Movies considered the worst in a franchise that you like?

Movies considered the worst in a franchise that you like? Feb 2, 2021 19:09:57 GMT stefancrosscoe likes this

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Post by mgmarshall on Feb 2, 2021 19:09:57 GMT

Feb 2, 2021 14:14:32 GMT stefancrosscoe said:

Feb 2, 2021 9:32:11 GMT mgmarshall said:

This one isn't quite as controversial as it used to be (in fact, it's been mentioned in this thread already), but Halloween III: Season of the Witch is far and away the second best film in that franchise after the original, for me.

Glad to see others feel that way. I need to re-watch, well not exactly "need", as I remember having a pretty tough time getting through the films after Season of the Witch, which I thought were terrible and far away of the first three chapters.

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.

See, they never really did that here in the States. Every home video copy I've ever come across is some variation of that melting witch face or the three trick-or-treaters that were on the original poster, and the original trailers were fairly upfront about how different it was gonna be:

And yet, at the time of release or even today, you still get people complaining about Michael Myers' absence or alleging that they were somehow "tricked."