Episode 70: Remake Reframe - Halloween (1978) & (2007)
This episode was recorded on September 18, 2025 and posted on November 8, 2025.
Content Warning: Light vulgarity.
Introduction
- Welcome to No Bodies Episode 70
- Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
- Welcome back to Remake Reframe - our series pitting horror films and their remakes against one another
- Today's Topic: Halloween (1978) and Halloween (2007)
Remake Reframe
- The legacy of Halloween and making of the original film
- The ongoing controversy around Rob Zombie's remake
- Criteria for the Original Film
- Did this film need a remake?
- Has the film aged well?
- One thing from the original that is important to keep in a remake
- One thing from the original that is important to change in a remake
- Criteria for the Remake
- How true was the remake to the original, for better or worse?
- What was kept the same? What was changed?
- Was the remake successful?
Film Discussion
- Halloween (1978)
- Halloween (2007)
Closing Thoughts
- Which of the Halloween adaptations is the better film?
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Sources
Wikipedia contributors. (2025a, October 18). Halloween (2007 film). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(2007_film)
Wikipedia contributors. (2025b, October 19). Halloween (1978 film). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film)
Wikipedia contributors. (2025c, October 20). Halloween (franchise). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(franchise)#:~:text=Twelve%20films%20have%20followed%20since,released%20on%20October%2014%2C%202022.
