AKA The Last Halloween."The world's going to change tonight, doctor, I'm glad you'll be able to watch it."
Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins), a doctor, treats a freaked out old man, who keeps screaming, "They are going to kill us!" whilst holding a Halloween mask. Dan tracks down the mask as one made by the Silver Shamrock mask company. When Harry is subsequently murdered, and the killer calmly blows himself up, the doctor is intrigued. With Harry's daughter Ellie (Stacey Nelkin) he goes to the company's HQ, hoping for some answers. But they are horrified to find that the owner of the company, Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy), trying to use the masks, along with a TV advert for them, to brainwash the kids wearing them.
An interesting aside for the series, with nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the films. Nevertheless this is an entertaining horror, delving into the mass media and how it can be used to disseminate subliminal messages.
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