CBB Presents The Bear Cave of Terror - Ep. 12 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch

In the second Halloween (the movie)-themed episode for Spooky Season, Jay Yospa heads back to the bear cave to talk Halloween III: Season of the Witch, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. This 1982 sequel. and some would say "black sheep", of the Halloween franchise, was a controversial entry in that it contained no Michael Myers! An attempt to decouple the Halloween series from The Shape and the slasher genre and branch out to more of an anthology film series around the concept of the holiday, this movie had a disappointing box office result and reputation in the early 80s, but has cemented a fanbase that loves it for all its strangeness and the unique story of cursed masks, a stolen piece of Stonehenge, robots, and evil commercials. We look at how much of the same crew from the original Halloween reunited for this one, the complicated writing credits, the clever marketing tie-in, and of course, the poor reception.

Additional Resources for this episode:

Stand Alone - The Making of Halloween III (2012), dir. Michael Felsher, produced by Shout Factory

"Halloween III: Season of the Witch" by Ellen Carlomagno, Fangoria #22 Oct 1982, pp. 8-12

"Tommy Lee Wallace on Halloween III" by staff, Starburst vol. 4 #11, July 1983 pp 14-17

"Halloween III Masks to Help Scare up Sales" by Aljean Harmetz, New York Times 10/16/1982

"How Halloween II went from Revlied to Revered in 30 Years" by Yahoo Movies 10/31/14 https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-cult-of-the-witch-how-the-1982-bomb-halloween-101430775752.html

The 3rd Channel, (2023) dir. Michelle Blasky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ69wKBrfGY

Return of the Witch (2018) dir. Brandon Tobato - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEscI-ENFyI