Michael Myers Minute

Halloween Minute 12 (REMIX) - "and pretty in a quiet sort of way"

August 10, 2019 01:00 - 10 minutes - 9.37 MB

Return to Haddonfield for talk of John Carpenter's Cadillac, Laurie Strode's waddle, Jamie Lee Curtis' teeth, and the JANE introductions of Ross Putman.

Halloween Minute 11 (REMIX) - "forty years ago, he started a sentence... and he never ended it"

August 08, 2019 01:00 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MB

At the gates of the sanitarium, #DoctorLoomis tries to make a call, #NurseChambers does strange things with a government vehicle, and #TheShape arrives, wrench at hand.

Halloween Minute 10 (REMIX) - "help him find his purple lawn mower"

August 06, 2019 01:00 - 8 minutes - 7.55 MB

Nurse Chambers and Doctor Loomis arrive at the Sanitarium gate only to find that patients are wandering around outside. Plus, a little podcast behind-the-scenes talk RE: formatting my notes, visiting filming locations, and getting on a government watchlist.

Halloween Minute 9 (REMIX) - "Marion wasn't very woke"

August 03, 2019 01:00 - 6 minutes - 5.59 MB

Nurse Chambers smokes a lot, Dr. Loomis is serious about it, his ex-girlfriend was killed by Michael, Thorazine was the first anti-psychotic, and they haven't gotten to the sanitarium yet.

Halloween Minute 8 (REMIX) - "throwing up his hands in unscientific despair"

August 01, 2019 01:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB

#DoctorLoomis in two added-for-television scenes, edited in the car to be more likable, as Cassandra figure, and as Ahab chasing his cosmic #whitewhale.

Halloween Minute 7 (REMIX) - "when mommy and daddy get home"

July 30, 2019 01:00 - 10 minutes - 9.78 MB

Judy dies, Michael flees, and we meet their parents and really get to know them... or just watch them stand around awkwardly for 30 seconds, never to be seen again. Also, the real Michael Myers?

Halloween Minute 6 (REMIX) - "a thousand slabs of bloody meat"

July 27, 2019 01:00 - 9 minutes - 8.49 MB

Judy sings, Michael has toys, and just how many times does Michael stab his sister? And what about the voice inside his head?

Halloween Minute 5 (REMIX) - "and, they say her brother did it"

July 25, 2019 01:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Candlesticks, chafing dishes, wrong clocks, transom windows, houses that are bigger on the inside, and the voices in Michael's head. Plus #MyersHouseNC. From psychosexual fury to the shadow of the cameraman, it is Minute 5 of #Halloween

Halloween Minute 4 (REMIX) - "Michael's around someplace"

July 23, 2019 01:00 - 8 minutes - 7.46 MB

About POV, about the nature of evil, and something about blenders.

Halloween Minute 3 (REMIX) - "thy soul shall roam the earth till the end of time"

July 20, 2019 01:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MB

Connecting the death of Judy Myers to the assassination of JFK, talking Samhain and the little known prologue with the Celtic boy Enda. And this one actually got a few minutes shorter on the remix.

Halloween Minute 2 (REMIX) - "since we were young"

July 18, 2019 01:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MB

The tail of end of my conversation with my sisters drifts from the opening credits of #Halloween to our favorite #horrorfilms and what #slasherfilms are all about. (And I fixed up the audio from last year as best I could.)

Halloween Minute 1 (REMIX) - "you don't have to to die because you're a slut"

July 16, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB

It's been a year, and I'm working on some other projects and have not come back for Halloween II yet. So, here is the first of several remixes of the early episodes that didn't have great sound quality. My eagerness to jump in outweighed my patience for figuring out a good mixing program. This is a much longer version of Minute 1, with two of my sisters and me talking about the Halloween houses, Solarbabies, Blood Beach, Motel Hell, Rob Zombie's remake and why the original is scary. Plus, we...

Halloween Minute 91 - "Right now, on Michael Myers Minute, there is only this film."

February 08, 2019 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.46 MB

The credits end, the screen goes black, the music fades, and The Shape is captured behind the Elrods' house.

Halloween Minute 90 - "Halloween is over. The games. The roles. The cheap thrills."

February 07, 2019 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.3 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 89 - "a dream about his vengeance on a Druid girl who had not returned his love"

February 06, 2019 14:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB

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

Halloween Minute 88 - "and be assured that he and the evil he represents are no more"

February 04, 2019 14:00 - 10 minutes - 9.46 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 87 - "You go to Hell, Michael Myers, or whatever your name really is!"

February 01, 2019 14:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

Alan Sanders of The Wilder Ride joins me (sort of) as Loomis arrives just in time to recognize and shoot Michael Myers.

Halloween Minute 86 - "a last echo of Halloween play"

January 30, 2019 14:00 - 12 minutes - 11 MB

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.

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."

January 28, 2019 14:00 - 9 minutes - 8.51 MB

Michael's supressed sexuality, Loomis' madness, and the stupid mistakes that reviewers, writers, filmmakers, and fans make.

Halloween Minute 84 - "like he was flailing uncontrollably a moment ago but knows exactly what he’s doing now"

January 25, 2019 14:00 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MB

Minute 84 takes place entirely in a closet, lights flicker, hangers fall, and a door is broken.

Halloween Minute 83 - “Ready or not, here I come.”

January 23, 2019 14:00 - 6 minutes - 6.09 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 82 - "If only this were nineteenth-century Transylvania"

January 21, 2019 14:00 - 6 minutes - 5.91 MB

Loomis' evil radar isn't working, Brackett is useless, but oh, is that music setting the mood.

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"

January 18, 2019 14:00 - 6 minutes - 6.31 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 80 - "these are probably names of people who tried to be whistleblowers and had to be silenced"

January 16, 2019 14:00 - 8 minutes - 7.86 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 79 - “No more trick or treat! It's late. Go away! We have no more candy!”

January 14, 2019 14:00 - 8 minutes - 8.22 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 78 - "Finally, she notices the stunt glass and, SECOND 46, she breaks it with both hands. And, we get another IMDb goof"

January 11, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 7.09 MB

The Shape gets his arm stuck, Laurie can't get out of the Wallace house, and when she does, she goes the wrong way.

Halloween Minute 77 - "as if our eyes have suddenly begun to adjust to the darkness"

January 09, 2019 14:00 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 76 - "She is divided between light and shadow."

January 07, 2019 14:00 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MB

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.

Halloween Minute 75 - "The murders punctuate the suspense, they do not overshadow it.”

January 04, 2019 14:00 - 4 minutes - 4.04 MB

Another slow walk, as Laurie approaches and starts up the stairs in the Wallace house, with some wonderful John Carpenter music scoring the tension.

Halloween Minute 74 - "to surprise the friends she assumes are waiting to scare her"

January 02, 2019 14:00 - 8 minutes - 7.35 MB

Nitpicking the whole "filmed in Pasadena" thing, talking about unlikable characters, and Laurie can't seem to find her friends in the Wallace house.

Halloween Minute 73 - "as if to hear some sound of life from the inside"

December 31, 2018 14:00 - 6 minutes - 6.39 MB

Laurie arrives at the Wallace house, geography is a little screwy, and is Laurie a feminist Final Girl?

Halloween Minute 72 - "Welcome to Michael Myers Second, where we delve into the 1978 horror classic Halloween's Minute 72 one second at a time"

December 28, 2018 14:00 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MB

Laurie crosses Orange Grove, crosses the Rubicon, crosses the Styx, and I'm talking about lighting, I'm talking about dogs barking, I'm talking about will o' the wisps, about music, about shadows, and about the power of suggestion.

Halloween Minute 71 - "she alone looks death in the face"

December 26, 2018 14:00 - 6 minutes - 6.36 MB

Loomis has located his stolen station wagon and Laurie heads to the Wallace house, and I discuss Carol Clover's take on the Final Girl.

Halloween Minute 70 - "attuning himself to the vibrations of evil in the air and trying to get a fix "

December 24, 2018 14:00 - 6 minutes - 5.59 MB

As Laurie checks on the children, Loomis wanders the streets in search of a feeling.

Halloween Minute 69 - "The girl danced madly in his clutches, biting, kicking, wriggling, scratching, pounding, pulling, striking"

December 21, 2018 14:00 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MB

Lynda's struggle ends and I explore the timing and the sounds as Laurie realizes that something is very wrong tonight.

Halloween Minute 68 - "the ferocity of a victim in full panic"

December 19, 2018 14:00 - 7 minutes - 6.53 MB

Rotary dial phones, "The Shape Lurks" musical cue, and famous squealing.

Halloween Minute 67 - "we can scream at the screen but our cries will be impotent"

December 17, 2018 14:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

The orgin of bedsheet ghosts, some more of the history of trick-or-treating, Bob's a punk, and Michael is Bob.

Halloween Minute 66 - "he makes a guttural sound deep in his throat"

December 14, 2018 14:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

An extra laundry closet, a dying Bob Simms, Michael Myers pinning people to walls, and if not my last IMDb goof rant, maybe my biggest.

Halloween Minute 65 - "as scripted, there’s too much going on"

December 12, 2018 14:00 - 1 minute - 939 KB

Bob goes to get some beer, leaving Lynda to get comfortable. He arrives in the kitchen and finds some peanuts to go with the beer, and he hears a noise--someone is nearby, but who? Also, this episode is gimmicky as can be. And it might have taken you longer to read this description than to listen to it.

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