Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch is a sci-fi horror film that acts as the third film in the original Halloween films that started in the 1970s. The first and only Halloween film not to feature Michael Myers as the villain, Halloween 3 instead focuses on witchcraft. When a man escapes with a strange jack-o-lantern mask while on the run from mysterious men in suits, the truth is that these masks kill children when they put them on. Protagonists Daniel and Ellie decide to discover the truth behind the manufacturer, the Silver Shamrock company, but what awaits them is a confrontation out of this world.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
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- Director
- Tommy Lee Wallace
- Release Date
- October 22, 1982
- Studio(s)
- Universal Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Universal Pictures
- Cast
- Tom Atkins , Stacey Nelkin , Dan O'Herlihy , Michael Currie , Ralph Strait , Jadeen Barbor
- Writers
- Tommy Lee Wallace , John Carpenter , Nigel Kneale
- Runtime
- 98 minutes
- prequel(s)
- Halloween (1978) , Halloween 2
- Budget
- $2.5 million
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