Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Director:

Tommy Lee Wallace

Guionista:

Tommy Lee Wallace (written by)

Release Date:

22 octubre 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Frase comercial:

...and now the earth will run with blood again!

Plot:

A large Halloween mask-making company has plans to kill millions of American children with something sinister hidden in Halloween masks.

Plot Keywords:

Exploding Car | Stand Alone Sequel | No Ending | Halloween | Druid

Awards:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

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

US TV Schedule:

Tue. July 29

1:30 AM

MAX

Cast

Tom Atkins	...	Dr. Daniel 'Dan' Challis
Stacey Nelkin	...	Ellie Grimbridge
Dan O'Herlihy	...	Conal Cochran
Michael Currie	...	Rafferty
Ralph Strait	...	Buddy Kupfer
Jadeen Barbor	...	Betty Kupfer
Brad Schacter	...	'Little' Buddy Kupfer Jr. (as Bradley Schachter)
Garn Stephens	...	Marge Guttman
Nancy Kyes	...	Linda Challis
Jonathan Terry	...	Starker (as Jon Terry)
Al Berry	...	Harry Grimbridge
Wendy Wessberg	...	Teddy
Essex Smith	...	Walter Jones
Maidie Norman	...	Nurse Agnes
John MacBride	...	Sheriff

También conocida como:

The Last Halloween (Philippines: English title)
Halloween III: El día de la bruja (Spain) [es]

Duración:

96 min | USA:99 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Finland:K-15 (uncut) (DVD rating) | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1988) | Finland:K-18 (1983) (cut) | Finland:K-16 (uncut) (VHS rating) (1998) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Austria:16 | France:-12 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Norway:16 (original rating) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | UK:15 (theatrical release) (uncut) | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) (cut) | UK:15 (video rating) (2002) (uncut) | UK:15 (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Domino's Pizza - 17 Kersting Court, Sierra Madre, California, USA

Company:

Dino De Laurentiis Company

Trivialidades:

The book that Marge Guttman is reading before her death in the motel room is "The Eagle's Gift" by Carlos Castaneda.

Goofs:

Plot holes: In what appears to be at least an hour or so after curfew is put in effect, Challis goes to a liquor store. Even if he didn't know about the curfew, why would the liquor store still be open?

Quotes:

Conal Cochran: It's time again. In the end, we don't decide these things you know, the planets do. They're in alignment and it's time again. The world's going to change tonight, Doctor. I'm glad you'll be able to watch it.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (1998)

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.