Horror Hunks: Tom Atkins in Halloween III Season of the Witch

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Every Halloween, I try to to choose a horror franchise and spotlight the male nude scenes within the series.  I have featured scenes from both Friday the 13th (HERE:) and the Nightmare on Elm St series of films. (listed HERE:)  This year, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Halloween back on movie screens, it seemed the perfect franchise to feature next.

Problem was... there was very little male nudity featured in the franchise.  If there are any skin scenes, I'm missing, but the only one I found was actor Tom Atkins in 1982'a Halloween III, Season of the Witch.  For some reason I always escaped seeing this part of the franchise, even though I have seen some of the others multiple times.  Season of the Witch is a departure from the other films as Michael Myers is not featured, the big baddie is a novelty company with Halloween masks being their biggest seller.

What the film does have is a frighteningly catchy and creepy theme song, Maidie Norman (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane) as Nurse Agnes, and a brief nude scene from actor Tom Atkins.  Atkins was a part of quite a few big budget films in the early to mid eighties also appearing in Creepshow, Escape From New York and The Fog.

Full disclosure, I wasn't immediately drawn to Dr .Challis (Atkins) when he first appeared on screen, but he is a good actor and there was something about him.... By the time he and Ellie (Stacey Nelkin) hit that motel in Santa Mira, I could understand her attraction.  Atkins has one of those bodies that looks surprisingly hotter when the clothes come off.

The Fog (1980)

Although they never connected in the Halloween movies, Atkins and Jamie Lee Curtis did connect in John Carpenter's The Fog in 1980.

Season of the Witch