October 14, 2007

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)*
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Writers: Tommy Lee Wallace and Nigel Kneale
Starring: Tom Atkins and Stacey Nelkin
Co-Starring: Dan O'Herlihy and Michael Currie
Description: Silver Shamrock, a mass-producer of Halloween masks, plan to kill millions of innocent people worldwide by placing pieces of a stolen boulder from Stonehenge into small tags and attaching them to the masks. When children all over the world sit down to watch the Silver Shamrock advertisement, terror and panic will spread. Dr. Dan Challis investigates a series of bizarre and horrifying incidents that begin to unfold before Halloween evening, and he comes face to face with the sinister figure of Conal Conhran, maker of the evil masks.
Rating: C+
In a word... Halloween, Halloween, Halloween... (and yes I realize that was three words, but it was also the same word repeated three times, so I win.)

Note: I watched this at the Music Box Massacre 3, at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.