Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

[Vampix]

Originally Posted by vincenzo

Myers appears of a sort. He can be spotted on the TV screen (showing Halloween), and Dick Warlock (Myers in Halloween II) is the hospital killer. One of Michael's original victims is also Tom Atkins's wife.

(paltry connections but as close as I can get)

Also, Jamie Lee Curtis can be heard announcing the town's curfew time over the factory's loudspeaker.Another connection to the original Halloween.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Plot is awful due to the HUGE holes in it...But otherwise chalk me up as a big fan of this sucker!

The little nods to "Halloween" and John Carpenter are fun too.
As mentioned already it's a cheekily wicked idea to have "Halloween" itself as the film that will lead into the 'killer ad's'.
The classical music that is playing when a badge 'miss-fires' (to wonderfully splattery and nasty effect) is the same music that Adrienne Barbeau plays as she drive to the lighthouse in "The Fog".
And the framing of the shots where Atkins and Nelkin are walking around while being watched are the same as "Halloween", with the half back and shoulders of the robot set up exactly like the scenes of Myers watching Jamie Lee Curtis.

And how early on did this film latch onto the CCTV culture we now live in!?

I like the 'brand name' swipes too (though perhaps unintentional).
The fact is "Silver Shamrock" is 'Adidas' and 'Nike'.

Dan's kids do not want his 'other brand', cheap, masks they want the 'Nike', sorry, I mean "Silver Shamrock", masks that are the hip and cool make to have..."ALL THE KIDS WANT ONE"!

Oh dear....if only they had gone for Dan's non-brand masks things would have been a lot safer!
How freakin' 'hip' are you now kid with your face hanging off!

[Gojirosan]

Is vomiting up tarantulas not hip anymore? Damn I must need to get down wid da kidz...

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by Vampix

Also, Jamie Lee Curtis can be heard announcing the town's curfew time over the factory's loudspeaker.Another connection to the original Halloween.

Indeed she does. Well spotted there Vampix. She was also the voice of the telephone operator.

In Jack Martin's novelization the couple pass a church in Santa Mira announcing a sermon read by Father Tom Malone (a Fog reference but why not).

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by vincenzo

In Jack Martin's novelization the couple pass a church in Santa Mira announcing a sermon read by Father Tom Malone (a Fog reference but why not).

Bloody Hell, Vince! Good memory!

Dennis Etchison (aka Jack martin) also wrote the novelisation of The Fog. He's a lovely bloke, incidentally.

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

Dennis Etchison (aka Jack martin) also wrote the novelisation of The Fog. He's a lovely bloke, incidentally.

Tommy Lee Wallace (production designer and also one of the ghosts in The Fog) is the voice of the Silver Shamrock announcer in Halloween III.

So blame him if you can't stop singing it all night.

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by vincenzo

Tommy Lee Wallace (production designer and also one of the ghosts in The Fog) is the voice of the Silver Shamrock announcer in Halloween III.

So blame him if you can't stop singing it all night.

All night? I've been singing it since I was 14!

[Black Gloves]

This is one of those films I used to hate with a vengence when I was a wee lad -- but now I think it's ace! Dont own it on DVD though, oddly enough.

I also really like Romero's "Season of the Witch" as well, creaky though it is.