Halloween 3 - Season Of The Witch (DVD 2000)

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I enjoyed some of the graphics in this DVD. This movie was made when computers were not available I presume and the horror content for the year the film was made is good. The features were limited but with due respect this is an old film and the DVD reproduction was of an excellent standard.

Where is Michael Myers? This question relates to the majority of reviews that slate 'Season of the Witch', the third installment of the 'Halloween' franchise that appears as relentless as the psychopathic killer himself. How can there be a 'Halloween' movie without Michael Myers?

I disagree.

'Halloween III: Season of the Witch' was never meant to include the psychologically-disturbed menace of suburban America. Tommy Lee Wallace [Stephen King's 'IT'] - in his first attempt at directing a feature film - wanted to avoid another 'slasher' sequel and instead concentrated on exploring the domestic roots of Halloween and its relationship to Celtic folklore.

So what is the general plot here? Conal Cochran [Dan O'Herlihy], a demented toymaker, has produced millions of Halloween masks, inside which pieces of the monument Stonehenge are buried. Through corporate advertising, Cochran has the world spellbound and craving for the day when they can don the masks and watch 'the great giveaway' on 31 October. His plans are to commit mass genocide, his victims mainly being the world's population of children, thus re-enacting the sacrifices that supposedly occurred hundreds of years ago at ritualistic monuments like Stonehenge. The story closely follows the legend of Samhain, the Celtic lord of death - the very God that children and animals were supposedly offered to as a sacrifice on the one night when the dead and the living walk together and children go 'begging for candy'. Indeed, Cochran is attempting to re-awaken the Celtic festival by way of the traditional elements of witchcraft and modern technology.

Dr Dan Challis [Tom Atkins, 'The Fog' & 'Creepshow'] decides to investigate the goings on within the confines of Cochran's toy factory in the remote Irish state of Santa Mira, California. He is suspicious of the Silver Shamrock masks - skull, witch & Jack-o'-Lantern - that are being produced inside the factory. The building and surrounding town are guarded by androids resembling humans, mechanical slaves created by the toymaker. He must stop Cochran and warn the world before the advert goes out on Halloween night.

'Not enough gore' is the general consensus, and critics have universally damned the film as a sub-average thriller. The film is nevertheless a breath of fresh air - Michael Myers returning from the grave [alongside his other 'slasher' brothers, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees] becomes tiresome despite their ongoing popularity; the storylines being weak and predictable. 'Season of the Witch' boasts originality and examines the real legend of Halloween, the Festival of Samhain.

John Carpenter produced and wrote the score for Halloween III: Season of the Witch, and it is good to see that the director of the first film [arguably the best horror movie ever directed] was involved in the project. 'Halloween III', I think, was the only original sequel in the series and the most accomplished of the subsequent 'Halloween' films ... until Rob Zombie came along and directed 'the' best re-make of a 1970s/1980s horror film.

But that's another story.

Matthew J Lee-Williams, Review.

This is a Very Unusual Halloween film, really you may think it should not be in the series of HALLOWEEN. I disagree, somewhere there is a small link between all the films of HALLOWEEN 2,3,4 this film explains futher of the ethos of Halloween, and is quite horror bound also. Again the typical style of 1950s' shock horror is apparent, but the filmation and the story is very good.

I have just given this a film a 5! why? you may ask? well for horror movie conventions as in trying to shock the viewer is a -- yes! One scene of having worms and creatures coming out, i will not spoil it for you, will shock you!

The only dissapointmtnet for me was not to see michael myers making an appearance but on the whole the film is a really a horror classic, it goes with the best horror films.

So yes buy it! but don't expect too much from it! 5/5 just for great horror!

i like the film its great plenty of action be carefull dont get the uncut version as they have blanked the best parts out