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Halloween III: Season of the Witch

5.2

Released October 22, 1982Runtime 1h 39min

The night no one comes home.

A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked, and at the hospital, babbles and clutches the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask. Suddenly, Doctor Daniel Challis finds himself thrust into a terrifying nightmare.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

The De Laurentiis Company

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $2,500,000
Revenue: $14,400,000
Profit/Loss: $11,900,000

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Cast

Tom AtkinsDr. Daniel 'Dan' Challis

Stacey NelkinEllie Grimbridge

Dan O'HerlihyConal Cochran

Michael CurrieRafferty

Ralph StraitBuddy Kupfer

Jadeen BarborBetty Kupfer

Brad Schacter'Little' Buddy Kupfer Jr.

Garn StephensMarge Guttman

Nancy KyesLinda Challis

Jonathan TerryStarker

Al BerryHarry Grimbridge

Wendy WessbergTeddy

Essex SmithWalter Jones

Maidie NormanNurse Agnes

John MacBrideSheriff

Dick WarlockAssassin

Joshua John MillerWillie Challis

Michelle WalkerBella Challis

Paddi EdwardsSecretary

Norman MerrillRed

Loyd CatlettCharlie

Jamie Lee CurtisCurfew Announcer / Telephone Operator (voice) (uncredited)

Tommy Lee WallaceSilver Shamrock Commercial Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Martin CassidyWatcher

Patrick PankhurstTechnician

Jeffrey D. HenryMotel Technician

Michael W. GreenTechnician #2

Crew

Tommy Lee WallaceDirector

Ron WrightFirst Assistant Director

Scott ThalerSecond Assistant Director

Louise JaffeScript Supervisor

Tommy Lee WallaceScreenplay

Nigel KnealeScreenplay

John CarpenterProducer

Irwin YablansExecutive Producer

Debra HillProducer

Joseph WolfExecutive Producer

Susan ShawCasting

Barry BernardiAssociate Producer

Dino De LaurentiisProducer

Moustapha AkkadProducer

Dino De LaurentiisExecutive Producer

Jeffrey ChernovExecutive In Charge Of Production

Jeffrey ChernovUnit Production Manager

Ami AgmonLocation Manager

Chip FowlerProduction Coordinator

Susie JohnsonExtras Casting

Larry HandProduction Accountant

Lynn D. EzelleAssistant Accountant

Ken LavetLocation Assistant

Bill CheronesLocation Assistant

Dean CundeyDirector of Photography

Alan HowarthOriginal Music Composer

John CarpenterOriginal Music Composer

Thomas R. BurmanMakeup Effects

Millie MooreEditor

Bill VarneySound Re-Recording Mixer

Warren Hamilton Jr.Sound Editor

Frankie BergmanHairstylist

Steve MaslowSound Re-Recording Mixer

Linda SpheerisSet Decoration

James CavarrettaSound Re-Recording Mixer

Frances Vega AubreyCostumer

Peter JamisonProduction Design

Colin C. MouatSound Editor

David Lewis YewdallSupervising Sound Editor

Ron WaltersMakeup Artist

Dick WarlockStunts

Jane RuhmCostume Supervisor

Loren JanesStunts

Kerrie CullenStunts

Raymond StellaCamera Operator

Clyde E. BryanFirst Assistant Camera

Guy SkinnerSecond Assistant Camera

Stephen St. JohnCamera Operator

David GoliaAssistant Camera

Ronald BatzdorffStill Photographer

Thomas CauseyProduction Sound Mixer

Joseph A. BrennanBoom Operator

Andy RovinsBoom Operator

Mark WalthourGaffer

Thomas MarshallBest Boy Electric

Patrick MarshallElectrician

Steven R. MathisElectrician

Allen MarshallElectrician

Jon AntunovichElectrician

Ronald WoodwardKey Grip

Joe A. SalamdinoBest Boy Grip

László HorváthDolly Grip

Nick KurgesGrip

Richard BabinGrip

Mark PearsonGrip

Jon G. BelyeuSpecial Effects

William AldridgeSpecial Effects Assistant

William Kemper WrightLeadman

Greg LynchSwing

James A. RathbunProperty Master

Daniel StoltenbergProperty Master

Dick WarlockStunt Coordinator

Maurie BeckFirst Assistant Editor

Patricia LeeAssistant Editor

Walt HadfieldConstruction Coordinator

James F. WalkerPropmaker

Terry FellerPropmaker

Serge GenitempoStandby Painter

Eddie Lee VoelkerTransportation Coordinator

Wayne RobertsTransportation Captain

Kendrick SweetDialogue Editor

John C. WashTitle Designer

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Reviews

Conglomerate Carnage. A different animal to the Halloween films that preceded and followed it, Season of the Witch is slowly but surely gaining an appreciation as a standalone horror film. Gone is Michael Myers’ indestructible killing machine, in his place is the nefarious Conal Cochran (Dan O’H...

I distinctly remember being in Grade 8 when the film came out, and for four major reasons: 1) The excellent TV commercial, with John Carpenter's spooky music and the spider crawling out of the mouth of the mask; 2) The decent book adaptation written for young adults, that I read at the time, and th...

A Halloween movie with no Michael Meyers? Given most of the sequels were dreck, the third outing is an entertaining watch as a Halloween-themed thriller.

by GenerationofSwine

Wait, what? Halloween? I guess Carpenter had the grandiose idea of expanding the franchise to one movie released around Halloween that was kind of about Halloween...the holiday not the movies. Mike did die in Halloween II. It was a good idea, one year, one horror movie, all under the same anthol...

by Filipe Manuel Neto

**The biggest problem with this film, full of problems, is the title.** After seeing this film, I felt the need to read things about it to understand why it is so strange and different from the previous two. The conclusion I reached is the simplest: if there had been another title and no relatio...