The movie opens with a person named Harry Grimbridge being chased by mysterious men sporting business fits and black gloves. He reaches a filling station attendant who takes him to the hospital. On the hospital, he’s positioned underneath the care of Dr. Dan Challis who hears him ranting, “They’re gonna kill us all!” He’s given thorazine and despatched to bed. One other unusual man sporting a go well with and gloves enters the hospital and kills Grimbridge. However earlier than Dr. Challis can cease him, he enters his car and dumps gasoline throughout himself. Then, he lights himself on fireplace. The one clue as to why the person might have been there’s a Halloween mask. He and Grimbridge’s daughter Ellie head to a small city referred to as Santa Mira, California, the home of the company that made the mask, Silver Shamrock. The company is owned by Conal Cochran. Ellie and Challis keep on the identical motel that Ellie’s father had stayed in. The following day, the 2 of them take a tour of the Silver Shamrock manufacturing facility. After the tour, Ellie spots her father’s car being guarded by extra men in business fits. She tries to get to it however is stopped. Afterward, she is kidnapped, so Challis breaks into the manufacturing facility to seek out her. Ultimately, he’s captured by Cochran’s men and proven the entire plan behind the mysterious Halloween masks. Cochran ties the physician up and locks him in a room with one of many masks on. A tv is turned on, ready for Silver Shamrock’s large giveaway which can trigger one thing dangerous to occur to anybody sporting the masks.
Actor Dan O’Herlihy’s position because the Irish proprietor Conal Cochran is remarkably just like a task he performed 5 years later, which was the position of the Old Man in Robocop. The Old Man was the proprietor of one other company making an attempt to show a spot into one thing he considered as higher than it really was, OCP. In Halloween III, Cochran just about owns the city of Santa Mira as all of its prosperity comes from his company. Cochran has video cameras in all places within the city so he can spy on its inhabitants or any stranger who passes by means of. Put merely, Cochran’s company runs the city and every part in it. In Robocop, the Old Man has a plan to tear down Old Detroit and construct a corporate-owned metropolis referred to as Delta Metropolis. The principle distinction between the 2 conditions is that in Halloween III, Santa Mira has already change into corporate-owned whereas in Robocop, Old Detroit is planning to change into corporate-owned if the Old Man will get his method.