That's a bit reductive. The plot was about far more than that, and in the words of Conal Cochran, as played by the late, great Dan O' Herlihy: "To us, it was a way of controlling our environment. It's not so different now... it's time again. In the end, we don't decide these things, you know...
Preaching to the choir. Carpenter was pressured into delivering a "straight" sequel to Halloween, which he almost immediately regretted. he handed off directing chores to Rick Rosenthal, who delivered a more than competent sequel, but the powers that be [including Carpenter] decided to spice up...
To borrow a line from the hosts of one of my favourite podcasts, "It's not a good movie, but it's a GREAT movie." There is a vocal group of HIII fans in the horror community, including myself. Yes, it's silly; yes, it's borderline batsh!t crazy, but that was kind of the point. I don't know if...