Halloween III: Season of the Witch
by Jack Martin (Dennis Etchison)1982 Jove
The novelization of the not really a Halloween film that is better than all the actual Halloween films. The idea was to turn the franchise into an anthology, it didn't work, and they went back to making more Michael Meyers movies that were even worse than the first two.
Straightforward retelling of the movie: evil Irishman combines Japanese microchips with shards of a stolen Stonehenge slab, resulting in Halloween masks, which when combined with a trippy video, causes children's heads to melt and snakes and locusts to pour out of their faces.
I haven't seen the movie in a while, but I don't think the book adds much to it, though it felt like the first half was entirely devoted to how horrible a father and the lead is, which led to getting his kids probably killed.
The script was originally by Nigel Kneale, heavily revised enough that he took his name off, but not so much that his brilliance didn't leave a lasting mark.
Original paperback from AbeBooks
Listen to the audiobook by Audiobooks for the Damned
The script was originally by Nigel Kneale, heavily revised enough that he took his name off, but not so much that his brilliance didn't leave a lasting mark.
Original paperback from AbeBooks
Listen to the audiobook by Audiobooks for the Damned
And, let's all observe a moment of silence for the yearly Halloween event which we might have been enjoying for many decades... If this had been the box office success it should have been.
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