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Halloween 3: under rated
here's a bit of a history lesson, after the major success of halloween john carpenter and deb hill were approached to make a sequel and yet another (halloween 3) carpenter/hill wanted to get completely away from michael myers (the 1st was their baby and was not written to be a sequel and felt they were doing the film and injustice) and just do different stories under the heading halloween (it's the title that sells after all) plus, john owed his friend tommy lee wallace a little favor and here we have h-3. okay, it didn't do so well and that's b/c ppl wanted michael. it is my opinion that if we were to look h-3 as season of the witch and not as halloween ppl might look at it differently. it's 80's-a little dated and cheesy in some areas w/ the whole dashing doctor and victim's grieving daughter but IMO the movie is good and really it was ahead of it's time. video cameras and cyborgs! and it was sinister! it was more than just "bugs in a mask" as i've heard some ppl argue-it's about witch craft and the sickest joke of all it's one that's, "played on the children." that's pretty fricken creepy. carpenter didn't have the advantages of speilberg and cameron w/ CGI to work w/
if you ask me cameron stole the idea from terminator from john carpenter ;)
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