Halloween 3: The Season of The Witch - A Misunderstood Sequel (80's Horror Memories Ep 14)

[@adamjenks9613]

I’ll always love this film. I’ll defend my position until my head melts off my shoulders.

[@mrhumble2937]

Just nostalgic not because it's good.

[@ForrestFox626]

​@@mrhumble2937Better than most Halloween movies after it (reboot trilogy not withstanding)

[@MrPiestro]

Same!

[@chizorama]

I'll die on this hill, my favorite one out of all of them.

[@electriceyeball]

​@mrhumble2937 I love how some people deign to tell others how they actually feel about anything 😂 près-de-telle what should I be enjoying, so as not to offend your sense of proper nostalgia?😂😂😂so very humble 😂 of you to do the thinking for us. If it was nostalgic, I would have a pleasant memory of watching this Halloween in the early 80s, and revisit it because it reminds me of that time. In fact, the early 80s was when I was being sexually abused by my mother, so I can promise you I don't look back fondly on that time in any way, shape, or form, indeed my life was a living nightmare then. I didn't even see this Halloween until the mid 90s when I was an adult. Best Halloween film out of all of them. Certainly the most original.

[@Barnabas45]

Tom Atkins is still kicking, He's 87 years old!

[@shallendor]

Some people are just too tough for Death! : )

[@mjwbulich]

He's still working. Did a film last year and has another coming out soon. Fingers crossed there's some tasteful nudity.

[@erathsmedor1]

Just met him a couple of days ago the Houston Horror Film Festival. Dead set legend.

[@BigBootyBoofer]

And he’s takin yo girl 😂

[@samshelton436]

One of the Greatest Actors of all time.

[@1massboy]

Daniel Challis : “Why, Cochran, why?” Conal Cochran : “Do I need a reason? ...” One of the best responses in any movie ever. 😂

[@ryanmclellan8740]

Most badass line of all time...

[@lt.loomis8176]

Like the end of 8mm. Almost the same line.

[@shaftomite007]

Damn, the film's tagline "The night no one comes home" really works on multiple levels. 😮

[@shaftomite007]

Besides the obvious meaning of "none of the trick or treating kids come home bc they're all killed by the Silver Shamrock masks", there's also the play on the original Halloween tagline "The night HE comes home" and saying "no one comes home" is hinting that Michael Myers isn't even in this movie.

[@mikehunt4986]

Actually it doesn't make sense at all. In order for Cochran's plan to work the children HAD to be home, in front of the TV on Halloween night.

[@pysankar]

I thought the same thing. They ALL went home. I never understood the "season of the witch" part either. Other than one of the masks being a witch, the movie didn't have anything to do with witches.@@mikehunt4986

[@Laufield]

“The night no one comes home” is funny

[@TheLuca2001]

​@@mikehunt4986 I don't think it's about the children. I think it refers to the visitors of Santa Mira. The Kupffers are killed. Marge dies because of a "misfire". Ellie is turned into an android, and then beheaded. The only potential survivor could be Dr. Challis, but his fate is left unknown as the film ends on an ambigous note.

[@MackyFermion]

I like the idea of making the Halloween franchise an anthology type deal. This one was actually entertaining to me and my family. And that dang earworm song! Silver Shamrock!

[@JessicaDwyer]

I had a blast writing this one...and also discovering the eerie timing of how everything happened in the real world around the time this was released.

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Well done, friend

[@dottiegillespie8067]

Your amazing!!! Thank you. It's still one of my favorites!

[@JessicaDwyer]

💗@@dottiegillespie8067

[@wstine79]

🎶 "8 more days til Halloween. Halloween. 8 more days til Halloween. Silver Shamrock."

[@paulaburrows8660]

Damn it. It's in head now!

[@nicholasbintner4677]

It's almost time.

[@BBI_Strange_Agent]

You know those brain crab critters from Star Trek II? That's what that jingle does to my head.

[@shaftomite007]

​@@BBI_Strange_Agentme too... Burrows right into my head every time and has me singing and humming it against my own will fit the rest of the day

[@themollymachine]

Time to buy a mask before they sell out children 🎃

[@kakolicht]

That song is stuck in my head for almost 40 years 😂

[@pumpkinpie-2]

8 more days till halloween!!🎃

[@leersay]

Season of the Witch is my all-time favourite horror movie. From top to bottom it’s just perfect to me. Watched it before any of the Michael Myers movies as my mum had it on VHS.

[@TheInfamousTub]

Wow lol that is all

[@McPh1741]

I like Halloween 3. If anything it gave us one of the best horror movie characters, Dr. Dan “The Man” Challis. A hard drinking doctor with an ex-wife. His idea of packing for a road trip with a chick he just met is bringing a six pack. He plays grab ass with his nurse, gets the occasional booty call from the medical examiner lady and is banging the daughter of his dead patient. MY MAN! Ian Malcolm ain’t got nothing of him.

[@algerae1984]

Yea he really was a "BOSS"💯💯

[@DouglasSpende-xm5kf]

No a robot not daughter! Fucking a robot must be Far out!

[@Zaclatemap]

Not to mention he beats a warlock that has magic powers 😂. And hes just an ordinary human lol.

[@jimbike8064]

Turned out he banged a robot too.

[@robinhood-s7g]

I thought it was just me who liked dude character on here.

[@kavjay]

I watched this when I was a kid, and it blew my 10-year-old mind! This is still my favourite Halloween film

[@rilarr]

Nothing beats seeing Tom Atkins in any movie

[@mjwbulich]

He's my spirit animal.

[@JessicaDwyer]

Man God of the World

[@brandonpage7087]

I saw him an episode of Walker: Texas Ranger, & he was just as awesome, in that, as he's been, in all in his other roles. He was a villian in that one, though.

[@kenspeedbicycle]

Maniac Cop 👍

[@ZekeThePlumber86]

It's definitely my favorite of the entire Halloween series. Top 3 all time favorite!

[@LaMostraVia]

Absolutely one of my favorite Halloween movies of all time.

[@sbcj9]

This was a movie I believed people when they said it was bad. But every year when AMC did the monster fest thing in October. This one would always be on and I watched it every time and I grew to love it more and more.

[@poindextertunes]

all those ppl are gatekeeping mouth breathers who cant set aside a franchise name to watch a great movie. Followers unable to think for themselves

[@NYC_Goody]

​@@poindextertunesyup, they're just letting the name cause a bias.

[@chizorama]

I loved it first watching, didn't really pay attention to what people said. Their loss was my gain.

[@tennillej9601]

Agree here! Took me many times of watching to grow to love this movie I wish others would give it a chance

[@SeattleSuperSonicBoomShakalaka]

This was a childhood favorite movie! I loved the concept and the creepy song X More Days 'Til Halloween, we used to piss off other kids singing it.

[@shoesncheese]

The demo of the kid in the Jack-o-lantern mask losing his head is forever burned into my memory. Also, Silver Shamrock's Happy Halloween song is clearly cursed, actually. I applaud you for not playing even a snippet of it for it would gladly invade our thoughts.

[@chizorama]

Yeah, but you still heard it in your head anyway. 😉

[@alexandergonzie1200]

Don't care what Joe Bob Briggs thinks, this one is a masterpiece ☘️🎃☘️

[@chizorama]

He's a legend, but he was always kinda hokey, to me at least.

[@kaansoler1431]

Halloween III is a great Halloween movie. If it was just called Season of the Witch most people would love this 80s movie gem. It just got caught up in the Michael Myers fandom at the time. The whole anthology them John was going for was ahead of its time. People didn't quite get that idea. In the end, fans win in the end cause they are the ones spending the money to watch the movies.

[@mrhumble2937]

If it was just called Season of the witch no one watches it so people don't talk about it.

[@chizorama]

@Mantastic-ho3vm Carpenter didn't even want to do 2, he knew it would run itself into the ground. I imagine him as Vito Corleone standing over Sonny's dead body saying " look at how they massacred my boy".

[@chizorama]

@@mrhumble2937 People would've watched it & probably not have the prejudice about it not having Mikey in it. Horror was huge in the 80's.

[@graemewilson7975]

Its london bridge is falling down -the silver shamrock music and yes it imbeds itself in your head

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

One of my absolute favorite movies ever 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿❤

[@Mike28625]

Halloween 3 and The Howling is a good Halloween double feature.

[@graemewilson7975]

An actual good Halloween movie after the excellent first and all its dire sequels. I saw in cut form on vhs long long ago but even cut the movie fascinated me with its blend of kneale influence (kneale was and remains a key player in British sf) and great performances -particularly o' herlihy selling his role with conviction and his irish lilt. Atkins is of course not really respected by movie industry in his own time but his many fans appreciate his acting skills. Great review

[@hedleylamarr1750]

I absolutely loved this movie from the moment it came out. When i was a kid it didn't even occur that there was anything missing from this movie because it had everything that I could imagine.

[@trainyourdog7351]

Silver shamrock! Doing good for you and the community since 1982

[@JustinRigsbee]

Another great episode of this series! This one just didn't get the gravitas it really deserved due to the whole expectation it would be another Michael Myers story. I'd argue this was one of the films which took a big chance and dared to go in another direction. I am so glad in the years since its initial release, it seems to have gotten the love it truly deserves. Tom Atkins is "The Man." Like you point out in the trivia bit, I still scratch my noggin about when Ellie became a 'bot or if she was one all along. Dan O'Herlihy was a great character actor who also showed up in one my personal favorite TV shows of all time - Twin Peaks. Great villain here! Can't recommend this one enough for a first viewing for new watchers or for a rewatch for those who can't get enough. Again, great episode and can't wait for the next one!

[@wstine79]

If Dan O'Herlihy played Conal Cochran, does that mean Silver Shamrock was a subdivision of OCP?

[@Merylstreep1949]

Yes

[@TECHNOIR]

Yes, a closed loop of the satanic influence of capitalism and corporate rapacity, globalisation has become the norm, sadly. There are producers, consumers and slaves. Not by accident but design and this is where we are, great film, great performance by Dan O’ Herlihy, great soundtrack, Halloween III is mint!

[@benphillips9973]

I've always wondered if "the Old Man" from Robocop was the REAL Cochran...and the one we see in Halloween 3 was also a robot lol

[@BoltHardcheese]

Halloween 3, like The Fog, is what I would call a comfortable horror film. Watching it is like having dinner with an old friend (who is a bit odd). It's spooky, but not super scary. I love it. I take off work the 2 weeks of Halloween and like to sandwich movies like this in-between the more intense horror films, to give myself a mental break.

[@Robert5hw]

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the best Halloween movie and my favorite "Halloween" franchise film.

[@MYTMIC]

Silver Shamrock scared me way more than any typical masked slasher

[@tmac3019]

i start rewatching slasher movies and anything horror in september, till november 1st. so ill rewatch it again.

[@BlankSpacePub]

Halloween 3, like Carpenter’s The Thing, is an absolute horror classic that unfortunately got critically panned at the time of release. It’s creative, ambitious, twisted, and actually scary. As a kid, this was always my favourite Halloween movie of the series, and to this day it’s the only one that I rewatch. Michael Myers has nothing on Cochrane as a villain.

[@80smoviesplustremors18]

Easily the best Horror film of all time!! Best line: "We had a time getting it here".

[@davidbkelly]

I like it and especially that catchy jingle, 3 more days to Halloween...

[@dottiegillespie8067]

I loved this when it came out, I still do! Tom Atkins, fantastic!

[@chizorama]

I'm one of the "blashemers" who has this one as my favorite of the series. So far ahead of it's time back then, when video surveillance, microchips(with Stonehedge nuggies), media influence(through tv) & other miscellaneous things were not the norm they are today, kinda prophetic. Forgot all about the Tylenol poisonings(I think there was something similar in Philly, unless that's Mandela Effect) & remember that's when we had to start checking our Halloween candy. I do remember seeing commercials for this movie though, so there was some advertising.

[@thomasffrench3639]

This should have been Halloween 2. Imagine an entire series of anthology movies.

[@bobmathews9072]

I think it should have been a standalone - "Season Of The Witch" , then the mighty Ween 4 could have been Ween "3" and they could (should) have closed it off as a trilogy

[@johnflores4913]

I can’t understand how people could hate this film so much while still enjoying other Halloween movies. The majority of them aren’t very good, tbh. I love the idea of this film and think it deserves more recognition.

[@fedupgamer9075]

I watch this movie every October, it's one of my favorites!

[@DireAxis]

I love H3, I think it just feels genuinely evil and Dan O'Herlihy was perfectly cast. The biggest tragedy of this is not getting the Anthology concept, can only imagine with the talent and Carpenter at this time how incredible that could of been.

[@chizorama]

We got robbed...

[@shawnkarg3794]

One of my fav horror films. I even had Tom Atkins autograph my DVD.

[@snakehandler87]

The mask scene destroyed me as a kid... Yet it's still my favorite...*silver shamrock*

[@TheBurntOrange1]

Nice job on the writing for this one. Probably y’all’s best on Halloween 3 so far

[@JessicaDwyer]

😊

[@coderkind]

Great horror film. Totally holds up alongside the best in the series.

[@kat1701]

Just recently watched this for the first time and was surprised by how much i liked it!

[@davidthomerson751]

If you watch the first six Halloween movies, you see the connection with Halloween 3. The players are different, but the end game is still the same.

[@Accidental.Creation]

Don't care what people say, I love that movie. Saw it when I was younger and that freaking jingle haunted me in my dreams.

[@ricogomez4020]

The new 4k made me not hate the movie because the 4k gives it a great transfer with sound & video.

[@davidreid5991]

Where do you think the technology for Robocop came from? SS's robots, of course...

[@JamesB-mg9pk]

I watch Halloween 3 a couple times around Halloween. It's a must watch. Anyone who doesn't like this movie needs to put on a Silver Shamrock mask and watch the commercial!

[@john_blues]

"Thrill me!". Wait, wrong 80's Tom Atkins Horror cult classic.

[@geeshep4836]

HALLOWEEN 3 I SAW THIS ON TUBI BACK IN 2021 IT WAS OKAY BUT THAT SILVER SHAMROCK JINGLE WE CAN DO WITHOUT.

[@clownprince88]

i agree , it's one the things that makes it memorable but also annoying as all hell , i loathe it

[@jeffreybroad3123]

Ya never fail. I wanna say thanks Tyler and everyone behind the voice as well. Spot on everyone!!

[@BobbNaef]

Halloween 3 is my favorite Halloween movie

[@kailee87]

by far the best in the franchise, underrated MasterGem.

[@krisorgan]

The best Halloween film period..

[@wangson]

Whoa! Awesome catch there with that News Feed suggesting that a rock had been stolen from Stone Henge! Nice! As many times as I've seen this gloriously amazing film, I've never caught that bit!

[@masterseal0418]

It's baffling that Halloween didn't become an anthology horror franchise surrounding the same holiday due to negative reception back then, but to this day Michael Myers is still alive and had driven Jamie Lee Curtis insane. A missed opportunity for sure.

[@Oda__Nobunaga]

It could have done the American Horror Story format ahead of its time.

[@tias.6675]

Missed out some very creepy 80s movies due to crybabies.

[@dragonmac1234]

The Silver Shamrock jingle is still stuck in my head forty years later, but this is still one of my favourite horror movies. I personally think it was a good idea to have the story be about the ancient roots of Halloween rather than have an unstoppable killing machine stalking people (I wonder if Michael Myers is a murder bot).

[@Options96]

The showing of the original Halloween on TV in the film is a stroke of genius 🎃

[@jacobwebb2623]

I really liked "Halloween 3," I am a big Tom Atkins fan and honestly the plot was so nuts it was AWESOME!

[@TheVintageApplianceEmporium]

I saw H3 when I was a kid. To this day, at the age of 45, I still cannot watch the Misfire Scene! When it popped up in this video I had to look away. Jesus the childhood trauma... Absolutely love this film. It's one of my all-time favourite horror movies 🥰

[@ginsin1234]

For me this is the best Halloween movie ever.

[@rickburgess3215]

I saw this when it came out and it still is one of my favs.

[@DeathCultFan]

Ha ha ha that tune! This is one of my favourite horrors

[@jimsmith8797]

I fucking love the 80s. The movies, and music! The wood paneling on everything!!!

[@jwebstersmithii7459]

definitely the best halloween flick in the series. closely followed by halloween 2 (1981). the reason it's so good is because it's the most 911-coded flick in the whole series. and the reason i say that is because it's aimed at the entire world, rather than at haddonfield being terrorized by a psycho. part 3 is an examination of how the controllers control the entire world through industry, media, law, medicine, and even technology. awareness of all of these tricks is why this movie is superior. helps us get a glimpse so we can evolve higher to christ consciousness. also, the music is so much better in this one than the others. very gothic. real dark.

[@ArchTeryx00]

This is one of those horror movies where you mostly have to turn your brain off and just enjoy the ride. Cochran's plan really didn't make a whole lot of sense and logically, it fell apart like tissue paper if it was examined. *That made it absolutely no less horrifying.* Daniel O'Herlihy, aka "The Old Man" from the Robocop franchise, puts in an absolutely smashing performance as an evil warlock planning a mass human sacrifice on the Festival of Samhain, using magitek, a flashing pumpkin signal and some extremely destructive magic to execute the sacrifice. The novelization got a lot more explicit about many ambiguous aspects of the movie. For example, it described *exactly* what was happening in that mask that Little Buddy was wearing. It also made it explicit that Cochran won at the end, and even strongly suggested that he wasn't destroyed, but *teleported away* by Stonehenge. He was a millenia-old warlock. They don't die easy. And millions upon millions of kids, and their families, died horribly as Challis screamed "STOP IT!!" into the phone. I think of Carpenter had just titled the movie "Season of the Witch" and described it as "part of a new Halloween-themed anthology series" fans might have been much more accepting of it. But his production company insisted on putting the "Halloween III" sticker on it, and that almost incomprehensable decision all but doomed it. I'm glad it's getting some love now.

[@kavjay]

Man, I bought the actual Don Post replica Halloween 3 Season of the Witch, and they are my most treasured possessions

[@ksmax6310]

I love the ending, its one of my favourite endings ever!

[@IMadeMyYoutubeNameAge17]

You’re one of my favorite segments on this channel

[@IMadeMyYoutubeNameAge17]

Forgot to mention: This video influenced me to watch this film & now I love it! *sings jingle* 🎶🧙💀🎃

[@jimeagle5509]

"..........STOP ITTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!"

[@rabbithole9555]

A Stand Alone Film💞 that just takes place on Halloween night, nothing to do with Michael Meyers and no Jamie lee Curtis, But this stand alone Halloween Sick Flick is Wicked Awesome, Fun, Scary and Very Entertaining, great original story, scarey and Cool soundtrack!! 💞✌️🌞⚜️🍀

[@larry2447]

I was 21 at time of release, and I recall going with all the hate, being heaped upon this Myers(less) installment. But like many others during the intervening years, I have come to love and appreciate this film. Atkins is THE MAN. Flawed, yet courageous when it counted. An everyman's hero.

[@simonsimons8885]

Brilliant film, and my favourite Halloween film, an absolute 10/10 ❤

[@bentleyfierro3926]

FANTASTIC FILM AHEAD OF IT’S TIME! BEST HALLOWEEN 🎃 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@ruzzodac]

My memories. . that damn shamrock song "It's time" and just the utter confusion I felt.

[@LordAsharak]

An amazing movie, for sure. Love it.

[@IdealX-fr4eg]

46 years old and the day after scared me for years. I will say If it wasn't titled Halloween 3 and didn't deceive it would at least be a big 80s cult classic if not a hit!

[@KimmyHennesy]

It is an eighties classic, and it was a big hit. It did just a well as the follow up The Return of Michael Myers at the box office.

[@luvsmobilegamez]

Bro all I remember is watching this movie late at night on AMC multiple times in the same week due to Halloween week I love this fuckin movie

[@John-so4fq]

My favourite of all the Halloween franchises.

[@petevaldezbc1]

My favorite Halloween sequel

[@tonyisgolden5136]

I liked halloween 3 and I thought it was a good movie. I think the anthology idea john carpenter had was an interesting one. I also think it's a great movie to watch every year around halloween.

[@TV-cx2zw]

Amazing movie... Ahead of it's time.

[@jamesmorgan3212]

It’s my favorite entry in the series .

[@Johnny_B_Goodfornothing]

Im embarrassed to admit that H III didn't grow on me until the early 90's. At a single digit age i didn't appreciate it solely due to the lack of Myers. Now its one of my favorites and mandatory viewing every October

[@lasvegasnextexit1230]

I have to say, I liked Halloween III Season of the Witch but I think the Studio should've dropped the part 3, I feel that it would've done much better at the box office if it was marketed properly. I was slightly confused how they were going to have a part three when it was reported up front that Michael Myers was not going to be the villain but when I saw the film, I was amazed on how much I liked it. Great video!

[@martinboyle9163]

Great review! ❤ If it was Halloween II, the anthology format would have worked. Instead, after doing a Michael Meyers repeat, audiences expected nothing else.

[@chizorama]

Yeah, imagine giving Carpenter creative license instead of beating the same horse.

[@thomasffrench3639]

Totally agree. It should have been Halloween 2

[@jay-jayz]

I was born in 98 and i absolutely loved this movie growing up

[@bb21again.67]

Respect to you I love this movie, 80's horror rock !.

[@christophernewhouse5832]

this was my favorite halloween movie i wish they kept the formula of a new monster each year

[@TheAtariCreep]

I have always LOVED this F'n flick.

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Same here, man!

[@SynthMusicWorld]

I just watched it this morning, and really enjoyed it. I've been picking up Blu-ray discs of classic 80s horror films, and last week watched "Halloween II" and it actually bored me. I vaguely remember this one from when I watched it as a teen in the 80s, but was pleasantly surprised re-watching it again some 40 years later. It's creepy, has some great performances with some fantastic makeup effects from Tom Burman. Plus the remaster that's included on the Scream Factory 4K disc looks amazing!

[@jordannaser9549]

HIII is underrated. I remember being initially disappointed when I discovered it didn’t include Michael, but I’ve come to love it more as time goes by

[@ghostlightx9005]

Saw it in the cinema on first release. Loved it.

[@anthonywozniak379]

I just loved the Music

[@mikebragg9591]

Another great video tyler!!

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Dr_1212]

Silver Shamrock ☘

[@Zellar100]

A staple Halloween movie in my house. Fun, Scary and original. I wish the Halloween was an anthology so we could get a new villain each movie.

[@YenRug]

This came out in the UK in June of '93, meaning I was 13 when I saw it at the cinema, yeah, my local wasn't particularly stringent on observing the age ratings! I'm not sure if I'd seen Halloween before seeing this, I know that I didn't have any expectation of seeing Michael Myers, but I have a vague recollection that I knew that it was a completely different film to the previous entries. My capacity for horror films is pretty variable, but the thing that always gets me are films that really build up tension before springing a jump scare on you; in the case of this film, that scene where the camera is looking out over the town through an open doorway, when the figure steps into view and you get the jangle of music that made me quite literally jump out of my seat!

[@Rando1975]

I'm one of the many who didn't like it when I first saw it, but re-watched it years later, really liked it.

[@billclemons5593]

I’ve always loved this movie! I thought it was a great idea for a HALLOWEEN STORY IN GENERAL outside of the original source material.