Review: ‘Halloween III: Season of the Witch’ Moves Away from Michael Myers

It only took one 90 minute film to turn Michael Myers into a horror icon. It feels as though almost every sequel which followed his ghastly introduction in John Carpenter’s legendary 1978 film Halloween only served to diminish the mystery and intrigue which surrounded the character, perhaps with the exception of Halloween II or the surprisingly adventurous Halloween Ends which almost made David Gordon Green’s otherwise atrocious reboot trilogy worthwhile — I say almost because Halloween Kills is one of the most frustrating, brain-numbingly poor films I have ever had the displeasure of seeing despite the fact that I saw it in ideal circumstances, on the big screen late at night with a packed crowd on its mid-October release day.

Myers is a horror icon, just as recognisable as the other figures which made ’80s horror so immediately engrained within pop culture like A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger, Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees, Child’s Play’s Chucky and more. If anything, Myers is probably the most iconic, largely due to the equally memorable music composed by John Carpenter which accompanies or announces his eerie presence.