BOOK REVIEW IN SHOCK REVIEW: HALLOWEEN 3 - "WHERE THE HELL IS MICHAEL MYERS?": A Definitive History of Horror's Most Misunderstood Film by Tommy Lee Wallace (BearManor Media; bearmanormedia.com; $52.00). I saw the first two HALLOWEEN films during their initial theatrical runs, and upon learning that the third entry would take a radically different direction, I didn't see any problem. Because who'd want to simply watch Michael Myers slaughtering people over and over again? That would get pretty fucking tedious, right? So I thoroughly enjoyed my first viewing of HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH. Of course, my opinion was also in the minority. Thankfully, forty years after its release, this initially-despised film has amassed a sizable cult following, with director Tommy Lee Wallace providing us with a behind-the-scenes account - from his longtime friendship with John Carpenter and stint at USC film school; working in various capacities on Carpenter's early films; turning down the chance to direct HALLOWEEN II; but embracing the opportunity to create something unique for its third installment. He touches upon preproduction, casting, crew members, scouting locations, the design of its masks, hiring Nigel Kneale to write the screeplay (with the cranky Quartermass creator ultimately having his name removed from the credits), plus the actual shoot. Wallace also gets a chance to clear up past misconceptions and express long-overdue relief that his misunderstood film is finally being appreciated. At 282 pages, this is an entertaining yet relatively brief read, with a lengthy foreward by the film's star, Tom Atkins, and more than half of the book devoted to its "Afterward" assortment of production stills, storyboards, excerpts from Kneale's script, fan art, and additonal minutia.