Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This laughably terrible, pathetic piece of crap is so beyond awful that after purchasing the complete Halloween blu-ray boxset I threw this cringe-worthy nonsense straight in the trash the second it finished. Absolutely ABYSMAL. I'm sure some tasteless loser fanboy would've paid $100+ for that rare boxset version of this "film", but I genuinely preferred to lose out on the money and send it to the dump where it belongs. Even Rob Zombie's horrendous Halloween 2 is OSCAR WORTHY compared to this B-movie (Z-movie) gorefest failure. Hurry up and add a ZERO out of ten option already, imdb. I feel genuinely bad even giving this a 1/10, which it in NO WAY DESERVES!

If you don't want to read the whole review, I will open by saying that this film is not as bad as I thought it would be. Actually, I was surprised by how mediocre it was.The original idea of Debra Hill and John Carpenter was to make an anthology series, releasing every year different Halloween film with distinguished plot and characters. 'Season Of The Witch' was supposed to be the first in this series of films. Sadly, after the bad reviews that this film got, we were back to Michael Myres and films like 'Resurrection'.The plot of the film looks like it was taken straight out of a Scooby Doo episode (actually, Scooby Doo Mystery Inc had taken inspiration from this film to one of their episode), and just like a Scooby Doo episode - it is silly, and it makes a little sense. Unfortunately, unlike Scooby Doo, this film doesn't seem to know it. If the film had taken itself less serious, and had been more self aware, it would have been much, much better.Another Scooby-Dooish problem of the film is that it lacks of scares. It is very creepy sometimes (for example, the commercial for the masks), but the jump scares are cheap and don't really work. The film could have been an excellent children's Halloween film if it was not as violent as it is. This leaves the viewer with the feeling that the film doesn't really knows what it tries to be.The best thing about this film is the music, which is just like in the original Halloween, implifies the intensity of the creepy moments in the film and makes them even creepier. Another thing that the film has is a good entertainment value, even if not from the right reasons. I found the first scene very laughable, and found myself laughing due to bad acting or stupid plot development in some scenes throughout the film. But even the plot, as silly as it can sometimes be, is interesting enough (if you only turn the brain off) to keep you focused for the whole 90 minutes of the film.So yeah, this film is just a mediocre film, and a fun way to pass the time if you want some cheap entertainment in the background while laughing with friends. In the end, this film is not as bad as it was made out to be, it's just another creepier, more violent episode of Scooby Doo.

I use to hate this film and now I like it. Not the best but it's good. This is #4 on my spot on my list of HalloweeN movies tied with H20. The score shouldn't be 4.7, they should rate it higher like 6.1 fits really well or 5.9 in my opinion. I like how they tried to make an anthology series but the fans despise it so they went back to Michael Myers. Good movie, I hope they change the score to something else because 4.7 is a bit too low.

Horror franchises are naturally inclined to become stale, obvious and boring after a while, say, after the third or fourth installment, when the formulaic script simply has nowhere else to go. There's no reason whatever to supposed the same wouldn't happen with Halloween. Everybody knows John Carpenter DID NOT want Halloween to become a franchise. But the first two movies made a lot of money, and then they decided they HAD to release a new Michael Myers story every couple of years, if only to satisfy fans of easy and predictable slasher flicks. The third installment in the franchise- Season of the Witch- was a huge departure from the story told in the first two parts- and was also a sign that the real intention was to create a collection of stories based on Halloween, but independent of each other. Of course, it did not succeed, and in the fourth chapter there we went to meet our "dear" Michael Myers and his endless thirst for blood again.It was really a pity things went this direction. Because, truth be told, every Halloween sequel was worse than the previous one, with an indestructible killer who simply was a "seasonal" variation of Jason Vorhees, and all the writers had to do at a certain point was creating a new excuse for bringing Michael back, because the killer invariably ended "dead" or severely injured in each chapter. The rest of the "plot" was basically the same in every movie: Halloween night, Michael comes back to Haddonfield, people are sure he's either dead or only a legend, he starts to kill everyone in sight, someone realizes he's alive, there's a relative of his that he's willing to kill, etc, etc.If this third installment in the franchise had been successful, things could have been different. And instead of having THE SAME MOVIE over and over again, we could have now a very interesting collection of good horror stories. Why didn't this work out? My theory is very simple: this didn't work out not only because people wanted Michael Myers back after his hospital bloodbath in Halloween II, but also because Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a very, VERY bad movie. People might have thought: If the other installments in this series be like this one, then we'd rather have Michael Myers coming back every damn year for more of the same.What can I say not to "spoil" (sic) the party of anyone else? Well, I will not describe the "plot", yet I must say this film does not have any sense whatsoever, bad actors, bad story line, horrible villain, pathetic death scenes, and you end up asking yourself if what you're seeing on screen is really for real. The movie does have a promising beginning, but it all goes downhill from there. I must confess, being a John Carpenter work, the soundtrack is eerie and fantastically atmospheric. Yet the story being told does not deserve a good soundtrack. I think the best way to describe this thing is: bizarre. It's really weird, but not in a positive, Kafka kind of way. It's weird because it doesn't go anywhere and has an awkward story line.I will not give any spoilers, so go and watch for yourself if you haven't yet. I can assure you that you'll understand why the chose to bring Mike back after this "thing".