Continuing the Horror theme for October, Mike is talking about the best horror franchise of all-time and things you may not know about them. Mike reviews the new Michael Myers movie “Halloween Kills” which is in theaters and on Peacock. Plus in Mike’s Movie Trailer Park: He gives his thoughts on 3 new trailers that dropped this week for the new Scream movie, Home Alone reboot and a new horror movie with Ethan Hawke.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, your
go to source for all things movies, and I am
fired up about this week's episode. Continuing the Halloween theme, today,
I am putting together the amount Rushmore of horror. Yes,
we're talking about the best horror movie franchises of all time.
I have my top four that made my mount Rushmore.
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I'll get into those, will do a movie review of
the new Michael Myers movie Halloween Kills. I'm anxious to
get to that review because I don't think as big
of a Halloween fan that I am. And you listen
to this podcast, you know that's like my all time
favorite scary movie. And I'll just say it wasn't what
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I was expecting. And then a ton of trailers came
out over the last week, so I'm opening up Movie
Mike's trailer Park and I'll break down all the new
things coming to theaters very soon. I'm excited for this
week's episode. Glad that you're here. Thanks for being subscribed
and listening every single Monday to the podcast or whenever
you listen to this thing. And without any further ado,
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let's get started in a world where everyone and their
mother has a podcast. One man stands to infiltrate the
ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast.
A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like
a walking a MTV with glasses. From the Nashville Podcast
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Network Cases Movie Movie Podcast. I love Halloween, I love
scary movies. I love horror franchises. So today, continuing the
theme in October, I put together my mount Rushmore of
horror franchises. So these are four movies that have i'd
say stood the test of time, from the originals to
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the remakes, to the reboots to everything in between. I think,
hands down, these are the top four franchises that if
I was putting together amount Rushmore and carving the big
iconic characters, putting their faces on display for everybody to see,
these are the movies I would put up there. So
a few things I considered when putting this together is one,
the amount of films they have to how much money
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they made at the box office. Three, You've got to
consider the iconic look of these characters, because a lot
of what makes these movies great and why they are
so different is how they look. Literally, they are icons,
and you can go to the Halloween costume store. You
can get your mass, you can get your costume, and
you know exactly what those characters represent. And also that
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these movies have really stood the test of time, and
that everybody is familiar with these Everybody knows who you
talk about when you mentioned these characters. And I know
the term iconic really gets thrown around so much like
everybody says everything is iconic. But I truly believe these
four that I have picked are iconic. You could put
up just their image, their face, and you know exactly
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what movie it's connected to and what that movie is about.
So that's why I decided to call it Amount Rushmore
of horror four movie franchises. Let's get right into this
one at number one. I think it's no surprise my
favorite Halloween and scary movie of all time is Halloween.
I think it is the O G classic scary movie
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and there are so many reasons why this franchise is
my favorite, and it all goes back to the original
Night movie and what they were able to do and
completely change the genre. I think Halloween really set the
standard for what a scary movie could be and what
a franchise could go on to do. By creating such
an iconic character. Not the first scary movie, not the
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first to do horror right, but it was the first
one that really gave filmmakers this template of, oh, I
want to make a Halloween movie like that, I want
to make a scary movie and kind of take what
they already did. We're so successful at and without Halloween,
you wouldn't have had any of these other big iconic
characters like that. Why I think that is is because
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there's something so simplistic about the first Halloween movie, and
it's everything from the plot of it happening in a
normal town that could be anybody's town who watches that movie,
and also just the simplicity of Michael Myers. He's just
this crazy, deranged dude who escapes and goes to terrorize
some babysitters. This could literally happen everywhere. So you have
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the setting, and then you also have the iconic Michael Myers,
which he really kind of set that standard of Okay,
if you're gonna make a scary movie, you gotta center
around this character. You gotta give him a look, you
have to give him a little bit of a backstory,
and that's what they did. So well in this movie,
from the white mask that shows no emotion whatsoever, the
black jumpsuit, the black boots, and the big kitchen knife.
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And then also what I did considering everybody I put
on this list is the amount of films from the
first Halloween movie. There have been eleven movies. With all
the reboots and the remakes, it's really just gone in
through all of these reincarnations of Michael Myers kind of
being more of a simplistic character, to them trying to
give him some backstory to him, to him just being
a brutal superhero apparently. And I just think after Halloween
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came out, it changed what all scary movies like this
we're going to be a change with slasher movies were
going to be. But it was that beauty of the
first one that really kind of set the standard of
they were able to do this movie with only three
hundred thousand dollars when everything else coming out at that
time was, you know, spending millions and millions of dollars
and is able to do it. It's basically an indie movie.
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It was a film crew that was just out of
high school, really learning how to use this new camera
that came out at the time. You know, how they
were able to really get people in that movie as
viewers of like, Okay, you're walking along and experiencing this
as the characters in this movie was because of that
new technology at the time, and they were I think
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the second movie to ever use this. So you know
those classic scenes of just like setting the stage, looking
at the house or walking through the house and the
very opening scene that's all was never seen before. They
really kind of changed how you would watch a movie
and how you could experience suspense as a viewer. And
I think the great thing about John Carpent the original
director of the movie, it was what he didn't show
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that made the movie so great. If you go back
and watch the original Halloween, there's not a whole lot
of blood in it. Yes he is stabbing people, slicing people,
strangling people, but some of the stuff is implied. And
there's a way that that movie makes you look one
way and then makes the action happen on the other way.
It's able to scare you by like Michael Myers just appearing.
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It's not just stabbing in blood, which I think a
lot of other horror franchises went on to do. But
it was almost just a simplistic approach. It had just
this really indie movie feel to it that I think
everybody who experienced it at the time came out and
then even people like me who watched it as a
kid would see and be like, Oh, I could make that.
I want to do that too. And it was from
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the first one, and they made eleven movies of this
that I just think he is the George Washington on
the Mount Rushmore of horror. I think the best film
with is the ninety eight Halloween, but I think an
underrated one would be Halloween h two oh from I
think that one is the only movie since to kind
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of capture that same energy and that same vibe as
the first one, but put it into the nineties, which
at the time it seems so like more cutting edge
and so much more like it would be modern times.
But if you went back and watch that one now,
I think it still holds up, but it still feels
very nineties. And I think the other major thing that
the franchise has going for it is the title of
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the movie. It's not called Michael Myers, It's called Halloween.
So us knowing that, us seeing that we just think
to watch it every single Halloween. When the first one
came out, it was a really slow burn at the
box office to where it wasn't just a straight out hit.
It did all right the first month, did all right
the second month, but it was the ability that it
was connected to that holiday that the year after that
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and the year after that they were able to put
it back in theaters because people still wanted to see it,
still wanted to experience it around Halloween. So that is
my George Washington to horror. Going with Halloween. Moving on
now to what would be Thomas Jefferson on Mount Rushmore
of horror, I'm going with Nightmare on Elm Street. There
are nine movies, without a doubt, the first one is
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probably the best from but a very underrated one would
be Nightmare in Elm Street Three Dream Warriors. And what
Nightmare on Elm Street was able to do is it
came out, of course after Halloween, and you know in
the eighties everybody was still trying to capture what Halloween did.
You know, Okay, we should make our version. What what
was Craven was able to do with Nightmare on Elm
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Street was take a simple plot and build it around
that people dying in their sleep, which came from an
actual news story that was happening of these people who
would monitor their sleep and whenever they would have nightmares,
they would log their nightmares, and there was this whole
story of people not waking up and dying in their sleep.
So he took that story, created a character that was
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based on a bully when he was a kid named
Freddy Krueger, and like, okay, so what if there's somebody
killing you in your sleep? Which is a great premise,
especially back in the eighties. That's something that would terrorized everybody.
And I think that's what great horror franchises do is
they take something that you can watch, but after you
turn that movie off, you're worried about it a little bit.
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You're worried about, in this case, if you fall asleep,
what if that would happen to you? Or in Halloween's case,
what if you are home at night and an intruder
comes and tries to kill you or slash slashy with
a knife. I think that is what great horror movie
franchises did. And this one just really left a mark
on everybody who saw it, and it created another iconic
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character of Freddy Krueger from the burned face, the old
creepy hat, but of course the striped sweater that everybody knows.
But I mean even another element that I didn't even
get to is the iconic knives for fingers. There's just
so many elements to the costume. And then you add
in Robert England who played him, who looked like the
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perfect Freddie. They couldn't have cast a better person to
capture the look, but also the voice and the vibe
of how creepy Freddy was. And unlike I was talking
about and Halloween Now You'm Mare on Elm Street really
kind of ramped it up with the visual all out
blood and brutal death scenes to the point it kind
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of messed with your mind. And I think the scene
that sticks with me from the very first one is
when Johnny Depp's death scene happens, sinks into the bed
and all the blood rushes from the bed, like there's
just so much blood and it's a little bit over
the top. And I think that's what Nightmare in Elm
Street kind of knew it was. Because they are playing
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in this dream scenario, they were able to do these
things and did not come across as cheesy. But not
only that, I think what nightmar in Elm Street got
right was the protagonist in the movie and the original
one at being Nancy and this character who fights back
against Freddie and it's a strong female lead who's an
just a person, you know, getting chased and falling down.
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And I think that's also what Halloween kind of captured
is the writer on that was a female and was
able to create strong female characters, which wasn't really represented
in any kind of horror movie. Still doesn't, I feel like,
get represented the best. And along the same lines of Halloween,
Nightmare in Elm Street has been rebooted. They try to
make it darker, and there's just always a demand for
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people to want to see a new Freddy Krueger movie.
I don't think any of the remakes and reboots that
have come since the originals have really you know, been
up to par and created that same energy as the
first one. But it's still just so fun to watch
and it's one of the best franchises of all time
in a movie that I still watch and and I'm like,
how do they pull this off? Like how did they
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think of this? Like what how sick and twisted do
you have to be to come up with some of
these dead scenes? And that is what is the best
part of the Nightmare on Elm Streets. You want to
know how they're gonna kill people. Is it gonna be
inside of a video game? Is it going to be
in a junkyard? There was just so much creativity in
the dead scenes and how creepy Freddy can appear. It's
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such a great touch that no one else has really recreated.
And Freddy Krueger himself is almost bigger than the movies
of his humor, his one liners, and his just overall
creepiness that I had to put him on the Mount
Rushmore of Horror, taking the Thomas Jefferson spot, going with
Nightmare on Elm Street, moving on now to the slot
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with Theodore Roosevelt on the Mount Rushmore of Horror. It's
a movie that scared me as a kid for many reasons.
And we're going back to the whole idea of you
watching something in an afterward being worried that it's going
to happen in your real life, like this movie could
actually come true. And after I watched Child's Play, I
didn't want to see any kind of weird doll. I
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was always creeped out by old dolls that had real lifelike,
realistic eyes or mouths. Those always freaked me out. And
I probably watched Child's Play way too young. I was
so scared after watching that I had to watch a
bunch of cartoons to kind of clean my palette and
not be afraid to go to sleep. And I think
for me, this was the original movie franchise that I
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had to watch all the time. And I don't know
why I would do that to myself. There's just something
so scary about Chucky, a doll coming to life, who
this serial killer was able to put his body into.
And the thing about Child's Play has there have been
eight movies, and they've all been relatively good. I know
some of these other ones they drop off a little bit,
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have some bad movies, but I think overall Child's Play
just has consistently good movies because you kind of know
what you're getting yourself into. When you watch a Child's
Play movie, you have to kind of suspend yourself a
little bit from reality. And I think Chucky is just
such a great character because he is this doll coming
to life. And the stories around him are always relatively good.
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In any kind of reincardnation, I think he is still
just consistently scary. I think, hands down the original one
from n is the best one, but Child's Play two
is right up there with being just as good. And
a rarity here is that Child's Play three with the
older Andy the Military School like it is a solid trilogy,
which is hard to do with horror. Usually by the
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third movie, they kind of run out of ideas and
every nothing's really scary anymore because they're doing the same
thing over and over. But Child's Play has a solid trilogy.
And like all the other horror franchises, there's been reboots,
there's been sequels. You got the Seed of Chucky, Bride
of Chucky, which gets a little bit cheesier. But I
would say an underrated movie in the Child's Play franchise
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is the version that came out with Aubrey Plaza as
the mom. And what we see with all these horror
franchises is when they revisit the original one, they kind
of try to keep that same essence of the first one.
They allude back to some of the things that happened
in the original one. It's kind of bringing us back
there to like, oh, you remember why you like this movie.
But I thought the version did a pretty good job
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of that, while at the same time modernizing it, kind
of having its own style and not just trying to
be like, Okay, we're doing the same movie exactly the
same way. Again. I know it didn't get that much
of attention when it came out, but I really like
that one. And even to this day, you don't have
a new movie this year, but on the Sci Fi
Channel there is now a Chucky TV series, and I
think that wouldn't happen for any of these other horror
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franchise because what you have in the Child's Play movies
is Chucky himself has a pretty big personality. He has
his own kind of storyline to where him talking throughout
an entire movie or doing things isn't completely weird, and
when he's on screen, he is as big a character
as all the other protagonists in the movie, and him
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speaking the entire time kind of works. So I'm haven't
checked out that TV show yet, but I'm probably going
too soon. I'll admit from the trailer it looked a
little bit cheesy. So in the third slot as my
Theodore Roosevelt. I'm going with child to play. Moving on
now to the final slot in the Mount Rushmore of Horror,
the Abraham Lincoln slot. And I think this is where
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I struggled with the most. And I'll go through some
of the ones I was considering and some of the
ones that were close to making this slot. And you
also just have to consider, you know the amount of
movies there are, the actual face you would carve in,
and just how recognizable all of these characters and these
movies are. One I was thinking about was Scream, which
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was an overwhelming response of everybody online who I asked
when I put the poll out there for you guys
to to comment on what is your favorite. I was
kind of surprised that so many people love Scream, and
looking back on some of the movies I was considering
adding them one because of ghost Face, the character himself,
like I had a mask of ghost Face when I
was a kid. And I think about Scream, it's just
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the classics slasher teen movie. But when that first one
came out, there were so many iconic things from that
movie that at I felt could have easily made this list.
No one would beat an Eye. But the reason I
didn't add it is there's not that many screen movies
compared to these other franchises. There's four, with the fifth
one coming out next year. I just think overall, the
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body of work came out in the nineties, there's not
as much there to work with. So I didn't add Scream,
but it's an honorable mention. The other one I was
considering is a horror franchise that I feel is a
little bit underrated, probably because they're a little bit cheesy
and it's Leprecn. I think the first two lepri Con
movies are super great. After that they did get a
little bit ridiculous because how many plotlines can you make
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with this little LEPrecon who is going around and killing people?
But the first one is a great horror movie. You've
got a young Jennifer Anderson, and I just think the
actual character of Leprecn is just a fun serial killer,
and the way he takes people out I find really entertaining.
But I just couldn't see his face next to all
these other characters here, so I didn't feel comfortable putting
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him in my Mount Rushmore. The other one I was
considering was Saw the thing about Saw is there are
so many movies, there's eight of them, not including Spiral,
that they all kind of blend together. To me, I
can't really, aside from the first one, differentiate what happened
in which you saw a movie. While they have great
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death scenes, and I think that kind of reignited the
horror genre for the time that it came out, and
it had that same kind of effect of we wondered
what we would do in that situation and if we
would survive. I just couldn't really see Jigsaw's face next
to all these other characters not as iconic, and all
those movies kind of feel like the same movie to
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me over and over again. They're great, but they're just
not my favorite. I couldn't see them up there. And
then the other one I was I don't know, I
feel basic for liking these movies, but I really like
the paranormal activity movies. I think the found footage scares
are great. There's something about paranormal things and movies that
really get to me and really scare me. And they
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freaked me out after watching them because I can't go
to sleep. Every sound I hear in the house. I
think there's a Ghost and those movies were able to
be made on such a low budget and went on
to be one of the biggest, like most profitable franchises.
But there's really nothing you could put up that's memorable
from that movie, Like there's no ghost that's in each
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of them. It would just be like a blank slot
on the Mount Rushmore So, as much as I like
those movies, and I feel like I have to defend
myself for liking those movies, I couldn't justify that pick.
And the other one you're probably thinking, like, oh, how
could you not include this pick is Friday, And I
think Friday is a trash franchise. There's several reasons why.
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First of all, when they made Friday Thirteenth, they were
basically saying, hey, let's just rip off Halloween, like that
is all Friday the thirteenth is. To me, it's a
Halloween rip off except you name him Jason and he
has a hockey mask instead. And there's just nothing that
I feel is super original about those movies. The style
of the Way to Kill People, it's just a straight
up slasher movie. The backstory of Camp Crystal Lake I
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find uninspiring, and there's nothing about Jason himself. That really
sticks out to me. He is really just a blank canvas,
has zero personality because even though he is just a
guy in a mask, I feel like Michael Myers actually
has a personality. Why Jason, There's nothing about him, There's
no backstory there that I'm really curious to find out
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more about. As I'm watching those movies, He's just killing
basically a bunch of horny teenagers. And I think if
it wasn't for that hockey mask, those movies wouldn't have
had the same kind of impact they had. Like that's
really it. He has a hockey mask, and you associate
it with Friday to their Teeth, which when it comes
on the calendar you probably think about those movies. Other
than that, there's nothing about those movies that I feel
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as iconic. Just came out at a time where it
was a big movie, but I just feel like it's trash.
It's not at the time, not worth a Mountain rushmore
because of Jason. So the movie I decided on, I
feel it maybe a little bit controversial given what I
just said about Friday the thirteenth. What I think is
the better, more iconic character has six movies in the franchise,
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all which are solid installments. The first one came out
back in the seventies and nineteen seventy four, and when
this movie came out, it wasn't your average serial killer movie,
wasn't your average slasher movie because the guy's name was
leather Face and he had a chainsaw. I love the
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Texas Chainsaw movies, and it's because of leather Face. He
is this tormented person and there's just something on a
deeper level that I identify with leather Face, and throughout
the franchise you kind of feel for him a little bit,
coming from this really messed up family, being this just
weird character, and there's just something so hardcore about his
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weapon of choice of killing people with the chainsaw. And
that first one is just so sick and twisted, from
the opening scene to the final scene where it's just
this madman in a mask made out of another human skin,
basically in a fit of rage with this chainsaw in
my head. That is one of the most iconic horror
scenes of all time, and was every installment of Texas Chainsaw.
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I thought they really kept that energy and that style
of leather Face. So I think the first one from
nineteen seventy four is the best in the entire franchise,
But one of my favorites is the one that came
out in two thousand three with Jessica Biel, which wasn't
kind of an ode to the original one, but since
it came out in the two thousand's, the technology was
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a lot better with special effects and makeup, and it
just had this still kind of classic horror feel with
a modernized touch. They've remade it since, done different versions
of it, and for me, I think they're all still
great and what I look for in a horror movie
like this, I like horror movies that are a little
bit sick and twisted, and I think Texas Chainsaw really
gets that right. So if I was carving up another
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face right there in the Abraham Lincoln slot, I would
give it to leather Face and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
So that is my amount rushmore of horror. You got
Halloween with Michael Myers, Nightmare on Neil Street with Freddy Krueger,
Child's Play with Chucky, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre with leather Face.
Let me know what would have made your top four.
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Send me a tweet at Mike Destro, DM me on
Instagram or send me an email movie Mike d at
gmail dot com. I'm gonna get into a spoiler free
movie review now. I've been talking about horror franchises all
episode long, and we just happen to have a new
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one in the Halloween franchise. Halloween Kills, which is available
streaming on Peacock also in theaters, made about fy million
dollars over the weekend, which is pretty good opening for
a horror movie, for an R rated movie, and you
know how I feel about Halloween being my favorite horror franchise,
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and I teased it at the beginning it a little
bit disappointed by this one. But before I get into
my full review, here's just a little bit of the trailer.
My grandmother set the fire. Ohe told you told me
what little Mars is alive, and then I couldn't have
survived that fire. So let's go back to when that
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trailer came out. I, for one, I liked it. When
I talked about it first, I was like, I like
that they showed all the violence in it. I like
that they win hardcore and we're like, Okay, here's all
the blood in this movie. Straight up like, this is
what this movie is going to be. But then when
I watched this movie again, I won't give you any spoilers.
What they tried to do and what they tried to
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recapture in Halloween Kills is the essence of the first one.
You have Lorie Strode back played by Jamie Lee Curtis,
and then you have some of the characters coming back
from the original movie, some of the characters coming back
from Halloween Too, And this one is a sequel from
the version, but in a way, it's kind of a
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remake of Halloween Too. I feel like it's the same
kind of concept. So this one takes place right after version,
the same Halloween night, just rolling into the next day.
And in the trailer you see that they thought they
killed Michael Myers and the fire when they put the
house up into flames, but you find out he made
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it through the flames and he killed the entire firefighter crew.
This is all in the trailer. So what the movie
is is Michael Myers coming back killing a bunch of people,
and essentially the town coming together to take down Michael Myers.
That's what this movie is. So it's essentially if you
remember Halloween to that original sequel, it's almost that exact
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same movie. So there have been a lot of reincarnations
of Halloween before this one. There was the Rob Zombie remakes,
which kind of had that same style of being just
over the top, a little more brutal, a little more hardcore,
but they didn't really have any identity. And then when
the version came out, I actually really like that one.
I thought they were able to take what the original
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one was and kind of modernize it and still kind
of keep that essence of Michael Myers. And the thing
that I realized that I love about Michael Myers while
watching Halloween Kills is the kind of simplistic approach of
the way he kills people, and that it's not super
hardcore and violent, and it's what you don't see sometimes
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that makes it better. Now that one did have a
good amount of gore, a good amount of blood, good
amount of just straight up slashing, But what they went
for and Halloween Kills is that Michael Myers almost becomes
this over the top villain with like almost the supernatural hours,
so he's like not human, which they kind of try
to justify with like yo, he's pure evil and that's
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why you can't kill him. But what this movie gets
wrong is with all that blood and violence and you
see Michael Myers on screen so many times, it kind
of takes away the personality of him, Like I wouldn't
really see him doing this. I know he's known to
be a killer and known to kill people, but not
in the style and I didn't really like that. What
I did find myself liking is when they went back
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to some flashbacks set in the seventies. They kind of
had this old school film look how the original ones did,
and I almost felt like they should have just made
it like that, like made a remake but still said
it in the seventies instead of continuing along with the
story and the movie. It starts out okay, but then
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it just super drags in the middle and then tries
to ramp up into in the end of it, but
it gets to the point to where it's almost just
too cheesy. I wasn't into it. I wasn't buying this story.
I wasn't entertained by the death scenes, and I didn't
care about any of the characters living or dying. I
felt like the story was so weak and there was
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nothing about this one that made it feel like it
was worthy of a sequel. What it actually felt like,
since they are making a trilogy, there will be one
more in this whole series of Halloween movies. It felt
like that Bridge movie, like they weren't giving you everything
in this one to the point to where they could
make the third one and be like, okay, Like I
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hate it when movie franchises do that, like, Okay, make
this one great, because I'm here watching this one now,
this is the one I want to be entertained by.
If you don't get it right on this one, what's
gonna make me want to watch the third one? So
I just felt like Halloween Kills lacked identity. It wanted
to represent what the first one was, but be like, oh, hey,
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we're gonna make it so much more violent and Michael
Myers is gonna kill people in the most brutal ways,
but it doesn't make sense. I felt like Michael Myers
always had this kind of cadence to him, He had
this motive, and it wasn't here, like you have to
get his character just right and you have to give
him an identity, and this one didn't have that. And
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by the end of the movie. I wasn't rooting for
the protagonists in this movie. I was rooting for Michael Myers.
I felt bad for him. I wanted him to take
over the entire screen and just be like, all right,
you guys are all dumb, this is cheesy, this is horrible.
I'm just gonna waste everybody. That's what I wanted by
the end of this movie. So I'm, for one glad
that I didn't go see it in theaters. I watched
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it on Peacock, which I have the free version, But
you pay the five bucks and you're able to watch
this one. There's no like weird commercials in between, aside
from when you first click play. So I think if
you're a big fan of the Halloween movies and you've
seen all the other ones, like me, you'd probably be
curious to watch this one and judge for yourself. But
just no, it's not that great. You're gonna feel disappointed
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after watching it. Probably around the midpoint of the movie,
you're gonna be ready for it to end. If I
went to see this in theaters, I probably would have
left really disappointed. But I am surprised that it is
you know, doing pretty well at the box office. I
think that's given the time, given the month, given you know,
the legacy of the franchise, that people are going to
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go see a new Halloween movie. I think the problem
is when the third one comes out, that people are
gonna be like, well, you know that last one wasn't
that great. I'm gonna wait on this one. So if
I had to write this movie, I would give it
two point five out of five jack O Lanterns, And
I think that's mainly due to the reason that I
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love Michael Myers and I felt like he carried this movie.
I didn't really understand his motives. I didn't really understand
why they made him this way. I think it's the
worst version of what this character is supposed to be,
what he's been in the past, and why In a way,
while I was watching it, I didn't feel like it
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pertained to his character, Like he wouldn't be killing people
in this way. It's not how all the other movies
have approached it. It's still kind of entertaining to watch
somebody get a knife in the eye. So I think
that's why I gave it a two point five out
of five. Like, given that it's not what I was expecting. Overall,
I think it was a little bit just boring. When
you see somebody get taken out in an interesting way,
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like to the point of where their eyes get you know,
sunken in because he's has so much pressure on their head,
that's still kind of entertaining to watch. So if you
just made like a quick cut of this movie of
all the death scenes, I think that would probably rank
higher for me. But having to watch the lame backstory here,
the fact that it all takes place at night, and
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the details of the movie just kind of get washed out.
It just feels nothing really stands out from the movie
just wasn't my favorite. I won't go back and rewatch
this movie. I'm so invested in the Halloween franchise that
I'll end up watch seen the final one, but this
one left a bad taste in my mouth. So that's
what I think about Halloween Kills. I would say skip
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it for now unless you already have Peacock and you
just want something in the Halloween theme to watch it
this year. Other than that, not worth your time. All right,
This is normally what I do movie news, but today
I'm doing something a little bit different. I'm opening up
movie Mike's Trailer Park. And that's because over the last
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week I've seen so many new movie trailers, and I'm
gonna play these for you and also break down what
I think about each of these movies, and I'm gonna
play them for you in order of the one I'm
the most excited about and the one I'm least excited about.
So the first one that came out over the weekend
was the new trailer for The Batman, which I have
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been so excited to see, this one with Robert Pattinson
as Batman. It was supposed to come out earlier this year,
actually on my birthday, but it's now been delayed till
March four. The plot of this movie, it's really kind
of unknown at this point from what I've seen online.
It's basically based on the comic book of like Batman's
first and second year of being Batman. He's dealing with
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some corruption inside of Gotham City and then he discovers
this serial killer known and seen as the Riddler. It
looks like it's a little bit more of like less superhero,
more crime and mystery in a way. But man, this
trailer looks stunning. Here's just a little bit of the
Batman trailer and dead Back. God, Oh my god, so
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so what you're seeing this trailer if you go and
watch it. At that point right there, it's Penguin trying
to get away from Batman. There's this big explosion. He
thinks he destroyed him, but then from the explosion you
see the Batmobile coming out. A lot of things I'm
excited about after watching this trailer. One the most, The
thing that kind of stands up the most for me
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is how good this movie looks. It looks so cinematic
and so well done on a different level than The
Dark Knight. The production on this just looks so good
that it can't be a bad movie. And that excites
me because it's going to get compared to The Dark
Knight no matter what it's taking the you know, realistic,
darker approach, probably going a little bit harder on that
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from what I've seen in this trailer, but it's going
to get compared to that. But this movie already looks
like it has an identity of its own. The other
thing I'm excited about is all the characters in this
look amazing, and I love that they have all these
villains you got the Penguin, the Riddler, you got Catwoman
in there. And the third thing is how convincing Robert
Pattinson looks. I think he's an under rated actor, and
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when everybody you know heard he was cast as the Batman,
people kind of questioned it. But I see him, I
hear his Batman voice. I think he looks really convincing.
I also think the bat suit looks awesome, so already
I love the overall vibe and feel of this movie.
It comes out on March four, two, and I can't
wait to see this one. The next one I'm excited about,
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mainly because I've been seeing The Rock post so much
about it on Instagram, and it's a character I don't
really know a whole lot about. But it is a
spinoff of d C Shazam, which is a pretty solid
d C movie, but the movie is about the anti
hero Black Adam. It comes out on July two, starring
The Rock. Here's just a little bit of that trailer,
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so really more of a teaser than a trailer, because
you just kind of see the Rock for the first
time as this character, and what you heard there is
him basically turning a guy into a Stone. You don't
really see a whole lot of like his face or
what the Rock is gonna actually like straight up just
look like it's a really big teaser. They came out
over the weekend, DC had their whole event, so they're
not giving away a whole lot about what the movie
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is going to be about. But I think I'm more
just excited to see The Rock as an anti hero
and if it's anything like the Shazam movie, which I
don't think it's gonna be as kind of funny and
comical as that movie, but I kind of like the
style that d C is going for. I think if
they get away from that whole Superman, their most recent
version of Batman, get away from kind of the Justice
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League style, I think they have a shot to be
the new kind of go to comic book movies. They
have these great characters that we see, they're just haven't
been executed so well on the big screen. But I
think with this whole kind of series of movies they
have coming out, they have a really good shot. So
I'm excited to see them to get into the anti
hero space with Black Adam. Next up in the trailer
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park is a new movie starring Ethan Hank, called The
Black Phone. It comes out on February four. It's about
this child killer played by Ethan Hawk. He takes these
kids away into a soundproof basement and you see this
thirteen year old boy who is essentially able to receive
calls from this like old disconnected phone and talk to
this killer's past victims. Sounds pretty great. Here's just a
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little bit of that trailer. I'll be home in the morning.
We're going I'm staying over at suseas tonight, snoop the fire,
the papers calling the grabber. You don't actually believe that
story to you because he can't hear you, and he
doesn't really take that same but he does. We'll really
stick out for me. From this trailer is the mask
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that the guy wears played by Ethan Hawk. And just
the style of this movie. It has a really great
like mystery horror field to it doesn't feel like anything
over the top. I feel like this has the great
premise behind it, the great look to it, and with
Ethan Hawk as the main villain in this movie, I
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wish this movie was coming out this year, Like I'm
so in the mode of watching horror movies. Right now.
I'm surprised that this one's coming out on February four. Like,
if this movie came out right now, I think it
would be great, fantastic. It was the one that I
was like, man, I can't believe that doesn't come out
till next year. But hopefully that one will be worth
the wait. Next up in the trailer park is The
Flash that's coming out on November four, another DC Hero here.
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They didn't really put out a full trailer, but they
kind of gave the first look of the Flash and
here's a little bit of that. Why do you want
to stake? I'd like to say this one, you change
the future and you change the past. Oh So, I
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remember watching the Justice League, and aside from Wonder Woman,
I think the second best thing to come from that
movie was The Flash. And they brought back the same
actor to play the Flash. It looks like they're alluding
to Batman being in this movie. So I don't really
know what they're going to do with this one, but
I think the Flash is a fun character. I think
he brings a great life to that. I also think
younger kids are into the Flash from the c W show.
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Next up in the Trailer Park is the new screen
movie Scream five. It's happening three attacks so far. Do
you have a gun? I'm Sydney Prescott. Of course I
have a gun. Something about this one just feels different.
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So this one is taking place twenty five years after
the original. They're bringing back Naomi Campbell, bringing back more
of the original cast. You got new people behind the
ghost face mask, same lines along of the I'm killing teenagers.
But I think this is a perfect time for this
movie to come out. That will be released on January two.
I always like a solid horror movie in January. I
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think this one is going to be it. And then
finally in the movie Mike's Trailer Park, we have Home
Sweet Home Alone, the reboot of Home Alone, coming to
Disney Plus on November twelve. Here's just a little bit
of this trailer, and I'll let you know what I
think the family left for their big vacation is that
everyone the cars are leaving now, but forgot one little thing. Mom, Dad, Uncle, Blake.
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You don't even know I'm here. They don't even know
I'm here. My mom and dad have going to Tokyo.
I'm totally on all right, It's enough of that trailer,
so I was curious to see how they were going
to reboot this series, and basically they're modernizing the first
one and kind of doing the same thing again. But
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this felt like a straight to VHS movie to me,
Like they didn't learn from Home Alone three, they didn't
learn from Home Alone four. It just is taking what
the original one was and doing this whole like, oh,
you remember the first one, here's just another random installment
of it. And what people don't get about the first
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Home Alone is there was so much attention to detail
in that movie, from everything in the movie having a
Christmas feel, like the house, the wallpaper was red and green,
and there were just all these elements to give it
that feeling of Christmas. And this one just feels like
a slap together reboot has no identity, Like just from
seeing that they're trying to change a little bit by
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changing where they go, changing that they're British, they changed
the plot up a little bit. This one's about this
married couple who tries to steal back some valuable heirloom
from this family, but the kid has left at home alone.
So I'm sure they'll be like some modernized technology of
like I don't know. He's like a ring cam that
the parents can see him. I just don't have anything
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and good to say about this one. And it's a reboot,
a remake that I am just can't believe they're doing.
And I think this is why people get annoyed about reboots.
It's taking something we all know and love and ruining that.
So that is a trailer park a bunch of new
movies you can look forward to one at the end
of this year and the rest they are all coming
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out in two But that is the episode for this week.
I do have to get in the listener shout out
of the week, and I'm going over to Twitter for
this one. It is from at Okay Barbie Doll a
k a. Barbie McGuire, who tweeted me about the new
Halloween movie. This is her review. She said, they absolutely
ruined the Halloween franchise. Michael Myers was the only scary
guy that freaked me out, but not anymore. Halloween Kills
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was beyond bad. Hashtag so disappointed. And this is just
one of the tweets and the Instagram messages that I
got kind of agreeing with me, and I thought I
myself was crazy for feeling this way about this movie.
But I saw the overall reaction. What's kind of what
I had? Oh, I feel good knowing that other people
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didn't enjoy it as much as they thought they were
going to. So unless you thought that was just me
feeling that way about Halloween, there's more and more reviews
of people saying the same things. So thank you for
listening this week. Thank you for being subscribed to the podcast.
Thank you for telling a friend about this. I've really
kind of seen this podcast grow because of you listening
every single week. Sharing your reactions to the topics really
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means the world to me, so appreciate that and hope
you joined me again next week, continuing the final installment
in Talking Halloween and Horror Movies and until then later
Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, your
go to source for all things movies, and I am
fired up about this week's episode. Continuing the Halloween theme, today,
I am putting together the amount Rushmore of horror. Yes,
we're talking about the best horror movie franchises of all time.
I have my top four that made my mount Rushmore.
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I'll get into those, will do a movie review of
the new Michael Myers movie Halloween Kills. I'm anxious to
get to that review because I don't think as big
of a Halloween fan that I am. And you listen
to this podcast, you know that's like my all time
favorite scary movie. And I'll just say it wasn't what
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I was expecting. And then a ton of trailers came
out over the last week, so I'm opening up Movie
Mike's trailer Park and I'll break down all the new
things coming to theaters very soon. I'm excited for this
week's episode. Glad that you're here. Thanks for being subscribed
and listening every single Monday to the podcast or whenever
you listen to this thing. And without any further ado,
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let's get started in a world where everyone and their
mother has a podcast. One man stands to infiltrate the
ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast.
A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like
a walking a MTV with glasses. From the Nashville Podcast
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Network Cases Movie Movie Podcast. I love Halloween, I love
scary movies. I love horror franchises. So today, continuing the
theme in October, I put together my mount Rushmore of
horror franchises. So these are four movies that have i'd
say stood the test of time, from the originals to
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the remakes, to the reboots to everything in between. I think,
hands down, these are the top four franchises that if
I was putting together amount Rushmore and carving the big
iconic characters, putting their faces on display for everybody to see,
these are the movies I would put up there. So
a few things I considered when putting this together is one,
the amount of films they have to how much money
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they made at the box office. Three, You've got to
consider the iconic look of these characters, because a lot
of what makes these movies great and why they are
so different is how they look. Literally, they are icons,
and you can go to the Halloween costume store. You
can get your mass, you can get your costume, and
you know exactly what those characters represent. And also that
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these movies have really stood the test of time, and
that everybody is familiar with these Everybody knows who you
talk about when you mentioned these characters. And I know
the term iconic really gets thrown around so much like
everybody says everything is iconic. But I truly believe these
four that I have picked are iconic. You could put
up just their image, their face, and you know exactly
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what movie it's connected to and what that movie is about.
So that's why I decided to call it Amount Rushmore
of horror four movie franchises. Let's get right into this
one at number one. I think it's no surprise my
favorite Halloween and scary movie of all time is Halloween.
I think it is the O G classic scary movie
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and there are so many reasons why this franchise is
my favorite, and it all goes back to the original
Night movie and what they were able to do and
completely change the genre. I think Halloween really set the
standard for what a scary movie could be and what
a franchise could go on to do. By creating such
an iconic character. Not the first scary movie, not the
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first to do horror right, but it was the first
one that really gave filmmakers this template of, oh, I
want to make a Halloween movie like that, I want
to make a scary movie and kind of take what
they already did. We're so successful at and without Halloween,
you wouldn't have had any of these other big iconic
characters like that. Why I think that is is because
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there's something so simplistic about the first Halloween movie, and
it's everything from the plot of it happening in a
normal town that could be anybody's town who watches that movie,
and also just the simplicity of Michael Myers. He's just
this crazy, deranged dude who escapes and goes to terrorize
some babysitters. This could literally happen everywhere. So you have
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the setting, and then you also have the iconic Michael Myers,
which he really kind of set that standard of Okay,
if you're gonna make a scary movie, you gotta center
around this character. You gotta give him a look, you
have to give him a little bit of a backstory,
and that's what they did. So well in this movie,
from the white mask that shows no emotion whatsoever, the
black jumpsuit, the black boots, and the big kitchen knife.
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And then also what I did considering everybody I put
on this list is the amount of films from the
first Halloween movie. There have been eleven movies. With all
the reboots and the remakes, it's really just gone in
through all of these reincarnations of Michael Myers kind of
being more of a simplistic character, to them trying to
give him some backstory to him, to him just being
a brutal superhero apparently. And I just think after Halloween
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came out, it changed what all scary movies like this
we're going to be a change with slasher movies were
going to be. But it was that beauty of the
first one that really kind of set the standard of
they were able to do this movie with only three
hundred thousand dollars when everything else coming out at that
time was, you know, spending millions and millions of dollars
and is able to do it. It's basically an indie movie.
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It was a film crew that was just out of
high school, really learning how to use this new camera
that came out at the time. You know, how they
were able to really get people in that movie as
viewers of like, Okay, you're walking along and experiencing this
as the characters in this movie was because of that
new technology at the time, and they were I think
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the second movie to ever use this. So you know
those classic scenes of just like setting the stage, looking
at the house or walking through the house and the
very opening scene that's all was never seen before. They
really kind of changed how you would watch a movie
and how you could experience suspense as a viewer. And
I think the great thing about John Carpent the original
director of the movie, it was what he didn't show
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that made the movie so great. If you go back
and watch the original Halloween, there's not a whole lot
of blood in it. Yes he is stabbing people, slicing people,
strangling people, but some of the stuff is implied. And
there's a way that that movie makes you look one
way and then makes the action happen on the other way.
It's able to scare you by like Michael Myers just appearing.
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It's not just stabbing in blood, which I think a
lot of other horror franchises went on to do. But
it was almost just a simplistic approach. It had just
this really indie movie feel to it that I think
everybody who experienced it at the time came out and
then even people like me who watched it as a
kid would see and be like, Oh, I could make that.
I want to do that too. And it was from
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the first one, and they made eleven movies of this
that I just think he is the George Washington on
the Mount Rushmore of horror. I think the best film
with is the ninety eight Halloween, but I think an
underrated one would be Halloween h two oh from I
think that one is the only movie since to kind
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of capture that same energy and that same vibe as
the first one, but put it into the nineties, which
at the time it seems so like more cutting edge
and so much more like it would be modern times.
But if you went back and watch that one now,
I think it still holds up, but it still feels
very nineties. And I think the other major thing that
the franchise has going for it is the title of
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the movie. It's not called Michael Myers, It's called Halloween.
So us knowing that, us seeing that we just think
to watch it every single Halloween. When the first one
came out, it was a really slow burn at the
box office to where it wasn't just a straight out hit.
It did all right the first month, did all right
the second month, but it was the ability that it
was connected to that holiday that the year after that
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and the year after that they were able to put
it back in theaters because people still wanted to see it,
still wanted to experience it around Halloween. So that is
my George Washington to horror. Going with Halloween. Moving on
now to what would be Thomas Jefferson on Mount Rushmore
of horror, I'm going with Nightmare on Elm Street. There
are nine movies, without a doubt, the first one is
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probably the best from but a very underrated one would
be Nightmare in Elm Street Three Dream Warriors. And what
Nightmare on Elm Street was able to do is it
came out, of course after Halloween, and you know in
the eighties everybody was still trying to capture what Halloween did.
You know, Okay, we should make our version. What what
was Craven was able to do with Nightmare on Elm
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Street was take a simple plot and build it around
that people dying in their sleep, which came from an
actual news story that was happening of these people who
would monitor their sleep and whenever they would have nightmares,
they would log their nightmares, and there was this whole
story of people not waking up and dying in their sleep.
So he took that story, created a character that was
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based on a bully when he was a kid named
Freddy Krueger, and like, okay, so what if there's somebody
killing you in your sleep? Which is a great premise,
especially back in the eighties. That's something that would terrorized everybody.
And I think that's what great horror franchises do is
they take something that you can watch, but after you
turn that movie off, you're worried about it a little bit.
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You're worried about, in this case, if you fall asleep,
what if that would happen to you? Or in Halloween's case,
what if you are home at night and an intruder
comes and tries to kill you or slash slashy with
a knife. I think that is what great horror movie
franchises did. And this one just really left a mark
on everybody who saw it, and it created another iconic
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character of Freddy Krueger from the burned face, the old
creepy hat, but of course the striped sweater that everybody knows.
But I mean even another element that I didn't even
get to is the iconic knives for fingers. There's just
so many elements to the costume. And then you add
in Robert England who played him, who looked like the
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perfect Freddie. They couldn't have cast a better person to
capture the look, but also the voice and the vibe
of how creepy Freddy was. And unlike I was talking
about and Halloween Now You'm Mare on Elm Street really
kind of ramped it up with the visual all out
blood and brutal death scenes to the point it kind
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of messed with your mind. And I think the scene
that sticks with me from the very first one is
when Johnny Depp's death scene happens, sinks into the bed
and all the blood rushes from the bed, like there's
just so much blood and it's a little bit over
the top. And I think that's what Nightmare in Elm
Street kind of knew it was. Because they are playing
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in this dream scenario, they were able to do these
things and did not come across as cheesy. But not
only that, I think what nightmar in Elm Street got
right was the protagonist in the movie and the original
one at being Nancy and this character who fights back
against Freddie and it's a strong female lead who's an
just a person, you know, getting chased and falling down.
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And I think that's also what Halloween kind of captured
is the writer on that was a female and was
able to create strong female characters, which wasn't really represented
in any kind of horror movie. Still doesn't, I feel like,
get represented the best. And along the same lines of Halloween,
Nightmare in Elm Street has been rebooted. They try to
make it darker, and there's just always a demand for
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people to want to see a new Freddy Krueger movie.
I don't think any of the remakes and reboots that
have come since the originals have really you know, been
up to par and created that same energy as the
first one. But it's still just so fun to watch
and it's one of the best franchises of all time
in a movie that I still watch and and I'm like,
how do they pull this off? Like how did they
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think of this? Like what how sick and twisted do
you have to be to come up with some of
these dead scenes? And that is what is the best
part of the Nightmare on Elm Streets. You want to
know how they're gonna kill people. Is it gonna be
inside of a video game? Is it going to be
in a junkyard? There was just so much creativity in
the dead scenes and how creepy Freddy can appear. It's
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such a great touch that no one else has really recreated.
And Freddy Krueger himself is almost bigger than the movies
of his humor, his one liners, and his just overall
creepiness that I had to put him on the Mount
Rushmore of Horror, taking the Thomas Jefferson spot, going with
Nightmare on Elm Street, moving on now to the slot
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with Theodore Roosevelt on the Mount Rushmore of Horror. It's
a movie that scared me as a kid for many reasons.
And we're going back to the whole idea of you
watching something in an afterward being worried that it's going
to happen in your real life, like this movie could
actually come true. And after I watched Child's Play, I
didn't want to see any kind of weird doll. I
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was always creeped out by old dolls that had real lifelike,
realistic eyes or mouths. Those always freaked me out. And
I probably watched Child's Play way too young. I was
so scared after watching that I had to watch a
bunch of cartoons to kind of clean my palette and
not be afraid to go to sleep. And I think
for me, this was the original movie franchise that I
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had to watch all the time. And I don't know
why I would do that to myself. There's just something
so scary about Chucky, a doll coming to life, who
this serial killer was able to put his body into.
And the thing about Child's Play has there have been
eight movies, and they've all been relatively good. I know
some of these other ones they drop off a little bit,
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have some bad movies, but I think overall Child's Play
just has consistently good movies because you kind of know
what you're getting yourself into. When you watch a Child's
Play movie, you have to kind of suspend yourself a
little bit from reality. And I think Chucky is just
such a great character because he is this doll coming
to life. And the stories around him are always relatively good.
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In any kind of reincardnation, I think he is still
just consistently scary. I think, hands down the original one
from n is the best one, but Child's Play two
is right up there with being just as good. And
a rarity here is that Child's Play three with the
older Andy the Military School like it is a solid trilogy,
which is hard to do with horror. Usually by the
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third movie, they kind of run out of ideas and
every nothing's really scary anymore because they're doing the same
thing over and over. But Child's Play has a solid trilogy.
And like all the other horror franchises, there's been reboots,
there's been sequels. You got the Seed of Chucky, Bride
of Chucky, which gets a little bit cheesier. But I
would say an underrated movie in the Child's Play franchise
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is the version that came out with Aubrey Plaza as
the mom. And what we see with all these horror
franchises is when they revisit the original one, they kind
of try to keep that same essence of the first one.
They allude back to some of the things that happened
in the original one. It's kind of bringing us back
there to like, oh, you remember why you like this movie.
But I thought the version did a pretty good job
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of that, while at the same time modernizing it, kind
of having its own style and not just trying to
be like, Okay, we're doing the same movie exactly the
same way. Again. I know it didn't get that much
of attention when it came out, but I really like
that one. And even to this day, you don't have
a new movie this year, but on the Sci Fi
Channel there is now a Chucky TV series, and I
think that wouldn't happen for any of these other horror
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franchise because what you have in the Child's Play movies
is Chucky himself has a pretty big personality. He has
his own kind of storyline to where him talking throughout
an entire movie or doing things isn't completely weird, and
when he's on screen, he is as big a character
as all the other protagonists in the movie, and him
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speaking the entire time kind of works. So I'm haven't
checked out that TV show yet, but I'm probably going
too soon. I'll admit from the trailer it looked a
little bit cheesy. So in the third slot as my
Theodore Roosevelt. I'm going with child to play. Moving on
now to the final slot in the Mount Rushmore of Horror,
the Abraham Lincoln slot. And I think this is where
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I struggled with the most. And I'll go through some
of the ones I was considering and some of the
ones that were close to making this slot. And you
also just have to consider, you know the amount of
movies there are, the actual face you would carve in,
and just how recognizable all of these characters and these
movies are. One I was thinking about was Scream, which
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was an overwhelming response of everybody online who I asked
when I put the poll out there for you guys
to to comment on what is your favorite. I was
kind of surprised that so many people love Scream, and
looking back on some of the movies I was considering
adding them one because of ghost Face, the character himself,
like I had a mask of ghost Face when I
was a kid. And I think about Scream, it's just
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the classics slasher teen movie. But when that first one
came out, there were so many iconic things from that
movie that at I felt could have easily made this list.
No one would beat an Eye. But the reason I
didn't add it is there's not that many screen movies
compared to these other franchises. There's four, with the fifth
one coming out next year. I just think overall, the
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body of work came out in the nineties, there's not
as much there to work with. So I didn't add Scream,
but it's an honorable mention. The other one I was
considering is a horror franchise that I feel is a
little bit underrated, probably because they're a little bit cheesy
and it's Leprecn. I think the first two lepri Con
movies are super great. After that they did get a
little bit ridiculous because how many plotlines can you make
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with this little LEPrecon who is going around and killing people?
But the first one is a great horror movie. You've
got a young Jennifer Anderson, and I just think the
actual character of Leprecn is just a fun serial killer,
and the way he takes people out I find really entertaining.
But I just couldn't see his face next to all
these other characters here, so I didn't feel comfortable putting
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him in my Mount Rushmore. The other one I was
considering was Saw the thing about Saw is there are
so many movies, there's eight of them, not including Spiral,
that they all kind of blend together. To me, I
can't really, aside from the first one, differentiate what happened
in which you saw a movie. While they have great
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death scenes, and I think that kind of reignited the
horror genre for the time that it came out, and
it had that same kind of effect of we wondered
what we would do in that situation and if we
would survive. I just couldn't really see Jigsaw's face next
to all these other characters not as iconic, and all
those movies kind of feel like the same movie to
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me over and over again. They're great, but they're just
not my favorite. I couldn't see them up there. And
then the other one I was I don't know, I
feel basic for liking these movies, but I really like
the paranormal activity movies. I think the found footage scares
are great. There's something about paranormal things and movies that
really get to me and really scare me. And they
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freaked me out after watching them because I can't go
to sleep. Every sound I hear in the house. I
think there's a Ghost and those movies were able to
be made on such a low budget and went on
to be one of the biggest, like most profitable franchises.
But there's really nothing you could put up that's memorable
from that movie, Like there's no ghost that's in each
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of them. It would just be like a blank slot
on the Mount Rushmore So, as much as I like
those movies, and I feel like I have to defend
myself for liking those movies, I couldn't justify that pick.
And the other one you're probably thinking, like, oh, how
could you not include this pick is Friday, And I
think Friday is a trash franchise. There's several reasons why.
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First of all, when they made Friday Thirteenth, they were
basically saying, hey, let's just rip off Halloween, like that
is all Friday the thirteenth is. To me, it's a
Halloween rip off except you name him Jason and he
has a hockey mask instead. And there's just nothing that
I feel is super original about those movies. The style
of the Way to Kill People, it's just a straight
up slasher movie. The backstory of Camp Crystal Lake I
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find uninspiring, and there's nothing about Jason himself. That really
sticks out to me. He is really just a blank canvas,
has zero personality because even though he is just a
guy in a mask, I feel like Michael Myers actually
has a personality. Why Jason, There's nothing about him, There's
no backstory there that I'm really curious to find out
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more about. As I'm watching those movies, He's just killing
basically a bunch of horny teenagers. And I think if
it wasn't for that hockey mask, those movies wouldn't have
had the same kind of impact they had. Like that's
really it. He has a hockey mask, and you associate
it with Friday to their Teeth, which when it comes
on the calendar you probably think about those movies. Other
than that, there's nothing about those movies that I feel
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as iconic. Just came out at a time where it
was a big movie, but I just feel like it's trash.
It's not at the time, not worth a Mountain rushmore
because of Jason. So the movie I decided on, I
feel it maybe a little bit controversial given what I
just said about Friday the thirteenth. What I think is
the better, more iconic character has six movies in the franchise,
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all which are solid installments. The first one came out
back in the seventies and nineteen seventy four, and when
this movie came out, it wasn't your average serial killer movie,
wasn't your average slasher movie because the guy's name was
leather Face and he had a chainsaw. I love the
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Texas Chainsaw movies, and it's because of leather Face. He
is this tormented person and there's just something on a
deeper level that I identify with leather Face, and throughout
the franchise you kind of feel for him a little bit,
coming from this really messed up family, being this just
weird character, and there's just something so hardcore about his
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weapon of choice of killing people with the chainsaw. And
that first one is just so sick and twisted, from
the opening scene to the final scene where it's just
this madman in a mask made out of another human skin,
basically in a fit of rage with this chainsaw in
my head. That is one of the most iconic horror
scenes of all time, and was every installment of Texas Chainsaw.
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I thought they really kept that energy and that style
of leather Face. So I think the first one from
nineteen seventy four is the best in the entire franchise,
But one of my favorites is the one that came
out in two thousand three with Jessica Biel, which wasn't
kind of an ode to the original one, but since
it came out in the two thousand's, the technology was
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a lot better with special effects and makeup, and it
just had this still kind of classic horror feel with
a modernized touch. They've remade it since, done different versions
of it, and for me, I think they're all still
great and what I look for in a horror movie
like this, I like horror movies that are a little
bit sick and twisted, and I think Texas Chainsaw really
gets that right. So if I was carving up another
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face right there in the Abraham Lincoln slot, I would
give it to leather Face and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
So that is my amount rushmore of horror. You got
Halloween with Michael Myers, Nightmare on Neil Street with Freddy Krueger,
Child's Play with Chucky, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre with leather Face.
Let me know what would have made your top four.
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Send me a tweet at Mike Destro, DM me on
Instagram or send me an email movie Mike d at
gmail dot com. I'm gonna get into a spoiler free
movie review now. I've been talking about horror franchises all
episode long, and we just happen to have a new
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one in the Halloween franchise. Halloween Kills, which is available
streaming on Peacock also in theaters, made about fy million
dollars over the weekend, which is pretty good opening for
a horror movie, for an R rated movie, and you
know how I feel about Halloween being my favorite horror franchise,
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and I teased it at the beginning it a little
bit disappointed by this one. But before I get into
my full review, here's just a little bit of the trailer.
My grandmother set the fire. Ohe told you told me
what little Mars is alive, and then I couldn't have
survived that fire. So let's go back to when that
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trailer came out. I, for one, I liked it. When
I talked about it first, I was like, I like
that they showed all the violence in it. I like
that they win hardcore and we're like, Okay, here's all
the blood in this movie. Straight up like, this is
what this movie is going to be. But then when
I watched this movie again, I won't give you any spoilers.
What they tried to do and what they tried to
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recapture in Halloween Kills is the essence of the first one.
You have Lorie Strode back played by Jamie Lee Curtis,
and then you have some of the characters coming back
from the original movie, some of the characters coming back
from Halloween Too, And this one is a sequel from
the version, but in a way, it's kind of a
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remake of Halloween Too. I feel like it's the same
kind of concept. So this one takes place right after version,
the same Halloween night, just rolling into the next day.
And in the trailer you see that they thought they
killed Michael Myers and the fire when they put the
house up into flames, but you find out he made
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it through the flames and he killed the entire firefighter crew.
This is all in the trailer. So what the movie
is is Michael Myers coming back killing a bunch of people,
and essentially the town coming together to take down Michael Myers.
That's what this movie is. So it's essentially if you
remember Halloween to that original sequel, it's almost that exact
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same movie. So there have been a lot of reincarnations
of Halloween before this one. There was the Rob Zombie remakes,
which kind of had that same style of being just
over the top, a little more brutal, a little more hardcore,
but they didn't really have any identity. And then when
the version came out, I actually really like that one.
I thought they were able to take what the original
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one was and kind of modernize it and still kind
of keep that essence of Michael Myers. And the thing
that I realized that I love about Michael Myers while
watching Halloween Kills is the kind of simplistic approach of
the way he kills people, and that it's not super
hardcore and violent, and it's what you don't see sometimes
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that makes it better. Now that one did have a
good amount of gore, a good amount of blood, good
amount of just straight up slashing, But what they went
for and Halloween Kills is that Michael Myers almost becomes
this over the top villain with like almost the supernatural hours,
so he's like not human, which they kind of try
to justify with like yo, he's pure evil and that's
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why you can't kill him. But what this movie gets
wrong is with all that blood and violence and you
see Michael Myers on screen so many times, it kind
of takes away the personality of him, Like I wouldn't
really see him doing this. I know he's known to
be a killer and known to kill people, but not
in the style and I didn't really like that. What
I did find myself liking is when they went back
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to some flashbacks set in the seventies. They kind of
had this old school film look how the original ones did,
and I almost felt like they should have just made
it like that, like made a remake but still said
it in the seventies instead of continuing along with the
story and the movie. It starts out okay, but then
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it just super drags in the middle and then tries
to ramp up into in the end of it, but
it gets to the point to where it's almost just
too cheesy. I wasn't into it. I wasn't buying this story.
I wasn't entertained by the death scenes, and I didn't
care about any of the characters living or dying. I
felt like the story was so weak and there was
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nothing about this one that made it feel like it
was worthy of a sequel. What it actually felt like,
since they are making a trilogy, there will be one
more in this whole series of Halloween movies. It felt
like that Bridge movie, like they weren't giving you everything
in this one to the point to where they could
make the third one and be like, okay, Like I
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hate it when movie franchises do that, like, Okay, make
this one great, because I'm here watching this one now,
this is the one I want to be entertained by.
If you don't get it right on this one, what's
gonna make me want to watch the third one? So
I just felt like Halloween Kills lacked identity. It wanted
to represent what the first one was, but be like, oh, hey,
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we're gonna make it so much more violent and Michael
Myers is gonna kill people in the most brutal ways,
but it doesn't make sense. I felt like Michael Myers
always had this kind of cadence to him, He had
this motive, and it wasn't here, like you have to
get his character just right and you have to give
him an identity, and this one didn't have that. And
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by the end of the movie. I wasn't rooting for
the protagonists in this movie. I was rooting for Michael Myers.
I felt bad for him. I wanted him to take
over the entire screen and just be like, all right,
you guys are all dumb, this is cheesy, this is horrible.
I'm just gonna waste everybody. That's what I wanted by
the end of this movie. So I'm, for one glad
that I didn't go see it in theaters. I watched
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it on Peacock, which I have the free version, But
you pay the five bucks and you're able to watch
this one. There's no like weird commercials in between, aside
from when you first click play. So I think if
you're a big fan of the Halloween movies and you've
seen all the other ones, like me, you'd probably be
curious to watch this one and judge for yourself. But
just no, it's not that great. You're gonna feel disappointed
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after watching it. Probably around the midpoint of the movie,
you're gonna be ready for it to end. If I
went to see this in theaters, I probably would have
left really disappointed. But I am surprised that it is
you know, doing pretty well at the box office. I
think that's given the time, given the month, given you know,
the legacy of the franchise, that people are going to
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go see a new Halloween movie. I think the problem
is when the third one comes out, that people are
gonna be like, well, you know that last one wasn't
that great. I'm gonna wait on this one. So if
I had to write this movie, I would give it
two point five out of five jack O Lanterns, And
I think that's mainly due to the reason that I
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love Michael Myers and I felt like he carried this movie.
I didn't really understand his motives. I didn't really understand
why they made him this way. I think it's the
worst version of what this character is supposed to be,
what he's been in the past, and why In a way,
while I was watching it, I didn't feel like it
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pertained to his character, Like he wouldn't be killing people
in this way. It's not how all the other movies
have approached it. It's still kind of entertaining to watch
somebody get a knife in the eye. So I think
that's why I gave it a two point five out
of five. Like, given that it's not what I was expecting. Overall,
I think it was a little bit just boring. When
you see somebody get taken out in an interesting way,
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like to the point of where their eyes get you know,
sunken in because he's has so much pressure on their head,
that's still kind of entertaining to watch. So if you
just made like a quick cut of this movie of
all the death scenes, I think that would probably rank
higher for me. But having to watch the lame backstory here,
the fact that it all takes place at night, and
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the details of the movie just kind of get washed out.
It just feels nothing really stands out from the movie
just wasn't my favorite. I won't go back and rewatch
this movie. I'm so invested in the Halloween franchise that
I'll end up watch seen the final one, but this
one left a bad taste in my mouth. So that's
what I think about Halloween Kills. I would say skip
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it for now unless you already have Peacock and you
just want something in the Halloween theme to watch it
this year. Other than that, not worth your time. All right,
This is normally what I do movie news, but today
I'm doing something a little bit different. I'm opening up
movie Mike's Trailer Park. And that's because over the last
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week I've seen so many new movie trailers, and I'm
gonna play these for you and also break down what
I think about each of these movies, and I'm gonna
play them for you in order of the one I'm
the most excited about and the one I'm least excited about.
So the first one that came out over the weekend
was the new trailer for The Batman, which I have
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been so excited to see, this one with Robert Pattinson
as Batman. It was supposed to come out earlier this year,
actually on my birthday, but it's now been delayed till
March four. The plot of this movie, it's really kind
of unknown at this point from what I've seen online.
It's basically based on the comic book of like Batman's
first and second year of being Batman. He's dealing with
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some corruption inside of Gotham City and then he discovers
this serial killer known and seen as the Riddler. It
looks like it's a little bit more of like less superhero,
more crime and mystery in a way. But man, this
trailer looks stunning. Here's just a little bit of the
Batman trailer and dead Back. God, Oh my god, so
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so what you're seeing this trailer if you go and
watch it. At that point right there, it's Penguin trying
to get away from Batman. There's this big explosion. He
thinks he destroyed him, but then from the explosion you
see the Batmobile coming out. A lot of things I'm
excited about after watching this trailer. One the most, The
thing that kind of stands up the most for me
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is how good this movie looks. It looks so cinematic
and so well done on a different level than The
Dark Knight. The production on this just looks so good
that it can't be a bad movie. And that excites
me because it's going to get compared to The Dark
Knight no matter what it's taking the you know, realistic,
darker approach, probably going a little bit harder on that
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from what I've seen in this trailer, but it's going
to get compared to that. But this movie already looks
like it has an identity of its own. The other
thing I'm excited about is all the characters in this
look amazing, and I love that they have all these
villains you got the Penguin, the Riddler, you got Catwoman
in there. And the third thing is how convincing Robert
Pattinson looks. I think he's an under rated actor, and
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when everybody you know heard he was cast as the Batman,
people kind of questioned it. But I see him, I
hear his Batman voice. I think he looks really convincing.
I also think the bat suit looks awesome, so already
I love the overall vibe and feel of this movie.
It comes out on March four, two, and I can't
wait to see this one. The next one I'm excited about,
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mainly because I've been seeing The Rock post so much
about it on Instagram, and it's a character I don't
really know a whole lot about. But it is a
spinoff of d C Shazam, which is a pretty solid
d C movie, but the movie is about the anti
hero Black Adam. It comes out on July two, starring
The Rock. Here's just a little bit of that trailer,
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so really more of a teaser than a trailer, because
you just kind of see the Rock for the first
time as this character, and what you heard there is
him basically turning a guy into a Stone. You don't
really see a whole lot of like his face or
what the Rock is gonna actually like straight up just
look like it's a really big teaser. They came out
over the weekend, DC had their whole event, so they're
not giving away a whole lot about what the movie
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is going to be about. But I think I'm more
just excited to see The Rock as an anti hero
and if it's anything like the Shazam movie, which I
don't think it's gonna be as kind of funny and
comical as that movie, but I kind of like the
style that d C is going for. I think if
they get away from that whole Superman, their most recent
version of Batman, get away from kind of the Justice
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League style, I think they have a shot to be
the new kind of go to comic book movies. They
have these great characters that we see, they're just haven't
been executed so well on the big screen. But I
think with this whole kind of series of movies they
have coming out, they have a really good shot. So
I'm excited to see them to get into the anti
hero space with Black Adam. Next up in the trailer
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park is a new movie starring Ethan Hank, called The
Black Phone. It comes out on February four. It's about
this child killer played by Ethan Hawk. He takes these
kids away into a soundproof basement and you see this
thirteen year old boy who is essentially able to receive
calls from this like old disconnected phone and talk to
this killer's past victims. Sounds pretty great. Here's just a
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little bit of that trailer. I'll be home in the morning.
We're going I'm staying over at suseas tonight, snoop the fire,
the papers calling the grabber. You don't actually believe that
story to you because he can't hear you, and he
doesn't really take that same but he does. We'll really
stick out for me. From this trailer is the mask
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that the guy wears played by Ethan Hawk. And just
the style of this movie. It has a really great
like mystery horror field to it doesn't feel like anything
over the top. I feel like this has the great
premise behind it, the great look to it, and with
Ethan Hawk as the main villain in this movie, I
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wish this movie was coming out this year, Like I'm
so in the mode of watching horror movies. Right now.
I'm surprised that this one's coming out on February four. Like,
if this movie came out right now, I think it
would be great, fantastic. It was the one that I
was like, man, I can't believe that doesn't come out
till next year. But hopefully that one will be worth
the wait. Next up in the trailer park is The
Flash that's coming out on November four, another DC Hero here.
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They didn't really put out a full trailer, but they
kind of gave the first look of the Flash and
here's a little bit of that. Why do you want
to stake? I'd like to say this one, you change
the future and you change the past. Oh So, I
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remember watching the Justice League, and aside from Wonder Woman,
I think the second best thing to come from that
movie was The Flash. And they brought back the same
actor to play the Flash. It looks like they're alluding
to Batman being in this movie. So I don't really
know what they're going to do with this one, but
I think the Flash is a fun character. I think
he brings a great life to that. I also think
younger kids are into the Flash from the c W show.
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Next up in the Trailer Park is the new screen
movie Scream five. It's happening three attacks so far. Do
you have a gun? I'm Sydney Prescott. Of course I
have a gun. Something about this one just feels different.
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So this one is taking place twenty five years after
the original. They're bringing back Naomi Campbell, bringing back more
of the original cast. You got new people behind the
ghost face mask, same lines along of the I'm killing teenagers.
But I think this is a perfect time for this
movie to come out. That will be released on January two.
I always like a solid horror movie in January. I
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think this one is going to be it. And then
finally in the movie Mike's Trailer Park, we have Home
Sweet Home Alone, the reboot of Home Alone, coming to
Disney Plus on November twelve. Here's just a little bit
of this trailer, and I'll let you know what I
think the family left for their big vacation is that
everyone the cars are leaving now, but forgot one little thing. Mom, Dad, Uncle, Blake.
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You don't even know I'm here. They don't even know
I'm here. My mom and dad have going to Tokyo.
I'm totally on all right, It's enough of that trailer,
so I was curious to see how they were going
to reboot this series, and basically they're modernizing the first
one and kind of doing the same thing again. But
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this felt like a straight to VHS movie to me,
Like they didn't learn from Home Alone three, they didn't
learn from Home Alone four. It just is taking what
the original one was and doing this whole like, oh,
you remember the first one, here's just another random installment
of it. And what people don't get about the first
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Home Alone is there was so much attention to detail
in that movie, from everything in the movie having a
Christmas feel, like the house, the wallpaper was red and green,
and there were just all these elements to give it
that feeling of Christmas. And this one just feels like
a slap together reboot has no identity, Like just from
seeing that they're trying to change a little bit by
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changing where they go, changing that they're British, they changed
the plot up a little bit. This one's about this
married couple who tries to steal back some valuable heirloom
from this family, but the kid has left at home alone.
So I'm sure they'll be like some modernized technology of
like I don't know. He's like a ring cam that
the parents can see him. I just don't have anything
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and good to say about this one. And it's a reboot,
a remake that I am just can't believe they're doing.
And I think this is why people get annoyed about reboots.
It's taking something we all know and love and ruining that.
So that is a trailer park a bunch of new
movies you can look forward to one at the end
of this year and the rest they are all coming
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out in two But that is the episode for this week.
I do have to get in the listener shout out
of the week, and I'm going over to Twitter for
this one. It is from at Okay Barbie Doll a
k a. Barbie McGuire, who tweeted me about the new
Halloween movie. This is her review. She said, they absolutely
ruined the Halloween franchise. Michael Myers was the only scary
guy that freaked me out, but not anymore. Halloween Kills
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was beyond bad. Hashtag so disappointed. And this is just
one of the tweets and the Instagram messages that I
got kind of agreeing with me, and I thought I
myself was crazy for feeling this way about this movie.
But I saw the overall reaction. What's kind of what
I had? Oh, I feel good knowing that other people
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didn't enjoy it as much as they thought they were
going to. So unless you thought that was just me
feeling that way about Halloween, there's more and more reviews
of people saying the same things. So thank you for
listening this week. Thank you for being subscribed to the podcast.
Thank you for telling a friend about this. I've really
kind of seen this podcast grow because of you listening
every single week. Sharing your reactions to the topics really
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means the world to me, so appreciate that and hope
you joined me again next week, continuing the final installment
in Talking Halloween and Horror Movies and until then later
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