Halloween: Ranking Every Movie From Worst To Best

The ultimate cult sequel, Season of the Witch seems to finally be getting the love it deserves after all these years, and it is about damn time.

After making two Michael-centric Halloween films, professional badass and all-around legend Debra Hill (God rest her ass-kicking soul) wanted to take the franchise in a different direction. The pitch became that the franchise would instead become something more akin to The Twilight Zone, with each new installment telling a different Halloween-related story that would dig deeper into the mythology of the holiday.

Sadly, Season of the Witch floundered at the box office thanks to its lack of Michael Myers, but man is it a great film. It trades out the slasher subgenre for a much heavier science-fiction angle, focusing on Silver Shamrock, a mask-making company that is looking to kill all of the children in the world with their masks that turn human heads into maggot-feasts.

This is a bonkers insane film in all the right ways. It has a stellar hammy lead performance from Tom Atkins, features Dean Cundey's cinematography at its wildest, has an all-new great score by Carpenter and Alan Howarth, and manages to be a penultimate meta-commentary on the holiday and the film franchise itself.

It's so great that it makes one genuinely long to see where else Hill and Carpenter would have taken the franchise had it been a success.