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Date: 22 October 1982 (Release)Country: USADirector: Tommy Lee Wallace
Production company billing: 2:35:1 [Panavision]
Synopsis: Original script written by Kneale who eventually had his name removed from the credits.Synopsis: Horror, science fiction. Santa Mira, California. A large mask-making company called Silver Shamrock has opened up, selling popular Halloween masks to the entire country's children. Dr. Dan Challis, a local doctor, stumbles on a plot to bring about the end of human kind. He, along with Ellie, a young woman whose father was recently killed, travel inside the factory, where they meet Cochran, an old Irish goon who has stolen a rock from Stonehenge, which causes mutations in the person who wears a Silver Shamrock mask. However, Cochran captures both Ellie and Challis. The doctor is well aware of the devastation of Cochran's plot. so he escapes and with the help of Ellie, he leaves the control centre exploding in flames. He races to get help and to stop the commercials from airing, but Cochran will have the final Halloween trick of the night.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Releases
Date: 22 October 1982Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8807 FeetLanguage: English
Date: 22 October 1982 (Release)Country: USADirector: Tommy Lee Wallace
Production company billing: 2:35:1 [Panavision]
Synopsis: Original script written by Kneale who eventually had his name removed from the credits.Synopsis: Horror, science fiction. Santa Mira, California. A large mask-making company called Silver Shamrock has opened up, selling popular Halloween masks to the entire country's children. Dr. Dan Challis, a local doctor, stumbles on a plot to bring about the end of human kind. He, along with Ellie, a young woman whose father was recently killed, travel inside the factory, where they meet Cochran, an old Irish goon who has stolen a rock from Stonehenge, which causes mutations in the person who wears a Silver Shamrock mask. However, Cochran captures both Ellie and Challis. The doctor is well aware of the devastation of Cochran's plot. so he escapes and with the help of Ellie, he leaves the control centre exploding in flames. He races to get help and to stop the commercials from airing, but Cochran will have the final Halloween trick of the night.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Releases
Date: 22 October 1982Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 98 mins Length: 8807 FeetLanguage: English
Credits
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Production Company: Dino De Laurentiis Corporation, Executive Producer: Irwin Yablans, Executive Producer: Joseph Wolf, Producer: Debra Hill, Producer: John Carpenter, Associate Producer: Barry Bernardi, Production executive/unit prod manager: Jeffrey Chernov, Production Co-ordinator: Chip Fowler, Location Manager: Ben Ami Agmon, Post-production Supervisor: Gretchen Baker, Assistant Director: Ron L. Wright, Assistant Director: Scott Ira Thaler, [Screenplay]: Nigel Kneale, Screenplay: Tommy Lee Wallace, Director of Photography: Dean Cundey, Camera Operator: Raymond Stella, 2nd unit camera operator: Steve St. John, Video co-ordinator: David Katz, Special Effects: Jon G. Belyeu, Animation: Bakshi Productions, Editor: Millie Moore, Production Designer: Peter Jamison, Halloween masks created: Don Post, Visual Consultant: Charles R. Moore, Set Decorator: Linda Spheeris, Illustrator: Carl Aldana, .sup: Jane Ruhm, Costumes: Francis Aubrey, Make-up: Ron Walters, Special Make-up Effects: Tom Burman, Titles and opticals: Pacific Title, Title Design: John Wash, Music: Alan Howarth, Music: John Carpenter, Sound Recording: Thomas Causey, Sound Re-recording: Bill Varney, Sound Re-recording: James Cavarretta Jr, Sound Re-recording: Steve Maslow, Supervising Sound Editor: David Lewis Yewdall, Sound Editor: Colin Mouat, Dialogue editor: Ken Sweet, Sound Editor: Warren Hamilton, Stunt Co-ordinator: Richard Warlock, Stunts: Kerrie Cullen, Stunts: Loren Janes, Silver Shamrock commercial: Sam Nicholson, Animal co-ordinator: Clint Rowe
Cast
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Tom Atkins (Dr. Daniel Challis), Stacey Nelkin (Ellie Grimbridge), Dan O'Herlihy (Conal Cochran), Ralph Strait (Buddy Kupfer), Michael Currie (Rafferty), Jadeen Barbor (Betty Kupfer), Bradley Schachter (Little Buddy), Garn Stephens (Marge), Nancy Kyes (Linda Challis), Jon Terry (Starker), Patrick Pankurst (Technician), Al Berry (Harry Grimbridge), Wendy Wessberg (Teddy Bryant), Richard Warlock (Assassin), Norman Merrill (Willie Challis), Essex Smith (Walter Jones), Martin Cassidy (Watcher), Maidie Norman (Nurse Agnes), John Macbride (Sheriff), Loyd Catlett (Charlie), Paddi Edwards (Secretary), Jeffrey D. Henry (Motel Technician), Michael W. Green (2nd Technician)