Sadly, during the holidays, I've picked up the cursed can't sleep before 3am habit and from midnight to 3 I usually pop in a movie. I've been slacking up on my cinema in the last year...been busy playing too many games as there's too many of them that comes out. Curse them all!
But I'm getting back into it and it feels refreshing, since the only thing I was watching were tv series and to be honest, as good as tv series can be, nothing beats watching a flick that requires only about 2 hours of your time. Like tonight, I've treated (Oh God! PUN!) myself to Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat and I liked it more than I hated it.
First of, major points when you don't keep saying Jack 'O Lantern in your script and then actually put one in it. Second points are the werewolves in prosthetics, I don't know about you but me, I find werewolves more realistic when they're made of rubber rather than pixels. Finally, there's a universal rule out there that says ; ''if Brian Cox is in a movie, there's 95% chance that it's good''
The story isn't all that linear since it's one of those ''branching'' movie but you get the idea quickly enough. Which I found original, there's not much horror out there that touch the subject of halloween, it's usually just a context but this movie actually touch the myths surrounding the holiday.
I'm not sure why the comic book style was integrated into the movie but it adds a little...naive look to it. A Trade Paper Back of the adaptation was released by Wildstorm comics back in October even though it was originally supposed to be a 4 issues series.
If you read the Wiki page they say that a sequel is in the work but from my point of view, the movie should stay a one time thing.
Gotta say though, the character of Sam (image) sure is catchy,
he looks like a creepy version of Sackboy.
