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''Trick 'R 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 'R 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.
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* [[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.
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* [[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 (Filmfilm)|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.
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* [[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 (Filmfilm)|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 Onon 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 (Filmfilm)|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.
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