Halloween Ends (2022) prominently features the Grand Gallery and the Hall of Shadows, clearly seen when Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) is pinned to the table emulating the Devil’s posture (the above and below of Hermes Trismegistus) on card XV, signifying that he is evil incarnate. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) in The Shining (1980) strikes the same pose at the Overlook’s July 4th ball, manifesting in Ends with Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) as a disturbed writer.
Starting with Halloween Kills (2021) and continuing into Halloween Ends (2022), the filmmakers embed the Tarot’s Major and Minor Arcana into the two movies like no other, analyzed in Cinema Symbolism 4 – coming soon.
Here is another video with Rob talking (dubbed in Russian) the kabalistic mysteries of Shakespeare’s plays. From what I can tell, this is the third part of the original video. Check it out!
I think there may have been an audio issue with the earlier one, so Vadim has made two new videos. Listen to Rob talk Shakespeare, Giordano Bruno, the Rosicrucians, Dr. John Dee, Francis Bacon, the Kabbalah, and other esoterica!
Halloween Ends‘ (2022) blue opening credits conjures three movies: The Shining (1980), Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), and Psycho (1960), wherein the latter periwinkle blue was Mrs. Bates’ favorite color.
Game Theory 101: “Michael Myers kills babysitters, not kids.”
Unless I’m mistaken, isn’t that Jamie Lee Curtis narrating the opening of Escape from New York (1981)?
The shadow of the Great Beast lives in James Bond villain and SPECTRE chief Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Blofeld (Telly Savalas, 1922-1994) shares Master Therion’s penchant for legitimizing phony ancestries and coats of arms. In this scene, Blofeld masquerades as Balthazar, Count de Bleuchamp. Blofeld’s deception also conjures Crowley’s belief that he was a magical charlatan.
The SPECTRE chief, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (aka Number One), was based Master Therion (1875-1947), who Ian Fleming (1908-1964) handled during WWII. Played by Donald Pleasence (1919-1995) in You Only Live Twice (1967).
So are my revised editions, so please stay tuned. Currently, I am on a bit of a summer hiatus, but more podcasts coming in August. In the meantime, here is a little 9/11 teaser from Cinema Symbolism 4.
Robert W. Sullivan IV 