![]() However, from a town massacre to resurrecting ancient witches, the film was full of plot holes and one-off bits of action that didn’t sit well with the initial audience. The twist is that the masks are actually part of a mass sacrificial ritual to resurrect a form of ancient pagan witchcraft and had a bewitched piece of Stonehenge that would be activated by a flashing signal aired during the giveaway, leading to brain rot and unleashing swarms of snakes and insects to attack those nearby. The masks were marketed along with a “Halloween giveaway” that was promoted throughout the film with a commercial and a catchy jingle that no fan can forget. The main focus of the film was on Silver Shamrock Novelties - a company that made and sold popular skull, pumpkin and witch-themed Halloween masks. While the film had several interesting concepts throughout, they weren’t very fleshed out and just seemed to add to the confusion of the plotline. Not a "good" movie, but for an early 80's entry in the horror genre, this one is worth a look and is better than many, and is, at the very least, original.Season of the Witch featured elements of sci-fi and witchcraft rather than the blood and gore slasher focus of the first two Halloween films. : Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Collectors Edition) Blu-ray : Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan OHerlihy, Tommy Lee Wallace: Movies & TV. ![]() It's hard to take this movie seriously, there are so many over the top scenes and Cochran, the evil mastermind, is fun and absurd. Pretty repellent stuff, but the execution is somehow less offensive and pretty creepy and cheesy at the same time. The concept - planning to murder millions of innocent kids on Halloween to embrace an ancient festival of Samhain. The plot involves an old toy maker who is a sadist and wants to sacrifice millions of children on Halloween by creating evil masks which, when worn while watching a flashing commercial created by the evil company, will trigger a deadly reaction which causes death by melting, bugs, snakes and other gruesome deaths. Tom Atkins is always fun and, somewhat similar to Jamie Lee, made a career in the horror genre. However, the series went dormant for about 5 years after this odd film came out to mostly groans. It was a modest financial success too, taking in 14 million on a 2.5 million budget. Since then, it has grown in popularity and has minor cult movie status. However, moving on with a new story was a good idea, even if it was almost universally reviled upon its release. Halloween III has almost nothing to do with Michael Myers or the first 2 Halloween movies, other than a few jokey references to the original. ![]() The most unbelievable part of the film, actually, even more unbelievable than the Silver Shamrock plan to turn children's brains to much. Yet the movie is written such that all the women fall madly, deeply, quickly in love with them. The doctor in the film who goes to investigate the mask-making company is not a very attractive man, traditionally speaking. The movie is accidentally funny at times. This is supposed to be some kind of elaborate Druid sacrifice to the gods. Daniel 'Dan' Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin), the daughter of a murder victim, uncover a terrible plot by small-town mask maker Conal Cochran. A company called the Silver Shamrock has taken the nation by storm, but little do the parents know that when the children wear these masks and watch a commercial on Halloween, they will all die. Halloween III tells the story of a mask-making company that is trying to turn children's heads into mush. In fact, the only reason that the second film was about Michael Myers was because fans demanded a continuation of the original film. The reason is because John Carpenter wanted to make his Halloween films a serialized story that focused on a different horror tale in each film. Halloween III is the third film in the original saga, and it doesn't have Michael Myers in it.
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