trick or treat, horror movie review

Halloween, a time of free candy, doorbell rings, scary movies, and costumed kids abound, and there are alot of great halloween based movies such as the correctly named Halloween, however today i am gonna be reviewing on of my personal favorites, the halloween based anthology movie, Trick or Treat. This film is told from a non-linear prospective although all the seperate stories do tie together in by the mysterious orange footie pajama wereing sack-masked child sized figure known only as Sam who appears in all of the stories. Now this type of genre again is a very easy one to mess up and can quickly go off the rails if handled by the wrong director but this director clearly knew exactly what he was doing. There wa a story of a killer school principal who poisoned a fat kid who didnt obey the rules of halloween (which we find out later is what sam is there for), and i love how sam simply takes candy from the principal and leaves very innocently but it really hides something un-human that we get to see in full view later.

Then about the villian-protaganist sam, i gotta say the film did an amazing job making the character look innocent while also giving him this unsettling vibe as that isnt exactly a costume most kids would were, plus he does look cute and definitely non-threatening so when the reveal comes that he is this sadistic demonic protector of halloween, it really does shock you. And i do oh so love the twist to that story were you go back to the start of the principal's story hear a older man yell for his help and simply tells the man to F off, and how this time it is told from the old mans perspective, beautiful. Then there is a classic bully revenge story were kids take another to the lake scare her with a story of dead children from a lake bus crash and then when there ghosts do appear they all flee, but the girl leaves the bullies there to die as she escapes free, all while sam watches. werewolf storyline were a girl is losing her virginity, which it turns out is killing virginity and who else does she choose than the killer princibal from the opening who was dressed as a vampire and was clearly intending to make her a victim but instead ended up a victim of the real monsters... poetic justice if you ask me. And then there i the beautiful scene in which the werewolf girls do kill the principal which is shown in a comic book like format very beautiful camera work right there. But my favorite part of this movie is the last story, were we see the older man burning photos of a school bus (which it turns out he was the driver of the bus that killed the school kids years ago).

And it is due to that event that this man hates halloween and does not respect the tropes at all that the demonic child size sam (and the now dead principal) uphold. This is when sam comes to his house, and a big battle ensues, were sam is revealed under that mask to be a literal pumkin headed demon like creature (which even is name is a play on the demon samhain) and the older man blows off his arm which simply crawls back onto him as he looks at his newly attached hand with a look that says "huh thats better" then he actually uses telekinetic powers on the old man, and climbs the wall like a spider, and even bites a lollipop into a sharp shred and uses it as a knife of sorts, as he raised it and brought it down on the injured older man only for him to be saved by a candy bar he was eating prior to sam's arrival, i found that very funny and ironic that the thing that saves him is a trope he hates. Although the old man does not escape fully free as the ghosts of the dead kids ring his doorbell and they (again n that beautiful comic book like shots) maul him to death, ohh come on kids and he just started following halloween.. oh well lol. Anyway this movie is definitley an amazing movie, it does not ask you to take it to seriously but it also tries hard to raise your adenaline levels, succsessfully, and it also doesnt go off the track either, it stays on point and easily connects all its stories together beautifully, i definitley reccomend giving this movie a watch..... even more so on halloween.