After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the strange events and finds himself thrust into a nightmarish conspiracy.
This is one of those Identikit movies, assembled out of familiar parts from other, better movies.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
Mr. Wallace clearly has a fondness for the cliches he is parodying and he does it with style.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
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.