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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Halloween II 1981

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Van Lathan · 28 October 2025 · 20,385 feet

The claim

86:32 – 89:32

… Susan Shoup gave a long interview to Femme Fatale magazine in 2001 about all the nudity stuff with this and how Debra Hill saved the day. So there you go. Apex Mountain Myers? No. No. Jamie Lee? No. Pleasance? No. Really nothing for anybody here unless you want to say horror sequels. It would just be mistaken identity car accidents. Is it Slasher era? No. No no no. Is it the Apex Mountain of no because that would be Rocky 2 of sequels that take place directly after the original? I think that's Rocky too. That's Rocky 2. How about Slasher era though? Because Slasher era is 79 to 83 basically. Is this the …

The whole segment, as transcribed

in Drive. Yeah and then there's Pamela Susan Shoup gave a long interview to Femme Fatale magazine in 2001 about all the nudity stuff with this and how Debra Hill saved the day. So there you go. Apex Mountain Myers? No. No. Jamie Lee? No. Pleasance? No. Really nothing for anybody here unless you want to say horror sequels. It would just be mistaken identity car accidents. Is it Slasher era? No. No no no. Is it the Apex Mountain of no because that would be Rocky 2 of sequels that take place directly after the original? I think that's Rocky too. That's Rocky 2. How about Slasher era though? Because Slasher era is 79 to 83 basically. Is this the best movie from that era? Is Friday 13th 2 in that era? Yeah. I think that's better than Halloween 2. I think Silent Rage is the best one of this era. Yeah. Nobody will do that with me. I haven't seen enough of these movies. I'll do it with you but you just No nobody cares. How about hospital horror movies? I watched never mind. Hospital horror movies. Yeah. Exorcist 3 is my favorite hospital horror movie. It is Exorcist 3 another good one. Fucking terrifying. Exorcist 3? Yes. Yeah. It is to me top 5 top 3 most frightened I've ever been terrifying movie. Great jump scare in movie history. It's pretty slow on a rewatch and then it heats up when we get into the hospital. Cruiser Hanks You said Hanks for the paramedic right? Yeah. I tried to test drive Cruz in my head for a second I think I don't see it. Scorsese or Spielberg? I don't really know because this is like Rosenthal doing Carpenter so it's so weird to be like which of those two? We almost like we can't count that one. What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? How about the Leo Rossi part? Yeah that would have been pretty creepy. Morning guy in the hot tub. Yeah. As Freddy from Tell It to Mr. Ripley. Hey baby. What's the peaking? The time. How's the peeping? Picking nets. There's some time stuff with this. So when Halloween 1 what time is it when all the murders are going down? It's gotta be like 11 right? It starts in school's still in. They drive to the houses. Wait how when does Halloween start or when does Halloween 1 when they drive to the houses it's like 7 o'clock. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And then we also have the boyfriend comes over they have sex there's murders like it's probably like 4 hours it feels like it's already like 10.30? I think let's call it like 7 to 10. Okay. So let's say 10. Let's go generous and say 10. Murders happen police shows up now where it's 10.30 probably 11 range. Why is downtown Haddonfield still so happen? It's Halloween night. It's Halloween night we're going to parties. It's 11 o'clock. We already established the Halloween one nobody's still awake

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
Jamie Lee Curtis24,020 ftTrue Lies, 1994, by 5,243 feet.
Donald Pleasence20,770 ftHalloween, 1978, by 2,163 feet.
Dana Carvey20,670 ftClean Slate, 1994, by 3,036 feet.

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