Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

I should love Halloween III more since it’s about techno-corporate witchcraft, which is a genuinely fun concept. But this is not a good movie and I don’t think it’s aged particularly well.

It’s plotted really poorly. Most horror movies I watch make me wonder if they’d work better as a 30-minute Twilight Zone episode, and Halloween III absolutely would. It’s so slow and the revelations come at a snail’s pace - it’s just a lot of old dudes creeping around factories. And boy, there is some stuff with a creepy old doctor wooing bereaved daughters that really gave me the heebie-jeebies. That has not aged well at all.

I do like the vibes. This might work great to have on in the background of a Halloween party on silent, but it is not an exciting or fun or good Halloween franchise movie.

I think the anthology series concept for Halloween could have worked if they’d just gone straight into it with Halloween II as the first anthology entry - maybe with a better concept and more to do. But that’s not what happened, and Michael Myers won the war.

I did love the soundtrack though. I loved the Silver Shamrock jingle - it’s genuinely catchy and unsettling. I also have to give this credit for being an audacious bet on converting the Halloween franchise into an anthology series. Obviously that didn’t pan out, but I respect the swing.

Also, I love that Jamie Lee Curtis made a surprise cameo in this movie.

But this movie is not for me, and I will not be revisiting it.

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