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Plot Outline
HALLOWEEN III Season of the Witch takes a break from the Michael Myers storyline and concentrates on a small California town called Santa Mira. There, a large mask-making company called Silver Shamrock has opened up, selling popular Halloween masks to the entire country's children. Their advertising covers the media with rhymes, set to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down," which chant "Two more days 'til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween..."
Dr. Dan Challis, a local doctor, stumbles on a plot to bring about the end of human kind. He, along with Ellie, a young woman who's father was recently killed, travel inside the factory, where they meet Cochran, an old irish goon who has stolen a rock from Stonehenge, which causes mutations in the person who wears a Silver Shamrock mask! So tonight, on the most deadly Halloween ever, children across the nation will be watching Silver Shamrock commercials, which cause the mutations - their only hope is Dr. Challis and Ellie!
However, Cochran captures both Ellie and Challis. The doctor is well aware of the devestation of Cochran's plot...so he escapes and with the help of Ellie, he leaves the control center exploding in bursts of flames. He races to get help and to stop the commercials from airing. But, Cochran will have the final Halloween trick of the night.
Review
This film recieved a lot of criticism from audiences all around the world, I myself didn't believe it was a great movie, but i do believe it was a fine installment into the series. After seeing the entire Halloween series, you kind of get the feeling that the series wouldn't have been as good without his film. The reason for that is the way that this film shows that while pure evil is on a break (or in a coma in this circumstance), slightly lesser evil remains and continues no matter what. It shows the one thing that this series has shown and will always show to it's audiences. That you can never rid yourself, let alone the rest of the world of all that is evil, it will always be there no matter what. After a short viewing of this film, i realized that if not a part of teh Halloween saga, this film would have been highly rated by audiences all over the world. It was the fact that audiences were expecting a different type of film that led to the low ratings. Trying to be objective about it as possible, this film still only managed ***** and was also the recipient of the Slashback Pictures "One thumb slightly cut off by accident award." Don't even think about watching it if you really like horror movies, becaus eit won't scare you at all.