History NightmareFuel / HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch

* The "misfire." Marge discovers the chip hidden inside a Silver Shamrock trademark on one of the masks and removes it, prompting a laser beam-like spell to fire out and strike her in the face, tearing her lips off and exposing part of her skull, her eyes turning a ruined blood red.
** She's also ''still alive'' and struggling to breathe as - foreshadowing the later test run - a large cricket emerges from her mouth. This is because she didn't get the full effects of the spell. It was more than enough to kill her, but had only ''begun'' the process of turning her head's interior into snakes and insects before the medallion was thrown out of range.
** Becomes FridgeHorror if you consider that plenty of ''other'' people have probably messed with a mask over the last few days, if they were sold all across the country.

* The death of Grimbridge at the hospital. The robot thug pinches his nose bridge hard enough to crush it, then ''pulls it outward'', causing his face to become convex, bulging outward at a weird angle.

** It gets ''even worse'' if you are one of those that read the novelization. The novel goes into graphic detail as to what is happening in that mask; for example, Little Buddy is unable to scream because his larynx had ''already rotted away.'' The things released from the masks are ''venomous'' insects and snakes; harmless crickets and garter snakes stand in for most of them in the movie. And rather than Ralph Strait's incredibly {{Narm}} performance as Buddy Kupfer, the novel version just stands there in ''mute'' shock in front of the door, staring at the decaying body of his son, until the snakes put him out of his misery. And when all is said and done? Cochran ''laughs,'' not an EvilLaugh but one of genuine mirth, like murdering a family with black magic was the best joke ever.

* The "misfire." Marge discovers the chip hidden inside a Silver Shamrock trademark on one of the masks and removes it, prompting a laser beam-like spell to fire out out and strike her in the face, tearing her lips off and exposing part of her skull, her eyes turning a ruined blood red.

* The "misfire." Marge discovers the chip hidden inside a Silver Shamrock trademark on one of the masks and removes it, prompting a laser beam to fire out out and strike her in the face, tearing her lips off and exposing her teeth.
** She's also ''still alive'' and struggling to breathe as - foreshadowing the later test run - a large cricket emerges from her mouth.

* The practice run on the Magic Pumpkin commercial. The spell in the seal triggers and messily rots away Buddy's kid's head as he holds it in ''silent'' agony. As the kid falls dead, a huge swarm of snakes and insects is released from what was his mouth, which eventually kill Buddy and his wife.

** It gets ''even worse'' if you are one of those that read the novelization. The novel goes into graphic detail as to what is happening in that mask; for example, Little Buddy is unable to scream because his larynx had ''already rotted away.'' The things released from the masks are ''venomous'' insects and snakes; harmless crickets and garter snakes stand in for most of them in the movie. And rather than Ralph Strait's incredibly {{Narm}} performance as Buddy Kupfer, the novel version just stands there in ''mute'' shock in front of the door, staring at the decaying body of his son, until the snakes put him out of his misery.

** It gets ''even worse'' if you are one of those that read TheBookOfTheMovie. The novelization goes into graphic detail as to what is happening in that mask; for example, Little Buddy is unable to scream because his larynx had ''already rotted away.'' The things released from the masks are ''venomous'' insects and snakes; harmless crickets and garter snakes stand in for most of them in the movie. And rather than Ralph Strait's incredibly {{Narm}} performance as Buddy Kupfer, the novel version just stands there in ''mute'' shock in front of the door, staring at the decaying body of his son, until the snakes put him out of his misery.

** It gets ''even worse'' if you are one of those that read the best-selling novelization. It goes into graphic detail as to what is happening in that mask; for example, Little Buddy is unable to scream because his larynx had ''already rotted away.'' The things released from the masks are ''venomous'' insects and snakes; harmless crickets and garter snakes stand in for most of them in the movie. And rather than Ralph Strait's incredibly {{Narm}} performance as Buddy Kupfer, the novel version just stands there in ''mute'' shock in front of the door, staring at the decaying body of his son, until the snakes put him out of his misery.

"Then there was only the sound of the rain outside in the endless blackness of the long night and, presently, the rising tones of a pitiful wail within and without, spreading across the station, the town, and the land without end."