Welcome back to my first Halloween special today I'm reviewing Trick r Treat. And I'm not gonna lie this film is more on the treat department as in you're gonna be in for a real treat watching this film. Trick r Treat was originally slated for a 2007 release but was held back until 2009. Just like Creepshow it's an anthology horror film but unlike Creepshow each of the four stories are somewhat interwoven. Meaning that these stories are happening at the same time just at different places. Furthermore each story has a mysterious pint-sized trick-or-treater name Sam (played by Quinn Lord) making appearances whenever someone breaks Halloween traditions.
So we start off with an opening of a couple Emma (played by Leslie Bibb) and Henry (played by Tahmoh Penikett) returning from a Halloween party. Emma goes to blow out a jack-o-lantern by their fence but Henry tells her not to because it's against. But Emma blows it out anyway as Henry goes inside and not before long Emma is killed off by an unknown assailant and we cut to our first story.
We're introduced to Steven Wilkins (played by Dylan Baker) a school principal who spots a boy stealing candy from his porch. Wilkins offers the boy name Charlie (played by Brett Kelly) more candy to him. But little does Charlie know that the candy is poison and shortly dies as Wilkins calmly watches. Later we see Wilkins burying Charlie's body in his backyard...kinda a bad place to bury a body in my opinion. After finishing the burial Wilkins sees his neighbor Kreeg (played by Brian Cox) screaming from his window. But Wilkins completely ignores him and heads inside; more on Mr. Kreeg later on. Later we see Wilkins helping his son Billy (played by Connor Christopher Levins) carving a jack-o-lantern in their basement. But then we see that it's not a jack-o-lantern but poor Charlie's head; Wilkins sure has a really boring life if he's killing people. Well just be happy he's not writing Twilight books...just saying.
We cut to the next story where we're introduce to a group of kids Macy (played by Britt McKillip), Schrader (played by Jean-Luc Bilodeau), Sara (played by Isabelle Deluce), Chip (played by Alberto Ghisi), and Rhonda (played by Samm Todd). They go around the neighbor collecting jack-o-lanterns before heading out to a local rock quarry. Macy tells a local urban legend that a school bus containing eight children that where mentally challenged and disturbed to the point of needing to be chained to their chairs. She further tells them that the bus driver was bribe by their parents to kill them; so the driver crashes the bus into the lake of the rock quarry killing all of the children as he survives the crash. So the kids thought to place the jack-o-lanterns into the lake so that the Halloween School Bus Massacre children may find peace. This leads up with Macy, Britt, Schrader, and Chip set up a prank against Rhonda but turns sour when the Halloween School Bus Massacre children rises from the dead and attack the five kids. Rhonda was the first to reach the quarry's elevator and closes the door. Macy, Britt, Schrader, and Chip reach the elevator begging Rhonda to let them in the elevator. However, as Rhonda remembers the prank from earlier she decided to take elevator up to safety while the four kids are left to die horribly. If I may use this expression...BURNED!!!
Now in between "The Principal" story and "The School Bus Massacre Revisited" story where we're introduce to Laurie (played by Anna Paquin), her sister Danielle (played by Lauren Lee Smith), and their friends Maria (played by Rochelle Aytes) and Janet (played by Moneca Delain). They're invited to a bonfire party and they're trying to find some dates to the party while that's going on there's a subplot during "The School Bus Massacre Revisited" story of a vampire killing off women unnoticed. A little bit later Laurie is being stalked by the vampire and is attacked. At the bonfire party Danielle gets a bit worry about Laurie; everything goes well until a body falls out of the trees. At first you think it's Laurie now dead but it turns out it's the vampire as Laurie appears unharmed. Upon further examination it turns out the "vampire" is really Principal Wilkins in disguise and wearing fake fangs. Seriously his whole life must be really boring if he's going around killing people and dressing up as a vampire. Again be thankful he's not writing Twilight books. He soon noticed that all the male dates now are dead and here's where things get pretty awesome. All of the girls at the party are becoming werewolves in the most gruesomely creative way possible including Laurie who has the shiting-in-his-pants Wilkins pinned. You can tell that the irony is working overtime on Wilkins as Laurie kills him. This scene is no doubt giving Twilight the big middle finger of SUCK IT! And I love it.
We cut to the final story which takes place at the time with "The Principal" story in the film with Kreeg as a grumpy old man who hates Halloween. So much so that he scares away the trick-or-treaters and here I thought Scrooge was a real jerk at Christmas. However, this doesn't satisfy Sam at all oh crap. We cut to Kreeg throwing some photos into the fireplace and retreats to some bags of candy until there's a knock at the backdoor. Kreeg proceeds outside with baseball bat and sees nothing except for Wilkins of course. Upon going back inside his dog notice something on the front porch. So Kreeg heads out to see that his porch is littered with jack-o-lanterns. Kreeg returns inside and pulls out a double-barrel shotgun; you it's getting serious when a character brings out a shotgun. Kreeg is soon attacked by Sam with a bladed candy bar no less. Desperately trying to escape through the front door until he get attack from behind. Continuing to struggle with Sam; Kreeg rips off the burlap sack over his head to reveal that it's...Pumpkinhead Jr... No seriously the kid looks like flipping Pumpkinhead and quite honestly that's just flipping terrifying. You don't understand this would mean that Pumpkinhead may have knocked up some willing hellhound and it gave birth to this kid. Kreeg manages to get the shotgun and shoots him down but Pumpkinhead Jr. is still going even after being shot three times. Just as Sam is about to give the final blow he stabs a candy bar on Kreeg chest and walks away...ugh...OK. We cut to a close up shot of one of the photos in the fireplace revealing the eight Halloween School Bus Massacre children and Kreeg was that bus driver.
The film ends with Emma and Henry returning home which turns out that it was Sam who killed Emma. Rhonda calmly walks home with her pumpkin in tow. Billy in Principal Wilkins clothes passing the possibly poison candy. And Kreeg gets the scare shitless of a lifetime as he's approached by the undead Halloween School Bus Massacre children.
My Final Verdict: This film is ingeniously good in fact borderline good. I can't describe this film any further go watch it and be glad that it's not as crappy as the Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street remakes. Next week I'm taking on a film with ghosts, house arrest, and Famke Janssen. That's right I'm reviewing 100 Feet so stay tuned.
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