This was a really good movie. What killed it was the marketing not stating that this was not a continuation of the Halloween Michael Meyers story, but a new chapter in the Halloween Anthology. Had that been made clear, this may have done much better. I think too much bitterness with too many kept this from being more popular over the years.
Is this streaming on any service (w/o additional cost), if anybody knows?
Cochran asked OCP to help.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) is streaming on Peacock.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) Soundtrack.
Thanks BruceLeePullen, and I happen to have Peacock already so looks like that may be in order tomorrow or Monday before November starts
Funny coincidence, I just happened across my copy of the soundtrack to Carpenterās Vampires. I havenāt listened to it in ages but plan to and remember it being quite fun.
Halloween Ends. I saw the first two and had a blast watching them, just the week before Ends came out (I waited years to watch the trilogy once all 3 were out). Then, since I already had Peacock, was really excited for Ends, till I watched the first half.
Ends did at least get back to the point of the trilogy and not be a standalone film, as it was directly stating it was going to deal with ending Michael. There is actually a petition to have the producers refilm the film, which is pretty crazy IMO. I thought it funny to think of that happening back in 82! Could you imagineā¦
It is. James Woods chews the scenery and Carpenter is enjoying himself. Itās a Southwestern Wild Bunch with vampires. The music is so John and the dialogue hearkens to early Carpenter. A horror western essentially.
Agreed! Is that even available anywhere? I would imagine probably on Amazon for a price.
Come to think of it, I believe I have the DVD somewhere in storage. Might have to dig that out
Scream Factory sells a Collectorās Edition available on Amazon. A great release.
Forgot about Maximilian Schell. Wonderful! James Woods, my favorite Videodromer, is awesome in it. So yeah, Vampires and Season of the Witch (1982) for my next 2 nights.
Halloween III is a glorious mean-spirited mess. And usually for me mean-spiritedness is a strike against but this weird fever dream of a film and Return of the Living Dead are wacky horror movies that do it right. Of course, the enjoyment of the latter film was all done in intentional ways, but still.
Itās obviously not Carpenterās best work, but I think if youāre a fan of his oeuvre thereās a lot to like here. Itās a little surprising that itās never been repackaged sans the (rather misleading in hindsight) Halloween tag.
Best one of the lot (FIGHT ME). This is my yearly Halloween night movie. Written by British sci-fi legend Nigel Kneale, who asked for his name to be removed after the rewrites added all the gory scenes. A lot of his script remains in the final version though, particularly with the idea of power contained in ancient stones, which was a common theme for Kneale. He did a show for the BBC called āThe Stone Tapesā which was a sort of ghost story about a research team investigating the ability of old stones to act as a recording mediumā¦and then of course there was his final āQuatermassā serial in which ancient stone circles, standing stones etc are central to the plot as markers for an ancient alien power.
This late in the game everyoneās just accepted it. The owners and the audience. Universal is too large to care for a single unsuccessful film 30 years later and the name is the name to everyone else. Good, bad, or indifferent. The 3 Silver Shamrock Masks also nod to the name. 3 masks for Halloween.
My late friend and I used to go around the store we worked at every October singing the ā__ more days to Halloween! Silver Shamrock!ā jingle. The rest of the people working there looked at us like we were nuts.
My friend and I do the same. Itās hard not to. The joke writes itself.
