God, that fucking Silver Shamrock jingle. That alone would make you throw your t.v. out the window. Which makes it perfect to be the background tune to drive a spiritual yearly ritual. Or is it?
This is a movie that could only be watched around the Halloween season. Because it's really fucking stupid any other time. Not that the initial plot isn't a juicy one. It involves Halloween masks, a dusting of witchcraft (I guess), Irish mask companies, and other fairy tale lore you learned on the back of sugar packets. It never goes in depth, since...well, why bother? Get to the violence, and the ear piercing music. The music is awful 1980's. With screeching synth laser sounds and odd pulsing dissonant timber, it makes your brain bleed. Which is perfect for this movie, since there's a bit of that too.
The movie has Tom Atkins who is a doctor that investigates the murder of a crazed man who stumbles into his hospital. Due to the hot daughter of the deceased, he takes it upon himself to abandon his children to go investigate his murder. Which leads him to a factory that makes masks...in the middle of nowhere. A few questions arise, since there are towns folks and they inevitably know the benevolent owner/founder Cochran (played by Dan O'Herlihy), and they hold him in reverence, exactly why don't they leave this town? Or call for outside help? Or any number of things that makes this town secluded, but seem to have forgotten to explain? Who cares? Let's get to seeing the hot daughter's sweet supple body. Which by the way is played by Stacey Nelkin. I didn't realize she was the 6th replicant "Mary" written/screen tested/but never shot scene in "Blade Runner." She was initially auditioning for Pris...the role that went to Daryl Hannah. She has a sweet body. Which is pawed at by a smarmy Tom Atkins. Which, with that mustache you can't blame anyone. Except Tommy Lee Wallace who directed this.
There were so many great possibilities to be had. It goes from a slasher type set-up to a Cronenberg type goo movie. And it's not scary. Just really weird, since it also involves talismans and shit like that. I get that they were trying to go with another franchise away from Michael Meyers, but it's hard to explain who may've been the next movie killer. Dan O'Herlihy is hardly a threat, besides to the Irish accent.
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