Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 1.0
Halloween season in concept yes, but Halloween movie no...
I've had the pleasure or the displeasure, considering your persuasion in regard to shocking horror movies, to view the third installment of Halloween, Season of the Witch. Who's idea was it to attach the Halloween moniker to this movie was clearly looking to capitalize on the popularity of the previous two movies featuring Laura Strode, Dr. Loomis and Michael Myers. This second sequel to Halloween has almost no connection with its predecessors, primarily because it doesn't feature any of the said characters.What Season does feature is an interesting plot involving a Druid plan to execute the ultimate prank: To avenge the besmirching of their holiday Halloween. Halloween was a day of celebration of the dead, the day in which the decease and the demons and the witches could freely walk amongst the living. Then, you have this pagan holiday bastardized and commercialized for the amusement of children parading around in masks or caricatures of the dead and of demons scaring people to give them food.Conal Cochran is the Druid engineer of this plot which involves fragments from Stonehenge to rig masks that will bring forth a deadly plague to the masks's wearers and anyone within directly proximity.This by itself is a unique and intriguing notion for a horror movie, a twist on the original interpretation of Halloween; however, it has no bearing to the other movies in the Halloween series. This is the reason why, I award this movie 1 star. If the movie had been released as Season of the Witch or some other name relevant to the origins of the "scary" holiday, I would have given the flick at least 3 pentagrams.