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Aug 25, 2019 · Michael Myers is the face of the Halloween franchise, but he was left out of Halloween III: Season of the Witch – and there was a reason for that. The original plan for the Halloween franchise was different.
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Oct 22, 1982 · Halloween III: Season of the Witch: Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. With Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie. Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
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Released three years after the original movie, Halloween II directly followed up from the events of Michael Myers' first massacre in Haddonfield. The concept of a sequel to a slasher movie was still somewhat novel at the time, and the creators behind the first movie had never envisioned the possibility. This was evident Halloween's director John Ca...
In ditching Michael Myers, Halloween III: Season of the Witch took on a different premise entirely. The concept was to make the franchise into an anthology series, with each successive "sequel" telling a new and completely separate story based around the spooky holiday. That explained why Michael Myers isn't in Halloween III, which involved a popul...
Television plays a central role throughout Halloween III: Season of the Witch, with Halloween mask adverts playing during virtually every commercial break. It provides a subtle way to reference Michael Myers, as a promo for the first Halloween film appears just before another mask commercial runs. Said promo involves a television airing of the icon...
While Halloween III: Season of the Witch was disliked due to no Michael Myers, the franchise as a whole did recover and become an even bigger property within the annals of horror. Six years after the movie's release, it was followed up by Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers, which made it clear that the villain missing from the third movie wa...
Oct 10, 2019 · But, as almost all fans by now know, one of the first major installments of the series – Halloween III: Season of the Witch – doesn’t actually include Michael Myers. In fact, Halloween...
- Jacob Dressler
Oct 14, 2022 · Halloween III: Season Of The Witch – The Inside Story Of A Cult Classic. Director Tommy Lee Wallace on ditching Michael Myers to make Halloween's best sequel, 40 years on.
Halloween III is the only entry in the series that does not feature the series antagonist, Michael Myers. After the film's disappointing reception and box office performance, Michael Myers was brought back six years later in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).
Aug 27, 2019 · Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the only installment in the franchise that doesn't feature notorious serial killer Michael Myers. And here's why.
