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Halloween Night a small American town fifteen
years ago, Michael Halloween. I spent

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eight years trying to reach him,
and then another seven trying to keep him

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locked up because I realized that what
was living behind that boy's eyes was purely

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and simply evil. I think he'll
come back exploring on charted territory, totally

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charted us. The only way that
the baby would have Halloween. Okay,

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come on out Halloween Night, he
came home. Slasher films, without a

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doubt, are the most popular of
all horror films. The subgenre took root

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with the release of Bob Cook's nineteen
seventy four film Black Christmas. However,

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it was in nineteen seventy eight where
Novis director John Carpenter made the genre popular.

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In the flames of its popularity,
Dal Flicker like a freshly lit candle

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in a jacket lantern on Halloween Night, Halloween introduces us to Michael Myers,

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a man that ten years prior had
brutally murdered his sister and boyfriend on Halloween

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night. On this night, doctor
Samuel Loomis, the late Donald Pleasance,

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is set to retrieve Myers for a
hearing that will hopefully keep him in an

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insane asylum for the rest of his
life. When Myers escapes and goes home

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to hadd and Field, Illinois,
where Lorie Strode, Scream Queen Jamie Lee

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Curtis in her first starring role,
and her friends are subject to brutality and

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terror committed by Myers. This film
is really what kicks started the slasher film

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subgenre. It is also the film
that made John Carpenter a horror master.

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Our first two clips are going to
be from Carpenter himself. First, in

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a brief clip, he explains his
view on horror films, and then he

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talks about the premise of Halloween,
including the idea behind Michael Myers, in

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what they were trying to capture and
his now infamous mask. You go to

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a horror film or a monster movie
a sign you know something's coming. I

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mean, that's why you pay your
ticket. The whole secret is when does

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it happen? And how long can
you keep the audience waiting for that event

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to happen? And how long can
you keep this mysterious character, Michael Myers

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alive and stalking people without ever having
to do anything. And the longer that

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that can go on, the more
anxious the audience becomes. All suspense is

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is you create anxiety in the viewer
and they're upset. They want the characters

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to pay attention to what's going on, because they're ahead. They're always ahead

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of the characters. Now, the
original idea for Halloween. My job in

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making Halloween was to do an exploitation
horror film. Then the basic premise was

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given to me by my distributor or
when You Blonde. He said, let's

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do a movie about these babysitters who
get stocked by a killer. He figured

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that everybody could identify with babysittings,
so many teenagers had done it. And

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then a little bit later he came
up with the idea of calling it Halloween.

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Let's set it out Halloween. I
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used as a title before, never
been used at all. It was an

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underutilized holiday. So great, and
I was a young director then. I

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was hungry for experience, hungry for
features. I had done some work before

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then I said, sure, why
not. Well, when we were making

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the film, I thought, Gee, it's Halloween at night and people get

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dressed up in masks. What better
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they'd be wearing a mask, and
we didn't have any money to make

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a mask. So so my production
designer, Tommy Lee Wallace, went up

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to a magic shop right here on
Hollywood Boulevard and bought a William Shatner Star

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Trek mask Captain Kirk mask, spray
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bit different, fix the hair,
and there we go. As I remember

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it now, maybe it was more, but I had about three or four

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days to do the score to Halloween, basically record the whole thing. I

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wanted something deadly simple and something that
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And my father bought me a pair
of bongos when I was really young

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for Christmas. He taught me how
to play five four time on them.

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Ba da da da da da Da
Da Da Da Da Da da da da

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da da da da da. So
all I did was too good on piano

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and do five to four with an
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it came from. One scene that
I'm particularly fond of, where after Jamie

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makes her discovery in the house,
she backs into a corner and it's a

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dark corner back there, and she's
kind of terrified and hiding for a moment,

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and then gradually you become aware that
he is standing right behind her,

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and he just slowly turned the light
up and it just s exposed, just

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exposed that mask on film, and
uh, that was creepy that I that

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may be my favorite scene. Was
an odd experience on Halloween. It was

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released across the country, uh,
in October and November of seventy eight,

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two not very good reviews. Somehow
it caught on and began to develop a

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word of mouth. And I was
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So by the time I'd finished that, I was invited to New York to

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speak at some deal and they were
screening Halloween and I was standing outside waiting

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to go in, and it was
just the screams, over and over go

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over again. It was music to
my ears. What makes this film so

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powerful and so scary, despite a
horrible stereotype that slasher films can't be scary,

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is that us, the audience or
viewer, does not fully see Michael

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until a quarter of the way through
the film. He stealthily moves in between

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the bushes and clothing, and he's
never fully visualized his kills are done with

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stealth, brutality, and no remorse. This mystery is set up by Loomis.

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When he is described by the Doctor, we the viewer become more terrified

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of him despite not fully seeing him. To me, that is a credit

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to the performance of Donald Pleasance.
Our next clip is an example of this.

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In this scene, Loomis is describing
the hadden Field's sheriff what he saw

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in Michael and why he is fighting
to stop him for good. Any live

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here? I since nineteen sixty three
when it happened every kittenhad and field thinks

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his place is haunted and they made
the right What is there? A dog

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still warm? He got hungry?
He just kept my mind. Could have

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been a skunk could have him.
Man wouldn't do that. This isn't another

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laugh it ha. And then here
she she was sitting right here. He

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could have seen it through his window, standing on alone. He could have

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seen himself. Hm, you must
think me very sentenced to doctor, Oh,

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I I do have perment. Seems
to me you're just plain scared.

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Yes, yeah, I I am
uh I met him fifteen years ago.

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I I was told there was nothing
left, no reason, no conscience,

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no understanding, and even the most
rudimentary sense of life or death, of

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good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child

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with this blank, pale, emotionless
face and the blackest eyes, the devil's

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eyes. I spent eight years trying
to reach him, and then another seven

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trying to keep him locked up,
because I realized that what was living behind

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that boy's eyes was purely and simply
evil. What do we do? He's

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been here once tonight, I think
he'll come back. I'm gonna wait for

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him. I still think I should
notify the radio and television. If you

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do that, they'll see him on
every street corner, and they look for

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him in every house. Just tell
your men to keep their mouth shut and

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their eyes open. I'll check back
in an hour. A review of this

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film, would it be complete or
do this film justice? Without speaking on

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Jamie Lee Curtis's performance of Laurie Strode. This performance is what the quote unquote

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final girl of horror films would be
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that always does right and is yes, is virginal. Our last scene is

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an indication of this. Laurie and
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Two of them are talking about sex
and people getting into trouble. Laurie is

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more preoccupied with her chemistry book.
This shows the traits that make the now

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classic horror film Final Girl, and
it is all thanks to Jamie Lee Curtis's

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performance in this film. We have
three new cheers to learn in the morning,

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the game is in the afternoon.
I have to get my hair done

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at five and the dances at eight. I'll be totally wiped out. I

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don't think you have enough to do
tomorrow. Totally as usual. I have

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nothing to do. It's your own
fault, and I don't feel a bit

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sorry for you. Hey, Linda, Laurie, why didn't you wait for

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me? We did fifteen minutes.
It totally never shows. That's not true.

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Here I am that's wrong. I'm
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Paul dragged me into the boy's locker
room, exploring charted territory, totally

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charged, just talk. Sure.
Old Jerko got caught throwing eggs and soaping

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windows. His parents grounded him.
You can't come over. I'll call your

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babysitting to me. The only reason
she babysits is to have I have a

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place for that. I forgot my
chemistry book, So who cares? I

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always forget my chemistry book and my
math book, and my English book,

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and my let's see my French book, and well, who needs books anyway?

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I don't need books. I always
forget all my books. I mean,

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it doesn't really matter if you have
your books or not. Hey,

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isn't that Devon Graham? I don't
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Hey, jerk speak kills God?
Can you take a joke? I could

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use many words to describe what this
film means to not just horror films,

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but films in general. This film
was the precursor to some of the most

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notorious film villains of all time Leatherface, Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krueger, Chucky

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Penhead, Candy Man, and many
many more. If not for the success

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of this film, it's safe to
say we would not have the others.

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Its worldwide gross was over seventy million
dollars. As we heard Carpenter say earlier,

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this was done strictly on word of
mouth. This made it one of

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the most successful independent films of all
time. It made Jamie Lee Curtis a

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star and John Carpenter into one of
the greatest independent film directors of all time,

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and finally, it made Michael Myers
the face or the shape of a

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holiday. The film spawned ten direct
sequels. In Shock Rocker Rob Zombie out

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of his admiration of the films,
did a remake and a sequel to his

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remake as well. Despite the hit
or miss and disjointed nature of the film

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series, this does not take away
from the greatness of this film. It

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shocks, scares, and makes you
cringe at its brutality. It is the

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ultimate slasher film and is a mussy
because everyone deserves one good scare. I

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hope you joined me this Friday when
we look at a high school senior living

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life to its fullest on one glorious
day off, we will take a look

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at the John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's
Day Off for WMNH and Matt Connorton Unleashed.

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This has been a classic film review
with Eric Filcher incalculated silence, captivated

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by the violence, A replay fifteen
years ago today, Oh, an evil

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evolution will bring a feeble institution through
its niece, O doctor, can't you

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see that when the hands of fall
of the Midnight Hour Highness mascots of the

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tevil scower These o the tevilses a
formal portrait of profession, faded with the

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flag. Now hat it feels my
battlefield, Your chance won't make it tonight

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is madness photo reason I chill with
every flight chips to day after day,

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knife after night, changing life after
life, When the helm's a fa fall

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the midnight hour highness mascots, the
silverspollers, life, the shadows, the

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lifele is lung were the center of
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shot a harness, human harness feeds
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stream on the drop silent hut up
booths. Let'st good then, what I've

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dropped out quite a scene with your
fist cast on this, I've changed the

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face of the halloween you chant chi
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midnight houri, this Moscow's the sels, powers, fish, life, the

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shadows, the knife fla It's long
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the look respond multiple fingal in reported
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one of Michael Myers and get arm
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am the shadow where the horse was, the struggle the ain got sound to

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fat Selling who was ski down the
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I'm so fairyful of the midnight hour
high, the spasco fame, the still,

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those spells, life shadows, the
life live. It's ward where the

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centerial centery fair by stabbing, the
stabbing in the turm