Rotten Halloween Part 5
It’s that time of year again when the leaves change color, pumpkin spice is everywhere, and a Rotten Halloween awaits. Once more, each of our panelists has chosen a film that Rotten Tomatoes scores low but that they personally admire. Those films are:
30 Days of Night
Phantoms
Cooties
Thirteen Ghosts
Halloween H20
Is Ben Affleck truly the bomb? Are you hankering for some Halloween water? Let’s get freaky with ghosts and vampires, and – most importantly – talk about movies!
BRAD’S GOLDEN IDOLS
- Best Location: 30 Barrow, Alaska 
- Best Character: Phantoms Ancient earth based life form 
- Best Kill/Death/Defeat: H20 Michael Myers getting his head chopped off 
- Best Score or Soundtrack: H20 John Carpenter’s Halloween theme 
- Best Screenplay: Cooties Ian Brennan & Leigh Whannell 
- Best Special Achievement: Thirteen Makeup & Prosthetics 
- Best Scene: TIE Cooties & H20 Wade and Clint arguing & Michael Myers getting his head chopped off 
- Defining Moment/Attribute/MVP: H20 Michael Myers getting his head chopped off 
- Best Director: TIE Cooties & H20 Jonathan Milott/Cary Murnion & Steve Miner 
- Wildcard: H20 Best Cameo 
- WTF: Thirteen Ghosts Black maid DJ’ing the ghosts away 
- Worst Picture: Thirteen Ghosts 
- Best Picture: Cooties 
Total after deductions:
- Phantoms: 1 
- 30 Days of Night: 1 
- Cooties: 4 
- Halloween H20: 6 
- Thirteen Ghosts: 0 
APRIL’S GOLDEN IDOLS
- Best Location: 30 Barrow, Alaska 
- Best Character: H20 Laurie Strode 
- Best Kill/Death/Defeat: H20 Michael Myers getting his head chopped off 
- Best Score or Soundtrack: H20 John Carpenter’s Halloween theme 
- Best Screenplay: Cooties Ian Brennan & Leigh Whannell 
- Best Special Achievement: Thirteen Makeup & Prosthetics 
- Best Scene: H20 Michael Myers getting his head chopped off 
- Defining Moment/Attribute/MVP: Phantoms Peter O’Toole was da’ bomb 
- Best Director: H20 Steve Miner 
- Wildcard: Cooties Best Horror Comedy 
- WTF: H20 Why CGI mask? just why? 
- Worst Picture: Phantoms 
- Best Picture: H20 
Total after deductions:
- Phantoms: 0 
- 30 Days of Night: 1 
- Cooties: 2 
- Halloween H20: 8 
- Thirteen Ghosts: 1 
NATHAN’S GOLDEN IDOLS
- Best Location: Thirteen Kriticos Glass Mansion 
- Best Character: H20 Laurie Strode 
- Best Kill/Death/Defeat: Thirteen Lawyer gets sliced in half 
- Best Score or Soundtrack: RUBBER CHICKEN 
- Best Screenplay: Cooties Ian Brennan & Leigh Whannell 
- Best Special Achievement: Cooties It only made 581k worldwide 
- Best Scene: Phantoms Timothy Flyte draws out the ancient enemy 
- Defining Moment/Attribute/MVP: TIE 30 & H20 Josh Hartnett 
- Best Director: Cooties Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion 
- Wildcard: Thirteen The Thirteen Ghost Award 
- WTF: H20 Josh Hartnett still has the stupid haircut from Faculty 
- Worst Picture: 30 Days of Night 
- Best Picture: Cooties 
Total after deductions:
- Phantoms: 1 
- 30 Days of Night: 0 
- Cooties: 4 
- Halloween H20: 2 
- Thirteen Ghosts: 3 
RACHAEL’S GOLDEN IDOLS
- Best Location: Cooties Fort Chicken Elementary 
- Best Character: Cooties Doug Davis 
- Best Kill/Death/Defeat: Thirteen Lawyer gets sliced in half 
- Best Score or Soundtrack: RUBBER CHICKEN 
- Best Screenplay: Cooties Ian Brennan & Leigh Whannell 
- Best Special Achievement: Thirteen Makeup & Prosthetics 
- Best Scene: Cooties Coach Wade weaponizing a baseball machine and fighting zombie kids 
- Defining Moment/Attribute/MVP: Phantoms The definition of a Rotten movie 
- Best Director: Cooties Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion 
- Wildcard: Phantoms Why is Liev Schreiber always an asshole award 
- WTF: Cooties It only made 581k worldwide 
- Worst Picture: 30 Days of Night 
- Best Picture: Cooties 
Total after deductions:
- Phantoms: 2 
- 30 Days of Night: 0 
- Cooties: 3 
- Halloween H20: 0 
- Thirteen Ghosts: 9 
