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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

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From Time Out Film Guide

The title is a bit of a cheat, since the indestructible psycho of the first two films plays no part here. With the possibilities of the character well and truly exhausted, Season of the Witch turns more profitably to a marvellously ingenious Nigel Kneale tale of a toymaker and his fiendish plan to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins (involving a TV commercial for toy masks that are in fact diabolical engines). Kneale had his name removed from the credits after tampering with his script had reduced O'Herlihy's toymaker - originally bathed in Celtic mists of myth and magic - to the conventional mad doctor. The end result is a bit of a mess but hugely enjoyable, and often (thanks to Dean Cundey's camerawork and John Carpenter's close supervision as producer) as striking visually as its predecessors.

Author: TM

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

Producer: Debra Hill, John Carpenter

Cast: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Ralph Strait, Michael Currie, Jadeen Barbor, Bradley Schachter, Garn Stephens full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 98 mins


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