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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Trick or Treats (1982) a Random Halloween Review



"A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit."



Ah the 80's horrors! Here's one for your Halloween I bet you haven't seen, if you're going to be forced to watch a B slasher full of 80's goodness it might as well free, yeah?

Trick or Treats is a fun little pile of schlock guaranteed to make me nostalgic for the good old days. Starring a man whose been in everything, Peter Jason, as the husband done wrong, and you can't help but appreciate Kung Fu's David Carradine as the creepy new boyfriend. Ultimately this is a slasher/revenge film that takes place on Halloween. The poor babysitter didn't know what she was in for when she agreed to sit for this practical joking magician of a kid, she definitely didn't expect to be hunted down under a case of mistaken identity by the kids father. Now I have just a few comments to make as far as a real review goes.

Trick or Treats is surprisingly more funny than scary, maybe its the antiquity of the film, but the practical jokes the kid plays on the babysitter are over done by today's standards and rarely work even as jump scares. But it is funny as hell. Also, most reviewers talk about how annoying the little brat kid is throughout the entire movie but I have to devil's advocate this one. That babysitter started right off as a bitch and pretty much deserved everything she got. Maybe I have babysitter issues I need to talk about. Speaking of babysitter issues, not sure what the point of the of the babysitters side story is to the film since it sure doesn't lend anything to the already convoluted plot. I guess it was to get another body into the house.

Despite, and maybe even because of, the convoluted story, Trick or Treats is actually fun trip down slasher memory lane. And like I mentioned above, you can't beat the price. For this Halloween you can see Trick or Treats on YouTube right here...



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