{"id":23421,"date":"2016-12-01T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23421"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:05:39","slug":"3-dead-trick-or-treaters-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/3-dead-trick-or-treaters-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Dead Trick or Treaters (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3-dead-trick-or-treaters\"<\/a>An author writes stories for the 3 dead trick or treaters he killed and buried.\u00a0 These stories are about teens going murderous, a human sacrifice, hungry homeless people, and a special delivery. Writer\/director Torin Langen takes the anthology sub-genre and gives it an extra twist by having no dialog.\u00a0 The film is not actually silent, there are noises and the characters make the occasional sound, but no one actually talks to anyone.\u00a0 This twist or different way to do things forces the film to develop its stories without the strength of the spoken word, giving more importance to the actions and the music to pass information and emotions.\u00a0 This shift is interesting and leads to the viewer having to pay more attention to what is on the screen.<\/p>\n

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The cast here has no lines, so they had no lines to learn, but they also had the difficult task of showing all emotions in body language and facial expressions without over-acting or over-doing things.\u00a0 For the \u201cFondue\u201d segment, most of the cast wears masks for about 90% of it, relegating almost everything to body language alone.\u00a0 The best acting of the film can be found in segments \u201cMalleus Maleficarum\u201d and \u201cStash\u201d as the actors here have more variety of emotions and situations to work with.\u00a0 The cast for \u201cFondue\u201d is harder to see their acting due to the masks, while the cast of the \u201cDelivery\u201d segment is stoic as their characters look to have been wanted to be that way.<\/p>\n

The wrap-around story has a simple cast of two and they work well together with the character referred to as \u201cPaper Boy\u201d played by Holden Levack standing out as one of the better performances in the film.\u00a0 Also standing out positively is Eric Repke as \u201cThe Brother\u201d in the \u201cMalleus Maleficarum\u201d and Andrew Smart as \u201cThe Pig\u201d in segment \u201cStash\u201d. All the parts of this anthology maintain a cohesive look with cinematography by director Torin Langen who also edited.\u00a0 Torin\u2019s involvement in all aspects of the film create a uniform look, bringing all the parts together to form a while that looks and feels like fall in Canada with a touch of desperation and insanity.\u00a0 Adding to this is the original music by Stephen Schooley which helps the cast\u2019s performances and the imagery come together to create and communicate the feelings and emotions for the film.<\/p>\n

As this is a horror anthology, the effects are important to a level.\u00a0 Here most of the effects are simple blood effects which work well and look good.\u00a0 The other effects, such as a severed limb, are not always quite on point but they are minimal, so not too intrusive and not too much of a problem.\u00a0 Unfortunately, not effects credits were found online.<\/p>\n

3 Dead Trick or Treaters is an interesting take on Halloween and anthology films with a good amount of blood, some quite good performances, and no dialog.\u00a0 It uses this in a great way and finds a way to pass its emotions and feelings without spoken words.\u00a0 The effects besides blood could be better, but were decent for its budget.\u00a0 The fall setting can be felt and it works well using common ideas with newer ones.<\/p>\n

Blood in the Snow ran from November 25th<\/sup>\u00a0to November 27th<\/sup>, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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