¶ Discussing Halloween H2O
Welcome to the Obrother podcast with hosts Dan and Mike Smith , brothers from the same mother with different opinions , movies , tv , video games or more , plus celebrity interviews . Get ready , it's set . It's time for the Obrother podcast . Welcome to the Obrother podcast . Me host , dan Smith .
My son is always my brother from the same mother , mike Smith Spooky time is upon us . Yeah , and you know , you asked me what I was wearing , but I was being kind of , you were being coy , I was being coy , little Mike Myers going on there . Look at that baby . Wow , so you know , here we are , the final . I can't believe it .
It's the final episode of 2023 Obrother podcast Halloween Fest and now tell us for me except for spooky . But we've done an episode on the entire Halloween franchise in the past . We've done that , but we've never zeroed in on one of the films , in particular . Right , and this was really your brainchild and I'm not sure that I even know why .
But let's first start like , how did we get to focusing on what we're gonna talk about now , which is H2o , halloween , h2o 20 years later , so why are we talking about this one in particular ?
well , my thought was , instead of bouncing around from movie to movie , because , like this movie , h2o a 3 through 6 . Right , this is actually a sequel to 2 , so I thought let's let's bear it out and focus on one , because there's plenty in here and I also think it's one of the better sequels .
Okay , all right , that's a good , that's a good rationale . Yeah , now we are in the 45th year Anniversary of this beauty right here , crazy which of course is the original John Carpenter Halloween . So okay , so let's give the tail a tape here with Halloween H2o first , and then we'll get into it . But Came out August 5th 1998 .
Yeah , this was what , three years after , or was it five or six years after six ?
Yeah , it was a ways because six was a mess . But the big thing is it's 20 years Literally from the original , from the original , and they play it 20 years . Yeah , you know , in the movie right , hence the title . Yeah , right , but in this one , unlike the reboot we just had , the trilogy we just had , jamie Lee Curtis isn't like a warrior .
She's , she's in fear in this movie fear for herself , fear for her son up to a certain point Disappears in the new . Yeah , I don't know what happened to Josh Hartnett , but yeah , we can talk about Josh .
Yeah , all right . So Halloween H2o directed by Steve Minor . Some people might know he did Friday 13 , 2 and 3 . He did forever young . He did a bunch of other films . Now this was ultimately written by Robert Zappia . There was a different screenplay which we can talk a little bit about what this film was to be originally , because it right .
It sounded weird and they even show in the extras .
They show the script there's actually a very good making of of documentary by scream factory . That was like in 2008 . I think it was 20 years after .
You know 10 years or 20 years , some of it some of it is while they're making the movie , because you can tell her in their oh yeah those that they wear it , but others are sit down interviews later Because they really hammer the hell out of eight , Did you I ?
mean resurrection . Yeah , resurrection .
They really call that track .
Alright . So now you know , I'm mentioning this because I'm gonna talk about it as we discussed the film , but the music's composed by John Ottman . We're talking a little bit was yeah it was , yeah , it still is to a certain degree a little bit . Yeah , a little bit , it's in there .
Sure , cast your main players Adam Arkin , of course his father just passed away not that long ago . Alan Arkin , the famous Michelle Williams , adam Hanbird , jody Leno , keith Josh Hartnett , who you mentioned , and , of course , got to mention LL Cool J . Here's something I didn't know , mike . Yeah , I didn't realize this .
I probably knew it , but I can now make the connection better .
And you may have known this , but , as you're aware , I've watched all of the animated Star Wars series the Clone Wars , right , and the narrator of that series and a guy who also does the voice for like Yoda and Lot of other characters I think I'm like SpongeBob and some other things , little shop of horrors , tom Kane , was the voice of Dr Loomis in the
opening sequence , right ? Whoa , I right , I , of course I knew it wasn't Donald Pleasants , but correct , I never realized it was Tom Kane and he just did a marvelous job and he talked about sitting with His best friend of his yeah , and he said you know he would coach him .
He said it was really difficult Doing the voice and he took a lot of cues from Donald Pleasants friend and said yep , that's Donald , because I remember when we first saw this we were like is that him ? You know , we even , yeah , questioning because it's not just enough like him ? Yeah , but it was you know .
Now that I watch it , I can pick it up right away that it's not him , right ? But it's , it was like the new one where they shot Donald Pleasants and it was a double , that was like his doppelganger , I mean you also had his voice over that opening sequence in the 2018 film too , which was just as good .
Right if thought better , but you're right that actual that was actor was was like yeah , and and I wish they stayed with that a little longer because you know , maybe they didn't want to , because people would , you know , eventually see the makeup and it went so quick you were like , well , yeah , and he ended up , he , I think he passed away like 95 or
something like that , so he passed away , because this was this was dedicated to him at the end of H2o , I think right . Yeah , he was in six and he died before it came out , right , I think they were still filming it and six was as you said a complete mess it was .
You know we're coming off of that nightmare where right Daniel Harris , that whole thing about Right she went to to to get into , get emancipated from her parents and she was supposed to play .
Jamie , again , she was gonna be in it and they wound up not using her over a squabble of .
Not using her over a squabble of A couple grand , yeah , a couple grand and they were like , yeah , we don't really care , that character is not that big a deal , right ? So ? So then they end up casting this other Woman , this older actress at the time not much older at that point , but she was over 18 at least , I guess JC , something or other .
If you get her last , a Bryce or something . They were friends , they knew each other , they did yeah they met through an acquaintance , like years later or sometime after the fact and and actually you hear Danielle Harris talk about the fact that this this girl said later on you know , I took so much over that right .
Fans you ? Yeah , of course , of course . But that film , the whole thorn thing , and it was just a complete joke and they , they were trying to pay off the man in black , and that was just just got worse .
It got worse . It got worse . Yeah , and Paul Rudd .
You know , Rod doesn't even own up to being in it .
Exactly . Good luck asking him about his involvement in it right now . This is interesting because there's some debate out there about the origin of like how this came to be . Because originally right . We know anybody that's a Halloween fan knows this was going to be a straight . The video production yeah , that's all . This was going to be right .
I actually didn't know that until I watched the extras , because it's not in the commentary . But you're right , it was supposed to be straight to video .
Right , and it was still Robert Zabia . He was still attached to it as a writer at that point , and it was . It had this copycat killer premise to it . Where that Charlie right the character Charlie right Was a copycat killer paying homage to Michael Myers .
He's josh hartnett's friend in this , and he could have played sereno at the time , although he's grown into his nose .
It's very insulting for you to say that . In fact it's funny you say that because I go back and watch it now . I thought he was very , at the time , kind of awkward , which he was supposed to be , to a degree Right , but but it's not , as it's not as striking as as it might have seen back in 98, .
You know , and I , as you said he's , he's sort of grown into his own now .
Yeah , and when you see him today , you know it's , you know he's a great storyteller too .
Oh yeah , yeah , for sure , but that was , that was a big part of it was . It was this copycat , killer idea . And then here's where some of the debate comes into play , which is Is it Jamie Lee Curtis's idea ? Was it Bob Weinstein's idea ?
Right , and you can see in some of the interviews Jamie Lee Curtis talking about Well , it was , you know , coming up on the 20th anniversary and I thought you know . So she kind of makes a claim to it . But then you see another interview with Malika cod , not referencing Weinstein had this idea . So who knows , you know ?
Bottom line is she comes in and gets attached to the film . They go to Zappie say okay , now you're you scrap all right , a feature film on your hands and you got to work Jamie Lee Curtis's character back into this .
So , right , that's where we pick up , and the first , what 15 minutes of this film is a , is an homage to really , you know , the , the , the first Uh film , you know .
I mean there's a lot of with the Loomis reference and Heaven nurse Marion in there and and that kind of thing and she's keeping notes through the years of all the killings and Correct Basically followed his path frame picture of Loomis in her office , in her house . You know you don't remind me of a little bit was the opening of godfather 3 .
Remember how they're recounting . The first couple films are going from on right . I'm touching the leaves , blowing up the .
Any even have Fredo . They even show Fredo .
Right , but now it's different .
They've changed it .
But it has a similar kind of vibe in terms of the yeah the kind of look back montage that they were doing to pay A homage to it . You know , yeah to what came before , so Do we need what's ? What's the synopsis here of h2o for 1998 ?
Yeah , it's basically just 20 years later . Jamie Lee Curtis is now . She's changed her name , changed her identity , so nobody knows she's related to Michael Myers and she's working for this . What would you call it ? A prep school ?
Yeah , it's an all , it's an , it's an all girls .
School . Okay , so the boys were from another Campus yeah , I mean she had Josh there .
At least part of the story was that she had him there because To keep watch over him , correct ? She's living in fear , but you know that begs a question , as you . As you're saying that , then what's the explanation for charlie being there , right ?
and they had the same coat .
That matched the girls outfits . That's right , that's right . So I don't know that I'll have . We'd have to go back to the tail of the tape on that one . But yeah , um , but you're right , she's pulling , she's like carry tate or something .
Yeah , you know not , lori strode until she tells Adam arc and at one point who she really is and he's kind of like not , and he's in disbelief .
Right , he's a counselor at this school , mm-hmm , and they've got a thing going , right , right .
Yeah , right , so okay . So I didn't mean to interrupt . Yeah , but uh . So Instead of taking the approach that they took in 2018 , where she becomes a warrior and she's looking for a fight , just the opposite , she's behind bars , literally at this prep school . Very you can't get in , there's ll cool .
J is like the gatekeeper and he's supposed to keep the kids in and keep everyone else out eyes up , ronnie , and you know the kids of course would be kids . They sneak off to get some alcohol Because they're not going on a field trip they got . You know , jamie lee curtis is so protective of Josh Hartnett that she says no , josh , yeah well .
Josh , that's a heart . Mike might just have a visit to the dentist .
Yeah , at the end , jamie lee , kind of they . They plan their own party .
They end up not going off campus . They end up not going staying .
Right , they're going to have their own party . They snuck in to get booze or snuck out to get booze . Ll Cool J takes , you know , some guff because he didn't catch them . Eyes up , honey . And in the meantime we see this van just kind of parked out there randomly , and so that's apparently how Michael Myers gets into the school .
Yeah , that was one of my little pet peeves about it yeah . Like no one saw that Two feet behind her car was this old like 1949 Jalopy Right , you know .
It almost looked like a .
Morgue truck Right . Like Michael , it's very out of .
If it said Michael Myers is in here , that would have been the as soon as Michael .
Myers painting incorporated . He's doing some side gigs in between kills , so okay , go ahead .
But you know really , so that they have the party . Michael Myers gets in and the killing begins you know , yeah , and there's a whole
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There's this whole back and forth in the beginning too , prior to that , about you know , jamie Lee , her character and the son getting into it about like I'm 17 . Right , which she was in the original film , that's a reference , but I'm 17 . You know , I can't be living like this anymore . You got me locked up . It's like it's been 20 years .
Don't you think that he would have come back by now and all of this , right , right , so he's fighting for his independence , to get the hell out of there and that , but then , ironically , as you say , they end up staying there .
Right and he alone erases the other movies by him saying wouldn't he have come back by ? Well , he did in the last five movies that we're ignoring .
That's right .
That's true , so that was kind of a weird line , but yeah , so he starts with the kids and I think Charlie is the first one to take it .
Charlie is . Yeah , and you know , charlie , the famous scene of him . You know this was a brilliant right Building the anticipation and all that , the tension , where he drops a corkscrew into the sink Because you know they're having a little bit of a party in the dorm Right . And he goes to get a corkscrew , to get a bottle of wine they need to open .
So he goes , drops the corkscrew and I mean you know at that point what you think is going to happen and his hand's going to get all cut up in the Right .
Instead he goes in this dumb waiter that goes up to the next floor .
Speaking of which , there's one of our favorite scenes in this film . Right Is Chris Durand as Michael Myers looking up the shaft of the dumb waiter . Yeah , when that gets hoisted up , such a great , a great shot .
There's a lot of really great shots . I mean , of all the Halloween movies , this has the most iconic directing shots of any of them . Even I even go back to the first one . There's one of the shots when they come face to face .
Dan was holding up the back of the steel book which has Laurie and her brother Michael go for the first time in 20 years are face to face . Right , right , you know . And the way he gets there , the director gets there with the kids trying to get the keys to get in and finally they open it . They get the kids in , slam the door .
There's Laurie's face and Michael right there . That was a great shot .
Yeah , it was great . There's a lot of references to not only previous you know the original film but other films as well . There's , you know , the famous one from the original where Laurie Strode is in the classroom and she just kind of daydreaming and she looks outside and sees the shape Right . They said it Michelle Williams .
Michelle Williams , in this case , same thing . She looks out , she sees , you know she thinks she sees someone out there . Charlie makes a comment to Josh you know you're going to be you're still going to be living with your mother in 20 years running some motel somewhere . Reference to Psycho .
To Psycho , you know , and they had the Psycho car .
They even had the license plate , I guess , of one of the cars that she drove in Psycho yeah , and the initials of Norman Bates were on the license plate . There was also the One Good Scare , the Charles Cipher's line from the original that now Janet Lee says to her daughter , jamie Lee Curtis which I guess everybody's entitled to , one Good Scare .
Right , she pulls that . There's a lot of that stuff going on , you know and then the one where Scream is playing on the TV . Scream too .
I think Scream too , right , and Michael . Miles is the one with the mask . That's funny .
It's kind of cool . I like that stuff , yeah , so yeah , you mentioned some iconic scenes . That dumbwaiter scene is awesome . The reflection in the window , in the mirror , the window actually is fantastic , so I love . This is towards the end , where he's chasing her in , you know , the dining hall or wherever it is in the school and he's flipping the tables .
Right , you know it was interesting to watch that and listen to Oppman's score which got pulled . You know what it reminded me of .
It was very like doot , doot , doot , doot , doot , doot , Like it was very kind , it was very bizarre .
If you listen ?
to that right and it made me think of from Halloween , was it four ? Were those cops and I pointed this out to you . If you go back and listen to the soundtrack on that film couple of the sheriff , the deputies you know when they would walk .
We'd like they would like honk , honk , squeak , squeak , doot , doot , doot , doot , like all goofy sound effects that they were using . It was very bizarre . But yeah , oppman's soundtrack just doesn't fit when you hear it isolated .
And because you don't hear the tables going and the suspense isn't the same .
It's not the same .
There's a scene before that that we both like as well .
That was . I was saving that for the last . Okay , go ahead , I'll let you do it .
Well , you know they were trying , they had been talking about like ways to give Michael more gravitas in this film and some of these sequences and you know Chris Durand's obviously a very well accomplished stunt performer there was like this piping in the ceiling and it had just enough clearance .
And they said you know , do you think you might be able to lower yourself down from there ? He said , yeah , sure , and there's the scene that you always talk about with the film he just slowly lowers himself down behind her After yeah , she walks by , she walks past and then you see behind her .
It's so great , it's so good , they stole it in the next movie . Yeah , almost the exact same shot , which ? Was kind of in resurrection . Yeah , I wonder where you put this in the hollow .
I know what your favorite not ready .
They're not ready .
Okay , you know I don't want to go there yet . Okay , no , because we got to talk about the mask issue , right , right , there was such a huge issue with the mask . Oh yes , the score was bad enough . Like that was a whole debacle . Right , that was a mess .
And they bought in the , brought in Marco Beltrami and kind of layered a new soundtrack by him over Oppmann soundtrack . They did the best they could with it . They had run out of time , I think , or else they would have re-scored the whole entire film . Yeah , so that was one problem that they had to deal with . But then the issue with the mask .
There was four different masks that were used in the film . Right , the main ones are referred to as the K&B mask and the Stan Winston mask . K&b mask being kind of the that's the original mask , very featureless , very kind of . Some people said it looked like an alien . You know , right , a lot of forehead , you know .
Which is literally William Shatner mask , right no this was not even the original , it wasn't even that . It was kind of a diversion from that a little bit .
I know they used the mask from six For part of it .
Only in the very beginning , only in the opening shot , and it's still there , yeah , only in the opening shot . Well , this is great . You can see a great kind of mashup of all the masks , oh really , in the film .
Yeah , and they go K&B , stan Winston , like as the scenes are popping up , and then at one point it would be like K&B , probably with a question mark , you know . Because , it was hard to follow it , but the one you see . All the close-ups are the Stan Winston mask , where the hair is a little bit more kind of crazy Right pushy .
Yeah , it's a little kind of out .
Now , was that an extra on yours , because you just said it popped up . I thought you were talking about .
No , it just Fichorette said I was watching . Oh , okay , I was kind of diving into this a little bit . I think a lot of it came from that Scream Factory making of Okay . That was just really good .
But then there's that shot where he confronts Charlie after he pulls his hand out of the garbage disposal with the corkscrew , this absolutely pitiful CGI mask that they put on him . It's only like a second , but it's so horrible and the director of photography was like I'm not sure why we didn't go back and reshoot that .
He said maybe we destroyed that set and just wasn't time , Like I don't know , but it was horrible .
So that was a big , big .
That was a big problem with this .
It was a big issue throughout , big , big issue .
Yeah , and there's Chris Durand kind of like I don't know , I just wear the mask .
Right , just give me a mask to wear . That's all I'm looking for . Give me the knife and point me in a direction and I'm good .
Right , right Now you say where do I put this ? Yeah , so it's interesting because so , if we're thinking about now , does this include Rob Zombie's one and two , or am I leaving ?
that out of it . I know you , like Rob's , you're favorable to Rob Zombie one , but that really isn't part of the universe that we're in , because he did , I guess , what you would call a reboot .
But six is Right , you know .
I know . I know , three is I mean I would count all of them . I would throw in the Zombie once Just to
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I don't know that that , you know , influences my ordering that much , but for me I would have to say that I don't think anything can touch the original . No . I just think it's too good the way it was made , the budget , everything about it .
It's just classic , right ? So I don't think it's even . In fact , mustafa Akhan talks about how John Carpenter came to him and said I can do it for $300,000 . And he was like I'm paying $300,000 a day for other movies . Yeah , you could do it even through in a $20,000 bonus .
You're higher Because he brought it in ? Yeah , he brought it in on budget Right , so it's got to be the original at the top of the list , right , I agree , and then you know , then it gets pretty difficult . I mean , I think I'll leave Zombie out of it for now at least I can do like a different rating . But I really liked the 2018 one .
Yeah , me too , but I just that doctor sequence is just hard to stomach , that character of the doctor you know where he's at the sanitarium is so horrible .
And where he becomes like obsessed with wanting to be Right , it's kind of the copycat .
It's really stupid yeah . Very stupid . But other than that , to me that's a very solid installment in the series . But then I think , you know , h2o comes sailing in . As much as I like four and five , you know , because of Loomis and Daniel Harris I just got a soft spot , I think , the age I was when those came out .
There's a lot that plays into that , but I think H2O is probably next , and then four and five , you know , and then I think that's where I bring Zombie's first one into it . Yeah Right , and then probably season of the witch . Wow , you know , like I think season of the witch is coming before resurrection of my list .
I think you know , I honestly think it probably should , and it should come before six .
Yeah , no disrespect to the bust of rhymes , but right it was almost like they were trying to copy . Well , malik well , we got a rapper , let's get another rapper . He said exactly that .
He said I think we tried to copycat too much of what we did in H2O and instead of putting something out that was more original and I think that's evident that should have gone straight to video . Yeah , it's funny because I don't hate it . I really don't , because there's a handful of scenes in it that make me like it enough , you know .
And there's a clever idea that you know they're in the Myers house and they're going to stream it . You know Right . It's a modern idea Right , but it's just not executed .
It's the Blair Witch version of Halloween , basically .
Yeah .
The found footage premise Right , you know Right . So I don't hate it , but it's not high up on the list . And then six is like way down has to be the lowest .
At the bottom , although the producer's cut makes a lot more sense .
It's still , I put Rob Zombie's second one before I would See , and I didn't like that one at all .
Well , yeah , his second one was just disconnected and well , it was the white horse Wasn't explained . I can't believe we both said it at the same time .
The mother figure , it was bizarre , it was bizarre .
Yeah .
But yeah , I would probably put the second one before . I would bring in Probably right after H2O Halloween 2 .
Yeah , I would put after H2O and again , that had problems . But yeah , we're pretty close . I put the original first Second yes , he's holding up that case again . Second , I would put it's between zombies first and the 2018 . So those are two and three to me , and then each two would be fourth that's interesting Followed by , I think , two , that's interesting .
So , yeah , and the score I would give each two was 75 .
So okay now . Okay , met a score of 52 , brought tomatoes 54% from the critics , 49% from the audience .
Wow , you know , michelle Williams , you know , in the , in the beginning , with the titles , it says introducing Josh Hartnett .
Well , you know that introducing Michelle Williams . Well , yeah , none of them are really the biggest star .
Oh , but who knew ?
Yeah , I knew .
And she works very different she you know , she looks very much younger . You know the Michelle Williams we see today . I could put those next to each other and I would say , yeah , there's no .
I don't know her hair short hair , I don't know . I mean , I think she's great .
Yeah , she had curly hair and she was like , just look different , whatever they were 18 , whatever age they were at the time 19 or something .
But you know , and honestly , all of the performances I thought were good , I didn't have a problem with any of them . Ll Cool J I thought was good and believable . He played it the way it was supposed to be played . You know that perfect kind of bumbling security guard .
Right .
I would like to know I should have looked it up in the credits who his girlfriend was on the other end of the phone that was given him such , because he's in the security booth just working on like a trying to write a film , right , and he's reading the lines to her and she's giving them all kinds of grief and stuff .
Right .
That's a funny character that .
I think I heard it once and I just can't call who it is .
Yes , I wonder if it'll say if I look at I think it was referenced somewhere . Oh sure Right .
It was sure that was her name , yeah , in the movie .
Okay , I believe it's Lisa Gay Hamilton , I think .
Okay , that is yeah , okay , yeah . So it's not anybody we know or you know went on to have like a career like Michelle Williams .
That's interesting .
But it is kind of funny how these characters just vanish in the year 2018 .
Instead of a five episodes of the Lincoln lawyer , she was on , she was in the boogeyman this year Another horror film . But yeah anyway but a shout out to her performance because you know nobody talks about it , but it's pretty funny . Chris Durand was awesome , he was awesome .
I mean , yeah , the stunt work , you know , the is one point where she's Jamie Lee stopped short in the car and he goes sailing out the windshield and does a tuck and roll and then gets right up . I mean it's crazy stuff .
It's not one of the more muscular , like zombies .
He's a big dude .
Yeah , but you know when you're watching him in the extras he's just sitting in a chair , he doesn't .
You don't get that feeling that he was my , I think he would have mine Spent up . Yeah , but Nick Castle , the castle's . Like you know , I'm bigger than Nick Castle .
Right , but compared to Rob zombies which is did you can't that ?
that's why one of the reasons I like Rob zombie so much is because of Tyler Maine's performance , and you know his physical presence ? Yeah , it's just enormous and it brings a lot of realism to that .
He destroys the shack that they built . That was supposed to be like , like balsa wood . Right and it wasn't . And he's like solid oak or something .
Yeah , and he's still slammed it yeah . Broke through it though . Yeah , but yeah in the end .
I think this is definitely one of the better sequels .
Now the ending has some issues right which they had to then deal with in the beginning of eight resurrection . Right Because of the right , oiler Right . But Michael , let's say you know , loses his head , for you know lack of a better way to put it right .
Literally , and they literally plan that out in advance because Mustafa had the deal where he doesn't die , so they were trying to convince him , and this is the way they convinced him . Okay , we're going to chop the head off .
But so they had planned ahead , it's really a paramedic that he's , you know , and then he crushed his larynx so he couldn't call for help . It was like a whole thing , but you can see that in the extras .
Yeah , jamie Lee Curtis actually signed some kind of deal that she would do H2O as long as she did resurrection , but only if they killed it in the first 10 minutes . Yeah , Right , so you know then you go ahead to 2018 , where they once again white blood , they make the slate clean , that's right , and they start fresh from one .
And what a different perspective we get , and you know I like that perspective .
I see more similarities with her character in the two films than I think Really you portrayed well , you know , think about it . She's behind an iron gate , right , she's got the house . This is a 2018 film . True , she's notified . She's out there practicing on her gun range or shooting range right .
Right .
Right , so she's prepared . She maybe wasn't as prepared in H2O Right , but she's equally paranoid and hiding , essentially , but she's ready . Right , but by the end of H2O she's ready , right , yeah , it's a great scene when she locks everybody out of the school Right , she stays inside , kicks open this , you know . Beside the guard shack she gets the axe .
And then that awesome when she's just standing there and it's a silhouette , right , she just says Michael .
Right , you know , call and form is so good . And the smoke and the distance . Right , you know it was good , it was good . We've always said that you know we have all the Halloween's , both of us have all of the movies and we've always said we can find something good .
They're all right back there , folks and just about every one of them , even six , we can find a scene that works . But but zombies two was a little difficult .
That's a tough one . Yeah , that's a tough one . But , yeah , six is a tough one too , but that's a tough one . Yeah , it's probably a scene with Donald Pleasant , that's about it . Yeah , yeah . Well , there you go , I mean .
I can't believe it .
How to end the Halloween test Getting up Halloween fest celebrating the 45th anniversary of the original film , with a focus leaning hard per Mike's request into H2O , which it's a nice installment in the franchise .
It's definitely up there , one of my favorites , so it was nice to revisit it again and , as you know , I just recently completed my digital collection of all the Halloween films , so I now own them all . Good and bad , good and bad . That's right . I am a completeist when it comes to Halloween . No doubt about it .
Now we , by the time you hear this , I think we will be getting ready to appear at Spooky Empire in Orlando , at the Hyatt Regency . We're going to be there all weekend . So if you happen to be in the Orlando area October 27th through the 29th , stop by , get your tickets now , and there may still be tickets by the time you get this podcast episode .
But yeah , stop by the table , see us . We're going to have giveaways and all kinds of fun stuff going on there . Excited and they just announced that Kiefer is going to be there all weekend . Now .
Oh good .
So that's cool .
That's because we've got to catch up , you know . Yeah , it's been a while it's been a while . But you know this is the last official movie review of Halloween Fest , but I do want to point out , for every review we did , I watched at least four other horror movies .
I mean , I watched four Exorcists movies to prepare for the Exorcist , for the research , yeah , yeah , and we also had a couple of interviews where we watched Moot . So Halloween Fest has been long .
I think it'll be shorter next year , but the amount of movies and I think I put , yeah , over here the Universal , that's the Blu-ray box , but inside is all the four Ks too , the classic monsters , yeah , the Universal , invisible man , and last night I watched Creature from the Black Lagoon .
So I'm done with After Spooky Empire , which I'm really looking forward to . People will stop by and say hello , you don't have to travel far , I do , but you're in the backyard .
Yeah , you'd be here before you know it .
But yeah it's . You'd be sporting that at Spooky , or I might .
I haven't decided on the attire officially yet , but this might come out for reviewing . I don't know . Yeah , it's , yeah , I can't believe it . The end of Halloween Fest , as you said , the 2023 Halloween Fest has been long , it's been long .
It's really taken a lot of films .
Yeah , but look back on it with Pride . I think we put out some good episodes . Hopefully everybody's enjoyed it . Thanks to all of you that have subscribed to the YouTube channel . Make sure that you hit the thumbs up and turn on the notification bell so you don't miss an episode , and when you like the videos , you comment on it .
It really does kind of help with the engagement of the videos on the show , so we appreciate that . But yeah , that's going to do it , mike , by the time we get on the mic again , we're going to be out of Halloween . Fest and looking at some other films .
One film in particular that might be as long as Halloween Fest has been for us , which is Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese . Looking forward to that one . It's a good three hours and 30 minutes almost , I think .
All right .
Well , Halloween Fest 2023 in the bag . That's another episode of the O'Brother podcast . I've been your host . Dan Smith Logsime is always my brother from the same mother , Mike Smith , and we will see you next time .
See you from spooky To everyone .