Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 2.0
At least they tried something different
"Halloween III: Season of the Witch" is known as the "one that has nothing to do with Michael Myers" and they are right. At least John Carpenter and Debra Hill tried something different, they ran out of ideas with Michael Myers. For people who have not seen this movie yet, don't expect Dr. Loomis, Laurie Strode, Michael Myers or Haddonfield to show up, in this film they never existed.The story: A local doctor, Dan Challis (Tom Atkins), along with a young lady named Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin) stumble upon a plot by irishman Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy) to kill millions of children on Halloween night using rigged masks and a hypnotic commercial. They must stop him before it is too late.Now, ok, many people hate this movie because it is called HALLOWEEN III, maybe if the name was never used and it was just called SEASON OF THE WITCH it would have fared better. People were expecting more Michael Myers. Not so, John Carpenter, after (supposedly) killing off The Shape wanted to create a different "Halloween"-themed movie each year, but this didn't do well at all so he trashed the idea. The acting in this is eh, so so. Tom Atkins does an ok job, Stacey Nelkin is ok, Dan O'Herlihy is creepy, and the rest of the cast stinks. The music is ok too, lots and lots of synthesized sounds, the main theme is pretty well done, but the rest of the music is repetitive. This is for DIE-HARD "Halloween" fans only, some people love it, some people hate it, if you can get past the fact that this isn't a madman-type knife weilding slasher film than you might like it!