However, as time has gone on and the Halloween sequels have continued apace, Season of the Witch has steadily built a cult following and, with it, significant reassessment. Roger Ebert dismissed it as a “low rent thriller” while Jason Paul Collum from Cinefantastique magazine called it a “hopelessly jumbled mess.” While Season of the Witch was a success at the box office, the film drew a negative response from fans and some critics. “An awful lot of people were disappointed, even outraged, that Michael Myers didn’t show up and that there was no knife and no Jamie Lee Curtis,” Halloween III writer and director Tommy Lee Wallace told Den of Geek. It was a bold move and one that didn’t sit entirely well with fans. Challis, along with Ellie Gimbridge (Stacey Nelkin) the daughter of one of Cochran’s previous victims, stand in his way.īlending elements of witchcraft with technology to terrifying effect, the film’s central conceit also served as an unsettling takedown of television, advertising and wider corporate America.
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Using a stolen chunk of Stonehenge, Irish company owner Conal Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy) intended to, quite literally, rot the minds of America’s young by having them wear one during a special broadcast across all the TV networks.
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Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins) a physician who stumbles upon a disturbing plot to kill the children on Halloween using a series of microchipped masks containing an ancient evil, which are being manufactured by a sinister Irish toy company called Silver Shamrock. Released back in 1982, the film centered on Dr. Yet far and away the boldest take to emerge from the 1980s came around the start of the decade with Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
There are exceptions to the trend, of course, most notably in the 1980s heyday of the slasher genre.Ī Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors offered an inventive spin on the Freddy Krueger formula, aided by a game cast and script penned by Frank Darabont while writer and director Tom McLoughlin’s Friday the 13th Part VI provided a comedic, self-referential take on the masked killer that would be fleshed out further in the Scream movies of the 1990s. The result is a series of largely repetitive follow-ups that crank up the gore to cover for the lack of creative spark.
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