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Saturday 24 August 2013

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The much-maligned third film in the franchise has a stupid plot but I don’t think it deserves the hate it gets; instead, it deserves a second chance.
People wanted more Michael Myers. They got a story about masks and an evil Irishman’s plot to poop on every kid’s party with the help of some ridiculous pseudo-science and ancient magic... erm... yea...
Tom Atkins is a decent actor. The film is better paced than Halloween II (1981). The tense and occasionally terse music of Carpenter and Howarth raise the atmosphere to an extraordinarily high level, heightening the already well-developed intent. The cinematography is great in places. The finale is balls, but the very end scene is classic stuff.

3 happy TV jingles out of 5

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