 Thanks for checking out this movie review. So this is for the 1982 film Halloween 3 season of the witch which if you're watching this review and you have already seen the film You know that this is the one movie in the Halloween franchise That has nothing to do with Michael Myers and there's kind of some backstory on that and actually if you're watching this You probably even know that I'll go over it briefly for people who may not know that information But you know I do want to say why am I doing this video? Eventually I was gonna get to this film it probably was gonna be further down the line for me But I'm doing it now because there were a lot of people who really wanted Joe Bob Briggs on his most recent His Halloween special or as he called it is the Halloween hoot nanny on Shutter really really wanted him to do Halloween 3 season of the witch People apparently have been asking him to do it for quite some time and he won't do it I don't know if it's because he's saving it for another time, but it kind of seems to me like he hates the movie I can't really blame him for this movie Honestly, you have to be a person who finds enjoyment in movies that are kind of crappy, but like fun crappy So I am that person so I enjoy this film for that reason, but at the same time I feel like Joe Bob enjoys a lot of crappy fun films too. So it's you know, I don't know So anyway, this is my kind of humble offering to the masses out there who were let down by not getting Halloween 3 Reviewed or the get the Joe Bob treatment So I can't give the Joe Bob treatment obviously, but I'm gonna do my best to just break down this film Give you my thoughts on it and do a good review and hopefully people enjoy it. So there you go All right, so like I said from 1982 Halloween 3 season of the witch Real quick if you have not already seen this film and you want to go back and watch it then come back to this Because spoilers all spoilers So this was written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace who also wrote amityville 2 the possession And he wrote and directed Fright Night part 2. So that's where he's coming from Although I'll talk a little bit. He wrote it. He has the writing credit, but I'll talk a little bit about that later It's he didn't actually write the whole script Slash story so John Carpenter and Debra Hill were back as producers for this. They were producers for Oh wait, were they both producing the first two? I don't know if they were but they were both involved with the first two movies So they came back for this one and they basically said they were asked. Hey, would you come back and produce a Halloween 3 and they said Only if Michael Myers isn't involved, which you know, I can understand if you're a filmmaker You want to do different things, you know, you have creative ideas If you're being asked for the same thing over and over and over again, that gets kind of boring So if you have the opportunity to kind of advocate and say, hey, can I do something different? Can I do something more creative and fun? Let's do that So the Hill and Carpenter basically said we will do a Halloween 3 if we can make it something different So the whole idea is John Carpenter really liked the idea of turning the Halloween franchise into more of an anthology series in a sense and then from three on kind of making it a situation where each of the movies would take place around and on Halloween and Would be a self-contained story not having to do with Michael Myers. So obviously that didn't go over well because Season of the Witch did not do well all that well. It greatly underperformed for what was expected but also People were you know in reviews people were pretty upset about it a lot of a lot of people just calling out Where's Michael Myers? So they went back. Obviously we all know the rest of the franchise. It's all Michael Myers So it didn't really work out, but I would say this obviously there's been a resurgence. It's become a very cult Film at this point. So I think it's kind of time I mean John Carpenter recently said that he'd be interested in directing another movie. I would hope it would be horror I kind of feel like it's time. Maybe this is the time for John Carpenter to go back and say It's not necessarily going to be called Halloween But let's do our own Halloween related anthology series of movies now Let's get it kick started and he doesn't have to do the whole thing You can just do the first one and then set other people up to you know Do some installments, but I feel like people are way more open to it now There's been a bunch of anthology things over time, you know, people are very excited about the shutter creep show series right now It seems like it's more of the time and plus the resurgence of you know season of the witch So not to be confused with the George A. Romero season in the witch movie very different Okay, so even though it was called a diss disappointment Listen to this the budget for it was 2.5 million in the box office. It made 14.4 million So it didn't lose money It just underperformed for what the studio was thinking it should do and that would be in comparison to Halloween's one and two There were they were probably not expecting the same return from those two movies since it's you know the second sequel But they were expecting much more. So it wasn't a flop The idea was to make okay. I already talked about the anthology. Sorry about that Familiar foods Which was an old milk bottling plant was actually the setting for the shamrock Silver shamrock factory, which I have to say in this film. It looks run down and crappy like in the film I feel like That kind of adds to it's appeal in in my Estimation at least for me personally it kind of adds to the appeal You would think that when when a film like this is being made and it's supposed to be like a current company that they were trying Find a facility that looks like it's you know like not necessarily state of the art But not looking super old and kind of run down which this does in like a dying town but I think it kind of works with the whole kind of being a little campy kind of be a little crappy I don't know it kind of adds to the The charisma or the charm of it. I want to say I would say charisma the charm of it So let's talk about the the script situation So the person who originally wrote the script for it was a guy named Nigel Neil KNE a le He had done the films quarter mass the quarter mass films and John Carpenter was a big fan of what he did with those So he was like hey, would you rate the script for this? So he submitted it and it was kind of more of like a sci-fi Which there is still sci-fi to it obviously it is described as a sci-fi horror film So the studio was like we want more violence and gore because that's what Halloween is we need more of that So there were some things that were definitely gonna be changed with it. So Neil said take my name off of the script I don't want to be associated with it. It's not mine anymore because you're making these changes So based off that the script was untaken given the Tommy Lee Wallace and said fix it You know fix it per what the studio thought fixing meant So he made his changes to it and it became his script then although a lot of the stuff was actually Kept from the original apparently. I don't know exactly what but John Carpenter and Alan Howarth did the soundtrack for this and I do have to say the soundtrack Okay, John Carpenter is in a is kind of in a musical genius a lot of his music is very well done I think in Halloween 3 it's kind of John Carpenter dial up to 11 it's kind of overboard in my opinion and there's some really shrill noises that happen and they happen repeatedly and It just gets annoying and you're just kind of like kind of got to plug my ears Is this gonna stop anytime soon? So it's just it's over it's over the top a lot of the music is over the top not all of it But a lot of it is so this was John Carpenter dialed up to 11 But you know it kind of goes along with the ridiculousness of the film Although I do have to say the Silver Shamrock song That That is well done, especially because people can't seem to get it out of their heads My wife included who watched this movie with me and she started singing it after the movie was done She kept repeating it. I was like that's not me. I didn't bring that back up. She's like that song It just embeds in your head, which is I think is the point that's kind of the genius of how that song was created is I think it was created to be familiar because it it's to the theme the the tune of London Bridges falling down and Yeah, so it's already familiar to people the fact that they repeat it so many times throughout the film and it is just catchy in general and It's simplistic. That's the other thing so it's easy to remember It really like as an audience member just embeds itself in your head and you just find yourself after the movie just going around and Singing it or if not out loud then just it's going around in your head Which is great because that's what's happening in the film So it's kind of genius that that was the way the the the song went because it's doing to the audience What it's doing to people in the actual movie Which is grabbing their attention and keeping their interest and that kind of speaks more to you know What I'll kind of talk about in the end, which is the themes of kind of like Consumerism and you know playing directly to kids, which was a big thing in the 80s But I'll talk about that a little bit more later So the masks for this were actually made by post a company called post studios and they were contracted to do it and then they made a bunch of Masks as merchandise that were to sell for $25 so back in 1982 like $25 obviously was a little bit more So yeah pretty decent cost for those masks. I guess they assumed that it would be kind of kind of Popular. I don't know I I would be interested to know if there's any information out there on you know sales of those masks I wasn't able to find any easily, but I'd be interested to know so for the people who are real big nerds with this film There was a novelization of it. So you might want to go check that for that This the script was taken and it was turned into a novel It also in 1982 by Dennis Etchison who actually wrote it under the surname of Jack Martin One of the big changes apparently is that it alludes to the fact that Cochran in the end doesn't actually get killed By the piece of Stonehenge, but that he actually is like Teleported somewhere to some other location. So he's still alive somewhere. So that's a big difference. Sorry spoiler for the book But it's old whatever That's all just spoilers The music already wrote the music about it getting annoying the acting is not so great in this film, but That's part of the charm of the 80s. We all can agree with that Tom Atkins is fun in his role a lot of fun in his role And I think that was it Dan O'Hurley. He's the guy who plays Cochran He was great for that role because he does such a good job of playing of like walking that line of being like kind of evil and Sinister but also just being like a really nice proper person And he just he walks that line very well in my opinion So he was cast extremely well Tom Atkins like I said, he's just fun everyone else kind of like their performances are Pretty subpar and doesn't really necessarily matter that they were in the film to be honest Atkins and O'Hurley are the main ones. I mean they have the most screen time anyway, so Make sense The fingers in the eyeballs kill. Let's talk about this very early on That thing is like Yeah, okay, so the fingers in the eyeballs kill it like it was weird It was super weird and you couldn't necessarily tell what was actually happening there because when the eye the fingers were going in I initially was like oh, he's poking. He's gouging his eyeballs out But then he like does this move where it's like and I'm like is he like breaking his nose from the inside and up or and Then it's not even like ever fully explained. It's just the coroner. I guess it's the coroner or forensic scientists is just kind of like Says that they it just like they destroyed the skull basically which we understand that like that was kind of an effortless thing because You know it was a robot, but you don't know that at the time It's just like this really weird move I've never seen anyone killed like that before so I guess it gets points for being very unique in my opinion Very very unique. I Love how the sheriff says that the murder was drug drug related most likely because it's so frickin absurd Like drug related. Okay, this dude in a suit with black gloves on comes in Messes up this guy's skull kills him and then walks out douses himself in gasoline and blows up a car Yeah, that screams drug related like the sheriff says this and there's like there's no evidence The other thing is when the sheriff's talking about this It's the next day and the car is still smoking and just sitting in the parking lot Like you think they would have worked on it, but they're just kind of like hanging out inside the hospital just like Yeah, what do you guys think about this? What do you guys you should be processing the crime scene? They're not so that's another thing. It's kind of weird The other thing is it's weird in the beginning how it'll it's like giving you dates Like it starts on a Saturday and then it goes to a Sunday and then it goes Wednesday Friday So like when it's doing Saturday Sunday like it makes sense because you're like, okay It's gonna track through each day until we get to Halloween Which makes sense with the whole commercial how it, you know It counts counts down as well But then you'd make the jump to Wednesday and you make the jump to Friday and there's not even much that goes on In some of those days So literally like when they made the jump from like Sunday to Wednesday then like Wednesday It's like I think it was just like Tom Atkins character just hanging out at the bar for a little bit He talks with someone and then it's just like Friday and you're just like why did we even stop at Wednesday at all? So it's just it's weird. It's weird. Like why would you even do it? I The movie Okay, I'm sorry this this kind of throws me off when I'm talking about it just because it's like The movies kind of all over the place if you've seen it, you know, the movie gets to trying to solve a mystery pretty fast There's all there's really not a whole lot of setup to the film It's immediately like this mystery of let's solve something, you know the guy in the very very beginning running away He's got the silver shamrock mask in his hand He's hiding from these dudes who we later find out a robot's trying to kill him And then the death happens and then we're investigating and then this dude who's an alcoholic doctor It's just like I'm gonna solve this case Apparently because he wants to bone the deceased's daughter because that becomes apparent at one point. It's just really funny But I like I like the like investigative mystery portion of it I really do I think that's the most fun because it's this kind of sense of adventure It's like where are we going? What's happening? And they they do let things unfold slowly in a good way So there, you know, there's there's some like legitimate good stuff about this film I and okay, I wrote down I love how hard they go on Dan time against character Dan I love how hard they go on his alcoholism like they reference the fact that he drinks hard numerous times and I even like the fact that it's like one day he's he makes a Call on a payphone to his wife and he's got a six pack of Miller sitting next to him on the other payphone And so he's obviously going to drink that well then same day later when he checks into the hotel Or the motel with ellie. He's just like oh man. God. I need a heart like I need a drink. I'm like, didn't you just You drank that six pack obviously because he needs to go somewhere else to get a drink So he already had a six pack and then he's going to get a bottle of hooch This guy is a boozehound and it's funny because it's like, why would you even think to put this in a script and ride it? So hard like he's supposed to be the hero and it's like this guy's just the freaking drunk and then the other thing is Why is he not at the hospital doing his job? Who's covering for him? Are these his days off? I don't know. It seems like he just up and left the hospital It's so weird. Like there's so many gaps in this and you're just like, what about this and then what about this But it's fun. I mean, I kind of like that stuff where it's just like just because it's a good time So um going to the whole motel thing. So dan says time atkins character He he says that they were gonna get a couple of rooms Okay, he legitimately says let's get you know, let's stay let's get a couple of rooms And then he only gets one room And then not only that but ellie doesn't even like question it. She's just like, yeah, let's bone It just it goes from zero to 60 so fast in the bone In the bone lane that you're just like what is going on and it's so weird Like the way he moves in and kisses her immediately Like her dad just died not long ago and this was like the doctor And then she I don't know. Does death make her horny? I don't know. It's such a weird thing or maybe death makes him horny I don't know. She he's like bond in this like women just can't Because the other thing is like it's insinuated that he's been seeing The the person who's either the forensic psychologist or or the mortician or whatever um or the coroner I I mean It's insinuated that he's seeing hurry like gives her a kiss at one of the times after he sees her Just we're like this guy's all over. He's throwing. He's throwing his d right and left Or left and right, whatever Uh, the head ripping scene is pretty funny with the blood spurting all over the place And it's it's especially funny because at that point you don't know about The the robot aspect of the film. So you're just like, how is this person ripping this head right off the body? But like if you go back and watch that scene like there's a bit of a delay On when the head comes off and then the blood spurts That's like, you know, obviously not realistic But it just makes it kind of funny like the delay and then it's just like this It's I like it. I laughed at it. I like it. Um, the death by laser is also funny that whole thing. Um But the aftermath of it's really good like the actual practical effects of her face all screwed up is Really good. It looks really really awesome But the whole like laser like first of all lasers for movies this far back just don't hold up They don't look good on film and the fact that like a laser shoots out of this little Like button the silver shamrock logo button is so weird Um, it was just like it's really out of nowhere and you're just like what that what happened But like I said the after effects are great. Um, the mask making factory tour is cool Like that's a fun aspect of it when you go through and you see all the masks and kind of different stages of being made Uh, that's fun. I think that's a really cool thing and just like anytime when you're like Discovering or like exploring a new Location in a film in my opinion like something I'm not familiar with like a factory or something like that It's always very interesting. Like I legitimately will watch like Abandoned building exploration videos on youtube and stuff like I find that type of stuff fascinating So I really liked the mask factory tour for that reason Where do all the bugs and snakes come from this makes absolutely no sense. I don't understand how the Okay, so it's the button that has electronics in it that's turning the kid Into like this pile of snakes and bugs basically like it kills them and then snakes and bugs like come out of his head Um, so it's the button doing it that has electronics in it But the electronics have like pieces of the stonehenge stone Put in them like I don't even understand how this works And then even like what part is doing it I guess the electronics is needed to like harness the power of the stone And then that does it but then where do the bugs and snakes come from and why like I It's totally like a just cuz type thing. It's like here's something crazy. Here's something wacky just And at this point when that does happen like you've been through enough of the film where you you just go with it You're just like Yeah, and then that and then that and then that yes, and then obviously this gigantic snake comes right out of the Kid's head sure and then goes and bites and That's crazy Uh, I got you have got to love the impossible mask toss When Tom Atkins character is like tied up and then he finds finds a way to like partially get himself free And he has a mask gets the mask off his head the skull mask and then he like throws it to get it on the surveillance camera And it lands perfectly Totally unrealistic, but it's pretty funny Gotta love it Nobody would ever suspect or see a moving mask A moving rack of masks That's the other thing like when they're sneaking around in the main area where they have the big stonehenge stone After Tom gets loose Tom Atkins character gets loose and he gets ellie who's actually a robot at this point um When they're sneaking and they take a whole rack of these masks and they just like move it with them There were so many people and they were facing that direction Like they shot it so that those people are like looking down at computers But there is a thing called peripheral vision And I guess maybe they could explain it as robots don't really have that I don't know But people would have seen that and it was like it was really out in the open pretty much too like when they're Moving it's another one of those moments is really funny and this is like right after that impossible mask toss So it's perfect I like how Cochrane just hangs out and waits to die Like that's another that's another totally wacky thing is like he when he's like clapping I do like the moment of him like clapping because they say like he's big into like jokes and pranks and stuff like that So like the moment where he's like, ah, I've been had like he can appreciate that So he's like giving a clap to dan tom atkins character So I like that touch of the moment, but then at the same time he's just standing there waiting to die He's just standing there for a long time and then he gets killed and It's like he was waiting for it This is weird Oh dan's fight with ellie then like after they you know after he crashes the car and she's trying Because she's trying to kill him because it becomes apparent she's a robot That fight scene between the two of them goes on way too long. I was just like okay, we can Move this along please. Let's go and that speaks to another thing There are some scenes like that throughout the film where it just really They stretch it out for no reason Because this movie's runtime is a bit over an hour and a half and it really has no right to be that much time really Uh, it should be cut down to at least an hour and a half maybe a little bit less than that. I don't know Uh, there's a good concept here somewhere but the whole Like with the with the the sinister company and you know the chips implanted In the masks and the kids dying and the commercial like all that stuff Like those are good concepts. It's a good idea for a story, but the whole like stonehenge thing It's so weird. It's so out there. It's so dumb That that doesn't work. So the story like if you look at it as like is this a good film No, it's not a good film because it's ridiculous and I like I like how they kind of like Point that out a little bit at the scene where um, Cochran's kind of like Revealing his his evil plan to them and he's just like oh and this is this a stone from stonehenge You wouldn't believe how we got it here Yes, nobody would believe that you got it there not how but that you got it there So I kind of feel like you have to at that point if you want it to be like a legitimately good film you have to at that point Explain how that happened instead of just being like you wouldn't believe how it's like this is how lazy we are We're not even gonna tell you how this happened because we know it's totally implausible, but we just wanted to do it We just wanted to do it So yeah, so now i'm just going to talk about some of the overall themes Of the film. So obviously there's the theme about the dangers of children being controlled by products and marketing basically That that's very very overt It's very front and center with this film and I think it works really well You know because in the 80s that would that was the time where things really ramped up with commercials and with particularly marketing to children because there had been research and psychology done that companies were using that was saying that if you get kids at a very young age like These these marketing campaigns will basically ingrain themselves in their heads and you can end up getting a A customer for life. So that's what they were going for That's when commercials started becoming very juvenile and very much geared towards like cartoons and stuff like that And then even like taking cartoons and incorporating products into actual cartoons shows They did that as well. So I think for its time that stuff was really cool It's it was very pertinent at that point. So and it's kind of like anti-capitalistic in the in that sense, too because it's this kind of like Companies running rampants being allowed to do whatever they want. No one's keeping tabs on them And that's kind of what happens with capitalism is that companies are pretty much allowed to do whatever they want And people are just like, oh, you know, their whole business is to make money. So they're making money And this is kind of like this is what happens when that goes too far and nobody's there to See what's actually going on They're gonna take over the world. They're gonna kill everyone And it seems like as Cochrane says like kind of just for the hell of it just just because um Yeah, the like I talked about the repetition of the shamrock theme song is genius genius genius because of the audience feeling the way Getting indoctrinated with it the way that the characters in the film do love that aspect of this film Uh, and then like I was saying this is the time John Carpenter This is the time To do that anthology series. I think people would be very much open to it, especially if you start it up because People love John Carpenter, especially now do it. You're gold, man And the last thing I wanted to say is before I do my rating is that This would be a wonderful double feature to be paired with the stuff Now the stuff came out after this so they have a lot of similarities between the two And I wonder if the stuff was kind of influenced by Halloween three seasons of the witch I would be interested to know if that is If there is a connection there, but um, yeah that double feature I want to watch that double feature Halloween three and the stuff Be a really good night. Anyway, um, let me give you my star rating I'm going to do two different star ratings on this one So the first one is of the entire pantheon of films ever made How does this rank on a five star scale with half stars in play? This film is a one and a half star film Ranking it amongst like all films basically one and a half stars But when you look at it as a stupid So bad it's fun horror film. How do I rate it out of five stars? I'm going to give it a three and a half I give it a three and a half in that case. It is a good time. It is fun It is not a good movie, but it is a fun time And I will watch this more because but this is actually this is only the second time I watched it It has been a bunch of years since I watched this film. So it was fun to go back to it. They're there's some fun But uh, hopefully you guys enjoyed this review enough Put some comments down there. I want to hear your thoughts on Halloween 3 How do you feel there might be some people out there who are just like I legitimately think it's a great movie Not just like it's so dumb. It's fun And that's fine. I want to hear everyone's opinions on it and um Yeah, so The best you can do for me to pay me back on this one is just hit that subscribe. That's all I asked for for Because I don't make money on any of this. I'm just doing it for fun And hopefully this helped with the people who were let down about Halloween 3 not getting done by joe bob This is all I can do. This is all I have to offer you guys on this on this front So hopefully you enjoyed it, but hit that subscribe put some comments down there And thank you for checking out this video until next time. Keep it brutal