‘Halloween III: Season of the Witch’ Review

In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to put on our masks and wait for the big Silver Shamrock giveaway at 9pm as we review the 1982 sequel “Halloween III: Season of the Witch”…

When John Carpenter and Debra Hill made the original “Halloween” in 1978, they had no intention of any kind of follow up or sequel but the immense success of that film left the studio and producers frothing at the mouth for another one.

So Carpenter reluctantly returned for “Halloween II,” a film to this day he doesn’t like very much but once again a third film almost seemed inevitable.

This time around, Carpenter and Hill decided to go in a completely different direction by introducing the concept of an anthology series.

The idea was that each film would tell a new story set at Halloween but the sequels wouldn’t involve past characters like Michael Myers or Laurie Strode.

Veteran screenwriter Nigel Kneale was hired to pen the script and eventually Carpenter did some rewrites alongside his old friend Tommy Lee Wallace, who was later hired to direct the movie and he also reworked the screenplay as well.

Kneale was so unhappy with the work that he requested his name be removed from the film so Wallace ended up as the sole screenwriter.

The movie Wallace made focused on a doctor and grieving daughter investigating a mysterious death linked back to the sleepy little town of Santa Mira and a famed Halloween mask making factory named Silver Shamrock where nothing is as it seems ….

In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to put on our masks and wait for the big Silver Shamrock giveaway at 9pm as we review the 1982 sequel “Halloween III: Season of the Witch”…