Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 4.0
A good movie in it's own rights.
Sure, just like everyone else, I was disappointed with the fact that Michael Myers wasn't in this and that it had nothing to do with the plot, but really, if you don't think of it as a "Halloween" movie, then it is actually a pretty good movie. The director, Tommy Lee Wallace, once noted that he wishes the producers hadn't called it a Halloween movie, because he felt that the main reason this is the most hated in the series is because everyone expected a continuation of parts 1 and 2. Well, after I opened my mind a little more, I started to enjoy this movie. It is extremely creepy and even cruel, one of the few horror movies I have ever seen where someone under the age of 12 gets killed. The plot is pretty tight, with (surprisingly) very little holes. The only thing that weighted this movie down was the horrible acting by Tom Atkins and his even more horrible character, a womanizing doctor who never took care of his kids. Sorry, but that's not the kind of guy I wanna see survive a horror movie. Some of the effects were really hokey (Colonel Cochrane vaporizing...). But the film has some pretty gruesome and unsettling death scenes, which is why I don't really understand why the average horror fans loathes this film. Anyways, what I am trying to get at is, if you don't look at this as HALLOWEEN III : SEASON OF THE WITCH and just think of it as SEASON OF THE WITCH, then you are almost guaranteed to enjoy yourself. *Disclaimer* This movie has nothing to do with witches.