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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey into horror with five informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking a horror subject as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
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Friday Oct 31, 2025
Friday Oct 31, 2025
AKA Halloween Retrospective #13.
In 2018, Howard, Dan and Spider-Dan began this podcast's epic mission to review every single film in the Halloween franchise. Now, the journey concludes as the three discuss 2022's Halloween Ends.
Beware, the discussion includes a full summary of the film's story, including spoilers.
Introduction 00:00:00
Plot summary (spoilers) 00:04:27
Spoiler discussion with Howard 00:09:25
Spoiler discussion with Spider-Dan 00:34:50
Our next episode will be about the Amicus anthologies. For Patreon supporters, an early edit of this discussion will shortly be available on our Patreon page.
Works Cited
Halloween (Compass International Pictures, US 1978, director: John Carpenter) Soundtrack music clip used: "The Haunted House" composed and realised by John Carpenter and Dan Wyman)
Halloween II (Universal Pictures/De Laurentiis Corporation, US 1981, director: Rick Rosenthal)
Halloween (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2018, director: David Gordon Green)
Halloween Kills (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2021, director: David Gordon Green)
Halloween Ends (Universal Pictures/Blumhouse Productions, US 2022, director: David Gordon Green)
Soundtrack clips used including music by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies
Recommended listening:
Our episode on Halloween (1978) with Spider-Dan and Steve Timms
Our episode on Halloween II (1981) with Spider-Dan and Rob Stuart-Hudson
Our episode on Halloween (2018) with Spider-Dan and Ian Winterton
Our episode on Halloween Kills (2021) with Spider-Dan
Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft). Music by Greg Hulme.
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