Halloween III - Season of the Witch (DVD)

I'm a horror film fan and I tend to like movies that are a little bit unusual, distinctive, quirky and grotesque. This movie, produced by John Carpenter, is all of those things. Halloween III is subtitled 'Season of the Witch' and it might have been a better idea to have avoided the 'Halloween' moniker altogether. The story of the movie actually has no connection to any of the other Halloween chain of movies involving the masked madman Michael Myers who menaced Jamie Lee Curtis in the original classic horror. It was infact a film that was intended to launch the 'Halloween' enterprise as an anthology. Michael Myers proved to be too much of a memorable, cult hero though ...  Read the complete review

Even with the telling tagline people were a little more than bemused when, while sitting down to the third instalment of Halloween, that Michael Myers was nowhere to be seen. The white mask doesn’t make an appearance (apart from a clip of the first Halloween film being shown on a service station TV) and there are next to none teenagers to be found ready to be knifed up. After Halloween and Halloween II John Carpenter decided that he had took the Halloween story, as we knew it, far enough. He, along with Derbra Hill, decided to take a new direction in the Halloween series. The plan was to create a new movie every year or so with the story focussing on ...  Read the complete review

This film would of been much better recieved if it didnt carry the halloween name because people expecting Michael Myers were disappointed. On the offical Halloween web page recently there was a vote if the new halloween film should step away from Michael Myers after H20 or not. The vote was to bring Myers back so it looks like three will be the only one not to feature him. Halloween three is actually a good film in its self directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King's It) its basic storyline is that a mad toy company owner is making halloween masks that when a certain TV advert comes on they fire a laser and kill the kid inside and releasing bugs and ...  Read the complete review

Somewhere along the line I managed to miss something about this movie.I thought the idea of a sequel was to create a movie which at least brought back the hero/heroine of the others and maybe perhaps the same villain or at the very least the same kind of plot. The only thing Halloween 3 has in common with its two predecessors is that it is a horror movie...everything else is all change...and its all the worse for that. Halloween III: Season Of The Witch is a rather odd movie based once again around the time of Halloween. The plot is simple but rather stupid to say the least and the movie rests solely upon the level and inventiveness of the gore it displays. We ...  Read the complete review

The producers of Halloween 1 and 2 Debra Hill and John Carpenter decided at the time since Michael Myers was killed off they should try a different idea. How wrong they were to do that. At the time the cinemas and theatres worldwide were crowded with obsessive horror fans expecting to see their idol, their hero, Michael Myers return once more. Unfortunately what they saw was entirely different. Conan Carloch an evil toymaker has a plan; to murder millions of children with halloween masks that seem to take on a life of their own. It is up to somebody to put a stop to it. This film bombed big time at the box office much to Carpenter's and Hill's disapointment. What ...  Read the complete review