Description: HALLOWEEN III SEASON OF THE WITCH (DVD 2012) COLLECTOR'S EDITION - BRAND NEW!HORROR - THRILLER - DRAMA - MYSTERY - ACTION - SCI-FI ALTHOUGH THIS ONE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MICHAEL MYERS IT HAS BECOME A CULT CLASSIC AMOUNG THE HORROR GENRE~ A GREAT ADDITION TO ANY HORROR FAN'S COLLECTION~ Product Description Producer John Carpenter (Halloween, the Thing) presents the third chilling installment in the shocking Halloween collection. When a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, babbling and clutching the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask, doctor Daniel Challis is thrust into a terrifying... Halloween nightmare. Working with the salesman's daughter, Ellie, Daniel traces the mask to the Silver Shamrock Novelties company and it's founder, Conal Cochran. Ellie and Daniel uncover Cochran's shocking Halloween plan and must stop him before trick-or-theaters across the country never come home in this terrifying thriller.StorylineAfter the death of her father under suspicious circumstances, Ellie Grimbridge and Dr Daniel Challis decide to investigate the shady activities of Conal Cochran: the owner of the Silver Shamrock Novelties company. Before long, they discover Cochran's diabolical plot to brainwash the children of America into doing his bidding through a mixture of ancient rituals, technology, and witchcraft. This Halloween, wearing the mask of a skeleton, a witch, or a pumpkin can be deadly. Can Ellie and Daniel thwart the plans of the evil toy maker? What is this movie about? Kids all over America want heavily-advertized Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. When Harry Grimbridge (Al Berry) shows up in a northern California hospital, clutching one of the masks and screaming, "They are going to kill us!", and then is mysteriously murdered, Doctor Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins) takes note. Teaming up with Grimbridge's daughter Ellie (Stacey Nelkin), they uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy) to kill as many people as possible on Halloween with a computer chip hidden in the trademarks on the Halloween masks. Halloween III: Season of the WitchTheatrical release poster From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 American science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series. It is the first film to be written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of Halloween and Halloween II, return as producers. The film stars Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, and Dan O'Herlihy. 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). The film departs from the slasher genre of the other installments, instead featuring a "witchcraft" theme with science fiction aspects. John Carpenter and Debra Hill believed that the Halloween series could have been an anthology series of films that centered around Halloween night, with each sequel containing its own characters, setting, and storyline. Director Wallace stated there were many ideas for Halloween-themed films, some of which could have potentially created any number of their own sequels, and that Season of the Witch was meant to be the first. As with the series' other films, suspense and tension are key themes, exploring violence against young children. On a budget of $4.6 million, Halloween III made a profit by grossing $14.4 million at the box office in the US, but it was also the poorest performing film in the Halloween series at the time. Most critics gave the film negative reviews, though reevaluation in later years has given Halloween III its own reputation as a stand-alone cult film. It was the last Halloween film distributed by Universal Pictures until the 2018 film Halloween 36 years later. Plot On October 23, 1982, in Northern California, shop owner Harry Grimbridge, clutching a jack-o-lantern Halloween mask, is pursued by mysterious men in suits. He collapses at the shop of Walter Jones, who calls for help. Harry is taken to a hospital and placed in the care of Dr. Daniel Challis, an alcoholic doctor who has a strained relationship with his ex-wife and two children. Later that night, Harry is murdered by another suited man, who immolates himself in his car. After identifying his body, Harry's daughter Ellie meets Daniel to talk about the suspicious events surrounding Harry's death. They decide to investigate and travel to Santa Mira, California, hometown to the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory, which made the Halloween mask that Harry carried the night of his death. As they check in to a motel, Daniel learns that Harry had stayed there in the past. Marge Guttman, another motel customer, discovers a microchip on the back of the medallion of one of the masks. The medallion emits a deadly energy beam into her mouth as she picks at it curiously with a hairpin. Her face is left mutilated, and an insect crawls out of her mouth. Shortly after, men in lab coats take Marge's body away in a Silver Shamrock van. Daniel overhears the factory technicians describing a "misfire" to factory owner Conal Cochran. While Daniel and Ellie tour the factory the following morning, Ellie finds her father's car, guarded by more men in suits who stop her from getting closer to it. They attempt to call the authorities as they flee, but Daniel cannot reach anyone outside of town by phone. Ellie is kidnapped and taken to the factory; Daniel follows and is captured by the men in suits, revealed to be androids Cochran created. Cochran takes Daniel to the "final processing" control room and reveals his plan: the microchip on each mask contains a fragment of Stonehenge that he stole. Upon viewing the "Big Giveaway" commercial, the microchips on the masks activate, killing the wearer with brain damage and releasing a swarm of insects and snakes that kill anyone nearby. Cochran locks a mask-clad Daniel in a room and explains his plan to resurrect ancient rituals from his native Celtic lands, sacrificing children at Samhain, the pagan celebration of the coming winter. Daniel escapes his bonds and rescues Ellie. He sneaks into the control room, activates the commercial on the screens, and pours a box of the medallions from a ceiling rafter, killing everyone. The Stonehenge remnant kills Cochran and a massive fire destroys the factory. As they flee, Daniel is attacked by Ellie, who is actually an android replacement, which he destroys after a struggle and car crash. He flees on foot to Walter's shop and frantically contacts television networks, attempting to stop the commercial broadcast. He succeeds with two networks, but seemingly fails with a third, despite screaming into the telephone, pleading with them to stop. Product details MPAA rating : R (Restricted) Director : Tommy Lee Wallace Media Format : NTSC, Widescreen, Color Run time : 1 hour and 38 minutes Release date : September 18, 2012 Actors : Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait Producers : Debra Hill, John Carpenter Studio : Shout Factory Number of discs : 1TriviaThe movie's novelization was published in 1982 by science-fiction writer Dennis Etchison under the pseudonym Jack Martin. Despite the movie's critical failure, the book became a best-seller and was even reissued two years after the movie's release, in 1984. Halloween III does not fit with the Michael Myers plot. Halloween was actually intended to be an anthology series, with a different horror story for each film. After the first Halloween movie proved a huge success and Michael Myers became the next big thing in horror, the production team decided that they would do a continuation of his story with Halloween II, in which Myers was meant to have perished at the end. When Halloween III came out audiences hated Michael Myers being left out so, from that point on, Halloween became a series about Michael, beginning again with the aptly titled Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Halloween 6; The Curse of Michael Myers however tries to establish a tentative link, featuring a pagan cultist called Mrs Blankinship. In this film the villain at one point refers to having an appointment with a Mrs Blankinship. In Halloween Kills, Michael decorates the corpses of three of his victims in Silver Shamrock masks suggesting another hint at a shared universe. 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Video Format: NTSC
Music Artist: John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
Case Type: DVD
Rating: R
Sub-Genre: Androids, Gore, Halloween, Mystery, Witchcraft, Occult, Supernatural, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, stonehenge, holiday horror, serial killer, bloody violence, sequel by name only, ritual sacrifice, coverup, supernatural thriller, supernatural power
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Studio: Shout! Factory
Edition: Collector's Edition
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Type: MOVIE: HORROR
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Format: DVD
Release Year: 1982
Language: English
Producer: Moustapha Akkad, John Carpenter, Dino De Laurentiis, Debra Hill, Joseph Wolf, Irwin Yablans
Actor: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait
Features: Commentary, Widescreen, The Making Of, Interviews, Still Gallery, Trailer, and more!
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Psychological, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller & Mystery, serial killer
Run Time: 99 MINUTES
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Movie/TV Title: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Collector's Edition)
Season: N/A
