

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
The night no one comes home.
After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the strange events and finds himself thrust into a nightmarish conspiracy.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $14.4M
- Language
- English
- mask
- factory
- commercial
- gas station
- killing
- curfew
- halloween
- cult
- sequel
- hospital
- doctor
- death
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR22 Oct 1982
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical159 Jun 1983
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM16 Jun 1983
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1425 Oct 1985
CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTT15+15 Mar 2010
FranceFR
- Theatrical129 Mar 1983
GermanyDE
- Theatrical166 Nov 1986
IrelandIE
- Theatrical158 Jul 1983
JapanJP
- TheatricalR15+7 Dec 1989
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1615 Mar 1984
- Physical16DVD7 Oct 2011
South KoreaKR
- Physical1923 Oct 1989
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1527 Jun 1983
- Theatrical1522 Oct 2004
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch was released on 22 October 1982.
Audience reviews
5- J7/10
John Chard
11/3/2014
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’Herlihy), the owner of the Silver Shamrock corporation that specialises in Halloween masks. Cochran has a sinister plan th…
- T8/10
talisencrw
5/9/2016
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 thoroughly enjoyed; 3) Karen Carpenter died of a heart attack from anorexia nervosa; and 4) Major songs on the radio around…
- R6/10
Repo Jack
10/28/2020
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.
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
1/14/2023
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 anthology franchise. Except the audience, after two stellar slasher films wanted Mike, so best laid plans of mice and men an…
- F3/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
11/8/2023
**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 relation to the “Halloween” franchise, I would have had better luck. If we forget the title and put aside our initial expectatio…
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