Halloween III - Season Of The Witch
Rating:  -
The movie itself wasn't all too bad... probably 2.5 stars. But it will forever be bashed, because it's got the "Halloween III" title, and no Michael Myers, which is completely ridiculous. Imagine A Nightmare on Elm Street with no Freddy, or Friday the 13th without Jason?
This movie should have been titled: Halloween: The Season of the Witch.... take the III out of it. It's NOT a sequel, so why put the III in there? Halloween 4 (The Return of Michael Myers) should have actually been Halloween III.
I give this movie 1 star, simply because of the ridiculous notion that this movie was a sequel. For that error, I refuse to give the movie itself any credit, even though it wasn't ALL that bad.
Rating:  -
After browsing through the many 1-star rating reviews, I came to realize what I already knew. Most people condemn this movie for the simple reason that Michael Myers was not featured. As I've read, the original plan of the producers was to make a new Halloween story every year since Michael Myers "died" at the end of Halloween II. Since this film wasn't received well, Michael was brought back in Halloween 4, a worthy sequel to the first film. It's possible if they had not used the title "Halloween III" there would not be so much negative feedback. It's actually very spooky and fun. The music is chilling as in most John Carpenter films and the villian Conal Cochran as played by Dan O'Herlihy is very effective. I thought the Silver Shamrock zombies disguised as company executives in fancy suits had a very eerie, creepy feel to them. The story is simple which is always a plus. After her father mysteriously dies in a hospital clutching a Halloween mask in his hand, Ellie Grimbridge and Dr. Dan Challis (Stacey Nelkin, Tom Atkins) investigate the strange town where the Halloween masks are manufactured. What they find is something far more sinister than they could have imagined. When it comes to these horror films, the fans are quick to criticize the sequels. I thought the idea of switching tactics was smart on the producers part. Michael Myers can only go on so long before it becomes dull. While I enjoy Halloween 4 & 5 as much as the first two, the sequels that came after became just that. If you take Halloween III Season of the Witch for what it is (a stand-alone film not to be compared to Halloween/Halloween II) you may be pleasantly surprised. Also recommended for fans of John Carpenter films.
Rating:  -
Well, it has nothing to do with the rest of the Halloween films, and there's no witch involved, but if you can overlook those rather large failings, this is an almost adequate film. The creators of Halloween tried to take the series in a different direction with this film, and it almost sort of kind of doesn't work. Though the protagonists, an aging "Joe 6-pack" divorcee doctor and his jail bait girlfriend on the side from his girlfriend on the side from his ex wife who is only having crazy sex escapades with him because he's helping her solve the death of her father whom she forgets to morn after roughly five minutes of film, are anything but likable, the film almost holds together for a while. It's not of the same genre as the previous films, indulging in only one brief slasher scene, but its far out and mysterious premise is actually quite engaging for a time. The plot, involving a conspiracy of robots and ancient druid wizardry, actually works decently for much of the film, almost like an unnecessarily long but intriguing Twilight Zone episode, only glued together with a healthy suspension of disbelief. Heck, it even manages to explore the significance of Halloween in a way that nearly earns it a place in the franchise, but the ending falls apart badly. As soon as we hit the climax, nothing makes sense anymore and, quite soon after, everything just gets plain silly. Dr. 6-Pack's battle with the annihilated robot's severed limbs would have worked much better with Bruce Campbell playing the role. So, all in all, it was kind of sort of not really but almost a decent film. Oh well.
Rating: -
People I love the Halloween series. The SHape ( Michael Myers) is my fav. horror movie icon. But I have to address this..Part 3 is not a bad movie. Not great but not bad either. It has a great musical score on par with Halloween and Halloween 2 score. It has some memorable and creepy moments. Its a movie you have to view with an open mind.
Rating: -
I don't know why people don't like this one. I know Michael Myers wasn't in it and they needed something new. You hate it as a Halloween Film, but would you like it if it was just 'Season of the Witch'?
My Review May Contain Spoilers: PLOT:
This film begins with an old man running from these weird agents, a gas station clerk takes him to a hospital.
Dr. Challis ( Atkins ) returns to his ex-wifes house with masks for his children. The children tell their father that they have received 'Silver Shamrock' masks. The children turn on the TV and watch the silver shamrock commercial.
Challis goes to the hospital to see whats up with the old man the clerk brought in. After giving the man treatment, the man sees the Silver Shamrock commercial on a TV. He then makes a mental scene that "their gonna kill us a''!"
After a nurse puts him in a room, an agent walks in and pulls the mans skull apart.
When the nurse sees the body, she beggs Challis to chase the man who killed him. The agent that killed him exploded himself in the parking lot to avoid being caught.
The police then investigate the two murders. The next day, the mans daughter Ellie comes in to view of the death of her father. Ellie then brings Challis to the toy shop her father owned and shows her these records of where her father was seen at.
The go to the Shamrock Mask Factory to see if he stopped there. The rent a motel with a woman named Marge, and a very weird motel owner.
While Challis is walking alone, an RV pulls right in front of him and almost drops a childs bike on him. The father apologizes about it, ( as the son asks " Is it busted!?" ). They introduce themselves to be The Kuper Family, Buddy ( Ralph Strait ), The Wife, and their son
"Little" Buddy Jr. ( Brad Schacter ).
Later that night, Challis runs into a man who is living in a trailer besides the motel. He tells Challis about how he hates Conal Cochran ( The owner of the mask factory ) and the masks. Cochran has camera in everybodys house, motel room, every street, and microphones on everybody so he can listen in on them.
Hearing the man sware about him, Cochran sends out more agents to kill the man. The mindless agents pull the mans head right off with their bare hands. ( Challis or Ellie not hearing it ).
Ellie is talking with Marge, who has a Silver Shamrock mask for her son. She notices that a microchip has falling off the back ( asumming it is the tag ), later that night, Marge sees the chip on the floor and starts poking it to see what it is......
A lazer beam shoots right out of the chip at Marge. Ellie hearing it but Challis not. Then it cuts back into Marges room and we can see that her mouth in slahsed out, with blood spirting out, and insects crawling out........
When Challis and Ellie wake up, they see that Conal Cochran, has placed her inside of the factory where "she'll get the best treatment". Cochran the gets back into his limo and drives away along with the ambulance.
Challis and Ellie take a tour of the Silver Shamrock factory with the Kupfer family. ( Buddy insists that Ellie and Challis come ). When they reach the latex room, Little Buddy Jr. tells Cochran he would like a mask.
An agent working at the factory gives Little Buddy a brand new, unopened mask in the form of a jack-o-lantern. Cochran then exclaims, now the final process is to come in an evil voice.
Buddy ( senior ) asks him what the final process was and Cochran just changed the subject.
Buddy Senior and Challis are talking about what all stuff Cochran has done with his factory. Ellie and the wife are talking about how her husband was the best mask salesman Cochran ever had.
As they are leaving, Ellie sees her fathers car in a chop shop garage with a bunch of agents around it. That night, Ellie insists on leaving. Challis goes to checkout of the motel and when he comes back, finds that Ellie has been kidnapped by the factory workers.
He then goes to the factory and then then is severly beaten by an agent, but when Challis knocks the agent out, he finds out that all the factory workers are robots. He then is abducted by Cochran, Cochran tells his what his master plan is, and then he demonstrates what it is, with the Kupfer family.
He plans to kill every kid wearing a halloween shamrock mask with the TV. As the Shamrock commercial plays, it will kill any child that is watching through-out the world.
The Kupfer family is locked in a testing room. ( Test Room A ) The commercial then rolls, Little Buddy Jr. puts o his jack-o-lantern mask and watches the commercial, while the parents are joking off, the microchip on the back of the mask activates and his melts the childs head within the mask.
The parents then see their son laying on the ground with a mutated head, and the wife faints, streaming snakes & insects come out of Little Buddy Jr.'s and the wifes head, the father is killed by getting bitten by a snake. The whole family lies there dead, with horrified Challis watching.
The commercial then stops and Cochran shows Challis were he has hidden Ellie. Challis is givin a Silver Shamrock mask and tied to a chair in front of the TV so he will also get killed by the commercial.
After Cochran leaves, Challis kicks the TV screen until it explodes. He uses the glass to break free. He puts the mask over the security camera and crawls out through the vent. An agent notices hes gone.
He then goes to save Ellie and to escape. They go up to the catwalks on the ceiling of the factory. They take a box of microchips and all the lazers from the chips murder all of the factory workers / agents.
The flashing commercial on the TV does no good with Cochran, after a lazer beam forms from all of the TVs, the light bounces off of a giant mirror and strikes the room, murdering Cochran. The factory bunrs to a crisp.
Challis and Ellie now have to warn America about the mask, driving home, Ellie attacks Challis almost killing him, Finding out that Ellie was on Cochrans side, he then decapitates her, and slaughters all of her ramining body.
He runs all of the way to the gas station were the old man came and he rushes inside and uses the phone. He calls the FCC to tells them to stop the commercial.
Some kids go to the gas station for candy, two of the three channels are shut down. The commercial rolls on the last channel, the station fails to take down the commercial, Challis violently yells ( STOP IT! ) in the phone and then the screen goes black, and all the children are implied to be dead.
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