Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 2.0
No Michael Myers; forgettable movie
At the end of "Halloween II", it appeared that Michael Myers had finally died in an explosion. So how can another "Halloween" movie get made? "Halloween" creators John Carpenter and Debra Hill thought they had a good idea. Carpenter and Hill (returning as producers), along with writer/director Tommy Lee Wallace (who was the production designer and co-editor of the first film) conjured up a new story with new characters. So Michael Myers has absolutely nothing to do with this movie. "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" is about a plot to kill millions of children on Halloween night thanks to some new Halloween masks that has just come off the assembly line known as Silver Shamrock masks. A doctor and young woman (whose father was killed under mysterious circumstances) try to figure out who's behind it and eventually try to stop it before it's too late. This is a mostly forgettable film. Plus there are some truly disgusting moments of violence (the film goes too far in one scene where the lead character, after being captured by the bad guys, is shown via an example of what exactly will happen to children who own these masks). The only good things about this movie are Carpenter's music score which is quite chilling, and the performance by Dan O'Herlihy as the main villain. But I'd rather see Michael Myers as the villain instead, and most moviegoers who enjoyed the first two films of the series agreed with that theory. "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" was a critical and financial failure. So guess who made a triumphant return for "Halloween 4"?