Creatures of the Night Fight to Survive in John Carpenter HomageGoodnight, Halloween

The year is 1986,the techis appropriately erstwhile - schooling , and alt - history America empowers a gang of powerful , ripe - wing zealots to hunt down every creature of the night who dare to challenge the country ’s homogeneous nonesuch . That ’s the set - up for Luther Bhogal - Jones’retro horrorshort Goodnight , Halloween .

The fun here is seeing that very specific , dystopian John Carpenter vibe ( plus , the story is set in Detroit , hat - tip toRoboCop ) web with the protagonists : a witch , a lamia , and a shit - o - lantern monster dude , all in concealment and frantically trying to figure out who ’s been ratting them out and what they should do next .

The Carpenter influence is obvious in the music ( by Monzen Nakacho ) and production excogitation ( just reckon at the Halloween - y figure of the people on the news broadcast ) , with a time to come - by - way - of - the-1980s flavor that sees the letter “ K ” rising to jut ( as you no doubt visualise , the bad bozo are the “ Khristian Right of New Amerika ” ) in a style that ’s both inexplicable but also palpate exactly correct .

This guy’s gonna have a tough time with forced assimilation.