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Line 2: [[File:trick.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| ''Poison, drowning, claw, or knife~~<br />~~ ''So many ways to take a life.'' }} ''[[Trick 'Rr Treat]]'' is an [[Anthology]] comedy/horror movie that was [[Screwed Byby the Network\|Screwed By The Studio]]. It was produced by [[Bryan Singer]] and directed by Michael Dougherty, and developed from Dougherty's 1996 animated short, ''Season's Greetings''. The conceptual designer was Breehn Burns, co-creator of ''[[Dr. Tran]]''. ''Trick 'R Treat'' was originally slated for a theatrical release in 2007, but was held up until a DVD release in 2009. Set over a single [[All Hallow's Eve\|Halloween]] night (although there is a flashback set on a Halloween thirty years prior), ''Trick 'Rr Treat'' is less interested in plot than it is in the holiday itself: the fears, emotions, atmosphere, and the traditions that have coalesced into what people imagine Halloween is about. == ''Trick 'Rr Treat'' has several subplots, loosely connected, that are the focus of this anthology: == * A young couple is divided by his love and her (Leslie Bibb) hatred of Halloween. * A school principal (Dylan Baker) carries out a double life as a [[Serial Killer]]. Line 15: * A group of kids, inspired by the town legend of the "Halloween Schoolbus Massacre", play a prank that [[Gone Horribly Wrong\|goes horribly wrong]]... * An elderly curmudgeon ([[Brian Cox]]) with a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] attempts to get through the night without acknowledging that it's Halloween. All these stories frequently overlap and share characters, particularly a mysterious trick 'r treater named Sam (pictured). ---- {{tropelist}} ~~'''This movie provides examples of the following:'''~~ * [[Adaptation Expansion]]: From the original short. * [[All Hallow's Eve]]: Of course. Line 35: * [[Children Are Innocent]]: Averted, overall. ** [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Macy and her friends. Charlie also fits. * [[Covers Always Lie]]: Inverted with the [[Blu -Ray]] release as it clearly shows {{spoiler\|Sam's true face}}. * [[Creepy Child]]: Sam, the schoolbus kids, and {{spoiler\|Billy Wilkins}} * [[Deadly Prank]]: {{spoiler\|Macy and her friends pretend to be the undead schoolbus kids to scare Rhonda, who panics and cracks her head against a rock. The trope is subverted when it turns out that Rhonda is still alive, and subsequently inverted, when the real schoolbus kids show up and kill the pranksters.}} * [[Dead Star Walking]]: {{spoiler\|Leslie Bibb}} dies ''very'' early on in the film. * [[Death Byby Sex]]: Not literally, but {{spoiler\|the girl killed by the "vampire" is mortally wounded during their make out session}}. * [[Deliberately Cute Child]]: Billy Wilkins is absolutely adorable. * [[Dies Wide Open]]: The victim of the vampire. Line 45: * [[Did You Just Have Tea With Cthulhu]] - Once {{spoiler\|Sam's}} true nature is revealed, every time in which a character interacts peacefully with him comes across as this. * [[Fan Service]] / [[Fan Disservice]]: Laurie's friends disrobe before... {{spoiler\|removing their skin and sprouting hair}}. * [[Final Girl]]: Laurie has many aspects of this, being named, as she is, after the [[Final Girl]] in ''[[Halloween (~~Film~~film)\|Halloween]]''. She's even got the Little Red Riding Hood costume, which is, of course, [[Freud Was Right\|symbolic of virginity]]. In the end, however, {{spoiler\|she and all her friends survive}}. {{spoiler\|And they were never really in any danger at all.}} * [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Sam. * [[Fur Against Fang]]: Sort of. Line 53: * [[Grievous Bottley Harm]]: Attempted by Kreeg against Sam. * [[Hell Hound]]: Invoked by Kreeg, who dresses his rather petit dog in black with glowing eyespots and sics him on trick-or-treaters. * [[Homage]]: There's a trick 'r treater dressed as The Shape from the ''[[Halloween (~~Film~~film)\|Halloween]]'' movies. Also, the character set up as an obvious [[Final Girl]], as noted above, is named Laurie. Also, a colourized version of the original ''[[House ~~On Haunted Hill (Film)\|House On~~on Haunted Hill]]'' is playing on TV in one scene. Naming a [[Serial Killer]] "Steven" may also be an [[~~Alice Cooper (Music)\|~~Alice Cooper]] reference. ** Mr. Kreeg says "You gotta be fuckin' kidding," while {{spoiler\|Sam's severed hand skitters across the floor}}, much the same way as Palmer said the exact line in ''[[The Thing (~~Film~~film)\|The Thing]]'' while {{spoiler\|Norris' head ran around the lab on spider legs}}. * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] :This film feels a bit like an ''[[X -Men]] 2'' reunion: Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin were all involved in both movies. Anna Paquin getting [[True Blood\|stalked by a vampire]], no less. On a more obscure note, Thurman Merman of ''[[Bad Santa]]'' plays the trick-or-treater poisoned by Steven. Line 110: [[Category:Horror Films]] [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:Trick R Treat]]▼ [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Trick 'r Treat]] ▲[[Category:~~Trick~~Cult ~~R Treat~~Classic]]