Yeah! He was great as a John Carpenter player. Besides the Fog, I probably liked him best in the non-Carpenter Night of the Creeps. Also, I thought he made Halloween III work, though most would disagree, I guess.
No, I thought Halloween 3 was a good movie that stood on its own, despite the fact it had nothing to do with the others. The main villain in that one was great-remember him just before he died, smiling up at Atkins and applauding after Tom had screwed up the works? Brrrr. The idea when they made that movie was to have a movie every year based on Halloween-the holiday, not Carpenter's movie (they should have stopped that franchise after part 2)-at least that's what I've read. It bombed so bad, they dropped the idea.