I know theres a lot of mixed opinions on this one, but I personally love it. As much as Michael Myers is awesome, I always think about what the Halloween franchise would have been like if they had gone with anthology idea they were planning.
Now this is a diet I can get behind 🥃
Made a quick jaunt to Ohio to visit some friends & apparently hit the gold mine for Halloween III merch. Couple of small towns at that. An all year round Halloween Store & a small little collectible store & I’m leaving a happy camper!!
The reason for the two Fright Rags mini masks is I already have the others & had a mishap happen but this rounded everything off!!
Halloween III’s digital pumpkin or Halloween 1978’s carved pumpkin?
I have bought 4 Halloween movies second hand for 10 bucks which are Halloween 4, Halloween 5, H20 and Resurection.
So should I start with the original timeline and get Halloween 1, 2 and 6 or can I start with the H20 timeline and only get Halloween 1 and 2 and 6 later on?
Tom Atkins is the best
HALLOWEEN II: Silver Shamrock (1980)
A meta-sequel to 1978's Halloween, a meta-prequel to 1982's Halloween III: Season of the Witch
A 76-minute animated feature set in 1980 with that early 80s style of animation. Think Filmation and the 1983 Dungeons and Dragons with a blast of some of the animation from Creepshow.
About a bunch of 12-13-year-olds in a different town, not Haddonfield, not Santa Mira.
Maybe Salem or a Salem-like town in 1980. Somewhere in New England.
Takes place over the last few days of Halloween, culminating on Halloween night.
The core group of friends, think S1 of Stranger Things, it's their last real year of trick or treating, but they would rather go see John Carpenter's Halloween at the drive-in, but can't since they have no car and can’t get in on their bikes.
At one point in the film, they do manage to sneak in just for a few minutes, if anything, just to establish to us, the audience, that "John Carpenter's Halloween" is a movie in this world. Just like this film, "Halloween II: Silver Shamrock" will be a movie in the world of "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
These anthology films are meta-sequels to the last film, meta-prequels to the next, layered like so:
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
Halloween II: Silver Shamrock (1980) - this film
Halloween (1978)
In the world of H3: SotW, this film is a 76-minute animated feature produced by Shamrock Industries, a fun cartoon that's mainly an elaborate and extended commercial for Silver Shamrock to sell their line of Halloween masks.
This seemingly innocuous kids' animated film is put out by the fictitious "Shamrock Studios."
Maybe an animated Conal Cochran shows up as a good guy figure at the end of Act 3, portrayed positively, that helps the kids save the day, whatever that is, by using the SOIW Halloween masks.
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This will be the 2nd Halloween anthology in the Carpentex/Hill series, coming 2 years after 1978's Halloween and 2 years before 1982's Season of the Witch.
Naturally "Halloween IV" will be set in and look like it was released in 1984 and will be a meta-sequel to the 1982 film. A new Carpenter/Hill Halloween film every two years!
Why does he glow white and then disappear? Never really understood this part.
I’d choose the one pictured here. The fact he stuck his fingers into the guy’s eye sockets and pulled is enough to make me wince.
Obviously, the original is the best, but which one is in second place?