Trick r Treat (BD)

Hi,

On Halloween I sat down and watched the BD copy of Trick R Treat. One of my favourite films from this years Frightfest, I had had been looking forward to seeing this again, and the DVD was to be released just before Halloween, Perfect!

Except no sign of the Blu-Ray version, the US were getting one, why not the UK? After a little more digging I found that the disc would be region free, and would play over here! Brilliant, I ordered it from America.

It arrived 2 days before the 31st! Checked it would work – it did – Great!

Halloween, kids in bed and on with the film, my wife started to watch it then went to do something else – horror just isn’t her thing!

Anyway the film, I met Michael Dougherty at Frightfest for a brief moment, while he signed my book, he was thrilled it went down so well! Even John Landis liked it a lot!

And so he should be – I think it’s one of the best “true” Halloween films every made, most just take the name, but this film is about Halloween, about the history, about the things that come out to play on this one night. It’s not a scary film, I just found it very clever and a little twisted, but what I really liked was Sam Pumpkin, the spirit of Halloween. Dougherty has created a great little monster here and he uses it brilliantly throughout the film. He’s not chucky turning up every 15 minutes to kill some one, he get’s his own segment sure but he’s there to watch, to make sure the traditions are upheld, lanterns stay lit, kids get their candy and if you don’t like Halloween then he will make you pay.

The cast was very good, Cox (who was at frightfest even with a heavy cold) was great, Paquin (True Blood) is great as well, her story has a great twist. Dylan Baker (Spiderman) is superb as a killer; I really liked his story too!

The blu ray is great too look at the colours are superb throughout the film. The sound is excellent as well.

Overall – Film (9/10) – Picture (9/10) – Sound (9/10)