What Everyone Expected: In the classic horror movie tradition, Michael Myers has been blown to bits, but of course, he's going to be back for another sequel, because what's a Halloween movie without its iconic masked villain? What Actually Happened: Season of the Witch is a Halloween movie in name alone, because it doesn't feature a single second of Michael Myers nor any surviving character from the previous movie, namely Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). The plot instead follows a sinister mask-making company who plan to use their masks to kill millions of American children on Halloween. It's fairly harmless, goofy horror fodder, but a pretty crass proposition considering that it was marketed on the good (at the time) name that was Halloween, making more than five-fold its budget as a result. What It Should Have Been Called: This is an easy one: how's about just Season of the Witch (a title later used for a very terrible Nicolas Cage movie).
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