Academics find the film full of critiques of late 20th-century American society; historian Nicholas Rogers points to an anti- corporate message where an otherwise successful businessman turns "oddly irrational" and seeks to "promote a more robotic future for commerce and manufacture." Cochran's " astrological obsessions or psychotic hatred of children overrode his business sense." [65] Tony Williams argues that the film's plot signified the results of the "victory of patriarchal corporate control." [66] In a similar vein, Martin Harris writes that Halloween III contains "an ongoing, cynical commentary on American consumer culture." Upset over the commercialization of the Halloween holiday, Cochran uses "the very medium he abhors as a weapon against itself." Harris also discusses other big business critiques in the film, including the unemployment of local workers and the declining quality of mass-produced products. [67] Box office [ edit ]

Morgan Strode is the adoptive father of Laurie Strode. He is a real estate salesman trying to sell the old Myers house. His name is not mentioned in the film but only in the credits as "Father,", with the novelization of that film referring to him as Chester Strode. He is finally mentioned as Morgan Strode by head nurse Mrs. Alves in a deleted scene from Halloween II. Morgan is also the maternal grandfather of Jamie Lloyd, the great-grandfather of Steven Lloyd, the brother of John Strode, the brother-in-law of Debra Strode, the uncle of Tim and Kara, and the great-uncle of Danny Strode. Halloween II: Michael is killed after being stabbed multiple times with a butcher knife in the chest and face. In the director's cut, Michael was gunned down by the police and is dead, too.His maternal relatives include Laurie Strode (grandmother/aunt in Producer's Cut), Michael Myers (great-uncle/father in Producer's Cut), Judith Myers (great-aunt/aunt in Producer's Cut), as well as both Mr. and Mrs. Myers (great-grandparents). Terrence Gummell was a federal marshal sent to return Samuel Loomis to Smith's Grove Sanitarium after word of the murders became public. Loomis nearly shot him and told him to turn his car around and to head to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital upon finding out that Laurie Strode was Michael's sister. Later, he was leaning over Michael's body, whom Loomis had shot, when Michael jumped up and slit the lawman's throat with a scalpel. High-level Intellect: Michael possesses incredible feats of high intelligence as he is capable of displaying the ability to learn and strategize.

a b c "Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017 . Retrieved September 10, 2017. Appears in: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers Tom Milne, review of Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Time Out, reprinted in 2nd ed., 1991, p. 277. Halloween III was later released on VHS, Capacitance Electronic Disc, and LaserDisc in 1983 by MCA/Universal Home Video and by Goodtimes Home Video in 1996. DVD versions were distributed by Goodtimes in 1998, Universal in 2002, and as a two-disc "Universal double feature" with Halloween II in 2007. The film was released on Blu-ray for the first time on September 18, 2012 from Shout! Factory, containing the same special features as their collector's edition DVD, which are a commentary, documentary, trailers, and still galleries. [69] Universal released a Blu-ray release of the film on August 11, 2015. An Ultra HD Blu-ray release was released under Shout!'s Scream Factory label on October 5, 2021.Kelly Meeker was the daughter of Sheriff Ben Meeker and was murdered by Michael Myers when he thrust a shotgun into her abdomen, pinning her against a door. a b Carpenter, John (Writer/Director) and Debra Hill (Writer) (1978). Halloween ( DVD). United States: Compass International Pictures. Jamie Lloyd and her son, Stephen, are never mentioned in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later since this film is set in alternate continuity, following from the first two films.