Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 3.0
Halloween III: Acquired Taste (correcting those corrections)
I'll start with the obvious -- to correct another reviewer, John Carpenter WAS involved with Halloween III. He worked on the first three films. He wrote, directed, and did the music for the first. He wrote and produced Halloween II, along with collaborating with Alan Howarth on the music. He produced Halloween III, and again made the music along with Howarth. After that, he left the series.Carpenter, after HII, stated that Michael Myers was dead forever and it was time for move on. When producer Moustapha Akkad clamored for another, Carpenter came up with a plan to release an entirely separate Halloween film every year, all centered around the holiday but with unique stories. When this film bombed, that concept died.It didn't just bomb, in fact. Stories were reported that in cities such as New York, filmgoers expecting another Myers film actually pulled the seats up from the floors and threw them into the screen. But, does this movie deserve that treatment?That all depends on you. If you expect another slasher film, or another Myers film, you will likely be disappointed. This film is entirely unique. To some, the combination of Celtic mythology, mad scientists, deadly Halloween masks and robot henchmen is just horribly cheesy. Others embrace that cheese.If you can get past those concepts and embrace the cheesiness of them, you'll likely find a surpring amount to like in this film. If you don't tolerate such silly ideas as android bad guys in your horror films, there's not much chance this will set well with you.This review is on the fence, where this movie belongs. Take it or leave it. If you're unsure though, I'd say you should leave it. It's definitely and acquired taste.