When John Carpenter and Debra Hill decided to turn the Halloween franchise into an anthology - telling a completely new story each year with no returning characters (but probably returning cast members) - I was intrigued. At the time they certainly seemed to have put Michael Myers down for the count in Halloween II - and the idea of all new stories where anyone could die at any time seemed to be a pretty refreshing idea.
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| This one starts off with the Silver Shamrock company and their three cool new masks - Skull, Jack o' Lantern, and Witch. Then a mask store owner turns up dead under suspicious circumstances - and he had one of these masks clutched in a death grip. |
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| It has something to do with these guys - and looking at them - can't you just tell? |
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| The mask store owner's daughter and the doctor treating him when he was killed team up to investigate... |
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| ...but more people die. And, pretty horribly. |
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| The culprit - demented mask maker Conal Cochran. His plan? Bigger than anyone could ever imagine. |
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| No child is safe... |
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| STOP IT! STOP IT!! |
I love this movie - it's very different from what came before - and certainly from what came after.
Until our final post for this Halloween Postathon - you Can Poke Me With A Mask, Cause I Am Outta Here!
it should have separated itself from the franchise, it was such a great film it could have stood on it's own...
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Happy Halloween!
Jeremy
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Well, I wish they had gotten their wish to make the franchise an anthology title. Dropped by the new site - very cool!
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