Tracing The Shape
What does Michael Myers want? I told you it was a question we'd ask again and again, because I remain deeply fascinated by the choices this man makes. To call him a killing machine stripped of all of his humanity is to rob him of the mind that
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C. Robert Cargill and I have run in some of the same Austin film spaces for some time now, but we didn't actually meet until Fantastic Fest earlier this year. He was gracious enough to agree to come on the podcast, and as luck would have it, his
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The image you see above is my favorite shot in all of horror cinema. I've done my homework, looked at all the other major contenders, and it's never gotten better or more atmospheric than this single image. Despite how much I talk about and think about
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For all our collective focus on its transgressive setpieces and graphic violence of all kinds, this is a movie made with intention, with an artistic vision, and even if all the lines crossed within the narrative were stripped away and merely implied, it would work as a harrowing human drama.