{"id":39896,"date":"2023-10-31T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T05:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39896"},"modified":"2023-08-19T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T03:56:41","slug":"trick-or-treat-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/trick-or-treat-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or Treat! (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trickortreat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trickortreat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trickortreat.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trickortreat-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/trickortreat-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>One of the best elements of Halloween is that you can really pull a lot out of horror material from it, and \u201cTrick or Treat!\u201d is no exception. One of the things I love about \u201cTrick or Treat!\u201d is how inexplicable everything that goes down here is. There are a ton of events that amount to merely hapless people falling victim to the Halloween rituals that many people and beings hold sacred.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the first Halloween in their new home, married couple Travis and Beth prepares to turn in for the night, but encounter an unexpected trick-or-treater. The trick or treater, donning a skull mask and magician outfit, insists on tricks when he learns Travis doesn\u2019t have treats. There isn\u2019t a ton of exposition on Beth and Travis, only that they don\u2019t really take Halloween all that seriously. Suddenly the epitome of the holiday shows up in the flesh taking the idea of Trick or Treat way too seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Glessner as the mysterious \u201cMagician\u201d with the skull face is a wonderful horror villain, and I was left with so many questions when the movie ended. Is the magician wearing a mask or is the skull their face? Are they supernatural or just a rabid Halloween follower? Regardless, \u201cTrick or Treat!\u201d thrives on the sadistic and dark humor that compliments the tension and inevitable gruesome violence that follows. I just had a great time, and I love how there\u2019s no other message here beyond \u201cRespect the rituals of Halloween.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love short films that feel like episodes from a TV horror anthology, and Wesley Mellott\u2019s \u201cTrick or Treat!\u201d feels like something out of \u201cTales from the Darkside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best elements of Halloween is that you can really pull a lot out of horror material from it, and \u201cTrick or Treat!\u201d is no exception. One of the things I love about \u201cTrick or Treat!\u201d is how inexplicable everything that goes down here is. There are a ton of events that amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[441,477,501,703,938,950],"class_list":["post-39896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-slasher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39896","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=39896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39898,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39896\/revisions\/39898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}