Oh wow ok, yeah I really like the Halloween II 4k Blu Ray. They did a great job on it, the new Halloween original also. Looks pretty awesome. I didn't pick up III but it's not my kinda thing. I do like it now more than I did way back when. It's actually cool as movie on it's own and not a Halloween movie.
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One of the reasons I didn't pick up the first classic from 78 on 4K via Scream Factory is because I happen to be a huge fan of the color timing on the 1999 THX DVD released by Anchor Bay (you can see the artwork for that disc above, where I posted it) -- the transfer on that disc LOOKS like fall in Illinois, NOT spring/summer in California, where and when Carpenter shot it. There were filters used by Adam Adams and Dean Cundey to simulate the look of autumn in the midwest on that transfer, and it definitely works -- when Annie and Laurie are walking home in the beginning and spot Michael by the hedges, you can clearly see where the trees and leaves are orange/red towards the right of the screen. This is not in any other transfer of this film on disc, whether it's the 2003 DiviMax DVD from Anchor Bay, the 2007 Blu-ray from Anchor Bay (which I also own), the Anniversary Edition DigiBook Blu from 2013 or so, the discs included in the Anchor Bay/Scream deluxe box sets, the Lionsgate UHD release or this new Scream UHD release. They're ALL too bright, green and summery looking -- and I just don't care for it, as I feel like this robs the film of ALL its mood, which the whole thing is based on.
Halloween III is indeed a unique gem and entry in the franchise, the idea originally being that they wanted to introduce a new story every year as a kind of anthology approach; the marketing for the film didn't work and audiences didn't respond, so
Season of the Witch ended up being a flop, and that's why 1988's
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers was put into production, to bring the series back on track. Still, the third film remains an absolute AWESOME cult favorite classic, one I grew up with in the VHS days and one I'll love till my days on this earth come to a close. The film OOZES and DRIPS with atmosphere, mood and underrated tension that hasn't been imitated in any of the sequels since. You can almost watch it without dialogue and Tommy Lee Wallace/Dean Cundey's expansive vistas would STILL be effective in telling a story.
