Blumhouse has ruled out ever remaking Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch, but while that might disappoint some fans, here's why that's a good thing. The continuity of the Halloween series is a famously tangled web, with the franchise often rebooting itself every decade or so. In a sense, the first reboot was 1982's Halloween 3, which was a completely original story with no links to the Michael Myers saga; in fact, Halloween itself was a film inside of Season Of The Witch's story. When that didn't click with audiences, Michael returned for three more massacres.

The series reinvented itself again with Halloween H20, which brought back Jamie Lee Curtis. Following Rob Zombie's remakes, the franchise is now on its latest iteration, with Halloween 2018 ignoring everything bar the 1978 original. For the most part, devotees appear happy with the direction the latest movie took the series, which once again brought back Curtis in addition to creator John Carpenter as composer/producer. The movie is the first part of a new trilogy, with Halloween Kills picking up in the immediate aftermath of the previous entry, while Halloween Ends will close out the current timeline.

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Of course, it's highly doubtful that Halloween will ever permanently come to a close. Michael Myers is to enduring a character and the saga always finds a way to refresh itself. Producer Jason Blum is behind the latest movie series, but he recently disappointed fans of Halloween 3 when he ruled out a new take on it. Speaking with Collider on the issue of either remaking the movie or taking an anthology approach to Halloween, he said "Too hard – well, I won’t go into it, but I wouldn’t do that with Halloween.” He did stress that franchise producer Malak Akkad may consider it in the future, but it's a good thing the movie will be left alone.

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Halloween 3 wasn't properly marketed during its original release in 1982 and infuriated those who expected a continuation of the Michael Myers story. Instead, they got a strange, gory film that played like a twist on Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, and involved a warlock trying to commit mass child murder on Halloween night using cursed masks. It has since been reappraised as a creepy, atmospheric tale with a great Carpenter score and the nerve to try something radically different with an established series.

The issue is, Season Of The Witch is also way too unique to simply be remade. A modern version would just sand the rough edges off of it, and the world doesn't need a duller version of a cult gem. While there might be promise in a Halloween anthology - which might be better suited to a TV series - Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch really doesn't need a reboot.

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