Dr. Daniel Challis and Ellie Grimbridge stumble onto a gruesome murder scheme when Ellie's novelty-salesman father, Harry, is killed while in possession of a halloween mask made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. The company's owner, Conal Cochran, wants to return Halloween to its darker roots using his masks -- and his unspeakable scheme would unleash death and destruction across the country.
The end result is a bit of a mess but hugely enjoyable, and often (thanks to Dean Cundey's camerawork and John Carpenter's close supervision as producer) as striking visually as its predecessors.
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Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Mr. Wallace clearly has a fondness for the cliches he is parodying and he does it with style.
β Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
rotten:
This is one of those Identikit movies, assembled out of familiar parts from other, better movies.