Halloween III: Season of the Witch

1982

Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 43 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 67224 67.2K

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Plot summary

After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the strange events and finds himself thrust into a nightmarish conspiracy.

Director

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Ralph Bakshi

Top cast

John MacBride Photo
John MacBride as Sheriff
Jamie Lee Curtis Photo
Jamie Lee Curtis as Curfew Announcer / Telephone Operator
Michelle Walker Photo
Michelle Walker as Bella Challis
Michael Currie Photo
Michael Currie as Rafferty
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750.04 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 102AFalcon 5 / 10

Not A Great One, But Accomplishes Rule #1 For A Horror Film

I've read almost all of the reviews here and honestly, I cannot argue with many of the negative points that are raised here. The movie DOES use the "Halloween" name while having only one tiny thread of connection to the Michael Myers movies that came before it and would come later (and that thread, involving a lab technician, can be charitably described as really lame). It is boring in stretches, the idea of Tom Atkins hooking up with Stacey Nelkin is pretty ridiculous, and the plot makes no sense if you think about it for more than 5 seconds.But I don't hate this film. Why? That's very simple. The first rule of a horror film is to scare the viewer and HALLOWEEN III has scared the hell out of me every time I've seen it! It's hard to pinpoint why, exactly, but the atmosphere of the movie is a huge factor. This film is jammed with ominous synthesized music (very 80's touch), cold and sharp-looking camera work, and a feeling of overwhelming dread and fear. It's very hard to establish atmosphere in any movie or TV show; I was talking about this movie with my brother--who said that he didn't think it was scary at all--and I compared it to THE X-FILES. Both that show and this movie were able to quickly drag me into their bizarre and frightening worlds.I don't think I could flat-out recommend a movie with this many huge problems, but I'd say it might scare the viewer, and that's not so bad considering how many abysmal horror movies do nothing else right and cannot get that deceptively simple task completed, either.
Reviewed by mosercm 6 / 10

Halloween: Season of the Witch

The only thing shameful about this movie is that it didn't work. I think that's it's unfair that Michael Meyers has a monopoly on Halloween. Halloween III was an attempt to take the franchise and make it into a series involving different stories taking place on Halloween night.Now the story of Halloween III isn't that great, but the movie works because it's very creepy. Produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, scored by Carpenter, and directing by his protégé Tommy Lee Wallace, Halloween III has the same look and feel of the previous Halloween films.It's sad that this movie didn't work. It was a great idea to take the Halloween films in another direction. I would have loved to see what other stories might have come out it. I'm sure they would been a lot better than the sequels that followed.
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