#thedwreview

I'm not a fan of sequels, as previous reviews on this page will show.  However every so often a film comes along that you know you have to see at least once, regardless of the title, subtitle or numerical figure in the name. What becomes evident in 'H3: SOTW' is that producer John Carpenter envisioned a Halloween franchise without usual focal character Michael Myers - a welcome departure in collective storytelling.  However despite making a profit at the box office, with some help from the obvious low budget, it apparently drew less than the first two saga instalments.  Maybe cinema-goers were intrigued but not intrigued enough by the premise of only one very brief citing of the masked man coming from a fourth wall-breaking telly ad of the original film actually shown within the fictional context. But to summarise, we get a hero in the form of a Magnum PI lookalike with the rounded backstory of popular medic, not-so-good family man landed with a poor sap brought in to the