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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 ~~Hallows~~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 ~~Hallows~~Hallow's Eve]]: Of course. * [[Alpha Bitch]]: Macy might as well have been named Libby. * [[Anachronic Order]]: The opening scene is, chronologically, the very last event in the film. After this scene, it tells three stories that are more or less set simultaneously, before backing up to the beginning with another story, set during a time skip. It ends just before the opening scene. Line 31: * [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Remember to always be nice to your friends {{spoiler\|or else they'll leave you to die}}. * [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: Macy. {{spoiler\|Although there are more literal examples elsewhere...}} * [[Blind Without 'Em]]: Rhonda. * [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]]: One of the four trick-or-treaters. * [[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, ~~Its~~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 99: * [[Serial Killer]] ** [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]] * [[Shout -Out]]: [[Scooby Doo]] on Zombie Island briefly plays while Mr. Kreeg is channel surfing. * [[The Speechless]]: Sam never speaks onscreen, although he makes a sort of hissing noise toward the end, and giggles a little. * [[Stab the Salad]]: A rare example where the "innocent" reveal isn't really much better than what we had first assumed. Line 110: [[Category:Horror Films]] [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:Trick R Treat]]▼ [[Category:Film]] ▲[[Category:Trick R'r Treat]] [[Category:Cult Classic]]