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HALLOWEEN HOUSE 4
By Kevin Hager

GENRE: Horror
LOGLINE:

A 4th Halloween House film. 

SYNOPSIS:

HALLOWEEN HOUSE: SPIRIT STORE TO HOUSE OF HAUNTS

Paranormal critic Bennington Massey is also a bully and uses verbal abuse to get his employees to do better and insults them, and even abuses and secretly molests his stepdaughter meets a man named Ed Fenwick and his employee Joe who runs a Halloween store and haunted house tells him a few tales surrounding the success of some people and the fall of others, telling him that it happened because the successful ones where good and redeemable while the ones who fell where selfish and prideful who only cared about fame and glory and would betray others.

A world-famous globetrotting adventurer named Colt Colton is busy promoting his tour in which he portrays himself as a hero, but unbeknown to the public he is actually a fraud and seeks his former friend Diana Harmon a small-time model and social influencer and her potential love interest Beck Ryan an aspiring musician and begins to sweep her off her feet. Visiting the Halloween store, and planning on taking her to the Haunted House, Ed tells him to show him proof of his legitimacy, but Colt defends himself and doesn’t do anything bad. Colt wants to have his way with Diana and Beck fearing something sleazy and while there Colt attempts to force himself on Diana but then monster dogs appear and try to devour them, Colt is willing to sacrifice Diana to them to live, but Beck saves her, and the dogs let them pass and go after Colt now exposed as a fraud. The next day, Colt is exposed as a fake and is institutionalized for being insane while Beck and Diana are now a couple and are successes.

An aspiring activist named Mona Conner is working for famous liberal activist Rufus Gardner who she soon is discovers is willing to bribe and falsify evidence and is even willing to stage fake hate crimes to achieve his ends. At first, she is willing to go along with it, as it makes her family proud, but after visiting the store and renting out the Haunted House, she encounters the spirits of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Emmitt Till, his mother, and other Civil Rights Activist who are upset at the abuse. Revealing to Mona that they did not fight for civil rights so that people like her could have special treatment and entitlement, or have an excuse to disrespect cops, and get away with breaking the law, but so that people could be treated with kindness and respect. Confused they show Mona what could have happened and realizing the error of her ways she turns state’s evidence and exposes Gardner, and another activist Jacob James, who is known to have more morals and respect for cops, crucifies Gardner and praises Mona who begins working for him.

Matt Carpenter is a cop with a wife and son and helps his community. But his neighbor, the single father Thad Fulton is the self-proclaimed super dad and perfect father and is admired by many single women in the neighborhood. But he wants Matt’s wife Ruby, and Matt suspects something tries to warn Ruby of Thad’s intentions and tries to convince Thad not to bother his wife, but Thad refuses to listen and convinces Ruby to come to the Haunted House and convinces Ed to make it so Ruby will be scared, and he will protect her and look like the hero. Ed warns him, not to seduce a married women but Thad won’t listen. Then during the scares, he tries to seduce Ruby, but she rejects him, and tells him to stay away from her family, then the scares intensify, and Matt comes to take his family home, while Thad is caught by the entities to find him despicable and trap him in a mirror as punishment for his shameful deeds. Released he is revealed to have lost everything, while Matt is restored as the neighborhood hero.

Veteran Horror director Alec Rome is dissatisfied with the lack of realism for his next movie, so he rents the Halloween Store’s Haunted House with his two leads husband and wife Nate Keller and Brie Keller who do work with him, and they do the movie in the Haunted House, and strange things start to happen and then a Manson like cult appears to harm them, but then they are saved by the supernatural creatures that take refuge in the land surrounding the house revealing they are fans of their work and were proud to take part in their movie.

Bennington thinks Ed is crazy and dismisses the idea of a hauntings and decides to disprove them, by going to the house even though he is warned it’s dangerous. Bringing both his wife Liz and stepdaughter Carla Byron there, it is evident he abuses her, and her mother puts up with it not wanting to believe he is bad. They are followed by Carla’s ex-boyfriend Finn Garrett, who is aware of the abuse but cannot prove it and wants to get back together with Carla and protect her but is caught. As Liz and Bennington prepare to turn him over strange people show up and chastise Bennington and Liz, and then they reveal themselves to be werewolves who descend on Bennington and Liz but allow Finn and Carla to leave unharmed. The abuse Bennington and Liz put Carla through is exposed and Carla ends up living with her kinder and more responsible father and restarts her relationship with Finn.

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