Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 4.0
3 more days to HALLOWEEN HALLOWEEN!
John Carpenter and Debra Hill never wanted to make a sequel to HALLOWEEN. So much so they had problems writing HALLOWEEN 2, and came up with it only under the threat it would be made with or without them. So when HALLOWEEN 3 came around they proposed a radical idea ... "Let's do a HALLOWEEN-themed movie every year, and they have nothing to do with Michael Meyers!" Well ... it was a good idea, but it made less money than expected so Halloween 4 saw THE RETURN oF MICHAEL, and the rest is history.But give the movie a chance! It's a coy salute to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (also set in mythical Santa Mira!) mixed with some old fashioned paganism and the spirit of the holiday! You get the paranoid tale of a doctor and a daughter who investigate the murder of a mask seller and find that a horrible plot has been hatched to decimate the youth of America in a large scale Halloween TRICK that will give an evil warlock a lot of power. There is the plot in one ungodly long run-on sentence!What's to like? The music is awesome as always, the mood is creepy, and you get to see Dick Warlock (Michael of HALLOWEEN 2) unmasked as a killer robot in a suit (corporate America!). Watch out also for HALLOWEEN alumna Nancy Loomis playing the good doctor's harpy ex-wife! There is no Michael, but he pops up on television quite a few times in a sly homage to the HALLOWEEN frenzy that followed the first of the series. So put out the lights, put on your Silver Shamrock mask, and get ready to enjoy the one Halloween movie that is different from all the rest!