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MOVIE REVIEW: Trick ‘r Treat
posted by Joshua Fernandez
Writer and director Michael Dougherty’s straight-to-DVD horror film Trick ‘r Treat is set in Ohio suburbia on the night of Halloween.
Trick ‘r Treat is made up of four interwoven, non-linear stories, with characters making cameos in different vignettes for in order to clarify that they’re all in the same town on the same night. The best among the Trick ‘r Treat stories involve a 22-year-old girl (True Blood’s Anna Paquin) donning a Little Red Riding Hood costume looking for “her first time to be special,†and one where an adolescent prank at the site of a bus massacre goes awry. The remaining two, about a serial killer (Dylan Baker) and an old grouch (Brian Cox), seem arbitrary and confusing in their relation to the collective, yet are gory and suspenseful nonetheless.
Overall, it’s about the importance of following (and respecting) traditions, and the consequences that come when these traditions aren’t met. To put it simply: If you blow out a jack-o-latern on Halloween night, you’ll get your throat slashed by a bitten candy pumpkin sucker.
Trick ‘r Treat, 82 Minutes, Rated R, Warner Brother Home Video
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