Product Notes
Producer John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) presents the third chilling installment in the shocking Halloween collection. When a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, babbling and clutching the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask, doctor Daniel Challis is thrust into a terrifying ... Halloween nightmare. Working with the salesman's daughter, Ellie, Daniel traces the mask to the Silver Shamrock Novelties company and its founder, Conal Cochran. Ellie and Daniel uncover Cochran's shocking Halloween plan and must stop him before trick-or-treaters across the country never come home in this terrifying thriller.
Product Reviews
The only installment of the Halloween series to abandon the Michael Myers story line, Halloween III: Season of the Witch is an intricate sci-fi horror hybrid. A week before Halloween, an older man named Harry Grimbridge (Al Berry) is wounded by a mysteriously dispassionate group of assailants in an industrial parking lot. After receiving treatment at a local hospital from Dr. Dan Challis (Tom Atkins) -- a hard-drinking divorced father of two -- Grimbridge is killed by an assassin who later sets himself on fire. Blowing off his own kids, Challis teams up with Grimbridge's daughter, Ellie (Stacey Nelkin), to find out why the middle-aged toy salesman was murdered. The duo's search soon leads them to a Halloween-mask factory run by inventor and practical joker Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy). In between bouts of passionate lovemaking, Ellie and Challis begin to realize that the sinister old businessman has something other than treats in mind for America's kids -- something to do with the Silver Shamrock masks that Challis' children and thousands of other youngsters have bought for the holiday. Original screenwriter Nigel Kneale, whose scripts for Britain's Quatermass TV series made him a beloved science fiction fixture, sued the producers of Halloween III to have his name removed from the credits after seeing the gory finished product; director Tommy Lee Wallace ultimately received screenplay credit. John Carpenter, director of the first Halloween film, co-produced the third installment with Debra Hill, who would later soldier on without Carpenter for additional, belated sequels. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
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Halloween 3: Season of the Witch |
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Horror |
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18 September 2012 |
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Tom Atkins(Dr. Daniel Challis), Stacey Nelkin(Ellie Grimbridge), Dan O'Herlihy(Conal Cochran), Ralph Strait(Buddy Kupfer), Michael Currie(Rafferty) |
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Tommy Lee Wallace |
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R |
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Blu-ray Disc |
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13522 |
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826663135220 |
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346438X |
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18 September 2012 |
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SHOUT FACTORY NON MUSIC DVD ( SHTN ) |
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98 |
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A: Americas, E Asia |
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2.35:1 (Cinemascope), Color, NTSC |
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Dolby Digital Mono, DTS-HD High Resolution, English |
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Discs:1 ~ Format:Blu-Ray ~ Region:A |
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Al Berry(Harry Grimbridge), Bradley Schachter(Little Buddy), Dan O'Herlihy(Conal Cochran), Dick Warlock(Assassin), Essex Smith(Walter Jones), Garn Stephens(Marge), Jadeen Barbor(Betty Kupfer), Joshua Miller(Willie Challis), Loyd Catlett(Charlie), Maide Norman(Nurse Agnes), Michael Currie(Rafferty), Michael Greene(Technician), Nathaniel Merrill(Red), Paddi Edwards(Secretary), Patrick Pankhurst(Technician), Ralph Strait(Buddy Kupfer), Stacey Nelkin(Ellie Grimbridge), Susan Shaw, Tom Atkins(Dr. Daniel Challis) |
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Cinematographer:Dean Cundey, Composer (Music Score):Alan Howarth, Composer (Music Score):John Carpenter, Director:Tommy Lee Wallace, Executive Producer:Irwin Yablans, Executive Producer:Joseph Wolf, Producer:Debra Hill, Producer:Irwin Yablans, Producer:John Carpenter, Producer:Joseph Wolf, Screenwriter:Tommy Lee Wallace |
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