Thursday, 3 October 2019

Day of the Mask by Mark Antony Raines. Halloween Special.

On October 30 th in the  year  of  our  Lord 2019, In  my town  of Holsworthy  Devon  I  a humble   shop owner Mark Antony Raines  am trying  to avoid  a mysterious  man who is has been  following  me along a barren  road.   I make  a diversion  into  a petrol station; byside me on the passenger seat  is a  makes it to a   jack-o'-lantern mask.
 I then enter the petrol station and prmptly collaspe in front of the petrol station  owner  Walton Beach a god fearing man seeing me  the worse od  wear and being a kindly soul manages to wake up enough to take me to his car and drive me to  the nearest  hospital.  At the  hospital  i am placed in the  care of   Dr. Dan Challis, a hardworking doctor struggling with the relationships between him and his ex-wife Susan , as well as his children.
That night a strange  man enters that  just  same hospital and walks into  the ward room  where Mark is sleeping  and precedes  to  produce  a kitchen  knife and plunges  it numberous times  murders him, then immolates himself.
A few days later, a tired Dr  Dan is confronted in  his local  tearooms  by a a angry  young lady who is Marks daughter, Ellie.
Dr Dan  tells Ellie  about the strange events of the night Mark  died and shows her the mask Jack _O-Lantern
   her father was holding when he was admitted to the hospital.Ellie  asks Dr Dan  why would  her father  be clutching the mask and was it related to his  death  ;he was unsure.
So both  Ellie, Dr Dan decide to  trace the mask orgins  to find  out  what  it's connection  was  to the death of her father  and husband  and his patient.
Thier discovered it came from a place  called Freddys Novelties, a company based in the town of Santa Mira, Cornwall.
   Ellie  and Dr Dan get into to  his car and journey to Santa Mira where thier find a local Hotel which  is  managed  Shane who when asked informs them that the person  thier need to contact is Freddy Freak who owns Freddys Novelties.
Shane goes on to inform  both  Ellie  and Dr Dan  that   Freddy  Freak  and his company,   produce  popular latex jack-o-lantern, witch and skeleton masks for Halloween, are responsible for the town's prosperity over the last  couple  of centurys.
 While signing the motel register, Dr Dan learns that Mark  stayed at the same motel;he turns  and asks  Ellie  did she knew he was a frequent  vistor to this Hotel .Ellie  did not.
Questioning Shane  more  he tells them of other  guests  who regularly  book a room and do business  with  Freddys Novelties. Greasing Shane s palm with  some readies reveals the guests  names
Other motel guests include shop owners Enid Guttman and Jonathan  Kupfer, Jonathans wife, Corrina, and their son, Little Richard .
 Enid is in her room  looking closely inside  one of the Halloween  masks  and finds to her amazement a microchip on the back of emblazed with the  name  property  of Freddys Novelties.  Enid decides to see if she  can remove  the  microchip  shaped to look  like  a  button ,  but she is  electrocuted by its laser beam after poking it with a hairpin.
Dr  Dan  is awoken  by Shane who  tells  him  and Ellie  about  Enid  Guttman's accident and could  he a a doctor  come and declare her dad as the local  doctor is away on his holidays  and nearest  one is a good  twenty  miles away; Dr Dan reluctantly agrees and telast Ellie  to wait for  him as he back soon.
When Dr  Dan enters the room containing the  cadaver of the  late Enid Guttman's   he is jumped upon  by  a group of men dressed in lab coats, who after  a brief  tussle  force  him drive away in a van with Enid s body.
Then two more man in white coats get  to the room  with  Ellie  in and she too is  put into a car after  being  sedated.

 The next morning both  Dr  Dan and Ellie awake to find  themselves  in the very  factory  where  the mysterious  Freddys Novelties  is based.On  tour thier are given by a figure wrote  wearing a wolfs heads mask and dressed completely  in black ;this mystery  figure justs points to the production line and then excorted  back   a  car ,guarded by more men dressed in suits.
 They return to the Hotel confused  and  a little disturbed by thier weird encounters. Dr Dan trys to contact  the local  police but a voice on the hotel swithboard unforms him that no outside the town can be made .
 Then  Ellie mysteriously disappears    and Dr  Dan is re captured by the men in suits who are revealed to him by Freddy  to  be androids created by  himself for he trusted no human  to do his task before his big surprise  for his favourite  time of year  Halloween. Freddy  informs Dr Dan that Ellie  is now one of his test  subjects  as he   plans to sacrifice children wearing his masks on this  Halloween, thus bringing about a resurrection of the ancient age of witchcraft.Dr  Dan is left dumbstruck  as Freddy  places a Jack_O-Lantern  upon his face :Dr Dan is left in a state  of screaming  inside his head as all his worse  nightmares  are played back  to him.In another part  of the building   is poor  Ellie  sitting  on the floor  rocking  back  and back occasionally  letting  out a manical  laugh  ;she almost  looks cute in her witch's mask.
 For One night  only  our own town business man Freddy Freak  "Big Giveaway", which will air at 9:00 P.M. on all television channels following the "Horrorthon" on your local cable television  networks.
 Un benown of  is that  all  masks contain a fragment of Stonehenge implanted in its trademark microchip.
When activated by a flashing signal of the commercial's on-screen "magic pumpkin", the microchip causes the mask wearer to succumb to brain damage from absorbing the energy of Stonehenge and unleashes a swarm of insects and snakes that come out of the wearer's corpse and kill anyone nearby. 
Later that night, Ellie  manages to take  off her  mask and after rejusting back  to her present  predicament   destroys the television set and removing the mask, escapes through a ventilation shaft .
She   dumps the chips from the overhead rafters, and activates their signal with the commercial, killing Freddy s android s in one sweep ,  and watchs on with a sense of revenge Freddy Freak  is  vaporized by the Stonehenge rune he was using to create his masks, and destroying the computer chips along with the entire Freddys Novelties  factory.

As  Ellie  escapes she sees Dr Dan, in the road and stops but this is not Dr Dan as it face is melting revealing himself to be an android duplicate.
 Ellie crashes the  car ,runs to the boot and with almighty swing decapitates the android  looking  Dr Dan  with  a crowbar.
On foot,  Emma arrives at Shanes petrol station, she precèeds  to tell him if about  all the currant events And   he contacts the television stations and attempts to convince all the station managers to remove the commercial.
But the call is too late as at  the same moment, a group of trick-or-treaters, wearing  Freddys Novelties masks, arrive at the  petriol station to participate in  Halloween  eve .
Ellie finally gets through to the persuades the stations to take it off channels one and two, but not channel three where the commercial keeps on playing, right onto the "magic pumpkin" sequence.
Ellie  desperately screams on the phone for the final station to turn off the commercial, as the animated pumpkin head flashes non-stop in front of her and Shane the children produce bottles of  blistering acid and squeeze  the triggers at thier faces and calmly  grab some  chocolate s and cans and depart the petrol station  leaving  poor Shane and Ellie  in screams  of horrific  brutal  pain as the acid eats thier skin away.
the End? 

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