Episode 160 - Halloween II + Blue Velvet + King Kong + Guardians of the Galaxy V2 + Rat Film + Dune Pt 2 + White Lightning + Girl From Rio

On The SPOOKY Stacks this week, in part one (0:00-1:54:12), we talk about Rick Rosenthal's Halloween II, the official 1981 sequel to Halloween, kicking off the franchise, in addition to the first episode of the 1981 Italian horror anthology TV series The Devil's Game, "The Sandman" directed by Giulio Questi. In part two (1:54:13-3:44:23), we discuss 7 additional features - David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece of suburban dread, Blue Velvet, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack's legendary 1933 stop-motion creature feature King Kong, James Gunn's 2017 MCU feature Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, Theo Anthony's frightening 2016 Baltimore civic documentary Rat Film, continue our coverage of Denis Villeneuve's Dune with 2024's Part Two, Joseph Sargent's 1976 Burt Reynolds moonshine running flick White Lightning, and Jesus Franco's 1969 breezy sexspionage movie The Girl From Rio. In the third and final section, as usual we talk about everything else we've watched since last time and make our picks for next week.

The live list of The Spooky Stacks is online at https://letterboxd.com/jshopa/list/the-spooky-stacks-1/