
'Halloween III: Season of the Witch' (1982) Review
I always question the fact of why this film was even made. It had nothing to do with it's predecessors and doesn't at all contribute to the series. Michael Myers is absent in this installment. Instead the makers got this bright idea to come up with a completely different movie with a stupid, uninteresting plot about masks. The characters are all different and unlikable. The acting was horrible and was almost laughable. (That is if your eyes didn't burn from watching it) This movie shouldn't even be considered part of the Halloween series we've come to know and love. It throws everything that was great about it's predecessors right out the window and into the garbage. Making a Halloween movie without Michael Myers, is like making a Friday the 13th movie without Jason Voorhees, or making a Nightmare on Elm Street movie without Freddy Krueger, or making a Scream movie without Ghostface.
This movie was heinous. It has nothing to do with the first ones or subsequent ones. Now I see why it came free packaged with Halloween II. They had too many copies in the warehouse and just had to give them away free. There is no reason to see this movie. Even for those of you who like to go watch all the movies in a series, there is still no reason to waste two hours of your life that you will never get back on this movie. Blame director Tommy Lee Wallace for this trash!
2/10
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I'm actually more interested in this movie than the other Halloween movies. Just because, I'm sorry to say, I find the idea of Michael Meyers pretty damn boring. He's a guy in a mask who kills people because... he's pure evil. That's it. Big whoop. XD
Plus, if memory serves, John Carpenter planned the Halloween series as an anthology of horror stories that takes place around October 31st. He'd no intent of the Michael story taking such precedence or overshadowing the idea... which sadly, seems to have wound up being the case. Lord knows I'd probably be more interested in "Halloween" movies if there were more variety to the stories than just the ongoing saga of the Meyers family and whatnot.

The reason why there was no Michael Myers in Halloween III Season of the Witch was because they wanted to make the Halloween franchise into an anthology series where each movie would focus on something different. Think of it as The Twilight Zone but more as an series of movies.
But because Halloween III didn't do so good and people complained that they wanted Michael Myers, they decide to bring Michael Myers back and turn Halloween into a slasher series instead.

Yeah I can see that, but if Halloween did go the Twilight Zone route it would have been an interesting series, but this one ruined it, not because it didn't have Michael Myers in it, it's because they had the previous movie with him, and if you start a new idea with a new threat in the third film, it will result in confusion and negative criticism from fans.