Producer John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) presents the third chilling installment in the shocking Halloween collection. When a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital, babbling and clutching the year’s most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask, doctor Daniel Challis is thrust into a terrifying Halloween nightmare. Working with the salesman’s daughter, Ellie, Daniel traces the mask to the Silver Shamrock Novelties company and its founder, Conal Cochran. Ellie and Daniel uncover Cochran’s shocking Halloween plan and must stop him before trick-or-treaters across the country never come home in this terrifying thriller.
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Horror History: Friday, October 15, 1982: Unhinged was released in theaters
When three beautiful young women crash their car in a blustery rainstorm and wake up in a mysterious old mansion they don’t realize the magnitude of terror in store for them. Taken in by a spinster and her demented mother violence unfolds in an unrelenting tale of sexual repression turning again and again to savage brutality as it hurls toward its paralyzing climax. Graphic violence and full nudity caused the English Parliament to ban “Unhinged” in 1985.
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Two young couples set off to a secluded island for what promises to be a restful retreat. But the peace is short-lived: as a storm batters the island, troubled artist Kay begins to sense that a malevolent presence is here with them, stalking them at every turn. Is she losing her mind, or are her childhood nightmares of a demonic assailant coming to terrifying life?
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