With Halloween right around the corner, the TV has been flooded with commercials about the latest horror films claiming to be the greatest, scariest horror film in years. But after watching the movie people are usually disappointed because it turned out to have a bad ending or the movie plot was just horrible. The movie industry has also been flooding the market with remakes of old movies . . . also usually bad. One movie however never made it to theaters; it jumped straight to DVD and Blu-ray.
“Trick r’ Treat,” doesn’t disappoint, and its also not 2 hours worth of pointless gore. “Trick r’ Treat” brings back that chill that shivers down someone’s spine when they walk in a dark room. It reminds us that we should check under the bed and in the closet every so often, because we never know exactly what is going to be waiting for us.
The movie covers four different stories all happening on Halloween night. It jumps from story to story, in an almost comic book like fashion, covering the tales of a principle, a group of women, five teenagers, and a “scrooge” of Halloween. All of the stories tie back into each other in a very clever way, leaving the viewer sitting during the credits in awe.
“Trick r’ Treat” is “The best horror anthology in years” said fangoria.com, and wizarduniverse.com says it’s “The best Halloween film of the last 30 years”. One thing you will notice throughout the entire movie is that there is a child in every story wearing a orange-ish red pair of feety pajamas, a burlap mask on of his head with two button eyes and usually he is carrying a bag for his candy. This would be Sam, sort of the main character of the film.
Sam is the spirit of Halloween, his full name known as Sam Hain. The name in Celtic translates to “summers end” and is pronounced sɑːwɪn (sawin), which is the original name of Halloween because in Celtic belief summer wasn’t over till harvest, which is Oct. 31, also the celebration of the dead was held during samhain.
Sam wanders around throughout the entire movie punishing anyone who breaks the ancient traditions of Halloween. Running about 82 minutes its not very long but it doesn’t need to be because it gets the point across, now it may take a couple viewings but eventually it all makes sense, and is entertaining every time especially if viewed three or so times.
Overall, the movie is more than worth the buy, and can be picked up at Wal-Mart for around fifteen dollars.
“Trick r’ Treat” really brings back the creepiness that was left out of recent horror films and is personally ranked up there with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and the George A. Romero’s “Night of The Living Dead.”
