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''So many ways to take a life.'' }}
''[[Trick '
Set over a single [[All Hallow's Eve|Halloween]] night (although there is a flashback set on a Halloween thirty years prior), ''Trick '
* 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]].
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* 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).
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: From the original short.
* [[All Hallow's Eve]]: Of course.
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* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Averted, overall.
** [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Macy and her friends. Charlie also fits.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Inverted with the [[Blu
* [[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.}}
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