Score: 4/5
Produced by the guys who made X Men, Trick 'r Treat is remarkably polished for a straight to DVD flick. Apparently the suits at Warner Bros. objected to the scenes of kids dying and murdering. Which to be quite honest always annoyed and baffled me. In real life infant mortality is a pretty big deal but in movies whenever a baby's in danger you can rest assured it will somehow pull through even when all the adult characters are killed off in increasingly brutal ways (though Session 9 was a nice subversion of this).
But I digress. Trick 'r Treat is in the Creepshow mold of horror movies i.e. it tells multiple stories loosely connected by a theme, in this case a little boy dressed in an outfit that reminded me of Sackboy from Little Big Planet. It is also rather star studded for a straight to DVD, Anna Paquin and Bryan Cox show up and are awesome per usual. I suppose my only complaint was it just isn't all that scary. It's more purposefully campy than honestly frightening but it's nice to see a horror movie screw with conventions and there's enough here to make for an enjoyable movie, just don't go into it expecting a Rosemary's Baby or Jacob's Ladder type frightfest and you'll love it.
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