People on the internet who get angry enough at an old film in 2020 to bombard it with negative reviews filled with ad hominem attacks on strawmen whom they've invented who have apparently conspired together to pretend to like something that is "objectively" bad are usually a good sign that whatever it is they're attacking has a great deal of merit. This film tries something different and it pays off for those of us who like horror films and not just popular images repeated ad nauseum. Who cares if this isn't about Myers? Didn't the latter films prove that we never needed any more than the first film and maaaaybe the second to close the entire arc of the franchise neatly? Add to that the somewhat clever premise that none too subtly casts the Myers archetype as a business exec, mirroring Carpenter and Co's frustration with having to continue to pump out these films in a silly and fun way and I think Halloween III is an incredibly impressive third outing for a series that had no right to be this good for this long. Is it a ten? No. But neither is it "inarguably" a zero, so I say two can play at that game.
