News
The Original ‘Halloween 3’ Teaser Trailer Was Pretty Great
The night NO ONE comes home.
For many years, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch was the bastard child of the Halloween franchise. The 1982 film took a huge risk by attempting to re-brand the series as an anthology of unrelated tales, but when fans just weren’t into the idea, Michael Myers was brought back into the fold. These days, however, Halloween 3 is a HUGE fan-favorite.
It may have taken a couple decades, but the oddball third installment has finally been embraced for what it is rather than disregarded for what it’s not, and many fans have come to realize that the Halloween film without Michael Myers in it is actually a whole lot better than some of the films he was in. The bold move has paid off all these years later, and it’s kind of wonderful.
Halloween 3 was released on October 22nd, 1982, and audiences got their first taste of the film earlier that year thanks to a teaser trailer that was nothing short of a total mystery. In the 40-second tease, a spider emerges from the mouth of a witch mask and then a set of eyes appear within the mask… and that’s really it. Can you imagine how confused people must have been, seeing this back in ’82? ‘Where’s Michael Myers?!’ they must’ve thought. ‘What the hell is this?!’
They just don’t make teasers like this anymore. Check it out below!
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
You must be logged in to post a comment.