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Join Robert Black of the Groundhog Day Project as he stalks the people of Haddonfield and explores the details of the Halloween franchise, one minute at a time. Episodes Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

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Oct 19, 2022 · 16 min
Halloween Ends Review - "i am a Halloween 6 apologist"
how to fix #HalloweenKills and #HalloweenEnds by combining them... maybe; the enda prologue, the #thorncult, and making sense of corey.
Oct 27, 2021 · 35 min
Halloween Kills Review Part 2 - "what is the point?"
Recorded while watching #HalloweenKills a second time but edited down for your enjoyment.
Oct 22, 2021 · 28 min
Halloween Kills Review - "I think Danny McBride and David Gordon Green fundamentally misunderstand this franchise"
Firefighters responding to no call, just going home, being Enda, characters lacking arcs or personality, dumb chants, and so much more wrong with #HalloweenKills.
Feb 8, 2019 · 9 min
Halloween Minute 91 - "Right now, on Michael Myers Minute, there is only this film."
The credits end, the screen goes black, the music fades, and The Shape is captured behind the Elrods' house.
Feb 7, 2019 · 9 min
Halloween Minute 90 - "Halloween is over. The games. The roles. The cheap thrills."
End credits, one final IMDb goof, the Halloween II novelization, the nature of evil, and a part of Michael Myers we weren't supposed to see.
Feb 6, 2019 · 28 min
Halloween Minute 89 - "a dream about his vengeance on a Druid girl who had not returned his love"
The film proper comes to an end, with looks back into the novelization, into Chaos Comics, into Michael's childhood and ancestry, and a look forward into Halloween II
Feb 4, 2019 · 10 min
Halloween Minute 88 - "and be assured that he and the evil he represents are no more"
Alan Sanders of The Wilder Ride is with me again as Michael falls, Loomis can't really see the lawn below, and Laurie magically knows that the boogeyman isn't really dead.
Feb 1, 2019 · 20 min
Halloween Minute 87 - "You go to Hell, Michael Myers, or whatever your name really is!"
Alan Sanders of The Wilder Ride joins me (sort of) as Loomis arrives just in time to recognize and shoot Michael Myers.
Jan 30, 2019 · 12 min
Halloween Minute 86 - "a last echo of Halloween play"
Laurie sends the kids to the MacKenzies, 3 years later in Halloween 2 the dialogue is just slightly different, and outside Loomis' "evil radar" has failed him.
Jan 28, 2019 · 9 min
Halloween Minute 85 - "Loomis is crazed, unhinged. In the novelization, he’s running on some sort of evil radar right now… because that’s normal."
Michael's supressed sexuality, Loomis' madness, and the stupid mistakes that reviewers, writers, filmmakers, and fans make.
Jan 25, 2019 · 3 min
Halloween Minute 84 - "like he was flailing uncontrollably a moment ago but knows exactly what he’s doing now"
Minute 84 takes place entirely in a closet, lights flicker, hangers fall, and a door is broken.
Jan 23, 2019 · 6 min
Halloween Minute 83 - “Ready or not, here I come.”
In the novelization, Laurie listens for the Shape's sounds downstairs; in the film, she gets the kids ready to make a run for it; and the bogeyman arrives to foil those plans.
Jan 21, 2019 · 6 min
Halloween Minute 82 - "If only this were nineteenth-century Transylvania"
Loomis' evil radar isn't working, Brackett is useless, but oh, is that music setting the mood.
Jan 18, 2019 · 6 min
Halloween Minute 81 - "she wondered what grades your teachers gave you if you died mid-term; she wondered what they'd dress her in for the funeral"
Laurie is in her head in the novelization as she waits for Michael to strike. He strikes, she strikes back. He falls to the floor.
Jan 16, 2019 · 8 min
Halloween Minute 80 - "these are probably names of people who tried to be whistleblowers and had to be silenced"
From flying geraniums to flightless astronauts, matching phones to mismatched houses, as a teenage girl's mind is broken when she realizes the phone doesn't work.
Jan 14, 2019 · 8 min
Halloween Minute 79 - “No more trick or treat! It's late. Go away! We have no more candy!”
Front yards, back yards, duplicate doors, falling down, picking yourself back up, and screaming for help, only to lose your keys. Don't be Laurie Strode if you can help it.
Jan 11, 2019 · 7 min
Halloween Minute 78 - "Finally, she notices the stunt glass and, SECOND 46, she breaks it with both hands. And, we get another IMDb goof"
The Shape gets his arm stuck, Laurie can't get out of the Wallace house, and when she does, she goes the wrong way.
Jan 9, 2019 · 12 min
Halloween Minute 77 - "as if our eyes have suddenly begun to adjust to the darkness"
In the novelization, the bodies are more damaged, and Laurie fights back a little more, but the film has two iconic visuals inside one minute.
Jan 7, 2019 · 3 min
Halloween Minute 76 - "She is divided between light and shadow."
Laurie approaches the master bedroom in the Wallace house, punctuated by some great Carpenter score, and she finds... well, we all know who and what she finds there.
Jan 4, 2019 · 4 min
Halloween Minute 75 - "The murders punctuate the suspense, they do not overshadow it.”
Another slow walk, as Laurie approaches and starts up the stairs in the Wallace house, with some wonderful John Carpenter music scoring the tension.

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