Tracing The Shape
Our babysitters are in place. The children are in for the night. The TV is on, the phone is ringing, there is candy and popcorn and pumpkins. Outside, a Shape waits. There are many details worth unpacking in the sequence marrying Laurie's babysitting gig in one house with
Tracing The Shape
Halloween gives me something new every time I watch it. That's not an exaggeration. I have seen this movie at least once a year for at least the last 23 years, and there are still details worth mining, worth expanding. This time around, for instance, I noticed something
John Carpenter
What does Michael Myers want? It's question we will return to again and again over the course of our journey together in these essays, because it's unknown and unknowable. Michael cannot, will not tell us, leaving us only with his actions and the fevered analysis of