Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 1.0
Unintentionally Hilarious
I first saw this in the mid-80's, and even as a pre-teen just laughed myself silly at this ludicrous departure from the "Halloween" tradition. Michael Myers, whose relentless earnestness made the first two films horror classics, is conspicuously absent, instead replaced by a ridiculous premise about children being converted into monsters by wearing "Silver Shamrock" Halloween masks. The final twenty minutes or so of the film inundate the viewer with a thoroughly annoying, synthesized jingle for the Silver Shamrock company that is memorable because it is some of the most pathetically cheesy music ever to be captured on celluloid. The only things that are scary about this movie are that John Carpenter put his name on it and a movie company actually mass marketed it. Otherwise, everything about the film, from the acting to the special effects, is downright laughable. File this one under "unintentional comedy."