Halloween season of the witch movie#

Well, quite frankly, it’s supposed to be a science fiction movie that connects ancient witchcraft with the age of computers (or at least that was Debra Hill’s vision). Where do all these snakes and creepy-crawly things come from? The Sanderson sisters would weep with pride. Cochran goes on to explain to Challis that he is honoring (in the film) the real tradition of Halloween-to offer up sacrifices of children for the festival of Samhain, and now that the planets are finally in alignment again 3000 years later for the last great festival, he has to do his due diligence by killing all the children. He also mentions how hard it was to get pieces of Stonehenge over to his secret underground mad scientist laboratory. Stonehenge in the film is actually part of the ancient ritual of Samhain, and even a particle of it helps imbue his company’s trademark with dark magic that does his bidding without him physically having to be there to perform any sort of incantation, because clearly, the iconic commercial is the catalyst for the trademarks/Stonehenge particle to work their dastardly magic. Even if you feel like it’s a weak explanation, he still does explain it. See, the thing about it is, Cochran literally explains this in the movie. What the hell? How on earth did you get that across the pond without anyone noticing? How does it actually tie into the film’s plot? How has this not made international news? I can see the headlines in my mind: “WHERE HAS STONEHENGE POPPED OFF TO? CITIZENS OUTRAGED” Let’s go over some of the plot holes, which have been pointed out thousands of times over the years. Obviously, Halloween III was fraught with missteps and I still don’t care. The entirety of the film has a lot of drama behind it: from the original screenwriter removing his name from the film to Universal not promoting it properly because they hated the somewhat sadistic ending. So, the script was altered to fit the view of the distributors, causing Kneale to remove his name from the movie credits. Noted science fiction writer, Nigel Kneale, was brought onto the film to write the original screenplay and most of his original screenplay was kept, but Season of the Witch’s largest distributor wanted more graphic violence than the psychological shock that Kneale was originally going for. John Carpenter and Debra Hill did not write or direct this film but they did act as producers for it. The film was Tommy Lee Wallace’s directorial debut, who went on to direct Fright Night Part 2, and episodes of some of my favorite television shows including The Twilight Zone and Max Headroom, among other projects in both film and TV. It was made with a budget of $2.5 million, going on to gross only $14.4 million at the box office. Halloween III: Season of the Witch, also known by filthy casuals as “Wait, is that the one without Michael Myers in it?”, was released on October 22nd, 1982. Challis, having kids of his own, is determined to stop the madness in time, but we’ll never know if he succeeded and I’m okay with that. The pair make it to the fictitious town of Santa Mira, a nod to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, to find the devious Conal Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy) using his Halloween mask production company as a front to sacrifice all the children he can for the festival of Samhain. Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin), who is trying to find out why her father-who was brought into Challis’ hospital at the beginning of the film-was murdered by a man who promptly went out to his car and lit himself on fire (causing one of the most hilarious car explosion scenes in history). Halloween III: Season of the Witch follows Dr.