It is Halloween in the small town of Warren Valley, Ohio. These are stories of various people during that night as a mysterious childlike trick or treater lurk. Emma (Leslie Bibb) insists on taking down the Halloween decoration despite her husband's objections. School principal Steven Wilkins (Dylan Baker) kills a bratty candy stealing chubby kid. Laurie (Anna Paquin), her older sister Danielle (Lauren Lee Smith), and their two female friends arrive in town to go to a party. Laurie is teased by the others for being a virgin. Scared Rhonda rides the elevator down into a quarry and becomes the subject of a prank by four schoolmates. Mr. Kreeg (Brian Cox) is a grumpy old man who hates Halloween.There are about five stories in this movie. One is amazing. Two have great things in it. The other two are perfectly acceptable Halloween vignettes. All in all, this is solid Halloween fare. The little central character has a nice design although he may work better simply lurking in the background. It's more creepy that he exists in this cauldron of madness rather than being a killer monster. The one amazing story is Anna Paquin's little red riding hood. They totally fooled me and it's a great twist. If anything, I consider making that a more central part of the movie. Next, the elevator to the quarry is great for the elevator. It's something I've never seen or even considered before. It's an unreal idea that actually adds to the creepiness. As for Principal Wilkins, I like the chubby brat. He's very kill worthy. He's bratty and soft. As for Leslie Bibb and Brian Cox, they are functional slasher chum meat. They could be more inventive but they are perfectly fine. This is surprisingly good in a horror franchise which I know little about.

This year (2017) I finally caved in and watched Trick 'r Treat . . . and what a straight up boring movie it was. Not a single story was entertaining. I am perplexed that this is rated so highly and everyone seems to be crazy about it - quite honestly, it feels like they just jumped on the bandwagon because it's 'cool' to like Trick'r'Treat, same with Halloween. Sam and the dog are cute, that's the only good I can say.

Trick 'r Treat is a film that surprising me positively, I expected a very weak terror, most liked, I found the film interesting how is counted, full of stories that are connected, the film has a very good cast, especially Brian Cox Dylan Baker and Anna Paquin, the direction of Michael Dougherty is good, the more he makes some mistakes, the script is average, has very weak dialogues, some stories are uninteresting, I liked the plot of some stories as the Bus, the outcome of the story that has Anna Paquin found a little weak, more trick 'r Treat is a cool horror movie, can give a good scares, has a cool soundtrack and a good makeup. Note 7.1

This film is THE Halloween film. I don't care about the other film which is actually called Halloween.Basically this story takes place in a generic American town where it is Halloween. Throughout the film we follow 5 different stories that intersect at times (for example there's a scene where characters from story A bump into characters from story B) but they basically have nothing to do with each other. Adding to this things are not always in chronological order. This may sound like it's overwritten and confusing but it's really not and it all makes sense.The film is generally lighthearted. It was not meant to be serious but is Halloween serious? No, Halloween is fun and this film captures that. This doesn't mean that this film is a B film, no not by a long shot.There are obviously serious horror aspects, people will die (brutally) sometimes, some of the stories are pretty morbid but in the end it always seems to take dark yet humorous ending.I seriously recommend this for any fan of the holiday.