this whole thing is a big joke
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is not a slasher film. It’s barely a witch movie. But, I’m watching it anyway. This film is a series of wrong decisions linked together. Though it’s not a slasher film, the opening sequence, leading up the murder in the hospital, plays like it’s trying to be a slasher film, except instead of a menacing killer with a mask, it’s a guy in a suit. Within the film—and in the planning bit for the film itself—the Silver Shamrock business model is seriously lacking; I mean, what costume company produces only three masks? For that matter, why are kids wearing these three masks with costumes that don’t relate? In casting, the young people who watch horror films don’t want to follow around some old divorced guy, even if you do team him up with a young girl. Which sounds funny, considering the original Halloween , but the old guy is the lead here, and this guy is no Donald Pleasance. Musical cues that slightly resemble previous Halloween themes seem lik...