Halloween 3 - Season Of The Witch (DVD)

...a clip of the first Halloween film being shown on a service station TV) and there are next to none teenagers to be found ready to be knifed up. After Halloween and Halloween II John Carpenter decided that he had took the Halloween story, as we knew it, far enough. He, along with Derbra Hill, decided to take a new direction in the Halloween series. The plan was to create a new movie every year or so with the story focussing on Halloween and the myths ...
...likely used the name of Halloween for brand recognition and familiarity, to further the chance of box office success. Season of the Witch was the first (and last) film to test this plan out. It grossed a small but not totally redundant $14m and while this far exceeded the $2.5m budget it wasn’t on the scale of Halloween and Halloween II. Also audiences were left with a bitter taste in their mouths after seeing the movie, expecting Myers but not getting ...

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...of plot. The only thing Halloween 3 has in common with its two predecessors is that it is a horror movie...everything else is all change...and its all the worse for that. Halloween III: Season Of The Witch is a rather odd movie based once again around the time of Halloween. The plot is simple but rather stupid to say the least and the movie rests solely upon the level and inventiveness of the gore it displays. We have a mad business mad who gets ...
...the world back using Halloween as an excuse. He makes Halloween masks, but inserts a 'chip' of some kind inside them made from bits of Stonehenge which will have an 'adverse' effect on the wearer. You see, when these are worn and a particular television show comes on, the masks will kill the wearer in the most horrific of ways. Only two outsiders know this and try to stop it happening... There really isn't much to say about his movie, it literally ...

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...with any of the other halloween films, which depresses me because MICHEAL MYERS ROCKS!!!! No reletives of Laurie are in it (the main character of the other halloweens) and dr loonis (micheals doc). Nothing interesting happens, to be honest the most intresting thing in it is the tune that goes with the silver shamrock advert, which counts down to halloween! I'd much rather watch any of the other halloween movies. Its not very gory at all, they should ...

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...the third film in the halloween series. Lets deal with that first. Well it has absoloutely no connection at all too halloween 1 or 2 both being identical almost, but both being scare classics of the genre. next point, its directed by John Carpenter, who is famous for classic horror films like the thing, but you wouldn't tell to look at it. It may well have suffered on conversion to dvd but the film is grainy and looks like something from the 70's ...
...to kill every child on halloween by submitting a signal through the television screen to any child wearing the masks. this is done by harnessing the power of one of the stones from stonehenge. Well i live near stonehenge, and i can't see anyone just popping in and borrowing a stone for a milisecond. this film is total and utter rubbish, a complete waste of money time and effort. As for the dvd itself, the film is grainy, the sound is ok, the special ...

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Halloween 3, hated by many loved by, erm… one or two, and that one or two just so happens to be me, well when I say love, I don’t "love" it, I think of it more like a pet. Anyway, the reason this movie is disliked by Halloween fans is that it has absolutely nothing to do with Michael Myers, totally ignoring the previous films, although Michael does feature briefly on a TV commercial. A patient has his head popped by an unidentified man in a hospital. ...
...of Conal Cochran, who makes Halloween masks. Not content with making Halloween masks alone, Cochran is also intent on reviving the rites of All Hallows Eve, a night of ancient sacrifice when, long ago the hills ran red with the blood of animals and children. Put these two things together and what do you get? Halloween masks which melt your face, and cause snakes to pour out of your skull! Woohoo! For Halloween 3, John Carpenter handed the job of ...

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...I particuarly have enjoyed the Halloween films... Well, I rented this out thinking it was going to be great.... And, it wasn't. There is NO mention whatsoever of the guy who started the Halloween movies (Michael Myers), it is badly acted and has a terrible plot. At one point, a bunch of pumpkins start singing!!! If you are a 'fan' of Michael Myers and just haven't gotten around to seeing this one yet, don't. It is a prime example of poor continuity ...

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Halloween 3 is one of the weirdest things ever produced. It is from the Halloween series however it has none of the stars or the characters from it. I mean what was the point in calling it Halloween, if you ask anyone about a movie called Halloween they imediately think of Micheal Myers. The simple reason for this is, (as with most other sequels) money. The producers knew that the name alone would draw interest from the large teenage movie goers ...
...up to the legacy of halloween and the result is that the franchise has be on a downward slide ever since. As for the film itself its rather misleading. You read the label Halloween and expect to get Micheal Myers, instead you get a mad scientist who creates robotic helpers and halloween masks that kill the wearers. I have, as yet, been unable to make any conection between this and the first two films. It isn't based in the same place and none of ...

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This Halloween has nothing whatsoever to do with the other Halloweens . . .yepp thats right! No Michael Myers! No Dr Loomis! No Laurie Strode! Just a whole new film, and a whole lotta different characters. This film is all about a manager of a Halloween Mask Factory. He has implanted microchips with pieces of Stonehenge in in the masks. Sound silly? It is! Basically, on Halloween the music of a commercial will play and the chips will be activated ...
...original plan was for a Halloween movie to be released every Halloween. But this movie was so unsuccessful that the producers scrapped the plan (and thank God they did) Michael Myers returns in the next series entry. I advise you to skip this one; you won't miss out on anything, and it shouldn't have been part of the series in the first place. ...

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Like Halloween 2 this is a film that suffers from being connected to the great Halloween. However unlike Halloween 2 this film is completely deserving of its' bad reception. The main problem with this movie is the title - for all Michael Myers fans this film was a massive letdown - why had Mr Myers been replaced with "that old guy from Robocop", Stonehenge and some other confusing bits. That said, even if this film had been named "Killer Masks from ...
...critically and commercially reviled - the problem with this film really is just that I had major problems understanding it - one minute someone's head is ripped off, then a mask makes a little kids head turn to worms and then a rock from Stonehenge is being used to take over the world - what!!!! Despite some good performanes {including Halloween's own Nancy Kyes} this film falls flat on its face and not even a shock ending can save it. ...

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First of all, note I love bad movies. Especially bad horror films. I rented this tape recently as was really horrified by this film. Not that doesn't mean it was good. The acting was bad, plot was stupid and pointless. And it has the most annoying commercial EVER!!! I felt like blowing up the tape after watching it, but didn't want to have to pay to replace this monstrosity. THERE WAS NOTHING GOOD ABOUT IT!!! Well seeing the annoying brat get killed ...
...it. I give it a 1 out of ten. It is just so awful. Here is the commercial (Synthesiser version of London Bridge) 8 more days to Halloween... Halloween.. Halloween.. Ugh I can't even finish it. Brining up the horrid song to mind is making me sick. I bet it will make you physically ill too. ...

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