Michael Dougherty

And speaking of cuts, the idea here is to highlight deeper cuts, lesser-seen-and-discussed Halloween horror movies.

That means that the usual suspects like Michael Dougherty's Trick or Treat, my favorite Halloween horror movie, or anything in the halloween franchise we're not revisiting all of that well-tread territory i'm aiming for titles that you might not have heard of and if you have heard of them hopefully there's something in the mix that you haven't yet seen hopefully there's something here that's new to you and that's a tall order when it comes to people like we are who are hardcore members of the horror community i don't have any gotchas here no lost films pulled from a secret vault or something like that just stuff that you don't hear about as often as say terrifier or tales of halloween both of which i love by the way We'll be bouncing through the decades, going as far back as the 1950s before living it up in the 90s and then heading on into the 21st century for a number of the reviews.

I've got a veritable variety in store for you, including a few that are, as the title of this podcast suggests, new horror movies.

So I'm going to shuffle the deck and we'll get going here, but before we start, the last thing I need to mention is that I will be reviewing, rating, and recommending these movies as per usual, as per youge.

But since we're dealing with Halloween-themed horror movies here, I'm going to throw in an extra rating for the Halloween ambience and atmosphere.

For the sake of simplicity, I'll keep it on a 1 to 10 basis, and to give examples of what I'm talking about here, Michael Dougherty's Trick or Treat, for instance, would score a 10 out of 10 in the Halloween ambience and atmosphere category, whereas John Carpenter's OG Halloween would score like a 3 out of 10.

I adore that movie.

Do not get me wrong here.

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now when i was i was doing a as i was doing a tiny amount of research before i i got onto this i thought it was interesting michael doherty's the director of this movie

yes and and i

went and checked to check his uh you know his directing credits and interestingly he's done like the biggest movie he's done is probably godzilla king of the monsters which one he did right before Yeah, I mean, you can say what you want about it.

Which is...

A movie you got to get around to seeing if you haven't.

Honestly, I think when you look at the director of that film, which was Walter Hill, he needs something kind of fantastical to really get the most like I liked.

I know we did 48, the 48 hour movies.

No, no, the t-shirt's a little more recent, but within the last, like, five, six years, probably, something like that, but...

Well, I'm excited to dig into, like, Michael Dougherty's, like, vision for this because I know, like, it's basically a love letter to the holiday.

Yes.

And we kind of...

And then I hope that our conversation from there will, in and of itself, be a love letter to Halloween, as this will be coming out just a few days before the holiday.

So here we go.

It's based on, like Josh said, a Michael Dougherty story, an animated short that he did called Seasons Greetings, which is much, much older.

Did it in the mid-90s.