YES!!!! It's one more day 'till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween... dang it I knew it was going to get stuck in my head again. Anyway, to celebrate this wonderful holiday I'm going to review a classic Halloween themed horror movie that was been scarring audiences for years...
What? Were you expecting some other masked killer?
Let's begin....
PLOT
Trick 'r Treat is an anthology movie which means that it follows many different story's with all of them being connected in some way, in this case being that that they all take place at different times on Halloween night.
A man trying to hide a dead body, a couple of kids paying respects to dead trick 'r theaters, and a young women trying to find a date are some of the terrifying tales you'll find here.
PROS
All of these story's are cleverly connected together, even referencing upcoming tales of horror in creative ways, like hearing a wolf howl in back-ground and then the next story will involve werewolves.
This movie doesn't go over board with the usual modern horror stuff, you know like excessive blood and gore or some girl taking her shirt off every 10 minutes, while it's still in here it's toned down by a lot. The most gore you see is some fake organs, no literally they are fake organ, and the most nudity you see is 1 shot of breast and that's it.
The movie actually surprised me. You know most horror movie today are so predictable that you can tell who's gonna die first in the first 5 minutes, well this one doesn't. There were many times that I predicted something was going to happen, and it took a completely different direction then I thought it would.
The movie is very well shot. I'm the best at knowing if a movie is "shot" well of not, but I could tell here. It has some very cool shots and one creepy shot that's just seeing a girl's face while hearing horrific sound in the back-ground.
For the third time this month, I'm reviewing a film that has good real effects. While it only shows up every once in a while, there still a lot better than if it was CG.
This is more of a personal pro, but there is a scene here that pays homage to one of my favorite horror movies, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn, at least I think it does.
CONS
The film has a dark sense of humor that, well, only worked sometimes. Most of time it felt a little out of place. When the film wanted me to laugh, I was confused at what it wanted me to laugh at.
The acting and writing at the begging of the movie aren't that good. While it does get a whole lot better after words, It could still turn off some people.
CONCLUSION
This is the perfect film to watch on Halloween, it got me into the Halloween spirit, heck, I want to dress up as that kid on the poster! So I strongly suggest watching this tomorrow while you give out candy to the kids. You also have hardly any excuse not to watch it, you can probably rent it at your local video store, it's very cheap to buy on DVD or Blu-ray, it's on Netflix instant streaming, AND the cable channel FEARnet is having a 24 hour marathon of Trick 'r Treat on Halloween. NO EXCUSES!!!!
RATING
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