Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 4.0
A good and underrated horror.
It still amazes me to find out how many viewers hate this stylish and atmospheric horror. I know that people who dislike this movie feel that way *only* because it is a sequel to Halloween 1 and 2. These people should spend five minutes reading an anniversary interview with Tommy Lee Wallace, from which they could learn that H3 was not planned as a sequel but only as the beginning of an extension of the series - a "voyage" into themes different from The Shape's line. It was never planned to be titled "Halloween III", actually - only at the last moment did the studio owners decide to do it, against Tommy Lee's will and to his annoyance. This film should simply be treated as a standalone project, only connected with the series by the fact that it takes place at the time of Halloween. Only then will you be able to see that it's in fact a good, very 80s, horror movie, with an excellent, ambient soundtrack - in fact, this film has the best synthesizer soundtrack ever created. As for the famed "annoying" song, it's not annoying in the least, and in fact it gets spooky in the end. And the lyrics to it are read by Tommy Lee Wallace himself!