Product: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Rating: 4.0
This is REALLY Halloween
OK, forget about the title, this film is not related to the others in the series. However, this may be the creepiest. We have witchcraft, androids and an end-of-the-world story here. The cinematography is great, with lots of darkness, yet little grain in the image to speak of. The music score is terrific, minimal and similar to what much of today's ambient music sounds like. The acting is decent, Dan O'Herlihy is a great villain, Tom Atkins is a convincing guy-who-gets-caught-up-in-something-big and Stacy Nelkin plays a great '80's chick. So why do so many trash this flick- Because Michael Meyers wasn't in it. This film also bombed at the box office. Carpenter and Hill were trying to bring about a series of films related to Halloween, one a year. Had this movie not done so poorly at theatres, we may have had many more gems come after. Oh well, enjoy this one, it's pretty good.