Halloween III: Season of the Witch

A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked, and at the hospital, babbles and clutches the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask. Suddenly, Doctor Daniel Challis finds himself thrust into a terrifying nightmare.

Cast

Tom Atkins

as Dr. Daniel 'Dan' Challis

Stacey Nelkin

as Ellie Grimbridge

Dan O'Herlihy

as Conal Cochran

Michael Currie

as Rafferty

Ralph Strait

as Buddy Kupfer

Jadeen Barbor

as Betty Kupfer

Brad Schacter

as 'Little' Buddy Kupfer Jr.

Garn Stephens

as Marge Guttman

Nancy Kyes

as Linda Challis

Jonathan Terry

as Starker

Reviews

John Chard

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’He...

talisencrw

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 tho...

Repo Jack

A Halloween movie with no Michael Meyers? Given most of the sequels were dreck, the third outing is an entertaining watch as a Halloween-themed thriller....

GenerationofSwine

Wait, what? Halloween? I guess Carpenter had the grandiose idea of expanding the franchise to one movie released around Halloween that was kind of about Halloween...the holiday not the movies. Mike did die in Halloween II. It was a good idea, one year, one horror movie, all under the same antholo...

Filipe Manuel Neto

**The biggest problem with this film, full of problems, is the title.** After seeing this film, I felt the need to read things about it to understand why it is so strange and different from the previous two. The conclusion I reached is the simplest: if there had been another title and no relation...

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