So, did Halloween III predict Fox News?

[salin]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305137307/002-6073421-2795223?v=glance

Amazon.com
The one Halloween sequel in which He doesn't come home, Halloween III: Season of the Witch was producer John Carpenter's attempt to get the series away from the original's psycho-on-the-loose story line and turn it into a vehicle for more far-fetched Halloween-themed horror tales. Incredibly, the fans voted for more of the same and Carpenter walked away for others to rehash the Michael Myers plot line in a succession of look-alike movies that are still turning up every few years.


After the mysterious death of a toyshop owner, a doctor (Tom Atkins) and the man's daughter (Stacy Nelkin) investigate the Irish-dominated Northern California community of Santa Mira, a company town owned by the Silver Shamrock Novelty corporation. Atkins and Nelkin are typical low-rent horror movie protagonists, dim bulbs who discover an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style conspiracy involving sharp-suited corporate robots. But guest star Dan O'Herlihy steals the film as a Celtic joke tycoon who hates the way American kids are despoiling the religious spirit of Samhain and decides to teach them a nasty lesson. His scheme, which involves a stolen Stonehenge megalith and a techno-magic spell that turns the heads of TV watchers into writhing masses of snakes and insects, is value for money, and O'Herlihy mixes enough serious malice into the charm to come across as a great screen bad guy. --Kim Newman



Anyone else remember this awful Halloween movie - were it was the "captivating" tv programming that wreaked havoc?

[villager]

1. weirdly, I still think of this movie from time to time

and I've only seen it once, many (many!) moons ago, when it first came out...

[salin]

3. me, too...

and frankly I wasn't in a state to completely remember it... but the whole song thingy and mesmorization by the tube leading to zomby state... sorta comes back to mind from time to time.

[short bus president]

5. me too, although the ONLY part I remember

is something about a person putting a mask on and getting zapped with something.

Crappy, crappy movie.

[MrSlayer]

2. I don't think so. That was one of the worst movies ever made.

Where do you get the fox connection? Are they the network that wouldn't turn off the magic pumpkin?

[salin]

4. if I recall...the tv

images sorta put vieweres into a zomby like "zone" for awhile... and sometimes I get the sense that in a figurative sense - faux news does the same thing...