Halloween 3 (part 4)

Halloween 3 has to be the most obscure movie we've rerolled, right? By far. Time Bandits and Friday the 13th the Final Chapter are contenders, but I think H3 takes the crown. (And this isn't a full reroll of H3, it's a sort of semi-reroll where H3 is involved but not strictly canon, but at this point we've used enough of the plot of H3 that I count it as a valid reroll of H3. That wasn't necessarily going to happen, I put Danny and Joshua on the path of H3 but they were by no means guaranteed to take the bait. Their characters had no real investment in that storyline, they could fully have gone off and ended up in a different part of the story. But the point is, now that we've dived into it, this is effectively a H3 reroll).

There's a real fun in rerolling an obscure movie. I think our show really benefits from the shared experience of doing movies everyone knows, but it's nice to take a walk on the wild side and do something people don't know. The fun of it, is that the movie is no longer a shared text that we get to break, and instead becomes a sort of secret cheat code. It's the video-game-guide that you bought at Barnes and Noble when you wanted to know all the secrets. For me, it's a strange sense of inversion, where rather than feeling like I'm making a derivative text off a piece of cultural canon, where I'm exploring off the sides of the map. When we reroll something really obscure I get to feel like I'm the map, and the original movie is the secrets drawn outside the margins.

It doesn't enormously change my approach, but I get the fun feeling that I can surprise my audience and my players with things that come from the movie itself. When we're rerolling Ocean's 11, I feel like everyone knows how the thing goes, even if it's more through cultural osmosis than specific knowledge.

And that's the other thing that's fun here, is the real Halloween 3 is such a bonkers movie, that it's not even like there's even a solid structure to hang onto that the audience could get a sense of the original movie just through genre knowledge. Halloween 3 really is a fever dream of a movie, it almost feels like it's a reroll of something else. A reroll performed while on peyote perhaps.

Anyway, back in two weeks with more of this nonsense! See you soon!