REVIEW: Halloween III movie: Season of the Witch – Collector’s Edition (Blu-ray)

THE FILM:
Okay all you HALLOWEEN III bashers, dissers and naysayers, let’s do this thing. Right here. Right now. I’ll even start it all off: HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH is not a bad movie. In fact, I’ll bump this up to another level: it is better, FAR better, than several of the sequels poor Michael Myers had to suffer through. There. I said it and I’ll defend it to the death! Notice I didn’t say it’s a good movie. It’s not. It’s a dumb fun 1980’s horror movie that tried to do something new, original and cutting edge but lacked the funding and creative panache to fully accomplish what it set out to do.

A quick background story is in order here. Universal Pictures acquired the rights to the HALLOWEEN franchise when they bankrolled HALLOWEEN II and wanted to continue making movies under that title. However series creator John Carpenter had washed his hands of boogeyman Michael Myers after the first installment saying he had said all there was to say in his movie. Ever since then Carpenter has wished the makers of all the sequels and reboots well and thanked them for the giant check he receives to use the characters he created, but he’s not going to write or direct another HALLOWEEN movie. Universal pretty finished off Michael at the end of HALLOWEEN II burning him to a crisp with flames still leaping through his iconic mask over the ending credits. SO how do you continue?

2012 HALLOWEEN RE-RELEASE DATES AND DETAILS

New York, N.Y., September 18, 2012 – Screenvision, a national leader in cinema advertising sales, services and content distribution, has teamed up with Compass International Pictures and Trancas International Films to bring John Carpenter’s immortal 1978 classic, “HALLOWEEN,” back to the big screen. This nationwide release, beginning October 25th with select showings through October 31st, will be the widest distribution the film has seen since originally shocking audiences in 1978. This cinema scare classic will be presented in a striking, new HD transfer and 5.1 audio.

Screenvision’s presentation of “Halloween” will also include an exclusive documentary short from Justin Beahm entitled “YOU CAN’T KILL THE BOOGEYMAN: 35 YEARS OF HALLOWEEN.” The documentary focuses on the undeniable impact the film, and central figure Michael Myers, have had on culture and the genre.