So I rented “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” from Netflix because I read a lot of stuff about it, since it’s the only one to not feature Michael Myers, etc. because the original idea for the series was to only have him in the first two and then the rest of them be independently different. Well, that didn’t happen and we know the rest. Anyway, it’s a pretty cheeseball flick with this evil dude putting weird-ass transmitters in kids’ Halloween masks that react to a special commercial shown on TV with embedded junk in the transmission to make the masks…well…I’m not quite sure what they do really. They kind of bubble up and then the kid collapses and bugs and snakes crawl out of the remains. What the hell? How does that make any sense at all? I get the suspension of belief with horror flicks, but what kind of acid was John Carpenter and his co-writers on when they came up with that idea? I expected the kid’s head to explode or something, but not have reptiles and insects come forth!
The only other interesting and wacky thing about the movie is that it features a death by a nose break. Awesome! That’s gotta be a once in a blue moon idea as well. Say what you want about the genre, but the ’70s and ’80s were at least rife with horror movies that varied a lot in scope, versus the kinds of things we’re used to these days. Even if most of ’em did suck back then, at least they had a campy feel to them that you could laugh at and scratch your head to wondering where the re-writers were.
