Movies considered the worst in a franchise that you like?
Feb 2, 2021 14:14:32 GMT
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 2, 2021 14:14:32 GMT
The original is still the best, but after that one, I loved how Carpenter grew tired of re-doing the same film/plot, and had plans of just making Halloween themed stories, every year, more or less, but without any connection to the first two chapters.
Thankfully, Halloween III, ignores the Myers stuff (beside a small "cameo"), and is really quite a unique and creepy ride, full of gruesome special effects, kids getting killed, hell Conal Cochran, if his plans had/did succeed, a whole lot of kids would most surely die on 31st of October.
Even more cruel, is the fact that he has lured parents all over America, to pretty much buy their own kids, a first way ticket to a terrible fate, as with those nasty Halloween masks, and how we later on, get to see what happens in the "test scene". Damn, that was some unpleasant and disturbing scene.
Still, the music, atmosphere (some of the best horror movie scores of the 80s) and love those dark, brooding ice-cold synth-music, along with such a solid cast as well.
Take away the Halloween name, and I am pretty sure Season of the Witch would have been taken in as a cult-classic, much sooner.
But, over time, it does seem like the films is getting credits, and rightly so.
But again, terrible promotion, hell, I have several times over, found norwegian/scandinavian DVD copies, where the title/artwork shows a huge picture of Myers and his mask/knife, one even adds Jamie Lee Curtis along, and for those having never heard or seen Season of the Witch, talk about misleading the custumers.
But I guess whoever did that, could not care any less. Sad, because I know people have rated it with 1/10, "worst movie" just because it does not contain the favorite masked killer, and will probably never watch Halloween III either.
I am glad, I went in and expected little, but instead got a whole lot back in return.

