Halloween Film Screening at Naas Library & Cultural Centre
Join us for a seasonal spookshow to celebrate Halloween!
At 6.30pm on October 31st we will be screening a classic horror franchise entry from 1982 which tells the tale of evil Irish mask maker Conal Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy) who plans on bringing Halloween back to its Celtic sacrificial origins and rituals. Cochran envisions the streets running red with the blood of children after they assume his deadly masks which are made of materials from Stonehenge. A televised “Big Giveaway” on Halloween night will activate a deadly psychic power that will destroy all who wear the cursed masks. When one factory worker threatens to blow the lid on Cochran’s dastardly deeds he ends up dead, leading his daughter Ellie (Stacy Nelkin) to investigate the Northern California company town of Santa Mira and the Silver Shamrock novelties factory which is run by Cochran; she aided by jaded alcoholic doctor, Dan Challis (Tom Atkins), who has seen firsthand the devastation of Cochran’s diabolical schemes. Can the good doctor and his young accomplice save the children???
This special screening will be introduced by writer and film historian Wayne Byrne, author of Welcome to Elm Street: Inside the Film and Television Nightmares, and the upcoming You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga – 13 Films and Counting.