Halloween III: Season of the Witch

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch

It's because the movie is BORING. The protagonists are charismaless at best and boorish at worst. The premise of a corporation committing mass sacrifice of children in order to bring Halloween back to its pagan roots its super interesting, but totally wasted amidst dull exposition, a pointless sex scene, and some truly mind-boggling twists. The scene with the kid's head turning into snakes and bugs deserved a better movie to belong to than this!

I think Tommy Lee Wallace's "Season of the Witch" is an underrated classic. There are no points here for outstanding acting performances, or original plot etc (although I would like to add there's no dreadful acting) but bonus points for the music and direction, which go together to make a really creepy horror. It contains superb imaginative gore sequences, to rival the likes of "The Fly" or "Dead & Buried". Whereas the Michael Myers type slasher movies have done the genre to death, this one remains dusty and untouched. There aren't any other horror movies worth mentioning, like this. It is very sci-fi horror though, so I think if you've a problem with far-fetched content, you'd best avoid the film as you will find it ridiculous. I called it Season of the Witch in the first sentence, because I prefer to think of it as it's own movie, rather than having anything to do with the original classic "Halloween". This is the only problem with the movie. "Oh ... and Happy Halloween".