Quotes
 Conal Cochran: You don`t really know much about Halloween. You thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy. Conal Cochran: Enjoy the horror-thon, doctor... and don`t forget to watch the big giveaway afterwards.
Daniel Challis: Why, Cochran, why?
Conal Cochran: Do I need a reason? Mr. Kupfer was right, you know... I do love a good joke and this is the best ever, a joke on the children. But there`s a better reason... you don`t really know much about Halloween... you thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy.
[pauses]
Conal Cochran: It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands, and we`d be waiting... in our houses of wattles and clay. The barriers would be down, you see, between the real and the unreal, and the dead might be looking in... to sit by our fires of turf.
[pauses]
Conal Cochran: Halloween... the festival of Samhain! The last great one took place three thousand years ago, when the hills ran red... with the blood of animals and children.
Daniel Challis: Sacrifices.
Conal Cochran: It was part of our world... our craft.
Daniel Challis: Witchcraft.
Conal Cochran: To us, it was a way of controlling our environment. It`s not so different now... it`s time again. In the end... we don`t decide these things, you know... the planets do. They`re in alignment, and it`s time again. The world`s going to change tonight, doctor, I`m glad you`ll be able to watch it. And... happy Halloween.
Harry Grimbridge: They`re going to kill us. All of us! All of us!
Daniel Challis: I saw something that night... I don`t know, your father came into the hospital. He- I thought he was crazy, out of his mind. He`s hanging onto a Halloween mask, he wouldn`t let it go... And what he said was, "They`re gonna kill us all". And in a little while he was dead. And I don`t know what the hell is going on!
Ellie Grimbridge: Irish Halloween masks?
Daniel Challis: In California, you never know.
Ellie Grimbridge: I feel like a goldfish.
Daniel Challis: Company town.
Daniel Challis: Why Cochran? Why?
Conal Cochran: Do I need a reason?
Daniel Challis: Maybe I ought to get another room.
Ellie Grimbridge: That would look sort of suspicious, wouldn`t it?
Daniel Challis: What I mean is, if it`d make you more comfortable... I can sleep in the car - be a lot better than this floor, anyway.
Ellie Grimbridge: Where do you want to sleep, Dr. Challis?
Daniel Challis: [Staring at her] That`s a dumb question, Miss Grimbridge.
Conal Cochran: I do love a good joke and this is the best ever: a joke on the children.
Conal Cochran: It will be morning soon. Halloween morning. A very busy day for me.
[about the motel]
Daniel Challis: This place is a zoo!
Conal Cochran: [upon entering Cochran`s underground laboratory] Those who went before me, you know they-they never dreamed of anything like this.
Daniel Challis: What is this place?
Conal Cochran: Can`t you tell? A vast... Ancient techology. Ha ha ha, a good magician never explains. Come on, then, you`ve still got time to figure it out all by yourself.
Marge Guttman: Damn factory! Got their orders all SCREWED up, and now I have to stay in this dump again!
Harry Grimbridge: They`re coming... They`re coming!
Commercial Announcer: It`s almost time, kids. The clock is ticking. Be in front of your TV sets for the Horrorthon, followed by the Big Giveaway. Don`t miss it. And don`t forget to wear your masks. The clock is ticking. It`s almost time.
Conal Cochran: From an ancient, sacrificial circle... Stonehenge.
[Shows Chaliss the rock]
Conal Cochran: Ha ha. We had a TIME getting it here. You wouldn`t believe how we did it.
[Laughs; Shows him a small stone from Stonehenge]
Conal Cochran: It has a power in it.
Daniel Challis: [walking through an alley, he bumps into Starker] Whoa, Jesus!
Starker: Mister-Mister, didn`t mean to scare you. I saw that bottle, I thought it looked pretty heavy. I ain`t got no diseases, you mind if I have a drink?
[Dan hands him the bottle; Starker takes a huge swig]
Starker: Mmm, aw damn. Thank you.
Starker: [about Cochran] He`s probably listening. And if he is, I got one thing to say: it`s the last Halloween for that lousy factory of his. Some pretty wild shit going on in there. I heard rumors.
Daniel Challis: Like what? What did you hear?
Starker: This year I`m gonna get me a case and a half of molitov cocktails and burn that son of a bitch right down!
[Staggers away]
Starker: Last Halloween for him. Last Halloween...
Daniel Challis: [during sex] Aren`t you just the least bit tired?
Ellie Grimbridge: No.
Daniel Challis: Wait - Wait a minute.
[smiling]
Daniel Challis: How old are you?
Ellie Grimbridge: Relax. I`m older than I look.
Daniel Challis: Teddy, do me another favor, will you? Find out everything you can about Conal Cochran. He runs Silver Shamrock, the Halloween mask people.
Teddy: Conal Cochran. Okay, but this is gonna cost you some serious dinners when you get back.
Daniel Challis: I`m always ready for dinner with you.
Teddy: Liar. Bye.
Teddy: I`ll see what I can do. No promises. I was always good at moonlighting, wasn`t I?
Daniel Challis: Oh, the best. Hey do you still have that...?
Teddy: [laughs] Yes.
Commercial Announcer: It`s time. It`s time. Time for the big giveaway. Halloween has come. All you lucky kids with Silver Shamrock masks, gather `round your TV set, put on your masks and watch. All witches, all skeletons, all Jack-O-Lanterns, gather `round and watch. Watch the magic pumpkin. Watch...
Buddy Kupfer: Hey Mr. Cochran, just what is the final processing?
Conal Cochran: Oh I assure you it`s just a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Quality inspection, the seal of approval. You know, the usual. And of course, there`s a lot of trade secrets.
Buddy Kupfer: Oh I`d sure like to take a look.
Conal Cochran: Aw sorry.
Daniel Challis: Not even a peek for your best salesman?
Buddy Kupfer: Just one little look?
Conal Cochran: Well you see, part of the final processing involves volatile chemicals. They`re very dangerous. I wouldn`t want to put anybody in any danger.
Buddy Kupfer: Oh sure, I understand.
Conal Cochran: [a bunch of androids have just barred Ellie from seeing inside of a storage shed; to Buddy Kupfer] Trade secrets.
Conal Cochran: And... Happy Halloween.
Conal Cochran: Clumsy.
[looks at the head from his grandmother robot]
Conal Cochran: This was a rare piece. German. Made in Munich, 1785. I must try and get a replacement.
Conal Cochran: [turns to see Dan] Aw, Mr. Chaliss.
Daniel Challis: Where`s Ellie?
Conal Cochran: Mrs. "Smith"? I`m sure she`s resting just now.
[Looks at his watch]
Conal Cochran: Didn`t take you long to get here, Mr. Chaliss. DOCTOR Chaliss, I should say.
Commercial voices: [singing to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down"] Eight more days `til Halloween/ Halloween/ Halloween/ Eight more days `til Halloween/ Silver Shamrock. Eight more days `til Halloween/ Halloween/ Halloween/ Eight more days `til Halloween/ Silver Shamrock.
Commercial Announcer: Yes kids, you too can own one of the big Halloween three. That`s right, THREE horrific masks to chose from. They`re fun, they`re frightening, and they GLOW in the dark.
Commercial voices: [repeated line; singing] Two more days `til Halloween/ Halloween/ Halloween/ Two more days `til Halloween/ Silver Shamrock.
Commercial voices: [singing] One more day `til Halloween/ Halloween/ Halloween/ One more day `til Halloween/ Silver Shamrock.
[Rafferty lifts up Ellie`s overnight bag]
Rafferty: Light packers, aren`t you?
Ellie Grimbridge: We`ve had a lot of practice.
[about Grimbridge`s attacker]
Daniel Challis: I`ve seen lots of people on drugs. The man was in complete control. He looked like a businessman!
Teddy: Well, he had to be one strong businessman, I can tell you that. You don`t just pull someone`s skull apart without a little lower-arm strength, know what I mean?
Buddy Kupfer: [the Kupfers have been locked in a room called TEST ROOM A] Relax a minute, will you? Mr. Cochran will be here and everything will be fine. He just wants my opinion about some television commercials or something. You know, I still don`t understand why they won`t take my orders for next year. You know how I like to work ahead and well they`re just not interestwed at all.
Betty Kupfer: Maybe they`re not going to have Halloween next year.
[Laughs]
Buddy Kupfer: [sarcastically] Ha ha ha!
Walter Jones: He just walked up out of the rain! I swear to God that`s all there was to it!
Daniel Challis: It`s getting late. I could use a drink.
[as the Silver Shamrock commercial plays on TV]
Daniel Challis: Come on, come on, come on!
Charlie: [Changing the channel] What`s the matter? Don`t you have any Halloween spirit?
Daniel Challis: No!
Conal Cochran: [Shows Dan a body beneath a sheet] Your friend Ms Guttman...
Daniel Challis: You killed her!
Conal Cochran: Oh no, no, no! Ms Guttman was the victim of a misfire. The others...
[Checks his watch]
Conal Cochran: You know what you really need to see is a demonstration and there`s one coming right up.
Daniel Challis: [on the phone with network; the Silver Shamrock commercial begins] The third channel, it`s still on. Please, take off the third channel. The third channel, it`s still running. Stop it, please, for God`s sake, please stop it. There`s no more time. Please stop it. Stop it now. Turn it off! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! STOP IT!
Conal Cochran: It`s time again. In the end, we don`t decide these things you know, the planets do. They`re in alignment and it`s time again. The world`s going to change tonight, Doctor. I`m glad you`ll be able to watch it.
Daniel Challis: I don`t believe this commercial! It never stops!
Conal Cochran: The surprising thing is that the internal components were quite simple to produce. The outer features took much longer to perfect but of course in the end it`s just another form of mask making.
[Android sneezes]
Conal Cochran: Bless you. Convincing, aren`t they? Loyal, obedient. Unlike most human beings.
Starker: Hey Cochran, fuck you!
[sung to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down"]
Commercial voices: Happy, happy Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. Happy, happy Halloween, Silver Shamrock.
Ellie Grimbridge: [During sex, upon hearing Marge Guttman die] What was that?
Daniel Challis: Who cares?
Walter Jones: I was always taught that when someone needs help, you help them. Unless there`s trouble. There isn`t going to be any trouble is there?
Buddy Kupfer: Conal Cochran, the all time genius in the practical jokes. He invented sticky toilet paper.
Daniel Challis: Ah!
Buddy Kupfer: Oh you must know. The dead dwarf gag, the soft chainsaw, all his.
Daniel Challis: So, how have you been?
[pager goes off]
Daniel Challis: I gotta take this.
Linda Challis: Drinking and doctoring. Great combination.
Linda Challis: Children, we leave our food AT the table.
Daniel Challis: I`m sorry, it`s bad timing.
Linda Challis: I`m used to it. Remember?
Conal Cochran: It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands where we`d be waiting... In our houses of wattles and clay... The barriers would be down, you see. Between the real and the unreal. And the dead might be looking in, to sit by our fires of turf... Halloween. The festival of Samhain. The last great one took place 3,000 years ago and the hills ran red... With the blood of animals and children.
Daniel Challis: Sacrifices.
Conal Cochran: Part of our world. Our craft.
Daniel Challis: Witchcraft.
Conal Cochran: To us it was a way of controlling our environment. It`s not so different now. It`s time again.
Betty Kupfer: [about Mr. Cochran] Do you know he`s one of the richest men in the country? And he got that way selling cheap gags and Halloween masks. Oh God, there`s hope for us yet.
Daniel Challis: How you been?
Teddy: Okay. You?
Daniel Challis: Okay.
Teddy: Sierra Mesa still making you drink your ass off?
Daniel Challis: Oh yeah!
Trivia
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The original writer of the story was Nigel Kneale but he sued the producers to take his name off the movie after seeing how violent it was.
A milk factory was used for the setting of the Silver Shamrock factory.
After Michael Myers died at the end of Halloween II (1981), the plan by John Carpenter was to make a new "Halloween" movie each year, each telling a different Halloween-related story. After this movie underperformed at the box office, the film-makers decided to bring Michael back to life for future sequels.
The tagline "The night nobody comes home" is a play on the original Halloween movie`s tagline, "The night HE came home."
Michael Myers does appear briefly in this film, on a television advertising the original Halloween (1978). It comes near the beginning when Dan Challis is drinking in a bar.
When Challis fills in the register at the motel office, he scans the list of names for evidence of Ellie`s father`s stay. All of the other names on the list are the names of the crew.
The small town of Santa Mira was also the setting for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
The voice of the operator that Challis keeps getting when he tries to call out of Santa Mira is Jamie Lee Curtis.
The book that Marge Guttman is reading before her death in the motel room is "The Eagle`s Gift" by Carlos Castaneda.
The music playing on the radio when Marge Guttman notices the tag on the floor was also played in John Carpenter`s The Fog (1980).
Supposedly, part of the genesis of this film came from a comment made by film critic Rex Reed. Reed panned Halloween II (1981), saying it was so bad that, "If they make a Halloween III, I`ll turn in my press card."
The voice of the announcer in the Silver Shamrock commercials and radio spots is that of the film`s writer/director Tommy Lee Wallace.
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# "Season of the Witch" was the original working title of Martin Scorsese`s Mean Streets (1973). "Season Of The Witch" is also the name of a song by Donovan and an alternative name for the George A. Romero film Hungry Wives (1972). Also the name of an upcoming Nicolas Cage movie: Season of the Witch (2010).
A novelization of the film was published in 1982 by science-fiction writer Dennis Etchison under the pseudonym Jack Martin. Despite the film`s commercial failure, the book became a best-seller and was even reissued two years after the film`s release, in 1984.
Using the original molds, the skull, witch, and jack-o`-lantern masks seen in the film were mass-produced by Don Post Studios and sold in retail stores to promote the film`s release.
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# `John Carpenter` revealed in an interview with Gilles Boulenger (for the book John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness) that the original director for Halloween III: Season of the Witch was `Joe Dante`.
Dick Warlock, the stunt man who played Michael Myers in Halloween II (1981), is credited under `assassin` in the credits.
The film`s original director, `Joe Dante`, approached Nigel Kneale to write the film while Kneale was temporarily living in Hollywood writing the remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) for director John Landis that was never made due to budget cost. Dante wanted a new and different story than the two previous films in the series, so he suggested Kneale write a treatment around the word Halloween. The producers liked the idea, and after Joe Dante moved on to another project, producer John Carpenter`s regular collaborator, Tommy Lee Wallace, came in as the new director. Kneale initially blamed the drastic changes to his script on executive producer `Dino De Laurentiis` not understanding his dialogue when it was translated to Italian. Kneale requested his writing screen credit be removed once his comical mystery screenplay was rewritten by an uncredited Carpenter, and then later Wallace (who received sole screen credit as writer), to include more gore and simplify the story.
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