MEATFETISH wrote:
Halloween III is a very underrated film! If it was just called Season of the Witch and wasn't tied to the Michael Meyers franchise, people would show it a lot more respect and I'd even bet on it being considered a minor classic. It deserves some marathon love. It played at the Chicago marathon about 4 or 5 years ago and went over like gangbusters! What with the commercial sing-along opportunities, the overly-virile and sexist Tom Atkins, druids, and stonehenge! What is with the back-handed compliments? Embrace the genius that is Hallloween III Season of the Witch.
Couldn't said it better myself, I love Halloween III but I think most people blow it off due to the lack of Micheal Myers. John Carpenter and Debra Hill agreed to participate in the new Halloween project only if it was not a direct sequel to Halloween II, which meant no Michael Myers
Tommy Lee Wallace told Fangoria that he created the title of the film as a reference to "a plot point"—the three masks featured in the film—and an attempt to connect this film with the others in the series. He explained in the interview the direction that Carpenter and Hill wanted to take the Halloween series, stating, "It is our intention to create an anthology out of the series, sort of along the lines of Night Gallery, or The Twilight Zone, only on a much larger scale, of course." Each year, a new film would be released that focused on some aspect of the Halloween season.
The story of Michael Myers was over and the title of HALLOWEEN was to live on........
I think a Tom Atkins double feature would be awesome Halloween III and Night of the Creeps!!