It’s almost funny that he gets involved in Ellie’s search for the truth so quickly and so heartily considering the police are still investigating her father’s death and at the time he has no real reason to believe they won’t solve it. Though perhaps that isn’t fair, as the film doesn’t really give us a chance to become familiar with Challis and his family before we get thrust into the main plot. A divorced man, he tries to be a good father for his kids but does not succeed, cancelling on them at the drop of a hat anytime something comes up. Tom Atkins plays the heroic if not slightly sleazy Dr. Sure, a robot army can be creepy and all (the concept works perfectly in The Stepford Wives, among others), but why couldn’t the henchmen simply be loyal followers of Cochran, or perhaps brainwashed by his power? Why do the masks need computer chips? Scrapings from Stonehenge (which has dark, supernatural properties) are already mixed into the latex, so why can’t their death-dealing abilities simply be innate powers of the masks themselves? This doesn’t ruin the film by any means, but it does succeed in making Cochran’s scheme far more complicated than it needs to be. Considering his plan is about dark magic and witchcraft and the ancient mystic power of Stonehenge, such a heavy emphasis on technology seems odd and out of place. Then there is the fact that Cochran’s business suit minions are robots and his entire operation is so technology-heavy, with the masks even utilizing computer chips to activate their powers.
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Unfortunately, while there are a few other gruesome kills throughout the movie (in fact, all the deaths in this film are surprisingly brutal, even for a horror movie), most of them don’t really have the same unsettling supernatural feel as the Kupfer family’s death, leaving the film without a lot of stand out horror sequences.
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The movie’s most chilling sequence is easily when Cochran kills the Kupfer family, with Buddy Jr.’s mask apparently eating his head and releasing a torrent of snakes and insects to kill his parents. There are times where it almost doesn’t even feel like a horror movie and comes across as more of a mystery/thriller type film. It has a good premise and some genuinely creepy moments, but a lot of scenes are dedicated to Challis and Ellie simply sitting around and talking about how weird everything is. And how does it stand as its own film, a story of a believer in ancient magic using Halloween masks to slaughter children? Honestly, it has potential, but it’s not perfect.
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Unfortunately, with the original Halloween being an enormous hit and Halloween II only cementing the fact that the series was centered around the white-masked killer, Halloween III was doomed to failure no matter how good the film may or may not have been on its own. Supposedly, the plan was to use Halloween III as a starting point to make the Halloween films a series of unrelated, anthology stories centered around the holiday. The unrelated one, the separate one, the one that has nothing to do with the saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. Halloween III: Season of the Witch is known by a lot of people as that Halloween movie. Unfortunately, the masks are still being worn by thousands of children and the commercial that activates their magic begins to play… Escaping his imprisonment, Challis rescues Ellie and the two use Cochran’s own technology against him, killing him and burning Silver Shamrock to the ground. Capturing Challis as well, Cochran explains that he is a follower of the ancient ways of witchcraft and Halloween’s original, darker origins, and is using ancient magicks to pull the ultimate prank - Sacrificing the children who have bought his masks, a sacrifice he demonstrates on the Kupfer family. Ellie is soon kidnapped by Cochran’s followers, which turn out to be robots.
Challis and Ellie encounter a few other people, toy store owners who sell the masks in their stores, who have come to discuss their next shipments with Shamrock’s president - Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy). Their search takes them to the headquarters of Silver Shamrock, a company currently selling a line of extremely popular Halloween masks. Meeting up with the victim’s daughter Ellie (Stacey Nelkin), Challis decides to look into her father’s death and find those responsible.
Challis (Tom Atkins)’s hospital, the man is soon killed by a mysterious stranger, who also kills himself shortly after.
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