Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The night no one comes home.

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Release Date: Oct 22, 1982
Rated: R | Runtime: 98 Mins | Language: English
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Stars: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan OHerlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait, Jadeen Barbor, Brad Schacter

Summary

Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie's novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a strange mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company's owner, Conal Cochran, wants to return Halloween to its darker roots using his masks -- and his unspeakable scheme would unleash death and destruction across the country.

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What to Expect

Halloween 3 is the first and only Halloween to not feature Michael Myers. Apparently Halloween had always been intended to be an anthology series, which is why part 3 was a completely different story from the others. But of course fans freaked and sent the message loud and clear that they wanted more Myers. It's the same thing that happened with A Nightmare on Elm Street. The sequel completely changed the style of Freddy, he went from a dude who haunted nightmares to one that literally ran around in public and possessed people. Fans freaked and they immediately reverted back to what fans liked, what they had unintentionally stumbled upon originally.

This cult favorite starts with some old guy clutching a Halloween mask while being chased by a suit, who appears strangely robotic. He escapes only to be tracked down by the suit, who kills the old guy and immediately sets himself on ablaze. It's all a mystery, but one that seems to surround the Halloween masks being peddled by the Silver Shamrock company via a TV commercial with a jingle that's been forever seared into my long-term memory (in a good way). The old guy's daughter and another guy travel to the Silver Shamrock headquarters to investigate and learn a whole lot more than they wanted to.

Unlike the previous Halloween's, or any of the big slashers of its time, Season of the Witch has nothing to do with anyone slashing. Nearly the entire movie is about the mystery surrounding the Halloween mask company and the efforts to blow the lid off it.

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Critic Reviews:

Where the hell is Michael Myers? Halloween 3 may not be a canonical Halloween movie, but it's much better than you remember.

– Den of Geek

The movie is undoubtedly keen to make its own mark, daring to include the taboo idea of violence against children.

– Classic Monsters

..Halloween III stands as the most unique of the franchise mainly because so far it’s the only one that isn’t a slasher film and is the only film in the series not to feature the masked killer Michael Myers as its villain.

– Flickering Myth

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