TNT's Monstervision Hosted by Joe Bob Briggs Halloween III Season of the Witch

TNT's Monstervision Hosted by Joe Bob Briggs Halloween III Season of the Witch
MonsterVision was a popular movie marathon program on the cable channel TNT, best known for its era from 1996 to 2000 when it was hosted by the character Joe Bob Briggs. Briggs, played by actor and writer John Bloom, would host double features of horror, science fiction, and B-movies, providing commentary and trivia during commercial breaks.
Format: The show typically ran on Saturday nights and featured two films, with Joe Bob providing humorous and insightful commentary from a trailer.
Content: The movies ranged from classic monster films to 70s-90s slasher flicks, martial arts films, and blaxploitation films, allowing a wide range of genres.
"Drive-in Totals": A signature segment of the show was when Briggs would give his "Drive-in Totals" before each film, which was a statistical rundown of the movie's notable elements, such as the number of dead bodies, explosions, or instances of "chainsaw-fu".
Guests and Co-hosts: Briggs often bantered with "mail girls" such as Reno and Rusty and featured special guests.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a 1982 American science fiction horror film and the third installment in the Halloween film series. It is unique in the franchise as it is the only entry that does not feature the series' main antagonist, Michael Myers.
Plot: The story follows Dr. Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins) as he investigates the mysterious death of a patient and uncovers a sinister plot by Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy), the owner of Silver Shamrock Novelties, to use Halloween masks embedded with a stolen piece of Stonehenge to perform a mass human sacrifice of children across the United States.
Genre & Themes: The film departs from the slasher genre of its predecessors, focusing instead on themes of witchcraft, corporate control, and a critique of American consumer culture, with a science fiction "pod movie" aesthetic.
Production: Original Halloween creators John Carpenter and Debra Hill produced the film and envisioned the franchise as an anthology series, with each installment presenting a different Halloween-themed storyline. Tommy Lee Wallace directed and wrote the screenplay.
Release Date: October 22, 1982.