Even if Halloween is still a few months away, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a good scream fest. What better way to celebrate Halloween in June (Give it time it’ll catch on like Christmas in July) then by watching a terrifying movie? It will save you money on your air conditioning bill with all those spine tingling chills, and you get some sweet make out time. Science has proven that fear is a wonderful aphrodisiac. Why? Who cares but it’s been proven by scientists, in their science outfits, in labs.
Where was I? Oh right, a Halloween themed movie for those non-Halloween nights.
Trick ‘r Treat is set in an Ohio town celebrating Halloween like they’re Greenwich Village, look it up, and visited by a spirit whose only purpose seems to be announcing impending doom and being a creeper, A creeper in an outfit made of adorable shabbiness. The main stories are about a serial killer and his latest victim with an angelic child who testifies what we’ve all been thinking about Charlie Brown. Next we got some pretty, I guess they are pretty, girls out for a night on the town. Including TrueBlood’s own Anna Paquin who decides to wander through town, alone, and later a dark forest...alone. It’s a horror film and pretty girls do rather silly things. Please note it is Anna Paquin by herself, and if you watch Trueblood than you can guess what happens to her. My favorite segment involves a town legend about a bus of drowned schoolchildren and some jack o lanterns with a revenge plot worthy of a Shakespearian play. Tie it all together with a bitter old man, and his adorable little dog, who learn the true meaning of Halloween.
One of the best features of this movie is how the stories interconnect. It’s linear only in the sense that you see what happens over the course of a night. The film jumps between different moments occurring simultaneously a second watch is necessary to pick up on all the little details. If you prefer more shock and less intestines, then this is a film for you. Everything from costumes, whether childish or slutty, to candy bars, to pumpkin carving are rendered creepy and dare I say gruesome. Yes, I do say. There are a couple hokey gotcha moments but those are few and far between with plenty of gruesome deaths involving children and drunks.
If you see one Halloween themed film not involving men in coveralls or overly complicated traps, let it be this one. Everything about this film oozes Halloween, the costumes, the pumpkins, the falling leaves, the decorations. It’s what I wish Halloween was really like, all the tradition, and the threat that those traditions are really there to protect us from something darker.
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