I;m sure there are others here ,more up on trivia than i am, so i thought i’d ask this question thats always puzzled me…
i always wondered why they deviated from the Myers character for part 3…
anyone got the answer? 
There was demand for another sequel and they thought they would make it a different story for every subsequent movie.
i guess they learned their lesson 
and they should have left it as that, the series would be 10X better than it is today.
They were going to make it an anthology basically after 1 and 2, but the no-myers made the profit less and they went back to Myers
They Did!!!
but halloween 3 really is’nt that bad of a horror flick. still can’t help but laught everytime i see lil buddy getting his face ate away and my x-girlfriend screaming her lungs out. o them days!!!
I still very much love Halloween III for what it is. Gives me the Halloween vibe just as the first two do.
Well, from what I gathered, after H2, They wanted to make another Halloween, but with Mikey dead in Pt2, their idea was to kinda make a series of sorts with the Halloween name, But once it came out & there was no Michael, it was quickly shot down by audiences everywhere. So when it came time to do another installment they revived Michael.
Also, I didn’t read this anywhere…I think they were trying to go in the direction of using “Masks” as the center point in their series. but thats just my own personal thought.
Thats pretty much it in a nutshell.
And everyone will contest that H3 is a great movie, and it really is…it’s just at that time, people were expecting Michael, and when there was no Michael…people were like…WTF! 
But H3 is a great movie.
HALLOWEEN III is a great film. 
Amen 
Smokey and the Bandit pt3-without Burt Reynolds
Jason goes to hell-almost Jasonless
Now these two were really bad baring the same title 
When speaking with TLW last time I saw him, he said that Halloween was never even technically suppose to have a sequel. After deciding to go ahead with one, anyways, he said that the goal was to kill Michael off in Halloween II then start a whole new story in 3. He claims that the films were originally intended to be a series of different Halloween related stories and feature different killers/monsters. (Like Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, etc.)
When he wrote Halloween 3, he had actually written a completely separate story entitled “Season of the Witch”, and was never meant as a 3rd installment to the Halloween franchise. He says the producers are the one’s who encouraged him title it, “Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.” While he wasn’t so sure about the idea, his movie would be produced and released to theaters, so he didn’t think it would be all that bad.
After it was released, many people didn’t “get” it, and it bombed pretty badly. They didn’t quite understand the “series” concept, and demanded that Myers make a comeback after the success of the first 2 films. That’s why in 4, Michael 
“returns”.
Regardless, 3 is a great film and should really be given more credit. While it is still, certainly, an iconic film, if it were never entitled “Halloween 3”, I feel the movie would be much more recognized.
BTW, bit of fun for you guys: If you ever want to stump someone who claims to be a “diehard horror fan” or is specifically into the Halloween movies, ask him if Myers was in Halloween 3. If he says no, tell him that he’s WRONG! If he still sticks with his answer, bet him some money. If he goes for it, pop in the DVD and play the bar scene where the original Halloween tv spot plays. Then listen to him whine about technicalities and collect your $$$!
I love H3. It’s a classic just as much as the original in my mind, and honestly I would have loved an anthology series. So many different halloween tales could have made great sequels, Trick R Treat looks like it is going to become an anthology series which in my mind is going to be excellent And to all that question H3’s greatness…beware …
Tom Atkins will torch your ass
ya they wanted to make it a twilight zone type thing unrelated sequels.
the reason for no myers is they did not need him in the film. the movie was solid without him. tommy
I wonder what a Rob Zombie remake of Halloween III would be like…hmmmm
Ok I know now this not the real truth, but what I was told, and thought was the truth back in I guess 1990, I was told that John Carpenter an co. was being sued because they didn’t have the rights to the 75 Kirk mask that was altered for the movie, and that they went ahead and made part 2, and that twords the end of 2 where told not to use the mask due to the fact they lost the suit they burned the mask, and had to give some of the profits to I think Don post co. and then they wern’t going ever use the mask again… Ever since I joined this site in 07, and reading the real truth… I know better, but back in 90 I didn’t lol… Dean
Pure Shit.
“i always wondered why they deviated from the Myers character for part 3…”
Because he died in part 2 and at the time they had no intention of him coming back.
I love Halloween III 
I second that.