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Welcome to my realm of reviewing: a place where I review anything I feel like...but it will probably be 99% movie reviews. Depending on how lazy I am at the time, the reviews will range between a sentence or two and the length of a master's thesis. Realistically though, the lengths will be somewhere in the middle.

Every time I see a new movie, I run over to Facebook to make a 1-sentence review of it on Flixter, so I figure this will let me go more in-depth on what I thought of it. I certainly will try to write out a new review every time I see a new movie, so my frequency of new postings will range anywhere from multiple times in one day to one in a week.

I will NEVER have movie spoilers, so don't worry.

By the way, I don't discriminate on movie genres...you will see reviews of ALL kinds of movies ranging from horror exploitation films to Saturday night chick flicks...but don't expect me to look at them from the same angle :D
Expect to see a lot of reviews of obscure movies though, particularly independent horror films.

I also take requests, so if there is a movie anyone wants me to review, feel free to ask.

Well, so far it does feel like I am typing to a brick wall, but at least this gives me something to do for the time being. If anyone is reading this, thanks in advance!!

Monday, June 21, 2010

"Trick 'r Treat"

Movie reviewed today: Trick 'r Treat

Genre: Horror / Independent / Compilation / Comedy?

Starring: Dylan Baker
Anna Paquin
Brian Cox

Director: Michael Dougherty

Trick 'r Treat is a horror compilation movie, similar to the style of Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. It tells four interwoven stories all set on the same night of Halloween:
1) A murderous school principal continues a crazy tradition with his son
2) A group of kids, eager to scare an outsider with a town urban legend, get the tables turned
3) Pressured by her friends, a virgin looks for her "first," but things are not as they appear
4) A Halloween Scrooge is attacked by a vicious supernatural trick-or-treater

I bought this movie spontaneously without reading any reviews or knowing anything about it...something I almost never do. I was not disappointed.

On an initial surface-level viewing, Trick 'r Treat is a fun experience. However, where it truly shines is slightly below the surface. One of the coolest aspects of this film is all the "hidden" things to find. It isn't exactly hard to understand, but there are enough ambiguities that one can theorize about certain events. Also, on a second viewing it is very interesting to see characters you may not have noticed before be around at certain times...hence the "interwoven" adjective in the synopsis. It's hard to explain, but you get the idea.

The cast isn't exactly triple-A, but they aren't unknowns either. It was weird to see Anna Paquin again after watching two seasons of True Blood and having her not talking with a southern accent. Most of the music is original score and fits very well with the atmosphere of the film. There are a few licensed songs, but for the most part they are appropriate where they show up.

It's really hard to review this movie because I can't explain most of the things I really liked about it without massive spoilers.

A cult classic in the making, this is probably the best Halloween-based movie I have ever seen, and I will definitely be busting this out next October 31st and each one thereafter.

Final Score - 9.5/10
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