Trick r’ Treat

Trick r’ Treat isn’t due out until 2009, but the premise for the movie is worth mentioning early. The movie takes place in an unnamed town during All Hallows Eve in which four groups of people all have their own unique story to tell. One story follows Dylan Baker and his son who have perhaps too much fun with a group of trick or treaters, with another following Anna Paquin and her friends who are out partying it up in the middle of the woods. Another story follows a group of kids who are taking pumpkins to the site of a crash where it’s said the spirits of the dead are haunting the area. Last, we have an old man who gets visited by a costumed boy who teaches him the meaning of the holiday.

The movie has been in planning for a while now and it seems like it will be well worth the wait. Perhaps the best way to describe Trick r’ Treat is a live action version of Nightmare Before Christmas, in which a four separate stories are told but intermingle at the end. The characters are colorful and unique and the stories are completely unnerving, which we’ve come to expect from any horror flick.