10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982)
8. Harry's Death Scene Is Brutal
After a cold opening scene that throws audiences squarely into the middle of a chase-in-progress, allowing Halloween III to make an opening statement that immediately establishes itself as a beast all its own.
After following Harry's escape from Silver Shamrock, he winds up in a hospital where one of Conal Cochran's henchmen finds him and by simply placing two fingers in Harry's eye-sockets, pulls his entire skull apart. The man in the suit then calmly walks out of the hospital, covers himself in gasoline, and blows himself up.
It's a shocking sequence of events that serve as the first real kill of the movie and immediately kicks in the door on what viewers had come to expect from Halloween films. It's gruesome, grotesque, and downright brutal.
Considering that later sequels with Michael would go in a more gory and gruesome direction, this scene sets a pretty brutal precedent for what is to come.