Harefooted Halloween: Halloween III: Season of the Witch

What I Liked: Cochran’s (Dan O’Herlihy (RoboCop)) plan to kill thousands or even millions of children on Halloween is really fuckin’ crazy.

The John Carpenter and Alan Howarth soundtrack is ominous, driving and beautiful.

The last five minutes is one of the most memorable and best endings ever.  It gets so intense and I love that they left the fate of the children ambiguous.

What I Didn’t Like: Cochran’s plan to kill any kid that buys his Halloween mask is deeply flawed.  It’s gonna be pretty damn obvious what all the deaths have in common so Cochran can’t possibly get away with the crime.  The way this works too is there’s a little piece of Stonehenge in every mask and it somehow putrefies someone’s head into bugs.  It’s unbelievable how the movie is so casual not only about the fact that Stonehenge can work this absurd magic but also that Cochran stole a fucking piece of Stonehenge and broke it into pieces to place inside his goddamn Halloween masks.  You can’t just fuckin’ do that man.  I have so many questions.  Like how the hell did he steal that massive piece of stone from one of the most famous and visited sites on earth and bring it back to California anyway?

Oh my God guys the acting and dialogue is atrocious.  Like cringe inducing at times.  Some of the editing gets bad too with an awkward cut showing up every so often.

Overall Impressions: Jeez this is not how I remember this one going down.  At first the whole thing has a mediocre TV movie vibe but then it dares to dip below that to become just flat out terrible.  Almost every aspect feels cheap and thoughtless.  What makes this particularly weird is the very end is amazing.  How did they come up with such a cool finish but botch the rest?

I like the idea of turning the Halloween franchise into an anthology series where each new film is completely different and doesn’t have to involve Michael Myers.  But they really got off on the wrong foot here.  No wonder they said fuck this and called Mikey back into action.