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{{quote|''You don't really know much about Halloween. You thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy.''|'''Conal Cochran'''}}
The red-headed stepchild of the ''[[Halloween (
In a nutshell, ''Halloween III'' details the travails of Dr. Dan Challis (Tom Atkins) who, a week before Halloween, is called in to treat Harry Grimbridge, a horribly beaten toy salesman who's clutching a Halloween mask and mumbling ominous warnings. It gets stranger from there -- one of the salesman's mysterious assailants breaks in, murders him, and then sets himself on fire. Challis subsequently teams up with the man's daughter, Ellie (Stacy Nelkin), to unravel the mystery. The trail leads them to Santa Mira, home of the Silver Shamrock Novelty Company, which her father had been visiting to pick up a shipment of their phenomenally popular Halloween masks -- masks like the one Harry was holding the night he died. While investigating the town, Dan and Ellie discover that Silver Shamrock is up to no good -- and that Harry's death won't be the last this Halloween season.
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* [[Celtic Mythology]]: {{spoiler|Conal Cochran really doesn't hate children, but the planets are aligned, and it's time for another mass sacrifice of the innocent on Samhain.}}
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Conal Cochran. The man runs Santa Mira like a police state, {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|invites his top salesman and his family to Santa Mira to kill them,]] and, oh yes, and his business is a front for murdering America's children}}.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Several. {{spoiler|Cochran's robots}} have several very nasty and creative ways of killing their targets, including [[This Is a Drill|power drills]], crushing their nasal passages to suffocate, and simply [[Off
* [[Deceptively-Human Robots]]: Possibly even [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]], in the case of {{spoiler|Ellie}}.
* [[Doppelganger]]
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* [[Graceful Loser]]: {{spoiler|Conal -- he appears genuinely impressed with Challis' panache at trashing the place, giving him a little golf clap. Of course, that could be because [[Diabolus Ex Machina|he still has one more ace...]].}}
* [[Helping Hands]]: After Challis destroys one of Cochran's automatons, its severed arm attacks him.
* [[Hoist
* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Make that sacrifice'''s'''.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: How the bad guys got the piece of Stone Henge.
{{quote| '''Conal Cochran:''' "Ha ha! We had a ''time'' getting it here. You wouldn't believe how we did it!" }}
* [[Oddball in
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Averted and inverted. Cochran - played by an Irish actor - doesn't have a strong Irish accent for most of the movie, but his pronunciation of ''Samhain'' in Irish Gaelic is exactly correct.
* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: Conal's [[Unobtanium]] comes from chips of Stonehenge.
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* [[Theme Music Abandonment]]: The classic theme is not heard, because this was an attempt to take the series in a different direction
* [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties]]: Subverted -- when it happens, it's a good thing for a change. {{spoiler|It isn't enough to stop Cochran's evil plan from going off and killing millions, unfortunately.}}
* [[What Happened to
* [[When the Planets Align]]
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