Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 2.0
A poor movie, to be seen only for the sound
After Michael Myers and his doctor, Sam Loomis, both die in the end of "Halloween 2", John Carpenter and his pal Tommy Lee Wallace make a second sequel to classic "Halloween" which has nothing more to do with the two previous works. Here the evil is no more a young masked serial killer but an old sick man who hates kids and wishes to kill them all on Halloween night, all over the country, using a signal given through TV and blowing up Halloween masks and the heads with them.The story is very poor. The too rare and underrated Tom Atkins (the real hero of "The Fog") is very good but he can't save this piece of work from meaninglessness. Stacey Nelkin acts very badly, Dan O'Herlihy doesn't really belong in this and the killer robots - the Terminators - are more ridiculous than really scary. The movie is watchable, but only for Carpenter's sound, soundtrack, and legendary art of atmosphere which are just great. The movie's frightening only thanks to it.Because of the public failure of the film, Michael Myers and Sam Loomis have been decided to be (senselessly) 'resurrected' for the 4th, 5th and 6th parts of the series. And after Donald Pleasence's death, they brought Jamie Lee Curtis back for the following ones. The result is only worse to this and the second part. So what's the use, except money?