Halloween Ends (The Franchise At Least)…And Is The Hocus Pocus Sequel Running Amuck With A Bewitching Legacy?

Another episode is here just in time to ring in and close out the greatest time of the year, this Halloween eve you can celebrate the season in 2 unique ways with 2 franchises.  Want some family friendly fun?  Check out the sequel almost 30 years later, Hocus Pocus 2 and all the bewitching fun that may or may not bring.  And after that, for a nightcap for something a bit scarier, you can hear how the 5th continuity timeline for this 13 movie series ends.  All things Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, and everything else as Halloween Ends...for now at least.  So if you want to watch a slasher or a festive spooky musical, you got it all here.  But the important question you will have answered here, do these sequels cut above the rest?  Can you add them to your holiday seasonal viewing year after year?  Find out that and more, including my Letterboxd ratings for both movies, on this episode of Nick Nack Goes To The Movies.  And make sure to catch up and get more NNGTTM content on social, either  @NickNackMovies or @NickNack_IC on Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, and more!  Let us know there what your favorite spooky season viewing staple is there!

Transcript

Nick Nack Goes to the Movies Pod S3E17

-Intro/Jingle

-It is a momentous occasion for this on and off again horror-centric movie podcast.  Sometimes super hero things, sometimes others, but a lot of horror, deep therapy reasons I am sure why.  But one of the big ones, the series with 13 movies and 5 separate timelines, Halloween, and Michael Myers with it as we know him, has come to an end with the 2022 release of Halloween Ends.  

-You can either watch it in theaters and have that true movie viewing experience or if you want to turn all the lights off and be home alone like Kevin McCallister, it is on Peacock along with Halloween 2 and Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, the later, not sure how quality that is.

-But instead of talking about hypothetical quality of historical horrific fiction, save it for another show, we instead are gonna talk about the latest and potential final sequel for Michael Myers and Jamie Lee-Curtis’ Laurie Storde after 7 movies in the role since 1978.  The timeline we are talking will not be the one where she was alive for 2 movies and died off camera for the last three.  Nor the timeline where she was alive for the first movie, came back to teach in her Freaky Friday hair era, and died falling off a building in the first few minutes.  Of course, we are not talking season of the witch or those dumpster fire brain dead rob zombie ones, never those unless to bash them.  Instead this is the story of the first movies Halloween night followed by a 40-year pause, one crazy night then that takes 2 movies to cover, and of course we have a four year follow up event to deal with some grief and have one final week or so of scares.  

-But that is not all, on this all-encompassing Hallow-stream episode, we also have something for the younger audiences too, I of course am referring to the long thought about but eventually made sequel to Hocus Pocus.  Now the question is no longer do we need it, because it is here, the question now remains how is it after all these years.  The vintage one is still flawless as far as this cat is concerned.  

-So, with this being out third episode covering an entry in the Halloween series, and the long awaited, or at least waited on sequel to the quintessential family friendly Spooky viewing piece of media, let’s talk about the presumed ends of both of these franchises right here and right now!  Starting with the family friendly one, then you can put the kids to bed for the scary second half, oooohhhhh!!!

-Hocus Pocus 2

- Like the rest of this episode, I of course will mention the OG one and everything around it, we have of course talked about this movie around the Halloween episodes and the month of October, so many episodes I could say are Halloween-y with all the spooky slashers and such I watch.  But of course, this is family friendly Halloween.

-And it was great to see that Bet Miller, Kathy Nah-G-Me, and Sarah Jessica Parker all return as the Sanderson sisters, back to haunt Salem, and Doug Jones is back as Zombie ex-lover Billy Butcherson, he is most famous for being more creature actors, not unlike Andy Serkis, the kind of mo-cap.  Remember when we actually saw him the Black Panther acting as a person and not Gollum or something akin to that?

-And while sequels, especially long after the first one came out sequels, like to bring new blood into their movies, you never know if a third is on the way or more like the Ghostbusters and now Scream, but it would help to continue to use the originals.  And sadly, there is no recurrence of original 3 kid actors Omri Katz (Max), Vinessa Shaw (Allison), and Thora Birch (Dani), who the later actually had a role in Season 10.

-I would have settled for even a fun spot for Ice and the other bully Jay, or at least Max and Dani’s parents.  There are references to most if not all of them, but seeing them go against the witches three again would be fun.

-Now I don’t think any of the new kid actors for the modern-day teens really added much for me, but I thought the three younger past versions of the Sanderson sisters were lovely, especially Taylor Henderson who played the young Winifred, she also had the most to work with.

-While not cameos, not massive roles, the other big name adds to the franchise have to be, Hannah Waddingham, briefly from the still have yet to see Ted Lasso on Apple Plus service, and more fun for me, Tony Hale as both a in the past religious leader and a present-day Mayor.  He has always been fun to me in his Arrested Development days, and his humor is for sure strong here too!

-Maybe it is because I don’t watch a ton of period piece witch movies from the 16 and 17 hundreds, but immediately I got strong Fear Street part 3 vibes, and as you may know, that was my least favorite of the trilogy on Netflix.  Now, this Disney movie is never gonna be that gory or gruesome, the second season of American Horror Stories did an episode of that anthology series in this time period too, also super gross.  But this time period and really witch things never really did it for me, vampires and zombie are more my jam normally, but that one Hansel & Gretel witch hunter with Jeremy Renner needing insulin shots because of eating all that candy from the first witch was kind of funny.

-And this of course is a comedy, a comedy that will always draw comparisons to the much ahead of its time, and now immortalized by my age bracket, 90’s classic and original.  This one is probably a bit goofier, that first one started off pretty hardcore with showing hangings and confusing all of us with a character named Thakery instead of Zachary.  And while I miss some of the original characters and actors, young Winifred really does steal the show.

-Also. Tony Hale in old timey costumes, I had no clue that was him in the past and the present the first watch through, him with long hair not looking like Buster from Arrested Development was super odd.  Also, that spider scene, while brief and not a big one, it was still not something I needed, I would freak out that much too Tony Hale, eight legs of sin and all that.

-So many good throwback references tied into new moments.  The had the same children song from the first one, this time with this new witch leader.  It is interesting that the Sanderson’s were not always magical.  They did not need all this depth and character development after the first movie, but it was cool to see how they kind of got taken on the path to the witch lifestyle, they were not always evil witches like the first one would say, that first one was more like mom’s got a date with a vampire, another oldies Disney family fun Halloween movie.

-Also, part of me thought that the question of where the mother figure witch’s coven went was because she did the Magicae Maxima spell and learned the hard way what that spell does taking he coven away.  Not sure if that is the case, but that was my interpretation at least.

-There are some newish Halloween songs in this movie if you are looking for things to add to the classics of Monster Mash and Ghostbusters for a more pronounced playlist.  There are only so many songs for the season.

-Also, not having a true bully this time around but instead having just a dumb jock is very very on the nose, and boy did they make him dumb this time around in this movie. 

-Now the problem, one of the bigger ones, is I just don’t super care about the majority of new characters, at all.  The parallels of the powerful nature of sisterhood personified by witch covens being a thing for women with a strong bond, be that as friends or literal sisters, is a good counterpoint comparison to the Sanderson sisters, I just don’t really care of anyone and I find myself a lot of times watching this and waiting for the Sanderson sisters to be on camera, or the occasional modern day Tony Hale stuff, because he is actually hilarious in this.  There just isn’t the same vibe that we had with the original three kids taking on the witches, the brother and sister storyline parallels was better in the first one, and the lack of Thackary Binks in cat form, although it would be cheap to have him come back after the end of the first one, the lack of that character type in this one is a bit of a letdown and you can feel him missing.  Like when someone pitched a live-action Mulan movie without the songs and Mushu, terrible idea.

-Not sure if Gilbert is supposed to be some sort of replacement for Binx, nor really his character arc or anything like that, just someone who has some magical understanding.  But even he I feel really does not add anything crazy to the movie and just ends up helping the witches out because he saw them as a kid, being the one to trick the new leading ladies to light the black flame candle and not just out of machismo like the first one and Max.  It is just a bit of a bummer some of the characters that you would have liked to see from the first one and the new ones not doing enough to replace them.

-Tony Hale is also great not just being funny, but also just being a fun supportive friendly dad, thank goodness he was not some evil villain.  That was a hoot, as he always is.  Him not being able to get his caramel apple is the ultimate pain, he just wanted one piece from this thing all season.  Especially because he had one but it got taken from him at the last moment, truly sad.

-The new songs are fun enough, but they could never do as much as the original I put a Spell on You, this is a theme we will talk about a ton.

-But the good news, is when the Sanderson sisters are back on camera, all together again, they are once again, super funny.  The chemistry and internal jokes are still pretty funny, or at least most of them are.  There is always a question of how they know some pop culture things and not others.  Like the motion-controlled doors seeming as magic, very funny.  The eating of makeup products stuff, is maybe a bit much like eating the facemask, but even the more cringe parts and jokes are still pretty funny with the delivery of Midler, Najimy, and Jessica Parker.  

-And yes, the broom scene having a Swiffer and some Rumbas was a fun callback to the first one with Vacuums.  And these Rumbas having a big part of the movie overall is something I did not expect to enjoy as much as I did.  There are a lot of good callbacks, the amuck and amuck and a ton of similar callback costumes to the first one.  But there are still just so many things that this movie relies on from the first one for the best parts but does not make enough unique good things to add much more.

-The did give more characteristics and personality to the book this time which was a fun surprise, not just an eyeball on the book.  

-I do like that Doug Jones is back as Billy.  He does about as much fun as the last movie, but in this case, that is a good thing here.

-There are a lot more distractions of the Sanderson sisters this time around, the costume contest is just not nearly as fun as the kids being dressed in costumes and disguised as them.  There is so much more separation from the storylines this time then Max, Allison, and Dani being hunted through Halloween like the last time.  And yes, the music take over the town song is once again back, just not as good with riffs this time on Elton John’s the Witch is back this time and Blondie’s One Way or Another.  They are both fine, just not as good, déjà vu, I know.

-But that book being alive and well and sweating and crying was, very funny and a neat add to the overall lore of book as a character

-Probably one of the more clever and funny callbacks to this movie making use of a reference to the first but expanding on it has to be the rumbas cleaning up the salt circle and freeing the trapped witches, when I saw that, this stuff was hilarious and you knew what was coming seeing those come over the driveway horizon, and the phrase gothic golden girls being uttered by Tony Hale right before that.  You really can tell when I thought this movie shined.

-And while I can appreciate the sisters and friends coven parallels are here, it is all just missing something, and it seems like anyone can be a witch now, what are the chances these three girls are magical enough to get it done here.  

-But I want to get one big thing out of here, this movie was somewhat of a character development analysis piece, and there was something to be said about the accidental sacrificing of two of the Sanderson sisters being sent away, it was a sad moment to be sure.  This movie had some more emotional moments than maybe the first one.  This movie had some weird spots in the middle taking the focus off the Sanderson sisters and having a less interesting foil for them to combat, not even Jay and Ernie, aka Ice, are here.  But the end was nice to send the final Sanderson sister to be joined back with her sisters off in wherever they all ended up after the magic power spell.

-So yeah, maybe this was not the perfect movie, it sure was not, and not a perfect or even great at times sequel for a Disney Channel and Halloween classic.  But it had enough fun callbacks, and an overall cute enough storyline to be fine.  It was not bad at all, but I do not think it was the amazing every year rewatch that we all hoped it would be.  I am happy I watched it, but I wish it was just a bit better having more characters from the first one and a few more interesting things to build on that while still doing its own thing.  But it for sure did justice to the Sanderson sisters, the easily main part of this movie.

-So family friendly Halloween is over, so now we can see how the spookier film of this double feature compares to the other 12 entries there, and we will finally see, how Halloween Ends.

-Halloween Ends

-So, who is in this, well the question of course to start should be who is returning, and there are some staple leads, from this new trilogy and the series as a whole.  So duh, Jamie Lee Curtis is back, JLC, WHAT WHAT!  And while this Michael is the same from this trilogy for the most part, a ton of people have donned the mask.  

-But outside of the obvious 2, Andi Matichak is back as the Strode’s granddaughter who was for sure one of the highlights of this new trilogy.  Will Patton, who while seemed at times like a pseudo new Donald Plesance, even though we never got him, RIP one of the goats of this franchise.  He was in the first one a lot, the second one barely, and somewhat here in this one.  Also remember when he was in the last purge movie?  Or when he was in the Swamp Thing show?  One day I should really finish that show on maybe HBO Max if they put it back one day!  And one of the probably lesser scale but still cool to see one back is Kyle Richards who played one of the kids, Lindsey, in the first one from 1978 and was back in Halloween Kills, where they killed off legacy characters like crazy.  Still upset we never saw Paul Rudd reprise his role in Halloween kills, a bit of a bummer for me still.  And in case you were unsure, yes, Judy Greer did die in that one.  It seemed obvious from that, directors cut or not, but yeah, she gone.

-Outside of that, smaller role characters are back here too, the young kid being babysat in the first one, the cowboy hat wearing sheriff, and somehow that woman who got stabbed with a florescent light in her vocal chords.  That was for sure the most shocking.

-Not an actor I knew, but the big add is Rohan Campbell playing Corey, a teen who has a huge role in this movie, which we will get to know to discuss what happens here, and if this idea with his character, which shapes a lot of the plot of the movie, works or not to not only end this movie, but this latest timeline of Halloween.

-So, another fun thing, there are a few more fun Halloween playlist additions with this movie too, look, it is easy to fill up a Christmas playlist or two, Thanksgiving is probably impossible without exclusively Bob’s Burgers songs, but Halloween is just a bit iffy with just how many good songs there are to fill out a good unique playlist.

-The beginning really does kind of throw us into a random spot with meeting a random kid and family and babysitter.  Once again, the question is always, and at least watching on, how much time do we need to spend on a random family trying to wrap another timeline of this franchise on.  But you for sure thought Michael would come back to kill someone in this group and like that kid said, Michael kills babysitters, not kids.

-But this kid Jeremy, shout out to my boy Jeremy in real life, who is not at all like this kid, kid Jeremy is a jerk of a kid, sometimes they are the worst, and you gotta feel bad for Corey.  With how this all goes down.  You have to think he is safe by horror movie rules, going for the chocolate milk instead of the beer, remember, drinking is a big no no if you are in a horror movie, but some big rules are broken early on with going outside to check on where this kid is, leaving the door wide-open.  And while there was this thought of danger, I expected Michael to come for sure, I almost knew seeing the knife that this babysitter was gonna accidentally kill this kid, like the accidental death in Halloween Kills with the sheriff/police flashback. 

-Now, while I was kind of right, there were a few more steps, this baby sitter accidentally pushed this kid over the railing and the kid was a bit more of a jerk in the way it happened.

-But the setup of Corey being overheard that he is going to kill Jeremy to it all actually happening right as his parents come in, that shit was hardcore.  Seeing a kid death, something that only happened like a few times over all 13 Halloween movies, that was crazy.  Like a good setup and all, but at times this movie has things that are fine and nice with teens being jerks and getting got and all this other stuff.  But it just barely focuses on Michael at times, who is the face of the franchise, either him or Jamie-Lee Curtis.  

-So, a bit of a let off overall going into this one.  The second one sidelined Curtis a bit, and this one sidelines Michael a bit, why did only the 2018 one both focus on both of them and bring them together for important pivotal moments to the emotional and important resolution of this conflict.

-So, one of the big criticisms of the second one of these new trilogy movies from my last episode had to be the whole focus on Michael making the town evil and literally haunting and somehow making a whole town go wild.  It feels too much to say at times.  The story here is this all calls for people killing themselves or committing big crimes.  It always just feels like a bit too much of a stretch.  I like that the town is more alive and has character, but between the big mob from Kills to the story this movie tells us that the town is just a crazy horrible murder and bully palooza because of Michaels visage or impact on the whole town psyche

-And like I said, Judy Greer is super dead, no mystery on this one.  It is more of a big character study story about relationships, kind of what Hocus Pocus 2 tried to do.  The generational trauma is something all 3 of these had talked about, but now we have a Grandma granddaughter story with the mother and daughter middle cog taken out of the story.

-The focus on Corey will be weird and jarring for people in this entry, the final entry that introduced a whole new character that has probably too big of a role on the movie.  He is not some random son of Michael, he is a guy who bad things happened to and he became super bad.  It is kind of like when they tried making Tomy Jarvis a villain and a Jason replacement in Friday the 13th and eventually backtracked and kept him as a good guy and made the best of those movies after that choice in Halloween 6: Jason Lives.  Halloween might have tried to do this first with Jamie in Halloween 4-6 to no avail, and it does happen here, it just does not work out amazingly.

-Seeing Allison date, a guy much older is a but creepy, and I know it is for a reason, but that stuff just makes you bummed out for her bad ass character nature.

-So, a lot of unrealistic things take place in Halloween Ends.  But let us go off on a tangent here.  This movie takes place, let’s remember in Illinois.  Just remember that.  So, when we meet this group of band kids.  Somehow, they have become in this movie the biggest bullies you have ever seen, how the heck did that happen and who approved this.  I get that it is always jocks or what not, but band kids, getoutta here.  But one of the bullies is straight out of New Jersey, New York, or freakin Sicily.  I enjoy having one of my people in this movie, and Michael Bar-bee-air-ee is him, but it takes you out of it and this whole concept makes this movie a bit too much of a comedy.

-This of course leads us to meet Jamie Lee Curtis again, and she is still amazing, helping slash some kid bully tires, we know she is the leading lady and she kills it on screen.  And while she is still the best, the worst part of this movie is that it tarnishes the legacy of Allison, like a lot.  She was bad ass in the second one, and now she falls in love with a guy who at first, we are on board for enough, but by the end, he is being like, obviously a bit of a psycho killer and somehow she just ignores it.  Boo.

-The hallmark love story of young love is cute early on, I don’t even mind it.  There is just cute dialogue and jokes and all that, all for it.  It just takes away so much Michael Myers screen time and ruins a leading characters arc.  All three Strode women were cast amazingly here, but they killed off one and sent off the other one on a terrible love arc.

-And while it may not super matter, Lindsey, one of the returning characters from the last one and the first one, does absolutely nothing here outside of bartend a bit and read some tarot cards.  I get that we can’t have everyone with a flushed-out story, but still, a bit of a disappointment.

-Also, the better love story is Laurie Strode and Frank Hawkins, their grocery store scene is divine, like 10 out of 10.  This is what I am here for.  I enjoy some of these slower parts.  Now this movie somehow brings back the woman who got stabbed with the fluorescent light in that last one to unjustly blaming her and ruining this blossoming relationship.  Conflict is good and all, but still, this is a strange narrative.  We all know, and more people should know those dang podcast people were the Michael Myers provokers.  Not like my innocent enough podcast that is pretty positive outside of like talking crap about the rob zombie Halloween movies and a few other stabs at some less than fun movies.

-The Corey story and downfall might be only so fine at times, also I wish my Halloween bar night was as wild as theirs, but one of the true scariest moments has to be him at the bar smiling it up and having a good time for the first time in ages before seeing the mom of the kid he accidentally killed.  That has to be one of the best parts of the whole movie, hands down.  This storytelling was so good.  But outside of that, things just make no sense, Allison is trying to help him out and she likes him and stuff.  Sure, neither one of them is right and they kind of suck at communicating and seeing things from the other persons perspective.  

-This movie does have grief and trauma therapy exploration, which is obviously good.  More of that and that is all the continued legacy of my podcast.  But the way the movie gets there is too much.  These hardcore band bullies feel just like the beginning of It part 2, which was too much for no reason.  Also, that one band girl should have left that friend group long ago.  She seems to be normal enough and she has no business being there, and she gets got for it at the end in the most hardcore way for no reason.  Like that babysitter in the first of those three new Jurassic Park movies getting eaten way too hard by multiple dinosaurs.  First the pterodactyl gets her and she is flying and after she and that dinosaur get eaten by the big mososaurus coming out of the water.

-Dinosaur tangent over, back to this movie.  But holy heck this whole Michael and Corey strange relationship is just a lot to believe too, about as much as a true born Jersey Italian living in Illinois and still having that accent.  Also, I am sure the cops don’t like Corey, but maybe report that still that those kids tried to murder you?  Also, Allison, when this weirdo says he killed someone, maybe tell your grandma, or the cops, or anything?  Like he is a weird guy who went through some weird horrible stuff with an overbearing mom.  It is weird to see where Corey went wrong, but things are just too much to follow, and this movie could have been stopped against so much logic drops and confusion as well as just saying something to the authorities.

-Corey just instead is allowed to go on a rampage of anyone who has ever wronged him or Allison.  Which should be a sign to her that hey, that doctor who was giving you grief and the nurse who took your promotion are both dead, hmm, I would who would kill them and knew they were annoying you?  That DJ who is a jerk to you both, I wonder who would kill him, those band kids that bully Corey, weird they are dead, wonder who did that.  Things just are too much with him constantly killing more people, getting more injured, and still Allison is clueless.  Like why did they do this to her and make her character just so easily manipulated?  

-Now while some of this is just shocking, thankfully Jamie Lee Curtis gets it and knows what is going on.  Now she can’t save people or fix it somehow, but at least she gets it.  We can’t knock the legacy of Jamie Lee Curtis and how much of a bad ass she is at least.  

-And while the logic and just stupid nature of people in this movie is bad, like really bad, the kills are pretty good here.  The gore and stuff is on point and the kills are unique.  When the DJ’s tongue is spinning on the record player or any number of the junkyard deaths.  And of course, this weird stuff all starts off with him bullying Michael Myers to take his mask and get some killings.  And we all know a fake killer of the real one is not good, circa Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning.

-While this movie and Corey do some crazy deaths, that girl Margo, the band girl who was nice enough and just hung with the bad crowd getting ran over and her face stomped on, it is too much, Corey was hardcore, he burned a guy’s mouth with a torch to kill him.  The kills were there and Michael like, it just all felt weird being not Michael doing them all.  The tone and how this all happened is just too much at times and putting the main killer being a random kid who got turned by the town evil.  I get that that is a weird tone and message this movie trilogy went for after the second one.  But it is just too much sometimes.  There are fun cool parts of this movie, that is true, Jamie Lee Curtis tricking Corey and taking him out just for him to be the victim and get her granddaughter to see her as the villain and making it look like she killed him and he is innocent.  It is crazy that Allison is so dumb to think her Grandma would kill a random guy with no cause, but once again, Allison really became worse in this one, why is this girl simping hard for this average AF guy?  Like props to Corey for weaponizing being a victim, but what the heck Allison, be smarter in this movie, jeeze louise

-Now while it takes a while, the final fight between Michael and Laurie Strode is pretty good, there are callbacks to the first movie with the closet hiding spot and Michael not falling for the old knitting needle in the neck trick again and turring it around on Laurie.  Now there are some really good set piece moments in this fight, it has everything, throwing people across the room, garbage disposals, and so many knife impaling moments, and a few signature Michael sit up moments.  Now they don’t use the kitchen sink, but they throw pretty much everything else at this, including a fridge.  Look, this is a weaker Michael who has worn down with age.  This is a mercy killing by the end of a warrior of evil and chaos who just would not quit.  He was eventually unmasked, and stabbed just enough times to kill him, and while they did not cut his head off to finally kill him, he finally gets his jugular all cut up, something that is tough to come back from.

-His pain tolerance is off the chain, something that is never really explained somehow.  Somehow Allison actually come backs and they start breaking all of his bones and cutting his veins open, like he is super-duper dead now.

-But in case that wasn’t enough, the town finally does the right thing and makes sure Michael can never ever come back.  A whole funeral march bringing him to a trash grinder and throwing his dead body in.  This is some mob mentality stuff that we saw in the last one from this crazy ass town.  But if nothing else, these is no shot Michael Myers is still alive in this continuity and storyline.  We do get a few images of some more random characters who have survived in the past throughout this one, and it is a I guess fitting enough end, yeah Halloween ended in this one.  Is it a perfect endcap to this franchise and series, no, no it is not, especially with how strong the 2018 one was.  But it was the end we got.  It was fine enough.  Will I rewatch this as much as some of the other ones, probably not, no.  It currently sits at 9th on my Halloween 13 film list, I did a lot of moving and grooving on that one if you want to take a peak.  The Busta Rhymes one has bolted up the list being as fun as it is, and even Curse of Michael Myers, the Producers Cut, has risen up the ranks a bit, I would probably watch that one more than this.  But fret not, it is nowhere as bad as those trash AF Rob Zombie ones.  

-But before I get off to the end of this episode and we look at some Letterboxd rankings for these two movies of choice, the love story end for Laurie Strode was a great way to have her end and movie on to a happy ever after and now Allison, who hopefully has better taste in boys after this saga of her life, is off to live that life.  So that was at least a happy end to it all, it just took a bit to get there.  So to the raitings.

-Letterboxd ratings

- Hocus Pocus 2 – 3 Stars

- Halloween Ends – 2.5 Stars

-wrap/call to action

-So happy Halloween listener, hope it wasn’t too scary.  Happy to celebrate another spooky season with you on here.  And do not fret, more scary movies will of course be on and around this podcast.  But what did you think of some of these latest franchise endcaps for some Halloween classics, I feel like you can say that with the first Hocus Pocus and Halloween, and a few others, H20 and the 2018 one, all being strong entries.  We still have to get to the Hulu and Netflix latest scary movies Prey and Day Shift.  Eventually, I promise.  But until then, make sure to let us know on social at Nick Nack Movies or Nick Nack underscore IC on all social platforms including Tik Tok, Twitter, Instagram, and more, what is your favorite scary movie?  Well that’s all from me so cheers, and as always, until next time cinephiles.