out on the carpet. So he’s going to do snow angels.

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And she’s like, Ah, good. She throws the knife down again. Right next to Meyers body too. But you know, Myers is surely dead.

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So okay, I’m gonna go grab the kids. I’m going to very very slowly explain to them how they need to get out of the house as slow as humanly possible.

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And she then she does that and then she grabs yourself just another just a peaceful little cat nap real quick.

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Before you see Michael do a nice, full on CrossFit AB mat set up in the background.

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And he snatches her up

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and they fight. She gets his mask off. He actually you can’t get a great look at it, but that’s kind of the best look you get it Michael Myers. She pulls his mask off for a second but luckily for her Dr. Loomis. He’s crazy. Michael Myers is evil but Loomis is crazy Loomis suspect something’s up at that Wallace house he strolls in. He pulls the strap. He puts like six rounds in Meyers

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and then he goes Meyers goes off the bedroom roof into the front yard. Now fun fact this was not Nick castle. This was actually Tony Moran. The guy who gets on mast is Tony Moran for one second.

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So we think Myers is surely dead now he’s been shot

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He’s got thrown off the roof.

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And Lori’s like, was that the boogeyman at home was just like Oh you bet yet it is. Take a lesson

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what’s the boogey man

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as a matter of fact it was

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so Dr. Loomis he gets downstairs because he’s he’s for sure gonna finish the job now unlike Laurie taking little naps all night. But bam, Meyers has gone

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and then carpenter shows us shots at the house, the rooms the neighborhood, while you hear Michael Myers breathing.

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Where is he? We don’t know. The end.

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Now Fun fact, in that sequence, you can see the butcher knife in the living room. But recall it was not there.

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Another fun fact Laurie.

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And Paul survived.

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You know, people think Laurie was the final girl. But Paul’s also still alive to write. Maybe Paul’s kept alive he was the Apostle Paul to spread the story of the gospel of Michael Myers.

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So in conclusion, what makes this film a classic, why are we obsessing over it every year?

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Because at one point, it was the largest grossing film in history $300,000 flipped into $70 million.

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Sadly, carpenter and Hill didn’t see much of that money. Probably their contract was dumb.

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Then they were sort of more or less forced into doing a sequel, even though they didn’t want to it was going to be done with or without them.

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Which is kind of what happened to the matrix for to write matrix for soc. But apparently they were that’s the story that they use was like, oh, it’s gonna be you know,

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it’s gonna happen with or without you. So it’s up to you.

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But carbon or hell, we’re like, Fine, let’s get this bread. So they did it. But the first one, this was shot in 20 days.

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And carpenter says on the director’s commentary that this was filmed in the 90s. He says it’s kind of sad, sad that they kept making these Halloween movies. At the time, he says he knows that they they made a part four and a five. And here’s their main part six, and he’s kind of like a brother.

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But yeah, so it’s a great film it very successful, obviously, right? But let’s talk about the occult symbolism. Let’s talk about the masks, right? The mask is the tool for the suppression of the ego.

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And you can see this with the free Masonic rituals of initiation, with the hoodwink, right, they put the mask on, it’s to suppress the senses and suppress the ego. It’s like, it’s like achieving any altered state. All right.

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You need to get past the

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the ego and the egoic structures of what the mind thinks the world surrounding it is, like the ego has a way of saying, you know, Hey, you are Isaac Weishaupt and your record podcast for a living or whatever, you know, and, and the truth is, is like no, you are this something else? You are this infinite consciousness or whatever, right, depending on who you want to listen to David Icke, whatever.

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But as far as Michael Myers, go,

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you see him getting the mast taken off when Tony Moran has taken over, right? And he’s in shock when it happens if you watch that scene,

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it’s like he has to have that mask on to commit the murders. And when it’s off, and he finds himself holding a butcher knife trying to kill people. He’s like, whoa, that’s too much. But if he puts the mask on, he can do it.

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Kind of like when he was six, he was wearing the clown mask. It’s the suppression of the ego. So he can be a murderous psychopath.

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Now, fun fact, that mask which is of course, like we talked about is molded by for

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William Shatner, it was actually for a film from 1975 called the devil’s reign,

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which I watched for you,

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which actually had John Travolta’s film debut, which I actually didn’t even see him in there. But anyway, which ties us into carry right because John Travolta was in carry with PJ styles. But the devil’s reign is about a bunch of satanist trying to do a little blood sacrifice action. And if you follow through the Halloween storyline, Halloween six, the curse of Thor and they claim that Michael Myers is from a bloodline of druids and they do a blood sacrifice. And that’s why he tried to kill the family.

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So is it satanic? In a way if you follow through the storyline of even the roots of the mask, come from a satanic film.

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Now, in the devil’s reign, guests who stars in it, Anton LaVey, who makes a nice little cameo at the end of the final ritual. He was a technical adviser for that film as well, which would support John Carpenter’s assertion via Dr. Loomis, that Michael Myers is in fact, it Yeah, evil.

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So Anton LaVey.

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Being in the devil’s reign, which is where the mask came from, from Michael Myers, kind of connects it in in a way right? Maybe there’s some subconscious belief and ideas that support this idea that maybe it is evil.

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Fun fact, Anton LaVey and his old lady were both in the devil’s reign.

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And they together had a child named Xena. LaVey aka Taylor Swift look it up if you don’t believe me. Look it up zinal of a Taylor Swift. Is it the same person? We don’t know.

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Also, there’s this theme of fate running throughout the film’s John Carpenter suggested fate was a primal fear.

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Fate would mean a deterministic view of the world meaning you have no control over what’s going to happen. Everything has been predetermined for you. Which I don’t believe in.

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How would I know though, right.

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But Laurie strode, she was the Virgin that survived her fate was to survive this. And in the director’s commentary, they claimed there was no morality attached to this thing at all. It was supposed to be more about how Laurie strode was the naive person, nothing to do with sexuality? I don’t believe that for a second. Why they wouldn’t just come out with it. I don’t know because everyone else is having sex and they’re getting murdered. But her naivety keeps her safe. She’s always looking for safety, keeping a level head.

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She always worried about the kids, telling them extremely slowly how to get out of the house. She’s like, listen,

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there’s a mass murderer in the house. What I need you to do is to walk down those stairs, go to the front door, you turn the doorknob, then you open the door, then you go out the door, then you run down the street. Hi, so preposterous ism, doesn’t matter. It’s a classic movie.

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Now with the occult.

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There’s a article on the Guardian saying that the film, Halloween was actually a reference to the occult holiday of salween. I’m gonna read you from The Guardian.

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By Hills recollection that’s Deborah Hill. By Hills recollection, the script took three weeks to write. And much of the inspiration behind the plot came from Celtic traditions of Halloween, such as the festival of Saleen, although selain is not mentioned in the plot of the first film, Hill asserts that and then it has a quote.

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So it wasn’t mentioned in Halloween one, but Halloween two, it does. All right. Okay, but here’s what Deborah Hill says. The idea that the idea was that you couldn’t kill evil. And now is how we came about the story. We went back to the Old Town old idea of sewing, that Halloween was the night where all the souls are let out to wreak havoc on the living and then came up with the story about the most evil kid who ever lived. And when John came up with this fable of a town with a dark secret of someone who wants live there, and now that evil has come back, that’s what made Halloween work. So there you go, based on an A called idea. I think on some levels, we all find this movie terrifying and scary because of the dark occult Saleen roots as well as I’m gonna go ahead and say it the satanic Anton LaVey connection with the mask.

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Now to wrap up this, this Fun Fest, let’s talk about

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This theory of God hair all right.

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We have to wait to know about Michael Myers, who’s Michael Myers. There’s all there’s very minimal violence in this film. This isn’t one of those gorefest like saw or hostile.

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And it’s terrifying because the most of the horror and the terror and the murder and the violence takes place inside the viewers mind. All right. The viewer is the one anticipating and waiting for the violence to happen. Most of it happens in the shadows.

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And the whole thing was Michael Myers, refusing to die was based on Carpenter’s fondness of Westworld now the show the movie with your Bruner Brenner from back in the day.

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Just like you’ll Brynner, the robot. Myers was evil and evil, of course, won’t die. Now, Michael Myers This is fun fact.

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Michael Myers was the name of a British company. There’s a British company called Miracle films that distributed carpenters assault on precinct 13. And the guy running it was named Michael Myers. And supposedly they chose his name as a tribute.

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Seems weird, but hey, that’s what it says. Now, here’s the theory I want to float. What if Dr. Loomis is the real villain here he’s well, I don’t know. Dr. Gomez. Seems like a bad guy. First off, let’s talk about that.

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In all the films he’s totally unhinged, totally crazy.

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He, you know, in this film, He’s scaring the little kids trick or treating unnecessarily when they get too close to the Myers home. It’s like he’s trying to protect them but he also like really gets off on he has this creepy grin when he does it.

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He’s means out of his patients. He calls Michael Myers pure evil and proceeds to try and kill him. He’s walking around with the strap.

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And in the sequence he gets more insane. Halloween five is peak insanity. He literally uses Jamie strode who is a nine year old child. He uses her as bait. She can’t speak because she’s so traumatized by Michael Myers. In that she’s in the hospital and he’s shaking her yelling at her in her face. And then he uses her bait to get Michael Myers down the stairs. He’s the bad guy.

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Anyway, Michael Myers. Is he an alien?

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Or is he possessed by an alien? Pure evil, I believe. So. If you look at the idea of aliens or demons, I think they’re alien. I think aliens could be demons, or angels. I think it could go either way.

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Was Meyers possessed by a demonic alien? Or was he a demonic alien? seems outrageous, right? But hear me out.

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The film we see John Carpenter’s obsession with

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is the thing from another world. I think I call it the thing from outer space earlier that was wrong. It’s the Howard Hawks version from the 50s. It’s called the thing from another world.

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And in carpenters remake in 1982, simply call it the thing. It’s about projecting fears.

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And the shape shifting alien is a parasite who takes over the host mind and works with

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what’s already in existence. And when it takes over the host. Very much like David Ickes theory of Archons and shape shifting aliens. Listen to my show about Queen Elizabeth and the shape shifting lizard theory I did

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in September.

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But also John Carpenter, if you recall, did they live with Rowdy Roddy Piper, and David Craig or Craig David? Anyway, it’s about

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reptilian alien people possessing human bodies.

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So you can see how these things all fit into the wheelhouse, okay? And if you watch Prince of Darkness,

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I think it’s Prince of Darkness. There’s a terrifying scene where the woman says I’m losing myself. I think I think that was where it was. Because this Antichrist goo is taken over the bodies. It’s a terrifying movie.

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So John Carpenter has this obsession with aliens possessing human bodies

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and then you also look at how the way Myers is staring at Bob when he kills him. It’s like an alien analyzing a new species almost.

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Plus, he’s eating dogs like he was the elf was an alpha male alphas eating cats.

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But also in the thing is a big plotline about the dogs. It’s not the movie starts out was the dog getting possessed by the alien first.

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So the argument could be

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that Halloween is more or less a prequel to the thing or some kind of cousin to it.

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The pure evil of Michael Myers is simply the evil from outer space possessing a human body

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and it’s a

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interesting because in Halloween, they call Michael Myers of the shape because the viewer is supposed to project their fears onto it. That’s why the film was so great. It was scary because It delves into the psyche of the viewer and the subconscious, or the shadow, which are themes we’ve talked about many times on the show. If you’re not familiar with it, check out my book The dark path. Amazon, audible signed copies on gumroad.com backslash Isaac W links are always in the show notes. But in the dark path, we talk specifically about the shadow over and over.

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So in a way, Michael Myers represents the alien phenomenon.

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And in those alien to alien books I wrote, I’m always saying thoughts become beliefs become reality because there’s a mental element to it. It’s about manifesting from the subconscious from the Shadow Realm.

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The mean, you go as crazy as you want with this, the capitalistic MAVs zone where the fallen angels reside, could all be connected.

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And that’s kind of what Michael Myers the shape is doing is manifesting the fear from the viewer.

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So that’s it. That’s the hot take on Halloween 1978.

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And I actually watched every single Halloween movie, I put a ranking of my personal favorite ones you might be shocked at what you see. If you go to my letterbox if you don’t know what letterbox is. It’s just another social media app. Why not? But this one’s fun because no politics. It’s just you talking about movies, you review the movies, as you can follow me over there. Just check it out. My username is Isaac Weishaupt. One letterboxed link will be in the show notes. As always, if you go to all my links.com backslash, Isaac w can find it, but I rank all of them. You’ll be surprised at which ones I think are the best. I’m just gonna leave like that little teaser, if you will.

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Well, I will tell you this Halloween 90s. FDA is the best one of the bunch, by far, far and away.

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And that was the whole movie. I wanted to cover that for Halloween because it’s a fun little time of year where we can get a little scared. We’re gonna watch a little scary movie and just have a great time and casually talk a little bit about the occult symbolism and how the Illuminati are gonna take over the world and the demonic aliens are possessing our bodies, that’s all. Okay. All right. Thanks for listening to the show. Until next time, stay WOKE

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