[Sculpt]

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
4/10

As small town factory is selling Halloween masks to kids who are to put on the masks as they watch a special Halloween give-a-way on TV, a young woman and her befriended Dr try to discover why her father was murdered by a strange man in a suit.

A lot of sneaking around, laying low, and running around again, but the chills and suspense are far and few inbetween. I agree with Roger Ebert who said Season of the Witch is a collage of pieces of much better films. Even when the antagonist Conal Cochran, the evil factory owner (played well by Dan O'Herlihy) gives the big reveal speech, it comes up lacking in coherence and completeness. We never find out what Cochran gets out of doing what he's doing. I did like the premise and its metaphorical commentary, but wasn't the film producers doing exactly what the film seems to condemn? Film has a 25% rotten rating Audience Score of over 25k votes at Rotten Tomatoes.com.