One of the most underrated horror films of all time! Setting, atmosphere, scenery, and score. It's all so dark, and mysterious, and eerie. LOVE this damn movie
The opening scene is also pretty good I remember watching it on TV for the first time a few years back thinking how have I not seen this?? Its my favorite Halloween film now.
I remember when I was younger and watching all the Halloween movies I was dread8ng watching 3 because of it's reputation but I gotta say this intro intrigued the hell out of me
The first time I heard of H3 was in study hall my HS freshmen year. It was October 1982. Some kid was telling me about Halloween 3 Season of the Witch and that he wanted to see it. I was pumped because I liked H1 and H2! Finding out from him a week later that Michael Myers wasn't in it I was pissed and didn't bother going to see it. I rented it on VHS a year later and enjoyed it. H3 turned out to be one of my favorite horror movies!
To me it shows Halloween 3 had a lot of potential to be a newer film series as i felt Halloween 2 was the ending point of Michael storyline and him and Loomis death had a meaning both the dark and the light must end and the newer stuff showed there was no need to return things to the status quo
Wouldn't it be so insane that in Halloween Ends following Laurie Strode defeating Michael for the last time, she sits down to finally get some much-needed rest. She turns on the TV to see news of Michael's death, but instead of the news, a giant silver shamrock appears on the screen and the incessant "Silver Shamrock Theme" begins to play over and over again. Laurie is unsuccessful in turning off the TV and begins to shout "Stop it! Stop it!! Stop it!!!!!". Now THAT would be q way to end the movie!
True! I remember around 2010... I was home with my parents and they ran a MARATHON of this film the entire day for Halloween... I later researched it, and I wish the film had done better at the box office to carry out John Carpenter's original idea.
When I saw Halloween Ends, I expected the usual orange letter intro like the first two, but this one was blue. It took me a minute but I realized this is the reason why. That’s great artistic choice!
This opening is excellent, and probably my favorite part of the movie. Not to say I didn't enjoy the rest, but this sequence is so good that it just stands out that much.
It has one of my favorite John Carpenter synth scores, some of Dean Cundey's best cinematography and some really amazing scenes. The framing of a lot of the shots is amazingly well done. I love the far off shots of Santa Mira with the sun rising on the horizon, the misty hills, the Silver Shamrock factory in the distance. The music is eerie and elegantly subtle. The movie is very simple and the pacing is well done--something most horror films today cannot come close to pulling off.
If you look hard enough you’ll see there’s also a DeLorean in this movie, and this movie was released three years before Back to the Future. I bring that up because you mentioned Dean Cundey being the cinematographer for Halloween III. Cundey was also the cinematographer for all three Back to the Future movies.
I actually agree that there are literally hundreds of different "Halloween" tropes that could serve as a basis for a movie taken place on Halloween. Themes such as a psychotic home owner who kills trick or treaters, Holloween costumes which become the real thing, or even a film about the origins of the holiday.
Man, I agree! As much as I love Halloween 2 and the Rob Zombie remake, they're arguably unnecessary. It would have been far more interesting if they started this with the first Halloween sequel and guided the franchise as an anthology!
I get you. There was somethin about the 80's era in horror films that's just amazing. I remember visiting my local movie store just to look at the VHS covers.
Mickey-Mousing (as it's called) wasn't new when Carpenter and Howarth scored this movie. The original King Kong is full of it, as are Mickey Mouse cartoons.
I come here after watch Halloween Ends. When I saw the blue titles I knew immediately that they were a reference to Halloween 3, it was a amazing reference! 🎃💜
to me what i give halloween ends credit much like the japanese ring 2 film leaving you a message and a warning if you stop one evil a new one might take it place showing cory was close to becoming Michael replacement and had the bully been friends to him and not pushed him down deeper maybe he could've been helped
Wouldn't it be so insane that in Halloween Ends following Laurie Strode defeating Michael for the last time, she sits down to finally get some much-needed rest. She turns on the TV to see news of Michael's death, but instead of the news, a giant silver shamrock appears on the screen and the incessant "Silver Shamrock Theme" begins to play over and over again. Laurie is unsuccessful in turning off the TV and begins to shout "Stop it! Stop it!! Stop it!!!!!". Now THAT would be q way to end the movie!
I'll admit I was confused too. As a 15 year old renting the VHS of this I was expecting a Michael Myers slasher flick. Now as as 40 year old this is one of my favorite films of all time. I think a lot of that has to do with the synth music as heard here. I keep coming back.
Yes this one oozes athmosphere similar to the first one .the second one had virtually zero athmosphere even though it had a lot of actors from the first one in it..
Hugo Swartz I was just like you when it first came out I was wondering like where's Micheal Myers where's Micheal Myers but I was so scared to even watch it all the way but I do love this movie though
@@patrickr6505 Carpenter never wanted to do a sequel to the first Halloween. He was basically blackmailed into writing the sequel. Once he'd delivered the finished script he washed his hands of the project and had nothing more to do with it. The finished film was solely the product of Producer Debra Hill and Director Rick Rosenthal.
What I love most about this intro other than the beautifully unsettling score is the digital pumpkin. In H1 and H2 we had the intro of the real pumpkin and this movie (what was supposed to be the first of an anthology) we see a new version of the pumpkin intro, being digital to go along with the story of the movie. It’s so clever and proof that Halloween should’ve absolutely been in the title because the anthology idea was so good! Imagine all of the other creative twists and takes on what would’ve been the traditional pumpkin intro!!
Brad Fiedel was heavily inspired by Carpenter & Howarth scores to make his own for "The Terminator", especially "Escape From New-York" and "Halloween III".
@@dudeymcdudeface8940 while I absolutely love that idea (and season of the witch), if it went that route, we probably wouldn't have gotten Halloween 2018
i’m sorry but this is my favourite halloween movie, it’s incredibly underrated the score, the setting and the scenery is amazing. this is my go to movie on halloween night besides the original halloween of course, i can’t wait to get the score on vinyl next week🤙🏻
Halloween 1978 kicked this off, don't forget, and I don't think it'd be intellectually honest to refer to it as crude. The sequels, sure...but the original is a classic for a reason.
You sick people. Stop praising this opening. That pumpkin was later used in an attempt to kill MILLIONS Of children with dark Magick. Only a drunk Doctor saved the day. Love this.
The music score in this film was the best of the whole Halloween series. It's as if it were done with one of those old school Moog synthesizers but I am not sure. The sound reminded me very much of the film A Clockwork Orange. So creepy! Yeah, great music in this film. That alone made this a very cool film.
As a lifelong horror fan when nothing really scares me, at 40 years old this intro still terrifies me. I feel so uneasy. I have to prepare myself to watch it. I can’t explain it!
i read they originally planned on making each halloween movie a completely different story (like one with zombies, and another of witches ) but people wanted michal myers back :/ and this did poorly at the box office so those ideas were scrapped. now im sad we never got to see Carpenter and Hill’s ideas come to fruition. i love this wierd movie and want to see more like them.
It’s a shame they never got to do what they really wanted with their series, especially because John carpenter started the whole fucking thing. Instead we got a bunch of shitty myers sequels (except 4 and H20)
I always loved the opening to this movie and it's in my top 3 in my favorites of the Halloween series. I wish they went with the anthology film idea instead of having Michael come back in every sequel.
It seems to me that only within the last 10-15 years that this movie has started to get the appreciation it has long-deserved. I, personally, always loved it.
I watched this movie when I was little, and this intro marked me for life, this music still gives me chills, but too bad that many did not like the movie, because it still want the shot, but it's for me, the best horror movie of my childhood including most of Carpenter's movies (even if he's the one who didn't direct this film, his influence makes it feel good.)^^
+jjp009 it means that even though it has nothing to do with michael myers it is still a great movie, which is true. the only reason for it's negative reviews was because it didn't have michael myers. people didn't realize it eas an attempt to make halloween an anthology series of various stories not just michael myers, which they over did
ulric henry I believe Halloween 4 was supposed to be a Ghost story...The anthology idea sounded good but people wanted Michael Myers back. Which is indeed understandable
First time you see this credits sequence you have no idea that you are watching as someone creates the trigger that will activate millions of microchips, killing millions of unsuspecting kids. Just chilling.
this movie only gets a lot of crap because its the "halloween without michael myers" its actually one of my favorite 80s horror movies and im a big fan of that genre, very underrated
The opening credits are actually the end of the story, where you the viewer watches the commercial and dies. The story shows us how we have been lulled into a Necro-consumerism that has doomed us as a species.
It's also because ST uses similar synths. This is a prophet 5 and Arp I think. ST uses Prophet 5,6 and arps ANd Roland SH-2 for the bass, using these synths in that 80s style will sound similar. Obviously carpenter influence on Survive (the guys who did ST music).
The Michael Myers story ended at Halloween 2 for me I love the way Halloween 3 took in a different Direction baseing it on another Halloween story it was like saying that Michael is dead now so we're going to change it and base on someone else each year. love Halloween 3 Season of the Witch.
Watching this via VHS is the best. My fav "Halloween". Although I think they should've called it "A Halloween story: Season of the witch". It would have gotten less hate I think. People were expecting Michael. But it aged like a fine wine.
Did you know that the Halloween franchise was originally meant to be a horror anthology (something like Tales From The Crypt, Creepshow, etc)? That's why this movie was so different from the first 2 & why they made it such a general movie title (Halloween is pretty vague). They wanted to incorporate different scares/stories for every Halloween. But Michael Myers just became too popular & it seemed people were unable to handle a Halloween movie w/o him in it. I thought this movie was good though.
I feel this movie is criminally under appreciated. If you’re not for the crazy plot I get it but I’m all for it. To me this one felt like a truly great spin off to the original. It felt like a true sequel to Halloween and it even feels more like a film based on Halloween night. compared to any of the other films this one really adds the Halloween theme the best in my opinion. A lot of people hate this because either they don’t like Michael isn’t in it or they don’t understand the plot. I don’t get the hate, to me it felt like a reverse wicker man and Cochran was a great villain.
