Obviously the third in the Halloween series and usually thought of as the movie that didn't have Michael Meyers in it. John Carpenter only took a producer credit on this film and turned it over to his production designer/editor Tommy Lee Wallace. Carpenter hired British writer Nigel Kneale author of the Quatermass films. However Kneale was dissatisfied with the direction the film was heading and left the production. So besides directing Wallace handled the screenwriting. The final result was a mess of a story.
As for the cast, a doctor played by character actor Tom Atkins teams up with the female lead Stacey Nelkin to investigate all of this stuff. Nelkin was a sort of an actor whose chief claim to fame was as the very young real life girlfriend of Woody Allen. Also showing up is Dan O'Herlihy as the evil CEO. O'Herlihy at least brings a little gravitas to this film. It's fun to See Atkins in a leading role for a change he certainly knows his way around genre films.
Frankly this movie is terrible, the story is at best ridiculous, the scary stuff isn't scary and the action scenes are barely competent. This film made money but it was not the big bucks payday the producers were looking for. If anything redeems this film it's the cinematography of Dean Cundey, but nobody is going to watch a film because they want to see how the film looks.
The producers learned their lessons and Michael Meyers came back from the dead to star in all the other Halloween sequels. Halloween III: Season of the Witch is now considered a cult classic but it's an undeserving cult classic.
The running time is 99 minutes.
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