"Smell our Feet"
Anthology of horror centering around a town's Halloween celebrations, with intertwining stories with a little sack headed trick 'r treater tying them all together, Trick 'R Treat was shelved by a studio and then pushed to the video market without a wide release, where horror hungry cult fans found it and began carrying it around from door to door.
Despite a good cast and a great grasp of the holiday's bumps and scares, the film devolves quickly into horror tropes and is short on real originality (and good looking SFX). Structured kind of like a Tarratino narrative, with pieces hodge-podging and crossing paths, Trick 'R Treat unfortunately never obtains scary, and some moments are so eye rolling that you'll be reaching for the John Carpenter DVDs to get you back on track to creepy town. While the theme and inside jokes make the film re-watchable, this movie is more like those icky sweets your grandma still insists on handing out than the full size Snickers everyone wants. It's the Candy Corn of Halloween movies, and sure some people lap them up, but others can see their fructose flaws and would rather leave it at the bottom of the bag for their siblings with less discerning tastes.
4 That Guy From Happiness was the most convincing part out of 10 (BAD)
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