Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy

A large Halloween mask-making company has plans to kill millions of American children with something sinister hidden in Halloween masks.

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Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace

Release Date: October 22, 1982

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DVD Release Date: August 31, 2004

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  • September 30, 2009
    It really isn't as bad as everyone says, it?s actually quite good! Has nothing to do with the other Halloween films and has nothing to do with Witches either but it?s incredibly creepy and Carpenteresque! Carpenter also did the soundtrack again, which I love.
  • December 23, 2008
    This has nothng to do with the other movies!
  • October 13, 2008
    Halloween III: Season of the Witch is probably the only sequel that has nothing to do with any of the installments before or since (though die hards will see a connection between this film and 4-5). It's not set in Haddonfield and the only shot of Michael Myers you get is a comme...( read more)rcial for a TV showing of the first Halloween. The film deals with an alcoholic, divorced doctor (played by legendary B-movie star Tom Atkins) that falls into a conspiracy dealing with Halloween masks. Yes, I said Halloween masks. Along the way he hooks up with Woody Allen's old flame Stacey Nelkin and has a warm heart to heart with Dan O'Herlihy (the "Old Man" from Robocop).

    The film has an interesting story that the screenplay drags down like an anchor. Once again you have characters doing stupid things for no reason and the only thing you can come up with is that the main baddie sees this as the mother of all practical jokes. The acting is mediocre, but this is an '80's slasher flick.

    But at the end of it all Halloween III isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Most of the criticism comes from the fact that it isn't a Michael Myers film, which is a shame. An OK sequel that isn't really a sequel.
  • September 6, 2008
    One of the weakest in the series of Halloween films.
  • April 20, 2008
    A doctor and his new girlfriend investigate a Satanic plot to place devices in kid's Halloween masks that either blow their heads up or turn them into a mass of snakes and cockroaches. This mix of the imaginative, the inept and the downright silly becomes good dumb fun by the th...( read more)ird act, if you can make it that far. Unrelated to the 'Michael Meyers' plotline, which provoked cries of "rip-off" when first released.
  • November 6, 2009
    Nothing to do with michael myers... which is strange, but good despite the completely different story.
  • November 3, 2009
    An interesting experiment in rebooting the franchise as a different story with each film. But the premise is more interesting than the actual execution (which is at times downright terrible). Good ending though.
  • October 28, 2009
    Does not really have anything in common with the other Halloween movies. There´s no Michael Myers in this one.
  • October 18, 2009
    with an awesome John Carpenter soundtrack, a brilliant Tom Atkins performance, some cool death sequences, and that snappy HAPPY HAPPY HALLOWEEN SILVER SHAMROCK tune, what more do you want??? A six pack of MILLER? Its here. A drunk bum in an alley trading sips with Atkins befor...( read more)e getting his fukin' head ripped clean off?? Its here. Tom banging some chick half his age??? Its here. This movie is just great goddamn fun!! Cochran is one old bad-ass mother!! Trade Secrets??? You bet your ass!! I Love Halloween 3!!
  • October 11, 2009
    No resemblance to the halloween movies,and the only thing in commen is that it shows adverts to the previous 2 movies,,,,

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  • MorpheusOne
    October 14, 2008
    Not a very good movie, but it was good, and it was (BY FAR!!!!!) the best of all of the Halloween films, better even than the original.

    HIGHLY UNDERATED!!!
  • itbegins2005
    May 11, 2008
    They traded in Michael Myers for the Old Man from RoboCop? What were these guys smoking???
  • thefog1331
    August 29, 2007
    The story in a nutshell: Akkad, Carpenter and Hill wanted to continue making Halloween-themed films that would be released every or every other Halloween. After Micheal's demise in part II naturally they would move on to a different Halloween tale and on and on.
    Simple-minded audiences, who apparently never noticed how Michael wasn't in the trailers or how videotapes and DVDs did not so much as even mention his name, did not agree and the series died.
    Until someone's wallet became a little light that is and thus the return of Michael was born.
  • yeldarb68
    July 11, 2007
    Had nothing to do with any of the other Halloween movies. It shouldn't have been titled 'Halloween 3'. It is a completely different story and they should have given it a different name. Michael Myers is not in this movie, nor are any other characters related to the real Halloween movies.
  • MorpheusOne
    July 1, 2007
    Not a very good movie, but it was good, and it was (BY FAR!!!!!) the best of all of the Halloween films, better even than the original.

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