{"id":16551,"date":"2015-10-21T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16551"},"modified":"2015-09-30T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T06:22:00","slug":"a-tricky-treat-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/a-tricky-treat-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tricky Treat (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trickytreat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trickytreat.jpg\" alt=\"trickytreat\" width=\"583\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trickytreat.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trickytreat-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trickytreat-431x198.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/trickytreat-538x247.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could kind of see where the film was headed in the first minutes, but that doesn\u2019t mean \u201cA Tricky Treat\u201d isn\u2019t worth a heap of praise. Director Patricia Chica delivers a fun and incredibly grotesque short film set to Halloween festivities that turn a classic ritual of the holiday on its ear. Or head as it were.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Set on Halloween night, a helpless man is strapped to a chair and proceeds to be decapitated. From there, \u201cA Tricky Treat\u201d is mostly a display of sick and dark humor with some incredible special effects. I found most of it to be sickening, which is a compliment, considering that\u2019s exactly what Chica aims for. The production is all around top notch, with ace editing by Chica, who keeps the surprise very craftily in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>All the while FX Supervisors Danny McCarthy and Henry Lipatov completely sell the disgusting finale with close ups of eyeballs, tongues, and the like. \u201cA Tricky Treat\u201d zeroes in on the ritual of a normal suburban family on Halloween night, and once Chica delivers the final scene, it\u2019s a raucously funny and twisted pay off. \u201cA Tricky Treat\u201d is surreal, gross, and devilishly clever, and it\u2019s a neat Halloween treat for fans of the holiday. \u201cA Tricky Treat\u201d is now appearing in various festivals across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could kind of see where the film was headed in the first minutes, but that doesn\u2019t mean \u201cA Tricky Treat\u201d isn\u2019t worth a heap of praise. Director Patricia Chica delivers a fun and incredibly grotesque short film set to Halloween festivities that turn a classic ritual of the holiday on its ear. Or head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,441,477,501,938,1020],"class_list":["post-16551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16553,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions\/16553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}