Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982 123movies

Watch: Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982 123movies, Full Movie Online – After the death of her father under very suspicious circumstances, Ellie Grimbridge and Dr Daniel Challis decide to investigate the shady activities of Conal Cochran, the owner of the Silver Shamrock Novelties company. Before long, they discover Cochran’s diabolical plot to brainwash the children of America into doing his bidding through a mixture of ancient rituals, technology, and witchcraft. This Halloween, wearing the mask of a skeleton, a witch, or a pumpkin can be deadly. Can Ellie and Daniel thwart the plans of the evil toy-maker?.
Plot: Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie’s novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a halloween mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company’s owner, Conal Cochran, wants to return Halloween to its darker roots using his masks — and his unspeakable scheme would unleash death and destruction across the country.
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Ratings:

	5.1/10 Votes: 55,246
	48% | RottenTomatoes
	50/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1100 Popularity: 23.191 | TMDB

Reviews:

Conglomerate Carnage.

A different animal to the Halloween films that preceded and followed it, Season of the Witch is slowly but surely gaining an appreciation as a standalone horror film. Gone is Michael Myers’ indestructible killing machine, in his place is the nefarious Conal Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy), the owner of the Silver Shamrock corporation that specialises in Halloween masks. Cochran has a sinister plan this year – and it’s deadly – Dr. Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins) and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin) are caught in the middle of the vile plot and may just be the only salvation to Americana.

With Nigel Kneale involved in the writing process Season of the Witch is delightfully fiendish. There’s definite barbs being stung here about the commercialisation of holiday occasions, Cochran is intent on restoring Halloween to the true meaning of its origins, creating a Silver Shamrock world order in the process. Kneale would take his name off the credits when the studio tampered with his vision, a shame because his core essence remains – even if Cochran as a Warlock Wicker Man type could well have been genius.

With John Carpenter and Debrah Hill over seeing things from their production chairs, the picture had supervision of some standing. Tommy Lee Wallace maybe directing but it feels like a Carpenter movie, from Dean Cundey’s photography – Carpenter’s foreboding synth musical score – and the sharpness of the horror scenes (which are excellent), it’s not hard to see the “non Michael Myers” Halloween series that Carpenter had envisaged after part 2 had been and gone.

Boosted by an irritatingly potent advertisement jingle (a Silver Shamrock variation on London Bridge is Falling Down) that counts down the days to Halloween and the day of carnage, Season of the Witch is consistently gnawing away at the senses. Having Atkins and O’Herlihy propping up the acting helps, both are reliable performers for this material, while the race against time finale has edge of the seat credentials.

It doesn’t all work of course, there’s some drag and the narrative feels schizophrenic at times, while if it wasn’t for Cundey’s camera work then Wallace’s inept direction of scenes would be over exposed. Yet as it asks Halloween franchise fans some forgiveness for not actually being part of the franchise, it delivers a smart sci-fi horror hybrid that’s not without shock and awe. 7/10

I distinctly remember being in Grade 8 when the film came out, and for four major reasons: 1) The excellent TV commercial, with John Carpenter’s spooky music and the spider crawling out of the mouth of the mask; 2) The decent book adaptation written for young adults, that I read at the time, and thoroughly enjoyed; 3) Karen Carpenter died of a heart attack from anorexia nervosa; and 4) Major songs on the radio around that time were ‘Centerfold’ by The J. Geils Band and ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ by Kim Carnes. Though I had not yet seen the previous two films and wasn’t old enough (the R-rating, and my parents were somewhat strict about that kind of thing), I really wanted to see it, but over the years, I never really got around to it, until recently I found used the entire ‘Halloween’ franchise on a 10-blu ray pack, and no longer have any sort of excuse, really.

I loved Wallace’s work in ‘Stephen King’s It’ (except for the last half-hour, but that’s probably the book’s fault and not the director’s) and I thought his ‘Vampires: Los Muertos’ was rather underrated, so an added attraction for me was to watch his directorial debut here. He impressed me. I enjoyed the film and all of the extras on its blu ray very much. If you like horror films at all, you should watch this.

Protagonists Tom Atkins and Stacey Nelkin are very good here, and I liked Dan O’Herlihy even better than when I had previously seen him in ‘The Virgin Queen’, ‘Imitation of Life’, ‘The Cabinet of Caligari’, ‘Good Against Evil’ and the first two ‘RoboCop’ films, and, as always, Dean Cundey provides excellent cinematographical work and the soundtrack by Carpenter and Alan Hogarth is dependably solid. Don’t bother with the negative reviews that came out at the time the film was released: Most people were upset that the film didn’t have Michael Myers in it, and didn’t give it a chance. Find out for yourself–in my humble opinion, it’s worth both purchasing and at least a rewatch.

Not A Great One, But Accomplishes Rule #1 For A Horror Film
I’ve read almost all of the reviews here and honestly, I cannot argue with many of the negative points that are raised here. The movie DOES use the “Halloween” name while having only one tiny thread of connection to the Michael Myers movies that came before it and would come later (and that thread, involving a lab technician, can be charitably described as really lame). It is boring in stretches, the idea of Tom Atkins hooking up with Stacey Nelkin is pretty ridiculous, and the plot makes no sense if you think about it for more than 5 seconds.

But I don’t hate this film. Why? That’s very simple. The first rule of a horror film is to scare the viewer and HALLOWEEN III has scared the hell out of me every time I’ve seen it! It’s hard to pinpoint why, exactly, but the atmosphere of the movie is a huge factor. This film is jammed with ominous synthesized music (very 80’s touch), cold and sharp-looking camera work, and a feeling of overwhelming dread and fear. It’s very hard to establish atmosphere in any movie or TV show; I was talking about this movie with my brother–who said that he didn’t think it was scary at all–and I compared it to THE X-FILES. Both that show and this movie were able to quickly drag me into their bizarre and frightening worlds.

I don’t think I could flat-out recommend a movie with this many huge problems, but I’d say it might scare the viewer, and that’s not so bad considering how many abysmal horror movies do nothing else right and cannot get that deceptively simple task completed, either.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 2500000
Revenue 14400000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director Tommy Lee Wallace
Writer Tommy Lee Wallace, John Carpenter, Nigel Kneale
Actors Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O’Herlihy
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold, Panavision C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2021 remaster), Dolby Vision, Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm