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Academics find the film full of critiques of late 20th-century American society.

Historian Nicholas Rogers points to an anti-corporate message where an otherwise successful businessman turns " oddly irrational " and seeks to " promote a more robotic future for commerce and manufacture.

" Cochran's " astrological obsessions or psychotic hatred of children overrode his business sense.

" Tony Williams argues that the film's plot signified the results of the " victory of patriarchal corporate control.

" In a similar vein, Martin Harris writes that Halloween III contains " an ongoing, cynical commentary on American consumer culture.

" Upset over the commercialization of the Halloween holiday, Cochran uses " the very medium he abhors as a weapon against itself.

" Harris also references other big business critiques in the film, including the unemployment of local workers and the declining quality of mass produced products.