Re-Sensitized: Do The New 'Halloween' Sequel & 'The Night Comes For Us' Bring Anything New To The Table Beyond Brutality? [AYT Podcast]

Everything old is new again on this episode of Adjust Your Tracking. Joe and I cross generations of horror trends as we link John Carpenter‘s 1978 horror masterpiece, “Halloween,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis, with 2018’s pretty solid if not slightly overhyped but also surprisingly empathetic and thematically ambitious “Halloween” directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jamie Lee Curtis. If you’re still paying attention (audiences certainly were this past weekend at the box office), and not too confused by yet another sequel in this unkillable franchise—this one has an admittedly clever take in which all previous sequels have been ignored for a direct continuation 40 years later from the original—then sit back and listen in as we discuss what’s missing and refreshing, if anything, about this new one.
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We open this episode on the gonzo violence of Netflix‘ new action film “The Night Comes For Us” (Playlist review here) and discuss how its berserk levels of onscreen brutality, while thrilling as hell, may also be impossible to top. Can anything be fresh, or feel new, or is it all just a more muscular rehash? We ask those questions, and discuss.
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