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· Year: 1988
· Director: Dwight H. Little
· Writers: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
· Cast: Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell
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Part of the Halloween series.
· The film series branches into two story arcs after Halloween II. The first involves films one, two, four, five, and six, and the second counts films one, two, seven, and eight as canon.
· Halloween III does not follow the Michael Myers storyline.
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After escaping from a hospital, psychotic killer Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to kill what's left of his family--including his young niece.
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This is the first Halloween sequel that attempts to reproduce the original (after the II, which made a point of being gory, and III, which was a departure from the regular series). It has all the elements--a buildup, teenagers and sex, children in danger. Somehow, though, things just don't come together. The pacing is too slow, and although there are some interesting parts near the end--and the finale of the film is great--the whole thing is just too deliberate. A middle-of-the-road film.
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Sometimes, a title is also a promise. With this entry into the Halloween series, Michael Myers indeed returns, and with him the best of the sequels which I, somehow reluctantly, had to admit throughout watching the movie, as I was very skeptic about its realization. However, they really tried hard, and succeeded in making a (relatively) worthy successor. The movie has its great moments, a great soundtrack and some terrifying scenes. Among the best scenes of the film is the one showing the town's men patroling through the streets to find Michael. This is as intense as it should have been in the other sequels.
Donald Pleasance is at his best here, his mission being as complicated as never before. Still, the original concept is somewhat worn out, so this movie is far from being perfect. But it was the best they could possibly have done to stay within the frame of the series. Departing from the original concept seemed to have proven wrong in the previous part, so they returned to it, gaining relevance for the series while also losing the potential for something new.
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