Trick 'r Treat/Characters

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Sam

A strange young trick-or-treater wearing a flour sack mask and orange pyjamas, Sam appears throughout the film without much purpose. He originally appeared in Michael Dougherty's short "Seasons Greetings". However, it becomes clear there's more to Sam than there appears. He is revealed to be the Spirit of Halloween, laying the law down on those who break the rules of Halloween (wear a costume, give out candy, never extinguish a jack o'lantern before midnight) with killing intent and revealed to be an Improbable Weapon User and a Killer Rabbit. His fight with Mr. Kreeg reveals him to be a pumpkin-headed demon of sorts, hence why he wears the mask.

Shadow Man

A mysterious man shrouded in darkness who stalks Sam in the short Season's Greetings. He follows Sam into an alley way, and appears to beat him up. That is until Sam emerges carrying the man in his sack.

Principal Steven Wilkins

A seemingly innocent school principal who loves Halloween, Steven Wilkins actually hates those who disrespect the customs of Halloween and kills those who break the rules. He has a son Billy who appears to be molding into his Daddy's Little Villain. He later moonlights as a vampire-like man wearing a hooded cloak, and stalks Laurie. Unfortunately, this doesn't go well when Laurie is revealed to be a werewolf wanting her first kill, and Steven is the unlucky victim.

  • Chekhov's Gun / Fridge Brilliance: The chocolate bar Steven gives Sam is later used to fight Mr. Kreeg.
  • Deadly Prank: Steven poisons Charlie and acts like it was meant to be a Halloween trick.
  • Ironic Echo: Mr. Kreeg says "Screw you!" to Steven when he wishes him happy Halloween. Steven uses this on Mr. Kreeg later, unaware he is being attacked by Sam.
    • Steven also says to Laurie "My my, what big eyes you have" while he's attacking her. She says those exact words back to him before she eats him.
  • Malevolent Masked Man: When he becomes the vampire stalker.
  • Meaningful Background Event: Steven can be seen following Laurie around the celebrations for most of the film.
  • Sadist Teacher: Only to those kids who mistreat Halloween. Charlie gets the worst of his wrath.
  • Serial Killer
  • Vampire Bites Suck: Steven does it for sheer fun.

Billy Wilkins

Daddy's Little Villain, Billy is Steven's loud, but beloved child who loves spending time with his father, particularly on Halloween. He actually shares his father's hatred for rulebreakers, asking him to carve a jack o'lantern, actually Charlie's severed head. He also considers Charlie Brown to be an asshole.

Charlie

A Fat Bastard kid who uses Halloween to cause mischief and steal candy, even though he's diabetic. His attempt to steal candy from Steven's porch results in Steven poisoning him. His head is then removed and used as a jack o'lantern.

Mr. Kreeg

Steven's neighbour, an aging Jerkass recluse with a Dark and Troubled Past. He has an Angry Guard Dog named Spite (seriously), and arms himself with a shotgun if there's trouble. In the film, Mr. Kreeg hates Halloween and gets an unwelcome visit from Sam, resulting into a Hopeless Boss Fight with the supernatural child. It is revealed that he is the bus driver who planned on driving eight insane children to their deaths thirty or so years ago, being the only survivor after the school bus the kids were on was accidentally driven into a lake by one of the scared children. Mr. Kreeg survives his encounter with Sam, but is later visited by the undead bus children who kill him.

The School Bus Kids

Eight disturbed children who were sent to their watery deaths thirty years ago. They are brought back from the dead by Sam to exact their Ghostly Goals on Halloween.

  • Abusive Parents: Their parents paid Mr. Kreeg to drown their children so they could be free of their burdens.
  • Back From the Dead: Thanks to Macy kicking a jack o'lantern into the lake the bus fell into.
  • Bus Full of Innocents
  • Children Are Innocent: They were before they died.
    • Then again, it is implied that the reason their parents gave up was because they were so twisted/psychotic/deranged/disturbed that nothing could be done to help them.
  • Creepy Child: There are eight undead kids to chose from, and all are wearing their Halloween costumes and desiring flesh.
  • Ghostly Goals: To get revenge on those who wronged them.
  • The Undead

Emma and Henry

A loving couple who have an unpleasant Halloween with their various run-ins with the other characters, plus Emma wearing a bulky robot costume. Returning home, Henry runs inside to watch a sex tape whilst Emma clears up the Halloween decorations before midnight, resulting in Sam paying her a visit and killing her by slashing her throat with a broken lollipop.

  • Continuity Cameo: Since she dies at the start of the film, Emma and Henry appear throughout the film.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Since Emma is chronologically the last casualty in the film, Sam is so annoyed at this point with rulebreakers that he slashes her throat and then cuts her body up and hangs it on display about the garden.
  • Dead Star Walking: Emma (Leslie Bibb) dies very early in the film, which is actually the film's ending.
  • Lazy Husband: Apparently he sleeps for half the day, plays video games for the other, and likes watching sex tapes.
  • Robot Girl: Subverted, since she's only wearing a costume.

Laurie

A young, pretty girl Laurie wishes to spend this Halloween trying to have her "first time", accompanied by her older sister Danielle, and two other friends. She spends much of the film wandering around dressed as Little Red Riding Hood until she attacked by Steven. However, she turns the tables on him and reveals she is in fact a werewolf and her first time is actually killing and eating her date.

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