Review – Trick 'r Treat

This horror-comic-themed anthology piece would actually have been a worthier follow-up to Creepshow than either of the actual Creepshow sequels. Indeed, it has a thing or two going for it that the Romero classic doesn’t. For example, I got a kick out of the complex interconnectedness of the stories, even though they had to do some “earlier that night” back-tracking to pull it off. And I found the “vengeful spirits of kids who drowned in a school bus ‘accident’” plot genuinely chilling in parts. However, the “opening vignette,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “child poisoner” and “Pumpkinhead Jr.” story lines were a little less impressive. Overall this wasn’t bad as an October treat. Mildly amusing