Product Description: In the third HALLOWEEN installment (which has nothing to do with the first two films), a mad warlock hatches an evil plot to enact bloody mass murder. He creates creepy masks which force the wearer to commit violent acts of assassination on the night of Halloween.
Amazon.com: The one Halloween sequel in which He doesn't come home, Halloween III: Season of the Witch was producer John Carpenter's attempt to get the series away from the original's psycho-on-the-loose story line and turn it into a vehicle for more far-fetched Halloween-themed horror tales. Incredibly, the fans voted for more of the same and Carpenter walked away for others to rehash the Michael Myers plot line in a succession of look-alike movies that are still turning up every few years.
After the mysterious death of a toyshop owner, a doctor (Tom Atkins) and the man's daughter (Stacy Nelkin) investigate the Irish-dominated Northern California community of Santa Mira, a company town owned by the Silver Shamrock Novelty corporation. Atkins and Nelkin are typical low-rent horror movie protagonists, dim bulbs who discover an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style conspiracy involving sharp-suited corporate robots. But guest star Dan O'Herlihy steals the film as a Celtic joke tycoon who hates the way American kids are despoiling the religious spirit of Samhain and decides to teach them a nasty lesson. His scheme, which involves a stolen Stonehenge megalith and a techno-magic spell that turns the heads of TV watchers into writhing masses of snakes and insects, is value for money, and O'Herlihy mixes enough serious malice into the charm to come across as a great screen bad guy. --Kim Newman
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA) EAN: 9780783292137 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0783292139 Item Dimensions:100 Label: Universal Studios Languages:EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishSubtitled Manufacturer: Universal Studios MPN: MCAD3606D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 07, 2003 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1982
Customer Reviews
An amazingly cool 80's horror flick on it's own.
I know, I know, many people see this as a Michael Myers movie that went bad, but it's not. It never was. The real story behind the Halloween movie series (as explained by it's creator, John Carpenter) was supposed to be a series of all completely different halloween horror themed movies. Then, Hollywood took over, capitalizing on what they saw as a franchise. So, with that in mind, this is a really cool movie on it's own. It's just too bad that they followed the original line and don't split ... Read More