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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 22, 1982 |
Starring:
Stacey Nelkin, Tom Atkins
Summary:
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin) seek to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy).
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Once the action shifts to the dead-eyed denizens of Santa Mira, the remote town that Silver Shamrock calls home, the film becomes a sly and creepy indictment of corporate engineering. It’s not what Halloween fans wanted—and Wallace rubs it in by showing a couple of clips from the original film on TV—but take the Halloween part away and Season Of The Witch is a standalone oddity worth considering on its own terms.
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Obliged to launch the hero on an effective counterattack down the stretch, Wallace goes through the motions proficiently enough for exploitation thriller purposes. He should have quit while he was ahead, but Halloween III demonstrates a reasonable ability to control comic-horror effects on his first derivative try. [27 Oct 1982, p.D9]
Writer-director Tommy Lee Wallace is not, as can be gathered, a born auteur, but he is crafty at timing the jumpies - despite a silliness that increases as the movie goes on, there are enough left-field shocks to please even the most discriminating fan of what American Film has dubbed the "genre non grata. [25 Oct 1982]
There's a delightfully promising premise behind Halloween III -- something's wrong with the kids' masks -- but somehow Wallace gets sidetracked, and the movie wanders away. [30 Oct 1982, p.D5]
Oct 28, 2018
This movie was super great! It was extremely terrifying! I kinda wish they had gone on with this anthology idea.
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Dec 15, 2015
10/10 as a stand alone film to watch during Halloween,8/10 as a continuation of the Halloween film franchise. creepy atmosphere and great characters. truly worthy to watch during Halloween day.
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Sep 28, 2017
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch may not have had Michael Myers in it, but it's one of the better entries in the franchise. The anthology of this movie is pretty great and the characters are amazing.
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Oct 27, 2020
A Halloween movie with no Michael Meyers? Given most of the sequels were dreck, the third outing is an entertaining watch as a Halloween-themed thriller.
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Nov 14, 2016
An original sequel to Halloween. John Carpenter originally wanted each Halloween movie to have its own theme and original story. Aspects of "Season of the Witch" are quite frightening, however the effects don't always work. Though this film was panned it has, in my opinion, stood the test of time.
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Sep 27, 2020
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Aug 20, 2016
It is mediocre but this is very strange and seems to be the most dumb and ridiculous but can be entertaining but there shouldn't have been a 3rd movie.
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