Halloween (1978) – The Boogeyman, the Babysitter, and the Beer Buzz That Wouldn’t Die

Show Notes:

The guys head to Haddonfield to tackle Halloween (1978) — the indie horror classic that built an empire on fake leaves, bad driving, and one of cinema’s most famously unhelpful psychiatrists.

Justin revisits the slasher that shaped his childhood sleepovers. Seth leads the charge on how a six-year-old murderer managed to pass driver’s ed while institutionalized. And Brian, watching it for the first time, questions everything from Laurie Strode’s spine health to the total absence of trick-or-treaters.

They break down the film’s biggest head-scratchers:

• Is Michael Myers supernatural or just a psychotic gym rat with incredible upper-body strength?
• Why does every neighbor in Haddonfield suck at helping screaming girls?
• And seriously, why is everyone getting laid on Halloween night?

The crew salutes Carpenter’s hauntingly simple score, Dean Cundey’s iconic lighting, and the fact that a $325,000 budget somehow made $70 million without showing a single drop of blood. But they don’t hold back on the clunky dialogue, the “paid-in-boobs” acting, or the totally random tombstone interior decorating choices.

By the end, beer reviews get as brutal as the murders: pumpkin chai disaster, IPA tongue punch, Oktoberfest mediocrity — “the best of the worst.” Final verdict? The movie doesn’t quite hold up, but it’s still a must-watch every Halloween… preferably after six beers.

💀 Other Random Shit We Somehow Talked About

• The hierarchy of “tastiest dog breeds” (yep, that happened)
• Fashion Victims: ranking the most stylish horror villains
• A one-word-at-a-time sequel pitch involving Laurie, Loomis, and pickles
• The theory that Loomis is Michael Myers
• The moral debate: “Did we fail if we still have a buzz?”
• The haunting truth that every host owned khaki shorts

Beer Score: 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 (Six Beers – the same number of bullets Loomis fired and still missed the point)

Listen now, lock your doors, hide your knives, and as always… be kind. Rewind.

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Poltergeist (1982)

On this episode of The Regular Guy Movie Show, we’re diving into the suburban nightmare that made us all afraid of static on the TV: Poltergeist (1982).

We’ll take you on a guided tour of Cuesta Verde—the perfect American Dream subdivision with great neighbors, nice lawns, and oh yeah… a field of corpses under every yard. Along the way, we break down the movie’s worldbuilding, its most memorable scenes, and why the last 18 minutes of this film make absolutely no sense.

Highlights include:

• Beer talk: what we’re drinking while watching ghosts rearrange the furniture.
• The Poltergeist curse and behind-the-scenes trivia (yes, those skeletons were real).
• Our Killer Clown Bracket Tournament—pitting the Poltergeist clown doll against Pennywise, Sweet Tooth, Ronald McDonald, and more in a battle for clown supremacy.
• Plot holes, questionable parenting choices, and why Diane probably should not have been napping in a haunted house.
• The Boddicker Award: who wins it—Tangina, Diane, Carol Anne, or the damn clown doll?
• Final thoughts and our patented “beer rating” system.

Poltergeist is a horror classic with as many laughs as scares, and we’re breaking it all down to see if it still holds up—or if it’s just another haunted relic of the 80s.

So grab a cold one, check under your bed for clown dolls, and join us for another round of movie nostalgia, bad jokes, and questionable takes.

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The Last Starfighter (1984)

What if beating a high score at the arcade meant you were Earth’s only hope? This week on The Regular Guy Movie Show, we’re blasting off with 1984’s The Last Starfighter — the cult sci-fi classic that swapped Star Wars’ model ships for pioneering CGI, and gave us wish fulfillment for every kid who ever dropped quarters into an arcade cabinet.

We dig into:

• The wild leap of faith this movie took with computer-generated battles — groundbreaking in ’84, clunky now, but undeniably influential.
• Why Centauri (Robert Preston) and Grig (Dan O’Herlihy) are the real MVPs of this movie.
• Xur’s over-the-top villainy and the Ko-Dan Armada’s poop emoji aesthetics.
• Space combat done right vs. done wrong — and why Starfighter was ahead of its time in zero-G dogfights.
• The Boddicker Award showdown: Centauri’s fast-talking space con man vs. Grig’s lizard mentor dad-energy.
• Why Centauri’s car looks like a DeLorean that flunked out of space college.
• A sidekick showdown where Grig goes head-to-head with Chewbacca, Goose, and Donkey from Shrek.

And because we can’t stay on target for long, we’ll also talk about:

• Our favorite arcade games from the 80's
• The versatility of Days of Our Lives for hitting on college girls back in the day
• And the embalming secrets of the ancient Egyptians (because apparently that’s where our brains went).

So grab your quarters, load up Death Blossom, and join us as we relive the movie that asked: what if your video game skills were the only thing standing between Earth and annihilation?

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