Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (" Treehouse of Horror III ", 1992 ; " Treehouse of Horror XIII ", 2004 and " Treehouse of Horror XX ", 2009 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park (" Pink Eye ", 1997 ; " Night of the Living Homeless ", 2007 ), Medium (" Bite Me ", 2009 ) and Invader Zim (" Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom " 2001 and " FBI Warning of Doom " 2002 ).

* Halloween III: Season of the Witch ( 1982 )

Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection, as well as giving an uncredited voice role in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

In 1982, there was Halloween III: Season of the Witch, The Last Starfighter in 1984 as Grig, Alex Rogan's copilot, navigator, and sidekick, The Whoopee Boys in 1986 as a conman, John Huston's The Dead in 1987, in RoboCop, and its sequel RoboCop 2.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 American science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series.

Halloween III departs from the slasher film genre which the original Halloween spawned in 1978, instead featuring a " mad scientist " theme.

Produced on a budget of $ 2. 5 million, Halloween III grossed $ 14. 4 million at the box office in the United States, making it the poorest performing film in the Halloween series at the time.

Where Halloween had broken new ground and was imitated by many genre films following in its wake, this third installment seemed hackneyed to many: one critic suggests that if Halloween III was not part of the Halloween series, then it would simply be " a fairly nondescript eighties horror flick, no worse and no better than many others.

Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad, who had produced the first two films, filmed Halloween III on a budget of $ 2. 5 million.

" The skull and witch masks were adaptations of standard Post Studios masks, but the jack-o '- lantern was created specifically for Halloween III.

The fictional town of Santa Mira was originally the setting of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and named as such in Halloween III as an homage to Siegel's film.

The cast of Halloween III: Season of the Witch consisted mostly of character actors whose previous acting credits included cameo appearances on various television series.

Cast as the drunken surgeon Daniel " Dan " Challis, Tom Atkins had appeared in several John Carpenter films prior to Halloween III.

" After Halloween III, Atkins continued to play supporting roles in dozens of films and television series.

After Halloween III, Nelkin continued working as a character actress on television.

After Halloween III, Wallace directed other horror films such as Fright Night II ( 1988 ), Vampires: Los Muertos ( 2002 ), and the miniseries It ( 1990 ), the television adaptation of the Stephen King novel.

Music remained an important element in establishing the atmosphere of Halloween III.

Peeps are used primarily to fill Easter baskets, though recent advertising campaigns market the candy as " Peeps-Always in Season ", as Peeps has since expanded to include Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day.

* Season 2: " School Hard " ( first appearance ), " Halloween ", " Lie to Me ", " What's My Line, Part One ", " What's My Line, Part Two ", " Surprise ", " Innocence ", " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ", " Passion ", " I Only Have Eyes For You ", " Becoming, Part One " ( Also in flashbacks ), " Becoming, Part Two "

According to the film's director: Tommy Lee Wallace, on the Halloween: 25 Years of Terror documentary DVD, he said that the film had made no money, at the box office, it had " pissed-off " a lot of Halloween fans, it should have been released as just Season of the Witch, with no association, whatsoever, with the Halloween franchise, and he believes it might have found its ' audience, although it was " a good movie, by itself, but was not the Halloween franchise ".

Halloween IIIs subtitle comes from George A. Romero's second film Season of the Witch ( 1973 )— also known as Hungry Wives — but the plot contains no similarity to Romero's story of a housewife who becomes involved in witchcraft.

Edd Riveria's Halloween III artwork featured on the cover of Fangoria. Critical response to Halloween III: Season of the Witch proved to be mixed.

" Unlike other critics, Milne thought the new plot was refreshing: " With the possibilities of the characters the previous Halloween films well and truly exhausted, Season of the Witch turns more profitably to a marvellously ingenious Nigel Kneale tale of a toymaker and his fiendish plan to restore Halloween to its witch cult origins.

Interview of Stacey Nelkin regarding her role in the film Halloween III: Season of the Witch conducted at the 2011 Monster-Mania Con, New Jersey.

* Halloween III: Season of the Witch at FEARnet

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According to Rebecca Ascher-Walsh of Entertainment Weekly, it laid the foundations for future horror franchises such as Halloween, The Evil Dead, and The Blair Witch Project.

Despite this, Lynde's amazing popularity led to his being signed by ABC to host a series of specials from 1975 to 1979, including: The Paul Lynde Comedy Hour ( November 6, 1975 ) with Jack Albertson, Nancy Walker and the Osmond Brothers ; The Paul Lynde Halloween Special ( October 29, 1976 ) featuring the first prime-time network appearance of KISS, along with Margaret Hamilton recreating her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz.

Road to Perdition opened in 1, 798 theaters over its opening weekend, competing against several other new releases including Reign of Fire, Halloween: Resurrection, and The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course.

was opened after Halloween of 2002.

Saw opened on a Halloween weekend in 2, 315 theaters and grossed, placing third behind Ray ($ 20 million ) and The Grudge ($ 21. 8 million ).

It opened at the Empty Space theater in Bakersfield, California, on Halloween 2004.

It is revealed as the story progresses that once every few decades, when the moon is full on the night of Halloween, the fabric of reality thins, and doors may be opened between this world and the realm of the Great Old Ones.

Also in 2005 they played on the main-stage of Download Festival at Donington, the group also opened some shows for their idol, Alice Cooper around Halloween of 2005.

The Bear Band are known for playing many of The Bear events such as The Halloween Howler and The Bears New Year's Eve Bash and have opened for bands such as Dr. Hook, Tupelo Honey, The Headstones and Live.

In 2008, Widespread Panic opened their annual Halloween concert with " Born on the Bayou " in New Orleans, LA.

Moustapha Akkad (; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005 ) was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert.

* Panellets are small pastries made of pine nuts, almonds and sugar with different shapes and flavors, eaten during la Castanyada, that Catalans celebrate on 1 November instead of Halloween.

Some commonly mentioned dates were February 1 ( to some February 2 ), May 1 ( Great Sabbat, Walpurgis Night ), August 1 ( lammas ), November 1 ( Halloween, commencing on October 30's eve ), Easter, and Christmas.

It also hosted a live edition of WCW Monday Nitro on October 28, 1996 following WCW Halloween Havoc, a taped Smackdown / ECW on August 25, 2009, and on March 29, 2010, a live episode of RAW that saw Shawn Michaels give his farewell speech to the WWE the night after losing to The Undertaker in a Streak vs Career match at WrestleMania XXVI, and the July 1, 2011 edition of Friday Night SmackDown taped on the June 28, 2011 live episode of WWE NXT.

Two major events held here each year are the " Friends of the World " cookout, where over 2, 000 people gather to enjoy various countries ' foods cooked right before their eyes, and the " Mori no Halloween " party where over 1, 000 costumed parents and children flock to the TIRC to celebrate a holiday not native to Japan.

Another alternative was " All-hallown summer ", as All Hallows ' (= All Saints ') Day is November 1, hence Halloween is October 31 ; the expression is used in Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1 Scene 2.

Danielle Andrea Harris ( born June 1, 1977 ) is an American film and television actress, best known as a scream queen for her multiple horror film roles, four of them in the Halloween series: in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers ( 1988 ) and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers ( 1989 ) as Jamie Lloyd, and in the new versions of Halloween ( 2007 ) and Halloween II ( 2009 ) as Annie Brackett.

** " Letter from a Suicide " ( in Halloween Annual # 1, 2009 ) collected in The Beauty of Decay ( tpb, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2756-2 )

** Halloween ( October 5 or 6 to November 1 )

Alan Whitehead, founder and owner of the Kona Running Company ( Solstice Run, Wicked Halloween Run, ShamRock n Roll Run ); relative of Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of KFC ( Kentucky Fried Chicken ), and Sgt Alvin C. York, World War 1 hero ; Alan is a board member on the Sgt York Patroitic Foundation.

The Halloween parade was to occur fifty days after and 1. 5 miles away from the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.

According to a well known area artist and college professor of art, prior to Mama Guava and Guavaween, many ( then ) young artists were sharing loft spaces in an old closed cigar factory in the late 1970s and decided to throw a large Halloween party and charge all who attended $ 1. 00.

During the 2001 Halloween weekend, six of the band's mp3 singles were in the Top 20 for all of MP3. com (# 1, No. 2, No. 7, No. 10, No. 12, and No. 19 ) registering over 100, 000 listens in three days.

On Halloween it visited Lower Well Head Farm, Bull Hole Farm and Tynedale Farm ; the investigation ended on 1 November at Waddow Hall.