It's Facets Features' favorite time of the year. Time to turn down the lights, lock the doors and get creepy.
It's time for The 31 Days of Horror Clips.
Last year's Halloween-inspired rundown was as successful as it was fun to compile ("chock-full of random brilliance," said The Guardian). Hopefully, this year's selections will be just as spooky.
The rules are the same...
31 days.
31 horror clips*.
Let's begin...
Halloween III: The Season of the Witch is the red-headed stepchild of the Halloween family. The third film in the series, it drops the Michael Myers slasher storyline altogether to focus on an evil costume company with plans to kill masses of children on Halloween night. How? With booby-trapped masks!
Halloween III was a dud both commercially and critically upon initial release, and it's not hard to see why. It lacks the terror and tension (and identifiable icon) of its predecessors, instead feeling more like a sci-fi flick, albeit one with some impressive, squishy gore. Regardless, the film has its creepy charms, particularly the innocent, but unsettling design of the deadly masks and John Carpenter and Alan Howarth's synth score.
- Phil Morehart
*Many with spoilers. View at your own risk.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
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2 comments:
Great to see the clips back this year. Keep up the good work.
That said,
"Season of the Witch" is a much spookier song (thanks, Donovan!) than movie, in my opinion.
Halloween III is one of my favorite horror movies, and even though John Carpenter didn't direct it, his presence as writer, producer, and composer gives the film that inimitable Carpenter feel (much like The Thing From Another World feels like a Hawks). The plot is so ludicrous that the primary charms of the film are the photography and the score, as well as Tom Atkins performance as Dr. Dan Chalis (who sleeps with nearly every woman in the film and drinks like a fish). Great stuff.
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