
Five interwoven stories that occur on the same block, on the same night. A couple finds what happens when they blow a jack o' lantern out before midnight, a high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer, a college virgin might have met the right guy for her, a group of mean teens play a prank that they take too far, and a hermit is visited by a special trick or treater.... (Full plot summary below)
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Five interwoven stories that occur on the same block, on the same night. A couple finds what happens when they blow a jack o' lantern out before midnight, a high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer, a college virgin might have met the right guy for her, a group of mean teens play a prank that they take too far, and a hermit is visited by a special trick or treater.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesThis movie loves Halloween so much you can almost taste the candy corn. |
| Dread CentralSteve "Uncle Creepy" BartonTrick 'r Treat ranks alongside John Carpenter's Halloween as traditional October viewing and I can't imagine a single horror fan that won't fall head over heels in love with it. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanOne of the most handsome, lushly detailed horror features in years. Trick 'r Treat is destined to put the most sour of souls in the Halloween spirit. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonOne of the only obvious instant classics of horror in the first decade of the 21st Century. |
| The Film YapNick RogersJust as it would be alongside a fire, the spooky power of the myths and legends being spun is all in the style of the storyteller. This delivers the nasty goods with fluid grace and demented glee and is bound to become Halloween appointment viewing. |
| CampBlood.orgBrian JuergensFeels not just like a series of stories set on Halloween, but a blood-spattered portrait of what makes this holiday so beloved, so dangerous, and so much damn fun. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonTrick ‘r Treat neatly apportions scary and campy elements while cleverly interlacing four storylines on Halloween night in an Ohio hamlet. |
| FEARnetScott WeinbergIf you can think of a better American horror anthology than this one, I owe you some Halloween candy. (OK, the first Creepshow, but that's about it.) |
| Little White LiesAnton BitelDougherty interweaves the different strands of his narrative with a healthy disinterest in the norms of chronology, and so introduces just the right amount of jigsaw-like tricksiness to keep his penny-dreadful treat smelling fresh |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.It's a greatest hits collection of old fashioned monsters and gruesome new age beasts all set to the tone of Hallow's Eve... |