I’ll admit that I was looking forward to this film; it’s famous (or perhaps infamous) for being the only “Halloween” film not to feature Michael Myers. It instead features an entirely different story so it’s as much a sequel to “Halloween” as “High Society” is to “King Kong”. I though this new story might mean I’d get a film that was entertaining on its own terms and wasn’t forced to be same Michael Myers routine but I was mistaken, it’s awful on its own terms.

In “Season of the Witch”, reality takes a backseat as we get a story featuring killer clothing items and robots. The film could have literally been about anything but it takes the stupidest possible path possible for a horror movie to take and what it’s even worse is that it shows the original “Halloween” advertised on tv (much like we see “The Thing” in the first “Halloween”); I would love to have been sitting through that instead of this.

The characters are dud. The only one who remotely works is the bad guy played by Dan O’Herlihy (“RoboCop”) because of his great voice but the problem is that he isn’t really given anything to do. The special effects for this one look cheap too, there’s one scene where a guy gets his head ripped off but it’s all dark and you can’t see much so even the gore enthusiasts are going to be disappointed.

“Season of the Witch” isn’t scary, interesting or well-made. At least the Michael Myers films seem to make some sense but this one evades logic with staggering eagerness. Supposedly the “Halloween” films were each going to feature a totally new storyline but many were confused by the absence of Michael Myers seen as how he was in the first two but even if that confusion hadn’t occurred, this one doesn’t exactly spell out ‘success’. I’d have admired it for doing something unique if that something hadn’t been so boring and poorly executed.