"Was it a cheat that Halloween III skipped out on more Michael Myers mayhem? Well, it certainly was annoying that the advertising didn't let audiences know that little fact in the teasers and trailers. And a great many fans are still pissed about that to this very day... But, to be frank, people need to lighten up about this third entry because Season of the Witch is actually a pretty terrific little midnight movie, in keeping with John Carpenter's other chillers of the era, specifically The Fog and The Thing. On many levels, the films kinda play like an eerie trilogy of haunting ghost stories, filled with monsters, mad men and vengeful ghouls... Season of the Witch has grown in popularity over the years as fans have healed from the initial sting and gave the film a second chance." - R. L. Shaffer, IGN DVD