Halloween Ends director on Season of the Witch connections

After two films specializing in the homicide spree of Michael Myers, Halloween III: Season of the Witch remodeled the franchise into an anthology collection and dared to inform a narrative with out Haddonfield’s masked killer. Season of the Witch acquired poor opinions on the time, notably from followers who needed to see the story of Michael Myers proceed, however the film has gone on to develop its personal cult following who respect its place within the franchise. David Gordon Inexperienced’s Halloween trilogy paid tribute to Season of the Witch, however Halloween Ends got here near offering an enormous hyperlink between the 2 films… by making Michael Myers’ masks a part of the Silver Shamrock line.

Halloween Ends makes use of the identical blue font as Halloween III: Season of the Witch, and we’ve seen the three Silver Shamrock masks (Jack-O-Lantern, cranium and witch) present up in Halloween Kills. Whereas talking with MovieMaker.com, David Gordon Inexperienced stated that his script included an ending that occurred at a Silver Shamrock manufacturing unit which additionally made Michael Myers masks.

There was an ending I wrote, that we by no means filmed, and it takes place at Silver Shamrock manufacturing unit because it was spitting out witch, skeleton, and jack-o-lanterns masks… after which it began spitting out Michael Myers masks. I had a temptation to go there, however on the finish of the day, I believed that’s simply fan service for individuals who know what Silver Shamrock is. It was in each draft of the script ever printed [Laughs.] however we by no means filmed it. 

David Gordon Inexperienced added that he loves Season of the Witch, even saying that it’s an idea that somebody may take and reinvent down the highway. “One severe dialog I had with our producer Malek Akkad was, do I actually need to simply throw a gag in my film that’s gonna f— up what somebody may critically do with that title?” Inexperienced stated. “It’s a cool film, so I believed my nods could be the blue titles within the intro for these insightful sufficient to catch it.“ Season of the Witch stays a favorite of mine, even when that Silver Shamrock track will get caught in my head for weeks at a time. Completely happy, glad, Halloween, Silver Shamrock. Dammit.

Halloween Ends is now enjoying in theaters and streaming on Peacock. You’ll be able to take a look at a assessment of Halloween Ends from our personal JimmyO proper right here, and make sure to tell us what you considered the movie as nicely!