The screen glitches out into the opening scene of the movie, where robots from Silver Shamrock chase Harry Grimbridge along a road in Northern California. It’s played as a really creepy computer-generated rendering of a pumpkin is displayed. Straight off the bat, an eerie feeling of foreboding is ushered in by the H3 theme song. ![]() The dynamic soundtrack is driven by disorienting and nauseating synths with high-intensity bursts of discordant horns that immediately instills a mood of dread throughout the characters and the setting. Silver Shamrock embroiders their masks with traces from a rock stolen from Stonehenge (it’s wack, I know) that, when activated by one of their commercials at 9pm on Halloween, kills the wearer of the mask. More of a thriller than straight up slasher, Season of the Witch follows their journey to the town of Santa Mira, California and their efforts to stop the evil toy company and its owner Conal Cochran from performing an ancient Celtic ritual of human sacrifice on trick-or-treaters across the country. Dan Challis and Ellie Grimbridge and their search for the mystery behind the death of Ellie’s father, Harry, at the hands of the menacing toy company Silver Shamrock Novelties. While it was considered a failure upon release and the idea panned, Halloween III has grown a lot in recognition as of late, helped in no small part by this unnerving soundtrack. John Carpenter wanted to turn the Halloween franchise into an annual anthology, with different directors trying to tell new unrelated stories every year. Halloween director John Carpenter and his long-time collaborator, composer Alan Howarth, create some of the spookiest sounds that have ever been in a movie and keep you absolutely terrified throughout.Ī lot of people are unfamiliar with this movie because it’s the only film in the franchise without its famous antagonist, Michael Meyers. While there isn’t a witch on screen at any point and the movie isn’t as entertaining as the first Halloween, this movie has one of the scariest soundtracks/scores I’ve ever heard. ![]() With Halloween right around the corner, I decided to watch the oft-forgotten 1982 installment of the Halloween franchise, Halloween III: Season of the Witch. There’s only so many ways to say a piece of music is scary, but in this article I will attempt to use as many as possible.
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