The Halloweenies continue a new October tradition! Last year, co-hosts Michael Roffman and Dan Caffrey ventured to the Haddonfield Public Library to read Curtis Richards‘ excellent 1979 screen-to-page adaptation of John Carpenter‘s Halloween. Fortunately for them, for us, for you, there are several more novelizations, and they’re going through ’em all.
This year sees the two dust off the late Dennis Etchison’s, whose pseudonym Jack Martin is credited here, 1981 novelization for Halloween II. Together, Roffman and Caffrey discuss Etchison’s writing style, the additional scenes that bridge the gaps between the scenes we know by heart, the confusing dreams of Laurie Strode, and more.
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