How Halloween 3's Cursed Masks Actually Kills Victims
Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch centers on a warlock using cursed masks to create a mass sacrifice, but how do they actually kill victims? Halloween 3 gets its title from the masks produced by Silver Shamrock, which are dubbed "the Halloween 3" by the toy company. The movie itself was an effort by franchise producers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to move the series to an anthology format. The duo felt the Michael Myers storyline ran its course with Halloween 2, which is why The Shape and his nemesis Dr. Loomis were thoroughly blown up by the end of that sequel.
Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch finds a doctor teaming up with the daughter of one of his patients, who was murdered under bizarre circumstances. The only clue they have is that he was clutching a Halloween mask produced by Silver Shamrock — who may have made Michael's mask — and they soon uncover a dark conspiracy. Halloween 3 is considered one of the best entries in the series now, but due to poor marketing during its initial release, audiences were left angred by the lack of Michael or connection to the first two outings.
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Instead, director Tommy Lee Wallace — working from a script by an uncredited Nigel Kneale — made more of a paranoid thriller that used Halloween itself as a springboard. Halloween 3's bad reception killed the anthology plan but still resulted in one of the most unique horror movies of its era. Halloween 3's masks include a pumpkin, a witch and a skeleton, and Conal Cochran — the movie's villain who is revealed to be the titular witch — plans to use the masks to create a mass child sacrifice during Halloween night. How they actually work isn't explored in much detail, however.
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