Corey Cunningham

Of course, we all have our own internal struggles, whether it's depression, addiction, whatever.

I see the two stories with Laurie Strode and Corey Cunningham, whether you should be like Laurie, heal from your trauma or addiction, or be like Corey and succumb to your addiction or the, your e- your inner evil.

And to me, that is like a two-hour therapy session.

Hmm.

It makes 40 million, it's, it's opening weekend, but then it only makes, what? 20 million more, 24 million more.

I think if Scream VII would not have made it up to 121, you know, million domestic if people truly thought it was so terrible and bl- and the word of mouth was so bad.

Not that I'm saying Halloween Ends was, 'cause there are other factors there, and I don't think that the word of mouth against Halloween Ends is fair as it pertains to people saying whatever they say about Michael and Corey, whatever.

Yeah, I mean, and also this is just the nature of, like the varying openings.

I think what doesn't work is just the order of things.

I think if they would've did Corey Cunningham in Halloween Ends as the middle chapter, and they could've switched that with Kills and have the Kills be, like, the epic conclusion, you could've had him face Laurie at the end of Kills.

I have this whole in my head it makes sense, right? Like, so he gets burned in the house in 2018.

He goes into the sewers after 2018, and that's when you do Corey Cunningham, right? You do that story, and then he gets the mask back, and then he goes on the rampage in Kills.

So I, I, I have this whole worked out.

I need to make, like, a...

If I was better at video editing, I would edit these movies [chuckles] and, like, make my own version.

But, uh, that's probably my biggest gripe is, um, you know, we're, we're so far removed from the whole...

And you've got that.

I don't know if passing of the torch is the right way, but Corey becoming the main antagonist within that film.

There's something, there must be a metaphor in there of Michael Myers being underground in the sewers while Corey is the one who's going around.

And I don't know if that's exactly what Danny McBride and David Gordon Green were going for, but that's what I kind of took away from it is there's, you are influenced by the times you're influenced by what's going on in that socio-political landscape at the time.

And it feels like the recent Halloween trilogy is very much akin to that and is influenced by what's happening at the present day, basically.

I mean, the David Gordon Green trilogy, if you break it down to its nuts and bolts, it's a story of community and it's a story of how do we react to tragedy?

Do we

come together? and do we help each other through this or do we turn our back on our neighbor when the going gets tough when a natural disaster hits or something like that are we looking to our left and looking to our right and seeing how we can help are we saying no you were part of the problem and what happens is we create evil out of that and that's the story of cory cunningham he was a scapegoat because that town had not recovered from their michael myers inflicted trauma and they needed somebody to blame we see that every day on social media when there's a problem in the world we want to blame somebody what happens when we blame a person they turn into Corey Cunningham.

What was she like?

[laughs] I referenced Corey Cunningham, of course-

Ah

... because he's in his movie, and he called him-- I forget what he called him.

Something really funny, like a saint or like something really like he's the best guy.

Uh-

He's-- People love, people love Corey Cunningham.

Yeah.

In a cave? He was hiding out because he got his ass beat, but he was hiding out and they show him like weak for the first time.

And this kid, Corey Cunningham, beat the shit out of him.

took his mask, and became like Michael Myers.

But most of the movie...

Like the opening scene is him babysitting a kid.

It ended up where the kid fell over a balcony, fell onto the floor, fucking died when he hit the ground.

So like for years, people were blaming Corey Cunningham for this kid's death, calling him the murderer and all that shit.

So finally he broke, fought back, took Michael Myers's mask and became a murderer.

I, you know, I'm not going to say that like maybe Halloween ends gets the origin of Michael Myers the most, right.

But I will point out that Corey Cunningham does travel around Haddonfield a lot.

Yeah.

on his bicycle he does

Uh, I'm here with Mike P. Nelson, a filmmaker, a writer-director you're probably familiar with as the guy behind the Wrong Turn 2021 reboot that, uh, that's how I found out about you, and I was, you know, became a big fan of that movie, definitely promoted it on this show.

Uh, you also did Silent Night, Deadly Night last year with our good friend Corey Cunningham of Halloween.

Uh-

Yeah.

So I feel you.

Corey Cunningham versus, uh, Mason Gooding.

What, what, what's his name in, uh-

Well, Corey Cunningham died.

[laughs]

Chad Meeks.

... did he kill the Boogeyman?

He did...

James Jude Courtney as The Shape.

And introducing Rowan Campbell as Corey Cunningham, which is going to be the bulk of what we're talking about tonight.

Corey.

Corey.